The exhibition at the MAK Center in West Hollywood, curated by UCLA architectural historian and critic Sylvia Lavin, is a wry study of the ways Los Angeles artists and architects worked with, leaned on, stole from and influenced one another in the 1970s.
In a larger sense, it charts the way Southern California architects threw off the influence of establishmen Modernism and helped remake the profession in that decade.
— latimes.com
Packed with mostly small-scale work by artists Judy Chicago, Billy Al Bengston, Robert Smithson, Ed Moses and architects Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Charles Moore, Cesar Pelli and Frank Gehry, among many others, it is easily the most surprising and opinionated of the exhibitions to open as part of the Getty L.A. architecture series "Pacific Standard Time Presents."
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That blueprint poster with which you reproduced above and open this article was done by someone you fail to credit!: Sheila Levrant de Bretteville
^ I knew I recognized that poster. Shame on the editors for the omission. (Though this item is years-old now, I recognize.)
Sheila visited and taught us graphic design in my first year, and it was both fun and eye-opening. The project was a map for LA's 'future' Metro system-- which is now (mostly) built. Time flies.
The credits are on the lower left corner of the poster
what magnification do you browse the web with, rando?
Good point. It's right there, easily visible using my electron microscope. Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Women in Design, 1975.
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