The Getty Center opened in 1997 to critical acclaim. Located in the Brentwood Hills above Los Angeles, the Center comprises the J Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Research Institute of Arts and the Humanities, and four other arts institutions which focus on scholarship, conservation and education. The billion-dollar project took over 13 years to accomplish, and includes extensive landscaped gardens. This text, with working drawings, offers an investigation of the building from project to built work.

Author Biography

Professor Michael Brawne is an internationally acknowledged expert on Museum Design. He has recently retired as head of the Bath University School of Architecture. He continues in private practice in Bath.