A casual passerby might never guess that the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) recently underwent a $50-million, 6-year expansion and renovation—which was exactly Bob Kupiec’s goal. Kupiec, principal of the eponymous local firm, and his team, along with Altieri Sebor Wieber engineers, completed the first two parts of a five-phase project this August, which was generously publicly funded.
The stately institution has been a staple of Santa Barbara’s historic downtown since 1941 and today still matches the locale’s quintessential Mediterranean architecture. However, before the renovation, many layers of the museum’s history remained unseen, making the undertaking much larger than initially planned.
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