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This book presents the amazing new Getty Center, designed by world-renowned architect Richard Meier, and built in Los Angeles with actual blocks of Travertine from the riverbed of the Tiber in Italy. With six separate sections devoted to the Lower Tram Station and Arrival Plaza, the Harold M. Williams Auditorium, the North and East Buildings, the J. Paul Getty Museum itself, the Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, and the Restaurant-Cafa, respectively, this book bears witness to Meier's Herculean feat*the realization and reinvention of the ideal city of the Renaissance for the 21st century. Documented in full color by photographer Antonia Mulas*whose previous works have concentrated on Graeco-Roman civilization on the one hand and contemporary megalopolises on the other*Richard Meier: The Getty Center is a monument not only to the architect and the Center itself, but to the highest possibilities of human architectural achievement as well.
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THE GETTY.......2006-04-07
Just a spectacular building, the perfect building for this breathtaking site. This book is well conceived and the images just pop off the page. This building was a long time coming, but it was well worth the wait. I am a huge fan of Meier, his work is so light and inviting. I love how the L.A. sunlight plays off the tavertine, it just glows. Of all the great buildings Meier has designed this will be the one for which he is remembered and I'm sure he is fine with that fact. Fine book on a fantastic building, oh and not a shabby art collection either.
OUTSTANDING, BEAUTIFUL & STUNNING PHOTOGRAPHY.......2001-02-24
After visiting THE Getty Center, I've become a huge fan of Meiers' work. Although most of his work in the past seems untouchable to me, this project has a clean but warm inviting feeling around every corner. The photographs in the book are superb and layout the book with remarkable light, clarity and stunning imagery. The photographer John Linden is a true master of the camera. His work carries the book. Not a bad read either, but who reads books on architecture? This book and the project itself pure eye candy. Buy it.
A Well Documented Book About the Getty Centre.......2000-11-11
Despite the succinctness of the book, I knew all I needed to know about the Getty Centre which costed a whopping US$1 billion to build. Getty Centre is to the other extreme of the Bilbao Museum by Gehry. The latter one is both an architecture building & a sculpture as a whole but the former offering is a Modern building in the best traditions of Le Corbusier, Philip Johnson, or even Miles van de Rohe. I'm disappointed to read that Richard Meier didn't get the chance to realise his total vision upon the project & therefore, the integrity of his design is ultimately compromised. 2 of the incidents worth mentioning are the engagement of the interior designer, Thierry Despont to provide the colour coordination of the galleries. He's better known as the designers for the rich & famous such as Ralph Lauren & Bill Gates. In this instance, Theirry applied heavy & bold colours to complement the art works & when the art works melted into the scene, the emphasis upon the art works themselves are lost in totality. Secondly, the engagement of the landscape artist, Robert Irwin who introduced the circular garden which broke the link between 2 main buildings of the Getty Centre. It's interesting to read about the material chosen, the travertine, & how it blends nicely with the white metal panels that Richard Meier is well known for; the maximisation of controlled light to highlight the artworks & yet, not harming them in anyway required fine detailing & ingenuity in which Richard Meier & team delivered. The book comprises of many photographs taken from many angles imaginable under different time of the day. Many elevation plans, sectional plans, conceptual plans, model plans, detailing plans, & all you need to know about the Getty Centre. Definitely worth reading for an architecture enthusiast.
First time at the Getty.......2000-01-19
A question everyone must ask when they first visit the Getty Museum is, "How did anyone ever build this enormous, complicated, graceful complex of buildings?" In The Getty Center by Michael Brawne, the author takes you to the earliest stages of the project with breathtaking photography and detailed text. The photography from beginning to end allows you to feel that you can take part of the" Getty Experience" home with you. I bought this book for my daughter when I was at the Museum gift shop and got home feeling sorry I didn't have my own copy, so this is my second purchase of this beautiful book
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- Fascinating look at the site and construction of the Getty.
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Between Nature and Culture: Photographs of the Getty Center by Joe Deal
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From 1983 through 1997, artist Joe Deal documented the site and construction of the Getty Center through a series of black and white photographs. Between Nature and Culture: Photographs of the Getty Center by Joe Deal presents 130 of Deal's photographs, offering an opportunity to view the
evolving site through this artist's eyes, from the selection of the starkly beautiful chaparral-covered mountain top to the steel and travertine of the final stages of construction. With an introduction by Mark Johnstone that provides both a key to understanding Joe Deal's unique vision and
commentaries on the thematic groups and individual photographs reproduced, this book offers a dramatic portrait of one of the Getty Center.
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Fascinating look at the site and construction of the Getty........1999-06-18
The transformation of one of the most imposing "wild" parcels of land in Los Angeles into what is now the Getty Center (Museum, etc.) is the story of these stunning, beautiful black and white photographs. These images and thoughtful essays will be appreciated by anyone interested in art, landscapes, culture and/or modern architecture.
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In the early 1990s the design and creation of the Central Garden at the Getty Center were entrusted to the distinguished contemporary visual artist Robert Irwin. Irwin-a member of California's "light and space" movement-was an unexpected choice for this major commission, and his work has
aroused intense interest in the art world and among gardening enthusiasts and visitors to the Getty Center. In Robert Irwin Getty Garden, Lawrence Weschler offers a lively account of the creation of what Irwin has playfully termed "a sculpture in the form of a garden aspiring to be art." Weschler's
narrative is followed by a transcript of conversations in which he and Irwin, in a series of walks through the garden, discuss in detail the decisions, both philosophical and practical, that shaped the making of this major art work in Southern California. The book contains more than one hundred
color illustrations, many of them specially commissioned from photographer Becky Cohen. The photographs capture the stunning variety of colors and textures of the plant forms selected by Irwin. They also reveal the care and precision that went into the creation of each element of the garden
environment, from the handrails and lighting fixtures to the huge azalea rings and waterfall that make a visit to the Getty Central Garden an unusually thought-provoking experience.
Robert Irwin has exhibited widely in galleries and museums in North America and abroad.
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Gloriously, Richly Photographed Gardens.......2004-03-17
I felt that this book is not only a beautiful book on art and gardens to own, but qualifies as an "Everyday Reference" for our Architecture office. The photographs by Becky Cohen, 2000 Alfred Eisenstaedt Award winner, were reason enough to give this gorgeous book as gifts to friends as well as other Associates in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Interior Design. The images she took relay the purposefulness and soulfulness of the design of the gardens, which in turn, connects and inspires the Designer in their own field, whatever it might be. As a reference book to Designers, the book surpasses it's own purpose to show the incredible Getty Gardens and to view the dialogue between Weschler and Irwin, which at times, I'm sorry to say, can be dull and stupid sounding. However, the compositions and textures of the photographs are just too stunning to harbor that opinion of the dialogue for very long. In the book, you feel you might realize that Cohen's immensely thoughtful compositions of the garden photographs are a better art itself than of the artistic gardens. Again and again, with every page, they follow one after the other to reveal a new thought, not just about gardens or a particular spectacular plant or flower, but about how you see them. It inspires a desire to see them for yourself, as she does, to open an intimate experience with nature. Each image impresses that the two dimensional beauty you see in front of you might be part trickery. The "real" gardens couldn't have that much beauty! But, of course, when you visit the gardens, they do. Cohen is merely brilliant at capturing it. As you find the last of the images at the end of the book, it reminds me of the wonder you feel when you see anything beautful for the first time, it sort of makes you hold your breath and makes your heart skip a bit.
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This volume completes the documentation of the planning, design, and construction of the Getty Center begun in The Getty Center (1991). Designed by Richard Meier and Partners, the Getty Center sits atop a stunning 110-acre hilltop in west Los Angeles and is the new home for the Museum, the
five Institutes, and the Grant Program that make up the J. Paul Getty Trust.
The book includes a series of essays that underscore the challenges faced by architect, contractor, and owner working collaboratively. A chronology identifies the key dates and events in the design and construction process. Extensively illustrated with photographs by several accomplished
photographers, site drawings from Richard Meier and Partners, and Robert Irwin's drawings of the Central Gardens, the book presents readers with an insider's view of the making of the Getty Center.
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Richard Meier's Getty Center complex in Los Angeles, thirteen years in the making, is the subject of this autobiographical account of what has been frequently called "the architectural commission of the century." Meier has the perfect authorial voice, admirably straddling the personal and the professional with aplomb and understated flair. He opens with a straightforward account of his youthful interest in art and architecture, his basement studio in his parents' suburban new Jersey home, his education at Cornell, and his post-graduation European tour, where he unsuccessfully hounded Le Corbusier for an unpaid apprenticeship and failed to track down Alvar Aalto, another hero. His first "published" house was one commissioned by his parents; his first "freestanding work" was an $11,000 pre-fab Long Island home that was later sold to Anne Bancroft and Mel Brooks. "Now I often wonder how it is that my architecture came to acquire what for many people is its singular style: this image of a perennially gleaming white building flooded with light," he writes. The rest of the book, which is punctuated by black-and-white documentary photographs, is Meier's well-crafted, detailed account of the Getty commission, including subtle descriptions of the politics involved in all aspects of its design, siting, landscaping, and daily use. It's all here: the immensity of siting the multi-building complex in the mountains overlooking the Pacific, the hundreds of architects who came to work on the project, and the craftsmen and contractors and construction crews who made it a user-friendly reality as well as a stunning modernist masterwork. Meier calmly takes the reader through the maze of issues and construction phases. Few architecture books could be more educational, or more gracefully written. --Peggy Moorman
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One of America's most eminent architects tells us what it was like to undertake the architectural commission of the century: the building of the Getty Center in Los Angeles. Writing with wit and passion and in engrossing detail, Richard Meier takes us behind the scenes of the thirteen-year-long, one-billion-dollar project.
We follow Meier from 1957 when, just out of Cornell, he traveled to Europe for a grand tour and to seek work with two of his architectural heroes, Le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto, and through to his early years in New York with Marcel Breuer. After Meier established his own private practice, we see him designing public housing and the private houses that expressed his distinctive modernist style of pure geometric line, of whiteness, and open spaces flooded with light. We also see him, in time, designing such important art centers as the Museum of Decorative Arts in Frankfurt, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona.
And then--in 1984--the Getty Center. Meier tells us how he was selected from more than thirty architects, after a lengthy and involved series of interviews, to design the cultural campus on the spectacular 110-acre site overlooking the Santa Monica Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. The Getty was a new cultural institution, and Meier worked with the program directors to design the buildings that would serve them best. In the beginning, neither he nor the Getty had any idea of the complications in store for them. Each of the Center's six components, including the Getty Museum, had its own set of priorities. Meier faced two important contradictory challenges: the creative and the practical. His task was to design a series of buildings that would stand as architectural masterpieces. But, at the same time, he had to deal with myriad specific demands and limitations imposed not only by his client, but also by the local homeowners, who were alarmed by the specter of a vast complex arising in their midst. As a result, the design process itself was not completed until 1991, when the drawings and large-scale model of the Center were finally unveiled to the press.
But Meier's task had scarcely begun. The sheer scale and complexity of the project, and the number of people involved in every decision, continued to mean constant revisions. As construction moved ahead, Meier lived on the site, yet commuted to his New York office to manage ongoing European projects, while in his new office in Los Angeles, the population of architects handling the Getty grew to more than a hundred. Although the Center's design had been agreed on, much negotiation lay ahead before questions of material, color, and landscaping were at last settled.
Finally, in 1996, almost half of the Center was ready to be occupied, and Meier could see that the work--carried out by the many architects, engineers, technicians, craftsmen, and builders for thirteen years--was well on its way to being completed. Meier's fascinating book, chronicling the creation of one of the cultural monuments of our time, is a unique record of the art and process of building in this century, and an important contribution to architectural history.
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MEIER'S GETTY.......2006-04-09
This book should be required reading for all architecture students, it illustrates to the reader all that goes into getting something monumental like this built. The process is fascinating and Meier is quite candid. Highly recommended, with one caviat, the images should have been better and more abundent, but all and all a great read.
Fantastic and Simple. Unputdownable for anyone........2004-10-25
Richard meier has written a book that is indeed about not as much about the project itself as about the process, the setbacks, and the (literally) trials and tribulations that he and his firm went through while making it happen. i am an architect who after reading it realised that it is not only the small and struggling architects who have problems in making projects happen. Definitely a must read for anyone who wants a truly riveting but simply told tale behind one of the greatest projects on our age. You really can read it like a novel. Very well written.
Timeless way of Building..........2003-06-06
One of the finest architectural masterpieces of the 20th century is depicted in this wonderful book written by the master builder himself - Richard Meier. This new Parthenon of modern times shows that modern architect are still capable of producing timeless buildings like in the age of classical Greece. The book is an insightful and delightful story about creating a mega project from the idea to implementation. A rare book which reminds of Vitruvius and Alberti in many ways. Higly recommended...
Excellent text; poor ilustrations........1998-07-15
I enjoyed very much reading this book. It suprised me, because the lack of photographs did not prejudice the quality of the report given by Meier, although it could have helped it to become a perfect one. Its great for an architecture student like myself to become familiar with all the design process, its problems and joys; in a project that took 13 years to conclude. What I found most interesting was the way the architect exposed his work methods, his life and his own learning during the construction of the building that he considers to be his masterwork.
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- it is very nice with a good ideas
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The Getty Center: Design Process
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This insider's view of the process of selecting an architect and a building site for the Getty Center includes photographs of the site and the presentation models.
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it is very nice with a good ideas.......1999-11-24
i nthink it is the best book this yea
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Going to the Getty: A Book about the Getty Center in Los Angeles
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This hip, silly, and ultimately sophisticated tour of the Getty, "once a man, now a Center," is by J.otto Seibold and Vivian Walsh, the well-known creators of the whimsical Olive, the Other Reindeer and four other delightfully wacky children's books. Their point of view can be compared only to a few other determinedly quirky individualists. Their art, however, is unique: sublimely blithe, computer-generated "modern" grab bags of form, line, lettering, and sophisticated color, with photographs and art reproductions thrown in from page to page. The pictures show a wonky, computer-generated family--Mom, Dad, and two kids--taking the Getty's tram to the top of the Los Angeles hill where its museum, offices, auditorium, conservation and research institutes, gardens, manuscript galleries, and publications offices (and more) are spread out. The text is deadpan: "The oldest painting in the Museum is from around 1330, and the newest one is from 1896. So even the newest painting is old."
Offering a tantalizing glimpse at the Getty's holdings, this book mentions the vast photography collections (with an 1880 image of the Eiffel Tower under construction) and clock collection (who knew?), as well as painting and sculpture. "Everyone has an opinion about what sculpture is." They describe the museum laboratories and the old paints that are used for "fixing an old painting." ("A certain ground-up bug made an interesting red.") In the end, "There is still a lot to see at the Getty Center, but the fog tells us that it is time to go home"--to return another day, no doubt. --Peggy Moorman
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Hop on the tram with Milli Ennium, Quincy, and their cohorts as they set out to explore the Getty Center. This children's book--from the creators of the popular Mr. Lunch character--takes a delightful tour through the Getty Museum, adjancent gardens, conservation laboratories and other sites
at the Getty Center. Featuring the wonderful illustrations of J.otto Seibold and the beloved characters created by Seibold and coauthor Vivian Walsh, Going to the Getty is a colorful, humorous visit to the new center and sure to be enjoyed by children as well as the adult fans of Seibold and
Walsh.
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Plants In The Getty's Central Garden
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Plants in the Getty's Central Garden is Jim Duggan's sequel to the book Robert Irwin Getty Garden, Lawrence Weschler's account of the making of the Central Garden at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. Designed by contemporary artist Robert Irwin, this "sculpture in the form of a garden aspiring
to be art" draws thousands of visitors each year.
One of the key collaborators who helped Irwin realize his vision, Jim Duggan is, in his own words, a "hands-on gardener." His knowledge and experience were invaluable as Irwin selected the plants that would make up the interwoven "tapestry" of the Central Garden.
This colorful guide brings together informative descriptions of the growing habits and characteristics of nearly four hundred individual plants, with beautiful images by noted garden photographer Becky Cohen. Duggan provides suggestions for cultivating the plants, many of which will be unfamiliar to
gardeners in Southern California. Also included in the book are a foreword by Robert Irwin; three essays by Duggan tracing his involvement with the project; a map of the Central Garden; a plant location guide; and an index of scientific and common names.
Customer Reviews:
great guide to the plants in the garden.......2006-05-15
After visiting the Getty, I had to know more about the plants in that garden. This is a straightforward listing, with pictures, of many of those plants. There is also some information about Robert Irwin's design concepts which I found interesting because I was particularly struck by the color in the garden, which made sense after reading that Irwin is an artist. The only criticism I have of this book is that some of the pictures look nothing like the plants do in real life-- for example some plants that look almost black in the garden are hard to recognize because the small picture doesn't really do them justice. And not all of the plants in the garden are listed here, because they change. Overall though, I found this book very informative and inspiring!
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The DBAE Handbook was written to help art specialists and supervisors, classroom teachers, teacher educators, museum educators, and school administrators better understand and implement discipline-based art education. This comprehensive approach to teaching and learning about art for
elementary, middle, and secondary school students draws upon content in four disciplines (art history, criticism, aesthetics, and production) as a basis for creating, understanding, and appreciating works of art.
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How have issues of cultural diversity affected practices in art history, aesthetics, criticism, and art making? What are the implications of multiculturalism for those teaching art at kindergarten through high school levels? In 1992 the Center for Education in the Arts brought together more
than 150 participants to explore these questions and other issues facing arts education in America today. This volume presents summaries of those discussions--representing the views of a diverse group of arts educators in schools and museums, historians, critics, and artists.
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