| dc.coverage.spatial | Site: Los Angeles, California, United States | en_US |
| dc.coverage.temporal | begun 1965 (creation); redesigned 2004-2010 (alteration) | en_US |
| dc.creator | Piano, Renzo | en_US |
| dc.creator | Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates | en_US |
| dc.creator | Goff, Bruce Alonzo | en_US |
| dc.creator | William L. Pereira and Associates | en_US |
| dc.date | 1965 | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-01-29T18:24:22Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-01-29T18:24:22Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1965 | en_US |
| dc.identifier | 188677 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | archrefid: 1892 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/97213 | |
| dc.description | View within the entry pavilion, depicting water trough and waterfall; In 1965, the museum moved to a new Wilshire Boulevard complex as an independent, art-focused institution, the largest new museum to be built in the United States after the National Gallery of Art. The museum was built in a style similar to Lincoln Center and consisted of three buildings: the Ahmanson Building, the Bing Center, and the Lytton Gallery (renamed the Frances and Armand Hammer Building in 1968). The board selected LA architect William Pereira over the directors' recommendation of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for the buildings. The museum hired the architectural firm of Hardy, Holzman, Pfeiffer Associates to design its Robert O. Anderson Building, which opened in 1986 (renamed the Art of the Americas Building in 2007). The museum's Pavilion for Japanese Art, designed by maverick architect Bruce Goff, opened in 1988. In 1994, LACMA purchased the adjacent May Department Stores building, an impressive example of streamline moderne architecture designed by Albert C. Martin Sr. LACMA West increased the museum's size by 30 percent when the building opened in 1998. In 2004, LACMA’s Board of Trustees unanimously approved plans to transform the museum, led by architect Renzo Piano. The transformation consists of three phases. Phase I started in 2004 and was completed in February 2008. Phase III is scheduled to be completed toward the end of 2010. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 6/13/2009) | en_US |
| dc.format.medium | glass; stone | en_US |
| dc.rights | © Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc. | en_US |
| dc.subject | architectural exteriors | en_US |
| dc.subject | contemporary (1960 to present) | en_US |
| dc.subject | Art museums | en_US |
| dc.subject | Museology | en_US |
| dc.subject | Twenty-first century | en_US |
| dc.subject | Twentieth century | en_US |
| dc.title | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | LACMA | en_US |
| dc.type | image | en_US |
| dc.rights.access | Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only | en_US |
| dc.identifier.vendorcode | 1A2-US-LA-LMA-B8 | en_US |
| vra.culturalContext | American | en_US |
| vra.technique | construction (assembling) | en_US |
| vra.worktype | art museum | en_US |
| dc.contributor.display | Bruce Alonzo Goff (American architect, 1904-1982); Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates (American architectural firm, established 1967); Renzo Piano (Italian architect, born 1937); William L. Pereira and Associates (American architectural firm, founded ca. 1963; renamed 1970) | en_US |
