Christopher Hawthorne reviews LA's newly opened USC Village development: "Equal parts Disneyland and Hogwarts"

2017-08-21T18:37:00-04:00

At a ceremony last week to mark the opening of the $700-million USC Village, C.L. Max Nikias, the university’s president, spoke at some length about the architecture of the new complex and what he called “USC’s extraordinary physical metamorphosis” in recent years. [...] Then came his ringing conclusion: “And let’s always remember, the looks of the University Village give us 1,000 years of history we don’t have. Thank you, and fight on!”

"Even delivered in a vacuum it would have been a remarkable statement," Los Angeles Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne remarks. "The president of the leading private university in Los Angeles taking up, as a rhetorical cudgel, one of the laziest clichés about the city, that it has no history to call its own."

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Christopher Hawthorne reviews LA's newly opened USC Village development: "Equal parts Disneyland and Hogwarts"