Catherine Opie's "The Modernist," Mike Kelley’s “Kandors”

LA photographer Cathy Opie has made a short film about an arsonist who loves mid-century-modern LA houses so much, he’s driven to destroy them. And the late LA artist Mike Kelley was obsessed with Kandor, Superman's hometown on the planet Krypton. Both artists address the utopian ideals of modernist architecture, and what happens when those ideals fail to materialize.

Host Frances Anderton looks at design and architecture from a Los Angeles perspective.