The Getty Villa / Marion True and Jorge Silvetti ; with an introduction by Salvatore Settis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

True, Marion.

Contributor:

Silvetti, Jorge.

J. Paul Getty Museum.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Getty Villa (Malibu, Calif.).

J. Paul Getty Museum.

Art museum architecture--Conservation and restoration--California--Malibu.

Art museum architecture.

Buildings--California--Malibu.

Buildings.

Art museum architecture--Conservation and restoration.

California--Malibu.

Physical Description:

xxi, 231 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans (some color) ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Trust, [2005]

Summary:

The original Getty Museum, housed in a replica of a Roman villa on a site overlooking the Pacific Ocean, has long been one of Los Angeles's most treasured landmarks. Closed for almost ten years while renovations were made to the building and the site itself was transformed into a center for the study of antiquities and conservation, the Getty Villa is once again open to the public.

This book is a lively history of the Getty that chronicles its growth from a small museum in a ranch house in Malibu to an organization that now comprises not only the renown Museum but also the Research Institute, Conservation Institute, and Foundation.

But most engagingly, this book records the architectural adventure of reconfiguring a beautiful but topographically challenging site into one that could continue to accommodate the splendid Museum building and could also provide for an outdoor theater, laboratories for conservation work and research, offices for staff and visiting scholars, and an education program for adults and children. And while this story may be of only one project in one place, to anyone interested in architecture and in the difficulties of building on a grand scale in the twenty-first century, the story told by Marion True and Jorge Silvetti is an enlightening and rewarding one-illustrated with more than 300 reproductions of works of art, photographs of the old and the new Villa, site plans, and architectural elevations.

Contents:

Part I. The Getty Villa / Marion True. A collection comes to Malibu

Reconstructing the Villa dei Papiri

The Villa renovation project

A new beginning

Part II. The Getty Villa reimagined / Jorge Silvetti. Staking out the field

Deciphering the language, interpreting the site

Tectonic shifts and the unearthing of the Villa

Systematic exploration and extraordinary new findings

The Museum restored.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0892368381

OCLC:

60550965

Publisher Number:

9780892368419

9780892368389