Getty Center (Los Angeles, CA) : West Pavilion, canopy entry
- Creator:
- Olin Partnership, American landscape architecture firm, founded 1996
Richard Meier & Partners, founded 1983 - Published/Created:
- Los Angeles, California, United States
1984-1997 - Physical Description:
- 110 ac (area)
- Date Depicted:
- 2007
1950 AD - 2010 AD - Materials:
- stone; travertine
- Notes:
- The Getty Center sits on a hilltop in the Santa Monica Mountains, just off the San Diego Freeway. The hilltop affords views of both the Pacific Ocean and the San Gabriel Mountains, and the vast street-grid of the city. The Getty Center is a complex of museum galleries, libraries, offices and gardens. Two computer-operated trams elevate visitors from a street-level parking facility to the top of the hill. Clad in cleft-cut Italian travertine, the campus is organized around a central arrival plaza. Curvilinear design elements and natural gardens soften the grid created by the travertine squares. Because neighbors requested that the complex be no more than two stories above grade, all of the buildings extend underground and are linked with subterranean corridors.
- Topics:
- Architecture -- United States -- 20th century -- (YVRC)
- Period/Style:
- Twentieth century
- Culture:
- American
- Accession Number:
- 1A1-MR-GC-1-M11
- Genre:
- architecture (AAT)
cultural centers (AAT)
exhibition buildings: art museums (AAT) - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Sculptures, Models, & Architecture
- Rights:
- Copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc
The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement. - Access Restrictions:
- Yale Community Only
- Digital:
- architecture; contemporary (1960 to present); Art museums Modernist; Twentieth century buildings; exhibition buildings; museums; art museums; buildings; libraries (buildings); buildings; office buildings; complexes; educational complexes; campuses
- Source Creator:
- Gilchrist, Scott
- Source Title:
- Archivision Addition Module Five
- Source Created:
- 2878 Chamonix, Montreal QC
Archivision, Inc.
2007 - Source Note:
- Purchase, Visual Resources Collection, May, 2011; photographer Scott Gilchrist
- Yale Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Digital Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Local Record Number:
- 4090
- OID:
- 10054489
- PID:
- digcoll:1840168