After a month-long "protest competition," the Citizens' Brigade to Save LACMA has released six finalist designs for alternatives to Swiss architect Peter Zumthor's contentious scheme for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
United around their opposition to the museum's planned structure, which has long been the focus of inflamed public controversy, the group invited concepts that "correct major shortcomings" of Zumthor's design. “Our call for ideas was to open and make public what has been a closed process, and to present alternatives that inspire and show a way forward for a LACMA that is improved, fresh, and practical, not reduced and compromised,” said says architecture critic (and frequent contributor to RECORD) Joseph Giovannini, co-chair of the Brigade.
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