Architecture And The City: A Changing Relationship
On the 10th anniversary of Getty Center art museum in Los Angeles, architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne examines how architecture and its relationship with the city have changed over the past decade.
"Looking back at the museum's changing reputation offers more than the chance to see how the relationships between a city and its most significant landmarks change over time. It also helps explain the various shifts -- many of them profound -- that have redefined the field of architecture, and the city of Los Angeles, over the last 10 years."
"In a global city as wildly diverse and prone to amnesia as [Los Angeles], how do we define what fidelity to local context, to the spirit of a place, even means?
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