Pritzker Architecture Prize

'The Marriage of Figaro,' right in time with the 21st century

2013-05-17 06:11:00

Suffice to say that Mozart and librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte weren't thinking about Proposition 8 when they composed "The Marriage of Figaro." The 1786 comic opera follows bullying Count Almaviva's efforts to invoke droit du seigneur to sexually conquer...

LACMA executives moving to Variety building

2013-05-09 10:40:00

The Times' Money & Co. blog has reported that top executives at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will be moving offices to the Variety building, which is across the street from the museum campus at 5900 Wilshire Blvd. Museum officials will move into...

LACMA draws up ambitious plans for a $650-million new look

2013-05-01 05:00:00

At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, an acclaimed Swiss architect is hoping to pull off what an acclaimed Dutch one could not. Next month LACMA will publicly unveil a $650-million plan by Pritzker Prize winner Peter Zumthor for a dramatic new museum...

Ed Ruscha, Wang Shu named to Time 100 list

2013-04-18 11:57:00

Los Angeles artist Ed Ruscha and Chinese architect Wang Shu have been named to Time magazine's new list of the 100 most influential people in the world. The annual list, which features personalities from politics, business, sports and culture, was...

Motion Picture Academy unveils new drawings for film museum

2013-04-11 15:24:00

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has unveiled new concept drawings for its film museum — including a giant, domed theater structure — to open in 2017 at the historic May Co. building on the LACMA campus at Fairfax Avenue and...

Japanese architect Toyo Ito, 71, wins Pritzker Prize

2013-03-17 12:00:00

In a return to form for the most prestigious award in architecture, Japan's Toyo Ito has won this year’s Pritzker Prize. After honoring younger and lesser-known figures in recent years -- including 49-year-old Chinese architect Wang Shu in 2012 --...

L.A. Phil announces 2013-14 season: From Amadeus to Zappa

2013-02-25 12:00:00

The music will range from A to Z -- Amadeus to Zappa, that is -- when the Los Angeles Philharmonic celebrates its 10th anniversary season at Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2013-14. In marking the occasion, the Phil also will attempt both to look back at...

Ada Louise Huxtable dies at 91; renowned architecture critic

2013-01-08 14:40:00

Ada Louise Huxtable, the architecture critic who in two decades of writing for the New York Times became a powerful force in shaping New York City and was better known than many of the architects she was covering and certainly more feared, has died. She...

Rem Koolhaas to curate 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale

2013-01-09 07:12:00

Dutch starchitect Rem Koolhaas has been tapped to curate one of architecture's most high-profile events -- the Venice Architecture Biennale. Koolhaas will curate the 2014 edition of the Biennale, taking over from British architect David Chipperfield,...

Harris: Digital push builds to rectify 1991 Pritzker Prize omission

2013-05-23 00:00:00

Denise Scott Brown has worked side by side with her husband, architect Robert Venturi, since the early 1960s, joining his firm and marrying him in 1967 and becoming the firm's principal in charge of planning in 1969. In 1991, Venturi won their...

Architect, thinker, provocateur Rem Koolhaas brings his talents to South Beach

2013-05-11 00:00:00

The list of living architects who can cause a scrum at the door of a theater where they're delivering a lecture is, depending on your view of modern urban design, depressingly sparse or fittingly short. Either way, when the severe and provocative...

Penny Pritzker nominated for Commerce secretary

2013-05-02 12:14:00

Chicago business executive Penny Pritzker was nominated by President Barack Obama to become the new Secretary of Commerce on Thursday, in an expected move that could prove controversial for the longtime political supporter and fundraising heavyweight....

Niemeyer, who loved curves in design and disliked right angles, shared architecture's Pritzker Prize in 1988. He designed the major buildings that form the heart of Brazil's capital, Brasilia. He was 104.

2012-12-19 13:27:34

Oscar Niemeyer, the Brazilian architect famous for his modernist designs, died this month at the age of 104. During his long career, he worked on many notable projects, including the planned capital city of Brasilia and the United Nations headquarters in New York.

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