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Siqueiros Mural Canopy
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2012
The
Siqueiros Mural Canopy, viewing platform, and interpretive center is
the culmination of a decades long effort to celebrate the work of David
Alfaro Siqueiros. Siqueiros, part of a triumvirate of celebrated
muralists from Mexico City which included Orozco and Diego Rivera had
come to work in Los Angeles for a couple of years. This work, his
masterpiece in Los Angeles, was so controversial that it was whitewashed
over. The community, the City of Los Angeles, and the Getty
Conservation Institute have been working for over two decades to restore
and view the mural. Gwynne Pugh led the architectural team for fifteen
years that resulted in the current structure, which protects the
conserved mural. This required penetrating through historic structures
from the Pueblo and avoiding an historic brick water main. The canopy is
an elegant juxtaposition to the historic built environment of Olvera
Street. In addition a viewing platform located above an adjacent
structure provides visual access to the mural. An interpretive center
was installed in the Sepulveda House on the same block.
Project by Pugh + Scarpa Architects
Photography: Augusta Quirk
Siqueiros Mural Canopy, viewing platform, and interpretive center is
the culmination of a decades long effort to celebrate the work of David
Alfaro Siqueiros. Siqueiros, part of a triumvirate of celebrated
muralists from Mexico City which included Orozco and Diego Rivera had
come to work in Los Angeles for a couple of years. This work, his
masterpiece in Los Angeles, was so controversial that it was whitewashed
over. The community, the City of Los Angeles, and the Getty
Conservation Institute have been working for over two decades to restore
and view the mural. Gwynne Pugh led the architectural team for fifteen
years that resulted in the current structure, which protects the
conserved mural. This required penetrating through historic structures
from the Pueblo and avoiding an historic brick water main. The canopy is
an elegant juxtaposition to the historic built environment of Olvera
Street. In addition a viewing platform located above an adjacent
structure provides visual access to the mural. An interpretive center
was installed in the Sepulveda House on the same block.
Project by Pugh + Scarpa Architects
Photography: Augusta Quirk
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