Margie Yu Public Affairs Asst.
Admission is free of charge.
The exhibition is curated by Ben Caffey, John Dale, Stephanie Reich, and the Urban Design Committee of the Los Angeles chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Urban Design in Greater Los Angeles at the Millennium is an exhibition of drawings, models, photographs, slides and videos by architects, landscape architects, urban designers, planners, graphic designers and computer animators. This unprecedented installation depicts projects, both built and unrealized, from pragmatic to theoretical, which explore the design of the city at the interface between public and private experience. As opposed to a concentric locale, Los Angeles is an environment of edges and episodes that reflect a localized diversity within a superficially homogeneous urban fabric. The particular challenge facing the urban designer in Los Angeles is how to reconcile the attempt to bring order on a comprehensive scale versus celebrating the unique and self-contained.