The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits.
Museum pavilion, 2014, prior to demolition
Wilshire Boulevard and the Art Museum in 1965
Former LACMA parking garage mural by Barry McGee
Former LACMA parking garage mural by Margaret Kilgallen (2000)
William Pereira
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William Leonard Pereira was an American architect from Chicago, Illinois, who was noted for his futuristic designs of landmark buildings such as the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco. He worked ou
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
…in 1961, splitting from the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art. Four years later, it moved to the Wilshire Boulevard complex designed by William Pereira. The museum's wealth and collections grew in the 1980s, and it added several buildings beginning in that decade and continuing in subsequent decades…
Pereira in 1941
Geisel Library (1970) at the University of California, San Diego
Langson Library at the University of California, Irvine, illustrating Pereira's paneled façade system
Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, 1972