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| Pavilion for Japanese Art - LACMA |
I spent some time wandering around the LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) campus after checking out the exhibits inside. Here are some photos using my Diana camera of The Pavilion for Japanese Art.
The building above and below, The Pavilion for Japanese Art, is really intriguing. It was designed by architect
Bruce Goff in 1978, though it seems more like something you would see from the 1960's. The fact that it is within sight of
The La Brea Tar Pits, has abundant use of stone, and has ornamentation on the roof that could double as wooly mammoth tusks, helps to give it that
Flintstones aesthetic.
But at the same time, it's whimsical and modern with the flow of the circulation emulating that of the Guggenheim Museum in New York by spiraling from top to bottom, though on a smaller scale. So in that regard, it points to another
Hanna-Barbera creation,
The Jetsons.
In reading up on Bruce Goff, I realized that we visited one of his earlier creations in the Art Deco style,
The Boston Avenue Methodist Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma last summer. It's interesting to note just how different the two buildings are. You can check out some photos we took of The Boston Avenue Methodist Church at
Lulu's Vintage.
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| Pavilion for Japanese Art - LACMA |
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| Pavilion for Japanese Art - LACMA |
Shown below is a shot I took of the Resnick Pavilion on the LACMA campus. The white sawtooth fins control natural light allowing only the more subdued northern light to enter the building. Also of note is the bright red mechanical system.
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| Resnick Pavilion - LACMA |
The next two photos were taken along the back side of the Hammer Building on the LACMA campus. It had just rained earlier that afternoon. I really enjoy the green-blue color of the sky with the profiles of the trees in the foreground.
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| Hammer Building - LACMA |
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| Hammer Building - LACMA |
Rounding out my stroll around the LACMA campus I wandered through the adjacent Hancock Park. That's the Variety building in the background with an unidentified critter in the foreground - perhaps a saber tooth tiger.
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| Hancock Park - Los Angeles |
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| Hancock Park - Los Angeles |
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