The film crew for Broad Minded City is a group of friends and creative types who helped along the way in making this film a reality by being the camera person, sound recorder, transportation guide or just a friend, in making these experiences enjoyable.

Work since that time has included a wide variety of project types, from unique single-family homes to important healthcare facilities. Wiehle-Carr and Eric Lloyd Wright Associates collaborated on the recent structural restoration of the 1924 Ennis House in Los Angeles, saving the famous historically-registered building from almost certain demise. This work received an AIA Design Award.






Born in San Salvador, El Salvador, Ms. Lehrer received her Master of Landscape Architecture from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Following her education, Ms. Lehrer gained valuable experience by working on large-scale public projects such as the World Bank Coastal Zone Project in El Salvador, as well as intimate gardens for residential clients. Today, she is recognized internationally for her progressive landscape designs and her advocacy for sustainable and people-friendly public space. Studio-MLA is a consultant for the Los Angeles River Revitalization Master Plan, currently leading efforts to identify and plan a comprehensive open space network that interfaces with channel restoration and urbanism. Committed to her profession and education, Ms. Lehrer is actively involved in several organizations. She is on the Board of Directors at the Collage Dance Theater. She is a member of the International Federation of Landscape Architects, American Society of Landscape Architects, Hollywood Design Review Committee, and has served on the Harvard Graduate School of Design Alumni Council and board of directors of TreePeople.
Peter Becker Architect has an intimate, five-person office in Santa Barbara, CA, which specializes in the design of single-family residences—large and small, new and remodeled. Since 1991, they have assembled a large body of work, mostly in Southern California, that is remarkable for its diversity, where the style of each house reflects the influence of its neighborhood, its site, its history and its present owners, rather than any one architect’s personal design philosophy.
Becker passed away in Santa Barbara on August 1, 2017 at the age of 70.




During her first few years, she worked on models for Wright’s “Broadacre City,” which she also presented to the public in Pittsburgh and Washington, DC. In 1937, Wright’s Fellows, including Brierly, moved to the Arizona desert to begin work on Taliesin West. Cornelia studied with Frank Lloyd Wright for 10 years, after which she was partner in private practice with then-husband Peter Berndtson.
In 1956, she returned to Taliesin and the FLLW Foundation, working on architectural, interior, and landscape designs for Taliesin Architects and teaching at the Foundation. Brierly also served as a Trustee and later, Chairman, of the Board for the FLLW Foundation. After nearly seventy years of work at Taliesin, she published Tales of Taliesin: A Memoir of Fellowship (Pomegranate Communications, 2000).
Brierly passed away in August 24, 2012.
The Conservancy has grown into the largest historic preservation group in the country. Its events and efforts can be found at www.laconservancy.org


Jensen is the project engineer for a construction management company in Napa, California.
Santa Clara University Solar Decathlon team: Radiant House
Bernstein created a virtual database, called “Survey LA,” in coordination with The Getty Conservation Institute that allows residents to be involved in planning and policy. It gathers information and reports on the historical relevance of structures and places within the area. It helps keep information on property that could be preserved and give notice on anything that might challenge the status of a building or place.


Her passion is to see her town of Van Nuys turn itself around and be a place that the residents can all be proud of. She currently serves as a board member of the Van Nuys Neighborhood Council and the Van Nuys Community Police Advisory Board—working together to ensure that Van Nuys be both safe and beautiful for area residents and visitors. She definitely thinks that the small steps in neighborhood involvement are the catalyst for turning the corner toward a beautiful future for Van Nuys and the rest of Los Angeles!


He graduated from Columbia College in Chicago with a Bachelor of Arts, he currently sits on seven advisory boards, including the ACLU of Southeastern Michigan, The Architectural Salvage Warehouse of Detroit, and The Center for Community Based Enterprise. He is truly a leader in the Detroit community.
Slows BBQ O’ Connor Development GroupBrink was involved in the restoration of Frank Lloyd Wright’s only two-story Usonian home ever built, the Dorothy Turkel House in Detroit, Michigan. He was one of the original members of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy and served on its board multiple terms. He was also a Frank Lloyd Wright Fellow and served two terms as president of the Frank Lloyd Wright Fellowship Board and many terms as a board member.
Brink passed away in June 15, 2011


The Dorothy Turkel House, built in 1955, was an example of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian Houses and is the only Usonian House to have two stories. Built with concrete blocks and glass to allow light and openness to flow to the outside and inside.
An authority on Frank Lloyd Wright, Pfeiffer collected and archived Wright’s drawings, models, writings and possessions, which have now been transferred to Columbia University Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library in New York City.
Pfeiffer passed away in Scottsdale, Ariz. on Dec. 31, 2017 at the age of 87.




His body of work focuses on new productive ways of teaching, researching, designing and building, underscoring the firm’s mission of continuity from past-to-present. This is accomplished while integrating a teacher-practitioner’s expanding field of trans-disciplinary interests, within and beyond architecture. In particular, his investigations are informed by the dynamic relationships of conservation and change; socio-cultural evolution of the city; the simultaneity of process; order and unity; and the symbiotic coupling of society, environment, and economy. The broadest question framing these investigations and directing the design research is, “What is the architectural equivalent of this?”
Roto Architecture

Daniel Skolnick
Soja was one of the key figures associated with the “spatial turn” in geography. He brought the insights of critical social theory—including political economy, postmodernism, and cultural theory—to create innovative analyses of space and society, especially struggles over control of space in the city and the emergence of new forms of urbanization.
His work focused on Los Angeles, an enormously diverse metropolis with pronounced social and spatial inequalities. He sought to understand different aspects of urban life—its everyday rhythms, the division of labor, public policy, struggles over places, and the relations among distant locals—through the conceptual lens of spatiality.
Soja passed away in November 2, 2015.


Jennifer Siegal
Siegal’s innovative mobile structures include customized, prefab, green Modernist homes; the Mobile EcoLab used to teach students about the environment; and the Portable Construction Training Center created for the Venice Community Housing Corporation. Her most recent work is a modern, modular home-product line called Take Home.
Honored in 2016, she is the first American to win the arcVision Prize—Women and Architecture—an international award for women in architecture.
Siegal is the CDO and a Managing Partner of Wnests LLC, a company described as “the Tesla of real estate” for spearheading the sector’s transition from carbon-intense to carbon-neutral.
From 1996 through 2013, Linton lived at the Los Angeles Eco-Village. He has lived car-free since 1992. He was one of the founders of the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition and advocates for non-motorized transportation alternatives, including bikability, walkability, transit-oriented development, traffic calming, parking reform, and more. He worked as the Campaigns Director for Cyclists Inciting Change thru Live Exchange (C.I.C.L.E.). In January 2013, he moved to the East Coast and to work as the Greenway Director for the Bronx River Alliance.
Linton has been a longtime advocate for the revitalization and restoration of the Los Angeles River, serving in various capacities as volunteer, board and staff for the Friends of the Los Angeles River. He’s led hundreds of walks and tours of the river and its tributaries, and wrote and illustrated Down by the Los Angeles.
Linton is now the editor for StreetsBlog LA, a daily news source focusing on land use, sustainable transportation and policies.


YoungSoo Kim
Kim completed a joint master and Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture with a concentration in urban design at the University of Arizona. After graduation, he was invited by Soleri to continue working in the Arcosanti Planning Department, overseeing such projects as the “Lean Linear City” design proposal. Kim’s professional intention is to translate Soleri’s “Lean Linear” model into practical applications for urban planning in developing countries that are experiencing rapid urbanization.
Kim now works as an associate for James Corner Field Operations, a leading-edge landscape architecture, urban design and public realm practice based in New York City and London
In April 13, 2013, the founder of Arcosanti, Pablo Soleri passed away at the age of 93. On November 18th, 2017, Daniela Soleri, the daughter of Pablo and Colly (Corolyn Woods) Soleri, wrote an article accusing her father of sexual abuse. It encouraged others in similar circumstances to speak out (acknowledging that it was difficult to reconcile his actions to her with his accomplishments providing a path towards sustainability and better urban environment).
On October 1st, 2018, Stein retired as Co-President of Arcosanti.


Bill Roschen
Roschen holds a Master’s Degree in Architecture from Columbia University, with an emphasis on city planning and urban architecture, historic preservation and philosophy of aesthetics, and a Bachelor of Architecture from Arizona State University, with an emphasis on sustainable design. He trained in civic engagement leadership at CORO in Los Angeles. He and Christi have conceived and currently teach a four-part series of graduate seminars and a certificate and Master’s Degree program in crafting forward-thinking public policy at Woodbury University School of Architecture, and have initiated the UP (Urban Policy) program and Policy Tanks, a unique approach to public policy leadership within a School of Architecture. In 2013, he was honored for his eight years of city-changing leadership on the LA City Planning Commission with an AIA/LA Presidential Citation and with the American Planning Association Los Angeles and California Chapters’ Distinguished Leadership Award for Citizen Planner of the Year.
Alanna Lin Ramage, a.k.a. “Mindy Chiu” is a musician, writer and performance artist.
She holds a MFA in Creative Writing from California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA.
She runs the Los Angeles Department of Writing and Power, a writing and performance studio situated in Little Tokyo in Downtown Los Angeles, facilitating innovative, interactive community-building events and creative workshops.
She composes and performs original music for film / television as Fascinoma (a folk-pop enterprise) and uses pop and rock music as a means to enjoin communal reflection upon friendship, loyalty, and public safety (earthquake preparedness).
She hosts a web TV show on Youtube called, “Glamour Fulltime” where she integrates all things into one persona: Chairmeowww.
Her third record, an album of Beatles covers, entitled, “Don’t Let Me Down” will be released in 2014 to a chosen few.

Alanna Lin Ramage

Michael Maltzan
Maltzan received a Master of Architecture degree with a Letter of Distinction from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. He holds both a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Bachelor of Architecture from Rhode Island School of Design, where he received the Henry Adams AIA Scholastic Gold Medal. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a GSA Design Excellence Program Peer.
He lectures internationally and often serves as a design instructor, lecturer, and critic at prestigious architectural schools including Princeton University, Rice University, Harvard University, Rhode Island School of Design, University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, Berkeley, University of Southern California, University of Waterloo, and the Southern California Institute of Architecture.
His current infrastructure project, the Sixth Street Viaduct, replacing the old 6th Street viaduct with Maltzan design which will not only bridge Boyle Heights of the east to the Arts District and Downtown of the west, but create a new sense of place for the community. The Project is expected to be completed in the year of 2022.
He was awarded an honorary American Institute of Architects (AIA) designation in the late 1990s, an honorary Millennium Recognition Design Award from the Pasadena/Foothill chapter of the AIA, a key to the city of Pasadena in 1992 and a Distinguished Alumnus Award from the USC Architectural Guild in 1997.
Makinson passed away in August 13, 2013.


Lewis MacAdams
MacAdams passed away on April 21, 2020.

Kevin Parkhurst & Hannah Wear

Dan Sturges


Gaston Nogues


Bart Reed
The Transit Coalition works to develop a safe, integrated, cost effective and environmentally sound public transportation system for the greater Los Angeles region. The Transit Coalition realizes that government must not only look at the tangible cost of running and building a public transportation network, but also the intangible benefits that such a system provides, such as better health, less pollution, reasonable travel time, ease of use, coordinated schedules with a minimum amount of transferring between routes. Their efforts at education and outreach highlight congestion relief opportunities and mobility alternatives that will allow the area to move forward to reach full potential as a dynamic, culturally advanced and livable world-class region.
Quirino de la Cuesta (Quasimodo Four)/ Director-Producer.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Quirino de la Cuesta has been practicing architecture for over 20 years with firms in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. He grew up in the San Fernando Valley, went to Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) for his Bachelor’s degree in Architecture. He received an Asian-American award for Urban Design—called “Our Community and Infrastructure”—for the Crenshaw district in the aftermath of the Los Angeles Riots in 1992.
De la Cuesta has served in several capacities on the Van Nuys Neighborhood Council in the San Fernando Valley, most importantly as co-chair of the Van Nuys Planning and Land Use Committee. He volunteers his time addressing Land Use Entitlements and Development in Los Angeles and is focused on bringing accountability in having a better design community.
De la Cuesta is acutely aware that the Los Angeles area is going through a transition where it is becoming even more of a cohesive city by instituting a better transportation infrastructure, revitalizing communities and striving to have enhanced transparency and accountability in terms of redevelopment. Therefore, the opportunity to document the changes, initiatives and plans in Los Angeles is unprecedented.
Using Frank Lloyd Wright’s Broadacre City concept as the basis for his documentary, Broad Minded City, De la Cuesta traces a very detailed history of Los Angeles’ urban development and questions of sustainability.
Nathan Cornett/ Director of Photography (Head Cinematographer). A graduate of University of Pittsburgh, has worked on a wide variety of films, television, viral videos and comedy clips in the Los Angeles area. The most notable work he has done is Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston (2010) and Who Is America? (2018). His extensive knowledge of film and media has been an asset in making this documentary.
Cornett is a member of the International Cinematographers Guild—ICG (IATSE Local 600) with extensive work on his IMDB profile.
Mark Dinatali/ Videographer-Editor. Born in Buffalo, NY, grew up in Florida and moved to Los Angeles in 1997, Mark Dinatale has been always been interested in video production from a very early age. He has over 20 years of video experience. Upon graduating from Cal State University, Northridge, Dinatale re-discovered his passion for of story-telling and entertainment, with the use of video camera as his creative choice of the medium. Whether it’s family occasions, lectures, producing videos for non-profit companies, informational videos or recording live shows for formal ceremonies,
Dinatale wroted, produced and directed a documentary on the historical and cultural view of businesses of American’s past in 2016 called Business of Nostalgia.
Dinatale is currently working on a photo book highlighting Los Angeles during the early stages of the COVID 19 Lockdown
Paul Kingsley/ Photographer-Cameraman. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Paul graduated from California State University Northridge with a degree in Photo Journalism. Paul has always have an interest in traveling and writing about his personal experiences about his travels. A keen sense of individuality and ability to be personal to however he approaches.
Paul passed away on April 24, 2018 from an unknown virus.
Special thanks to other Members who were part of the Film Crew:
Craig Pentak/ Camera Jonathan Hill/ SoundJohn Ulloth/ Associate Producer- Sound Maurice Pineda/ Sound and Camera
Daniel and Nicole O’Leary in Detroit, Michgan. Special Thanks to Peter Assing to inspire Broad Minded City