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Old Posted Jan 31, 2012, 5:51 PM
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Originally Posted by jg6544 View Post
I first saw LACMA in the summer of 1967 and it was beautiful. The buildings seemed to be floating on those ponds.
the architect of the museum was said to be influenced by another bldg created in seattle for their 1962 world's fair. it's a bldg still in use today as seattle's science ctr.


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^ that bldg's architect was the same person who designed the now vanished world trade ctr in nyc.

fwiw, I read that the design of the LA art museum was panned by many critics when it opened in the 1960s. so if it's judged today as "stalinist", it still wasn't praised even when brand new. one of its newest bldgs also got mostly reviews by several ppl in the media a few yrs ago. the museum has had a string of bad luck with its bldgs for over 40 yrs.
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