Getty Museum
For 32 months, in 1993 and 1994, Eric was a staff architect for Richard Meier. There, he worked primarily on the Getty Museum, which has been called the “Museum of the Century”. He worked primarily on the “Center for the Arts and Humanities”. It was a round building designed around a central courtyard with a million volume library. While he did not design the Getty Museum, he did detail a significant portion of this huge structure.
The drawings and photos shown here are examples of his work on the Center for the Arts and Humanities. That building quickly became the shining star of this incredible billion dollar endeavor.
For institutional work designed by Fisher ARCHitecture, check out the William and Mary Memorial and the Vandergrift Community Center.
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Here’s how Wikipedia describes this great museum:
“The Getty Center, in Los Angeles, California, is a campus of the Getty Museum and other programs of the Getty Trust. The $1.3 billion center opened to the public on December 16, 1997.[2] It is well known for its architecture, gardens, and views overlooking Los Angeles. The center sits atop a hill connected to a visitors’ parking garage at the bottom of the hill by a three-car, cable-pulled hovertrain people mover.“
“Located in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, the center is one of two locations of the J. Paul Getty Museum and draws 1.8 million visitors annually. (The other location is the Getty Villa in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.) The center branch of the museum features pre-20th-century European paintings, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, and decorative arts; and photographs from the 1830s through present day from all over the world.[4][5] In addition, the museum’s collection at the center includes outdoor sculpture displayed on terraces and in gardens and the large Central Garden designed by Robert Irwin. Among the artworks on display is the Vincent van Gogh painting Irises.“
