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Article: Getty genesis. (planning the architectural design of the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California)
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- February 1, 1998
- Author:
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For Richard Meier, the Getty Center has been a passion. The realization of such a massive and significant project for the arts, over a passage of almost 14 years, is rare in the history of architecture itself.
In global terms, three super-projects have both signalled the culmination of the 1990s and heralded the millennium; these are the recently completed Tokyo International Forum in Japan by Rafael Vinoly (AR November 1996), the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, by Frank Gehry (AR December 1997), and the Getty Center by Richard Meier.(1) These three, all with different programmes and city contexts, also represent a new order of civic achievement, supported by ...
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