Hodgetts + Fung Wild Beast. Image - Tom Bonner
I like Hodgetts + Fung’s Wild Beast performance space at Cal Arts, Valencia California: a cross between a fine tuned musical instrument and a crustacean with a profiled metal carapace. I taught with Craig Hodgetts at UCLA in the 70s and have always admired his work: Roosevelt Island Competition, Minnesota Mississippi urban design proposal, Columbus Settlement Centre (with Robert Mangurian) and his simultaneously retro and avant garde project for the Suburban Alternatives US exhibit (Paxton) at the 1976 Venice Biennale, and Hodgetts + Fung’s Towell Temporary Library at UCLA.
Check out the video of both architects describing their design intentions in the belly of the Beast in Architectural Record’s July 13 Weekly Web Insider.
Posted: July 22nd, 2011 | Filed under: International Architecture | Leave a Comment »
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