Chateau Scientology

Posted by alexburns on January 7, 2008

Mike Davis’s City of Quartz (1990) and Erik Davis’s Techgnosis (1998) both evoked how Los Angeles architecture and Scientology have coevolved. Now, The New Yorker’s Dana Goodyear investigates how Scientology’s Celebrity Center is a ‘proxemic’ environment — Edward T. Hall’s term for a controlled space — to influence Los Angeles’ entertainment economy via its stars’ alchemy.

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