Mia Lehrer: Designer making beauty out of blight
LA TimesMia Lehrer, photographed at the Los Angeles Times in El Segundo on Nov. 8. Few are the corners of L.A. that don’t bear the imprint of Studio-MLA, the landscape architecture firm founded by the energetic Mia Lehrer three decades ago. Currently, Lehrer’s 45-person studio is working on designs for Destination Crenshaw in South L.A. as well as the San Gabriel Valley’s Puente Hills Landfill Park, which will remake a former dump into the first regional park in 30 years. ‘There has never been a better decade to be an urbanist doing landscape architecture.’ — Mia Lehrer But perhaps the greatest evidence of her power can be found in the land itself. In 2008, her firm helped reimagine a steep, 10-acre plot in view of downtown whose biggest claim to fame had been serving as decayed urban backdrop to Michael Douglas in the 1993 thriller “Falling Down.” Once studded with oil wells, the property was covered in weeds and remnants of drilling infrastructure.
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