Last week, Zumthor spoke about the project for the first time since museum officials presented a new plan in April. In an interview in the Zurich newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung first spotted by art writer William Poundstone, journalist Sabine von Fischer asked Zumthor about the controversy surrounding the museum’s proposal, and why the design has endured so many major changes. — Curbed LA
Curbed Los Angeles quotes the Swiss architect from his recent Neue Zürcher Zeitung interview: "Zumthor’s early experimentations within the grid-like limitations of the existing site left him unable to 'establish a meaningful relationship with the various architectural and urban elements' on the LACMA and the La Brea Tar Pits campuses. The 'Black Flower,' Zumthor’s name for the original amoeba-like design, solved the problem, he said. 'When I began to respond to it with a free building form, we made the breakthrough.'"
Asked if the controversy surrounding his museum redesign bothered him, Zumthor revealed to the NZZ that LACMA director Michael Govan had told him that it was unnecessary for him to read it. "You do the design, and I'll do the rest, he said."
I happened to drive by the site yesterday. Between the line-up of original museum, pomo addition, quirky plaza, recent addition, and '30s dept store-cum-film museum, this stretch is definitely a mishmash of old, older, new, and newer. But it works somehow, and looks better than The Thing That Landed.
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When Brad Pitt testifies in your favor all things are possible.
It's hot in here.
Needs a barber. Desperately. The guy on the right is well-groomed by comparison.
that's vincent van gogh.
I happened to drive by the site yesterday. Between the line-up of original museum, pomo addition, quirky plaza, recent addition, and '30s dept store-cum-film museum, this stretch is definitely a mishmash of old, older, new, and newer. But it works somehow, and looks better than The Thing That Landed.
architect's lack of Faith, save D, troubles me.
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