“While we await their urban impacts, I’ll offer design verdicts: the Academy Museum delivers as promised. The Lucas takes the biggest risks, some of debatable urgency but laudable daring. And LACMA is a project for the ages, unless, somehow, its environs evolve to defy its masterful sight lines.”
Places JournalTogether, the Academy Museum, Lucas Museum & LACMA's Geffen Galleries — all in Los Angeles, all erected in the past five years, all gargantuan — test contemporary assumptions about museum design and the role of major cultural institutions. But are they what the city needs right now?