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Work Record
Class [controlled]:
• architecture
*Work
Type [link]: •
art center • building complex
*Title/Name: Getty
Center Title Type:
preferred
*Creator
Display: Richard Meier (American,
born 1934); Richard Meier & Partners (American,
contemporary), for the J. Paul Getty Trust (American,
founded 1953)
*Role
[link]: architect [link]:
Meier, Richard
*Role
[link]: architectural firm [link]:
Richard Meier & Partners
*Role
[link]: client [link]:
J. Paul Getty Trust
*Creation
Date Display: designed: 1984-1991,
constructed: 1991-1997
Qualifier: design
[controlled]: Earliest:
1984 Latest: 1991
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construction [controlled]: Earliest:
1991 Latest: 1997
*Subject
[links]: •
architecture • art museum •
research • cultural center •
complexes • library
Culture [link]: American
*Current
Location [link]: Los
Angeles (California, United States)
*Measurements:
6-building complex; 139,354.56 square m of construction
(1,500,000 square feet) on a 44.51 hectare site
(110-acre)
[controlled] Extent: construction
Value: 139,354.56
Unit: square m
Type: area
| Extent: site
Value: 44.51
Unit: hectare
Type: area | Extent: buildings
Value: 6
Type: count
*Materials
and Techniques: steel frame clad in
white enamel, cleft-cut travertine, and glass
Material [links]: •
travertine • enamel • metal
• glass Technique:
[links]: • steel frame
Description: Six-building
hillside complex. The site is extensively landscaped.
Buildings are clad in cleft-cut Italian travertine
and white enamel panels; campus is organized around
a central arrival plaza. These non-load-bearing
slabs have visible joints and are held in place
by stainless steel anchors. The angular grid of
the design is mitigated by curvilinear design
elements and a large garden. The Getty Center
sits on a hilltop in the Santa Monica Mountains,
just off the San Diego Freeway. From there, visitors
can take in the disparate aspects of Los Angeles'
landscape-the Pacific Ocean, the San Gabriel Mountains,
and the vast street-grid of the city.
Description Source
[link]: J. Paul Getty Museum online.
www.getty.edu
(accessed 2 September 2006)
Required and recommended elements
are marked with an asterisk.
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