Christopher Knight Responds to Zumthor
"It pains me to have to say this, but the design’s critique of the encyclopedic form is shallow, the revisionism uninformed. LACMA’s encyclopedic collection is not an accident, and no architecture can compensate for lost context.
Though addressed to Zumthor as an open letter, it's not clear whether the architect will read Knight's words. Zumthor has said that Michael Govan advised him not to read criticism of the project.
(Shown, Pieter Jansz Saenredam's Interior of the Mariakerk, Utrecht, 1651, part of LACMA's Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Carter collection.)
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Oh, those big earthquakes a few days ago? Hint, hint. Time to high tail it out of here, Mr Museum Director from New York and your pal, Mr Architect from Switzerland.