The mission of A+D museum is To celebrate and promote an
awareness of progressive Architecture and Design in
everyday life through exhibits, educational programs and
public outreach.
RECENT NEWS
A+D Museum is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a $140,000 research grant for the upcoming exhibition, “A Windshield Perspective: The Framing of LA Architecture and Urbanism.”
A+D is one of just seven institutions chosen by the Getty Research Institute for its Spring 2013 initiative “Los Angeles Architecture 1945-1990.” A+D Architecture and Design Museum > Los Angeles is the only Los Angeles museum with continuous exhibits of architecture and design and is honored to have been chosen to collaborate with the Getty as part of this hallmark event.
The exhibit will look at the way the experience of driving has shaped architecture and the urban environment in Los Angeles. The show will challenge the prevailing notion that buildings are billboards for drivers and delve deeper how seeing and absorbing the city through the windshield pushes the frontiers of design and city planning. The city streets are engaged in a continuous dialog with drivers, for good and for bad. “A Windshield Perspective” will examine the language that emerges from a city whose fabric is a daily digest of images gathered through a moving vehicle. The romance and terror of the streets are the subject, which can only be fully understood at 35 miles per hour.
ABOUT A+D
Established in response to the need for a space that would be devoted expressly to the exhibition of progressive architecture and design in Los Angeles, A+D Museum opened its doors in January 2001 in the Bradbury Building, one of downtown Los Angeles’ premiere landmark buildings.
Now located on Los Angeles’ Museum Row, A+D continues to be the only museum in Los Angeles where continuous exhibits of architecture and design are on view. Through exhibits, symposia, multi-disciplinary projects, educational and community programming, A+D serves as a showcase for the work of important regional, national and international designers, providing a forum for contemporary issues in architecture, urbanism, and design that are helping to shape the city. Support from corporations, community businesses, foundations and individuals will ensure the continued vitality of what Dwell editor and New York Times contributor Frances Anderton heralded as a “very real force in the city.”
A+D Museum is a non-profit 501(c) 3 organization and is a member of the American Association of Museums and the International Confederation of Architectural Museums and is recognized by design industry associations such as the American Institute of Architects, the American Institute of Graphic Artists and the American Architectural Foundation.
