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This music score was submitted for the Kaleidoscope 2020 Call for Scores, an open access collaboration with the UCLA Music Library.

Aluminum is a widely used material offering many advantages when used in buildings. Supply has dramatically increased with better recycling practices. With this in mind during the 1990s, Japanese subsidies targeted exploratory development of new uses for aluminum in buildings. This paper reviews innovative aluminum developments by Japanese architect Toyo ITO and structural engineer Masato ARAYA. With strong industry support, the two professionals designed and built five free-standing aluminum structures: a house, a dormitory, a cottage, an exhibition kiosk and a pavilion. Teaming up with several different industry partners both at home and abroad, Ito and Araya explored a variety of formal approaches. Their work received numerous awards and accolades and was in some cases patented. However, in the end the structures the two professionals built remain unique.

Large-scale channelization of Los Angeles water courses in the 20th century led to the invisibility of waterin today’s highly urban, infrastructural landscape. Though channels were built to protect the populationfrom flood risks, they do not provide a long-term solution for flood control, and they disconnect thepopulation from their landscape and local ecology. Revealing local waterways to the public in thoughtfulways may reconnect people to the land’s ecological history and inform future land use decisions for amore resilient future. With this goal in mind, I frame this paper within the context of a lesser-knowntributary in the San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County: the Alhambra Wash. I trace the history, existing conditions, and potential interventions for the wash with the aim of building stronger cognitiveconnections between the local community and their waterway.