Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles’

But Where are the Flying Cars?

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

What will the Los Angeles skyline look like in 2030?

Newsweek asked three well-known architecture firms—Michael Maltzan Architecture, cityLAB UCLA and Gensler—to envision the future for this fun interactive feature. There aren’t flying cars from The Jetsons like we expected, but some pretty neat features nonetheless.

“A future Los Angeles … will alter today’s predominant subdivision, tract-home, and automobile monoculture into a more multicultural, multimodal, interconnected, and sustainable modern city,” wrote the Maltzan team.

Read more at Culture Monster: Architects imagine Los Angeles in 2030

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The History of Art, Through the Lens of Los Angeles

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
An interesting post today at The Huffington Post’s new L.A. section by Michael Govan, director of the LACMA, about the distinct style of art that has come out of Los Angeles.

Govan writes: “Art history can be broken into distinctions of time, but also of place. One can discern differences of style and influence, for instance, between 17th Century French painting and that of Italy. So too have distinctions in American art become apparent in the twentieth century when looking at the artists of New York and those of California.”

The article also mentions Art Center alumnus and sculptor Jorge Pardo and his recent pre-Columbian art installation at LACMA.

Read more: The History of Art, Through the Lens of Los Angeles

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