Pacific Standard Time Presents

Aerial view of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, c. 1965. William L. Pereira and Associates, architects. Photo © 2013 Museum Associates/LACMA, photographic archives Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A., an initiative of the Getty, is a collaborative celebration of Southern Californias lasting impact on modern architecture. It... includes exhibitions and accompanying programs presented by seventeen area cultural institutions from April through July 2013. Designed to continue the momentum and collaborative spirit of last years successful Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 19451980 , Modern Architecture in L.A. is the first in a series of smaller-scale Pacific Standard Time Presents programs. While Los Angeless modern residential architecture is world renowned, less well-known is the innovative nature of L.A.s infrastructure and urban planning, commercial and civic buildings, housing experiments, and other architectural forms. This initiative offers a reconsideration of the city as a whole from iconic modernist homes to the vast freeway network that defines our unique megalopolisas well as the forces that shaped these mid 20th-century developments. Modern Architecture in L.A. promises fresh insight into the contributions of Los Angeles architects and the citys ongoing global impact. Palms House by Kevin Daly, Daly Genik Architects, 2011. Photograph Jason Schmidt. © Jason Schmidt The J. Paul Getty Museum presented Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 19401990, an overview of the period organized by the Getty Research Institute, and In Focus: Ed Ruscha. Nine other exhibitions are presented by LACMA, MOCA, the Hammer, A+D Museum, UC Santa Barbara, Cal Poly Pomona, MAK Center and SCI-Arc. Initiative partners consider a range of building types and a diverse group of practitioners, from internationally-known figures such as Richard Neutra and Frank Gehry, to others who have been critical to shaping Southern Californias distinctive profile, such as A. Quincy Jones and Eric Owen Moss. From the ...Read More