Architects on the Geffen Galleries
Iwan Baan photo of Peter Zumthor's David Geffen Galleries, LACMA The Architect's Newspaper surveys 27 architects and influencers on Peter Zumthor's new David Geffen Galleries at LACMA. By my quick tally, 10 of the reviews are positive; 2 are negative; and 15 are mixed or evasive. Here's Michael Maltzan's positive reaction: "Big, curvy, floating—for all the seeming detachments to the surrounding scene, Peter Zumthor’s new building at LACMA does everything to sidestep those preconceptions and criticisms. It can be slippery, it can be heavy-handed, sometimes both simultaneously, but it pushes and pulls the city around it into an undeniable conversation. … Putting aside exterior form for a moment, it’s ‘up there’ on the lifted plane of galleries where the design’s real newness resides. Here one meanders and weaves between city and art, simultaneously challenging and celebrating both. Can one be a flaneur inside a building?" The prickliest review is Michael ...
