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Just what Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine ordered: Inside the LA academy that Beats billions built. As legendary pop producer Jimmy Iovine announces the sale of his back catalogue to fund a new high school in LA, we meet the architects of the original USC Iovine and Young Academy. Irena Barker spoke to Frederick Fisher and Partners, along with school dean Erica Muhl and student Trent Jones. “There wasn’t as much making as I thought there would be…that is, physically tinkering with things,” says Trent Jones of the engineering degree he started but abandoned. “It definitely revealed maybe this isn’t quite the path I wanted.” Fortunately, the young innovator and maker wasn’t in the wilderness for long.
