The long-planned building for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, designed by Pritzker Prize–laureate Peter Zumthor, has been an ongoing target of criticism. The museum is now punching back, with new renderings and a fact sheet.
Swiss architect Peter Zumthor’s controversial design for LACMA has turned into Los Angeles’ most serious cultural issue in the last decade, writes commentator Joseph Giovannini.
The Swiss architect Peter Zumthor may have just spilled the beans about a radical overhaul of his scheme for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
Peter Zumthor’s recently completed project in Norway was fourteen years in the making, due in part to its challenging site and to the Pritzker prize-winning architect’s highly deliberate way of working.
Model of Peter Zumthor's scheme for LACMA. Installation view. The Presence of the Past: Peter Zumthor Reconsiders LACMA, June 9 - Sept. 15, 2013. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has long been due for a major overhaul, according to its director Michael Govan and the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Peter Zumthor, who has been commissioned to re-think the museum’s east campus. “If you were to restore it, it would not really work because I think it never really worked well as a museum,” said Zumthor at a packed public conversation with Govan at the museum on Monday night.
Peter Zumthor, the reclusive Swiss architect widely revered for a small yet powerful body of work, is the 2009 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. The Hyatt Foundation, which administers the award, announced his selection today. “Peter Zumthor is a master architect admired by his colleagues around the world for work that is focused, uncompromising, and exceptionally determined,” the jury said in its citation.
Subscribe
