Spring 2020 OLLI Catalog (Interactive)

PEER-LED CLASSES (Omnilore)
(LAA) LA Architecture
Architecture has generally been a succession of distinct styles.
This changed in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when
revivals became the style. Near the middle of the twentieth century
a growing distaste for this condition resulted in a dramatic shift in
theory and slowly in practice, and we will be examining this as seen
in Los Angeles.
This is a survey of the built environment and building styles
preserved in the Los Angeles area. The group can decide on trips to
specific sites or schedule some LA Conservancy walking tours of
key architectural sites.
The possibilities are endless: the steel and glass architects; the
Wright tradition of organic architecture in LA; twenty Historic
Preservation Overlay Zones; architecture of LA museums, LA bridges
and freeways, religious structures; libraries; performing arts spaces
in LA, the movie palaces, the Music Center, Disney Hall, and the
other 30+ designated theater historic-cultural monuments.
Common Reading:
An Architectural Guidebook to
Los Angeles, by Robert Winter,
David Gebhard, et al. (Fully Revised 6th
Edition; December 2018; paperback)
(LSD) How to Change Your Mind
In the 1960s, as a handful of scientific evangelists such as
Timothy Leary were researching how psychedelics might be used
in the treatment of illness, they inadvertently catalyzed a powerful
backlash against their cause.
This S/DG will research how psychedelic drugs are now being used
to provide relief to people who suffer from challenging conditions
such as depression, addiction, and anxiety; it will also delve into
how these drugs can be used by healthy people to deal with the
challenges of everyday life.
We will explore various altered states of consciousness, dive deeply
into the latest brain science and the thriving underground
community of psychedelic therapists, and attempt to separate the
truth about these mysterious drugs from the myths that have
surrounded them for the last 50 years.
Common Reading:
How to Change Your Mind: What
the New Science of Psychedelics
Teaches Us About Consciousness,
Dying, Addiction, Depression, and
Transcendence, by Michael Pollan
(May 2018)
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