Museums and Megastructures

Joe Day

A trio of sprawling new museums in Los Angeles hovers between architecture and urbanism, and between art and entertainment. Together, the Academy Museum, Lucas Museum, and Geffen Galleries at LACMA test contemporary assumptions about advanced form-generation and the role of cultural institutions. But are these gargantuan museums what the city needs now?

A trio of new museums in Los Angeles hovers between architecture and urbanism, and between art and entertainment. Are these gargantuan institutions what the city needs now?

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Future Archive

Future Archive features the online republication of significant works of 20th-century design criticism and history.

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