![]() ![]() On Thursday, in aĪrchitect’s Newspaper, Mount said that MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch had halted installation of “A New Sculpturalism” several weeks ago due to financial issues. But I did get the sense that it was starting to come together.”īut why exactly "A New Sculpturalism," a show two years in the making, is facing cancellation is not yet clear. “I had a few meetings where I never really got the whole picture for the concept of the show. “It’s not been an entirely clear process from the start,” he says. Lynn, who is a subject in the show, first heard about the possibility of a cancellation from the L.A. “If the show doesn’t go through, it will not be good for L.A.,” says Greg Lynn, of Greg Lynn FORM, the winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2008. ![]() The story also reported that alternative venues were being considered. The show is scheduled to open on June 2 the catalog was released late last month. ![]() “I am fearful it’s going to be canceled,” the exhibition’s guest curator Christopher Mount told the L.A. The article reported that Gehry would no longer participate in the show-leaving a gaping hole in the programming. “A New Sculpturalism: Contemporary Architecture from Southern California” was intended to shine a light on the last quarter century of avant-garde design in Los Angeles, the city that has produced Pritzker Prize–winners Thom Mayne, FAIA, and Frank Gehry, FAIA.īut a story published by Los Angeles Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne on Wednesday (and updated today) has left a large question mark dangling over the future of one of the biggest exhibits of the “Pacific Standard Time Presents” series. For months, some three dozen Southern California architects have been laboring on a major exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles. ![]()
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