On KCRW’s Design and Architecture (DNA), Frances Anderton speaks with actress and architecture preservationist Diane Keaton and D.J. Waldie, authors of California Romantica, about what they see as the ideal Southern California home: the Romantic Spanish style. “I was a California kid, and we took a lot of trips throughout California, and I remember specifically when we went to San Juan Capistrano and found myself in this enchanted world, to see the colonnade arches and the light passing through,” said Keaton. “They thought they were inventing a brand new architecture…they may look like medieval Spain, but they were working with 20th-century materials and 20th-century issues,” said Waldie.

You can listen to the interview here.