Timeframe: 1990’s
European
influence
Classic
and at the same time modern in its theories and approach to contemporary
design.
Renaissance
Humanist Theory
Architect:
Richard Meier
Overall
Design:
Building and site integrated as one art form recalling the Renaissance spirit of design.
Plan
of the complex encourages human interaction and both facilitates and
contributes (as a work of art itself) to the Getty mission of serving the
public in the understanding, enjoyment, and preservation of the world’s
artistic and cultural heritage.
The
complex is informed by the natural context of its site.
Building Styles:
• Mediterranean tradition
• Modern variations
Gardens and Courtyards
• Gardens and courtyards designed to harmonize the various parts of the complex and to establish areas of human scale.
• Gardens inspired by
Mediterranean tradition (Italian Renaissance Villa Gardens).
Precedents:
relationships
between buildings and surrounding landscape
the
sequencing of outdoor spaces
scale
and proportion
axial
organization
the
use of water – ornament, connections
the
sensory response to materials
the
ordering of nature
• Gardens
and plazas informed by the built structures and respond to similar rules of
proportion and geometry.
o
use of axis
o
the geometric layout of
trees and shrubs
o
the combination of
geometric and organic forms
The
Olin Partnership, Philadelphia, Landscape Architects
Design
Elements:
Plazas
Plantings
Water
European
Inventions / Constructions
Central
Garden
Robert
Irwin, Artist
Getty’s
connection to the city.