J. Paul Getty Center, Los Angeles: Site Study 1
Object Details
- Architect
- Richard Meier, American, b. 1934
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- This early drawing of the Getty complex layout shows the architect developing the orientation and regulating grids for the architecture which are based on the 22.5 degree angle of the San Diego Freeway as it comes from the south and bends to the north below the Center. This is also the same angle of two intersecting ridges that run through the complex. Superimposed on the two orientation lines Meier has set two grids on which he has begun to lay out a grouping of museum pavilions and a visitor arrival area.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Ana Meier
- September 4, 1986
- Accession Number
- 2009-15-1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Copyright Notice
- © Richard Meier
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Graphite on tracing paper
- Dimensions
- 61 x 94 cm (24 x 37 in.)
- Frame (existing): 102.9 x 102.9 x 5.9 cm (40 1/2 x 40 1/2 x 2 5/16 in.)
- place depicted
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_2009-15-1
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq48b95cc5c-e3f4-4656-8e29-6d14ac88d6ff
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