until Monday July 29 2013
MOCA
T : +1 213 6 26 62 22
250 south grand avenue
CA 90012 Los Angeles
United States
Contemporary Architecture from Southern California will focus on a significant era in American architecture and present the first scholarly and extensive examination of the prolific and often radical built forms that characterize buildings designed in Southern California during the last twenty-five years.
The exhibition begins with work built as postmodernism is waning in the mid-eighties, and examines the reasons that Los Angeles has become the birthplace of a new way of practicing and thinking about building as a more formalist and less coherent form of architecture than elsewhere. The show explores the geographic, academic, political, and socio-economic underpinnings of this innovative period and its development, focusing on the works of the most expressive, experimental, and avant-garde architects based in Los Angeles.
Presenting these and other architects such as Hodgetts + Fung, Coy Howard, Barbara Bestor, Daly Genik Architects, Patrick Tighe, Lorcan O’Herlihy, Michele Saee, Greg Lynn, Ball-Nogues Studio, Neil Denari, Hagy Belzberg and Michael Maltzan, among others, the show hopes to define a cultural moment in which many major national and international works originated in Southern California.
