UCLA

In a bid to further consolidate the elements of its campus, 
the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has engaged Peter Zumthor to prepare a master plan and to propose a
new building.

 

Sameness, apparent similarity and difference will be examined across the studio as four instructors employ practically identical programs on nearly identical sites to explore differences in
form, surface, structure and ADA compliance. Distinctions between sameness and difference are essential to principles of classification, creating orders of things, whether we are considering types of insects or building types. Each studio in 414 will employ a program similar in size and related in type, allowing for research into the fundamental requirements of the program to provide opportunity to examine differences that arise in the development of the projects over the quarter.

The studio used the LACMA campus as the site, including the parking area associated with the Paige Museum and the lot recently acquired by LACMA across Wilshire. Many of the existing museum buildings are being reconsidered as part of a master plan being developed by Peter Zumthor. In response, a range of programs will be considered across the studio, with each critic providing a narrative to differentiate a normative program.

 

That’s Major!

Kevin Daly, Lecturer
Course: 414.1 Major Building Design Studio

 

 

This studio will use the LACMA campus as the site, including the parking area associated with the Paige Museum and the lot recently acquired by LACMA across Wilshire. Many of the existing museum buildings are being reconsidered as part of a master plan being developed by Peter Zumthor. In response, a range of programs were considered across the studio, with each critic providing a narrative to differentiate a normative program.

 

 

Conservation of contemporary artwork poses challenges outside the established discipline of the conservation of traditional painting and sculpture. Conservators face challenges like the inherently ephemeral nature of performance art, the use of industrial resins and pigment, access to specific manufacture hardware, and the rapid obsolescence of digital equipment essential for the exhibition of work.

 

 

Students researched the collection at LACMA and identified three contemporary artists working in media outside conventional drawing, painting and sculpture. With the work of these three artists as a starting point, students rewrote the program to create a conservation facility specific to these artists’ work. While the basic sizes of spaces will remain constant across the studio, the proportions, acoustical qualities and use of natural light will vary significantly with each students interpretation of the program.

 

 

Students: Aiden Carty, Daniel Feig, Sasha Geisler, Dema Hajmurad, Timothy Harmon, Andresa Maia, Stephanie Odenheimer, Peter Stavros, and Cristina Toth