This issue of the LA Forum Newsletter investigates the way Los Angeles historically exhibits an interior type of urbanism. Claret-Cup’s centerfold design can be considered the interior of the newsletter. Follow the instructions to cut, fold, and flip the map of Los Angeles’ cultural landscape into an open box, simultaneously containing this sprawling cultural landscape, as well as open to be filled with any number of mundane or miraculous things.
Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design 2016, The center-fold
Step 1: Cut out the map
Step 2: Crease and return (map face down)
Step 3: Fold tops to center
Step 4: Fold sides to center and return
Step 5: Open two corners
Step 6: Fold sides to the center
Step 7: Lift both sides and one end of the model to make it three-dimensional
Step 8: Fold flap to center
Step 9: Raise end
Step 10: Fold flap to center
Step 11: Complete
