The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has long been due for a major overhaul, according to its director Michael Govan and the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Peter Zumthor, who has been commissioned to re-think the museum’s east campus. “If you were to restore it, it would not really work because I think it never really worked well as a museum,” said Zumthor at a packed public conversation with Govan at the museum on Monday night.
Govan and Zumthor discussed the architect’s body of work and his plans for the museum in advance of the much-awaited June 9 opening of The Presence of the Past: Peter Zumthor Reconsiders LACMA. The exhibition showcases the architect’s $650-million proposal to redesign the LACMA campus and features a six-ton concrete model of his concept.
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