Sharon Johnston, founding director of Los Angeles-based Johnston Marklee, presents their design for the UCLA Graduate Art Studios completed in 2019 in Culver City. The new 48,000 square-foot campus includes adaptive reuse of a 21,200 square-foot historic wallpaper factory, converted into a ‘neighbourhood’ of graduate art studios, and an expansion of 26,800 square-feet of studios, laboratories, galleries, classrooms, and an artist-in-residence loft for the six disciplines that constitute the curriculum. The planning of the new studio complex is based on four basic strategies: purging obsolete structures, creating a new continuous ground, creating a new expanded roof as a solar umbrella, and defining a new perimeter block to engage the city. These strategies unite the existing with the new to form a coherent identity for the program.
A CENTURY OF THE ARTIST’S STUDIO
This lecture forms part of a new series exploring the rich typology of the artist’s studio and the challenges of delivering studio provision today. The series has been developed in partnership with the Whitechapel Gallery to coincide with their current exhibition ‘A Century of the Artist’s Studio 1920 – 2020’ which runs until 29 May 2022. To find out more, head to https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/a-century-of-the-artists-studio-1920-2020/
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