Opening tonight in Los Angeles at the WUHO Gallery: Inside Marina City: A Project by Iker Gil and Andreas E.G. Larsson. For more than two years, Iker Gil and Andreas E.G. Larsson documented the lives of residents in the non-Euclidean geometries of architect Bertrand Goldberg’s iconic Marina City (1959-67) in Chicago. Celebrating Goldberg’s original vision for affordable apartments in a central, high-density location, this revealing series of photographs provides a rare, behind-the-scenes tour of the diverse array of people and living spaces within these popular cylindrical residential towers. Inside Marina City comes to WUHO Gallery at a time when controversy about another Goldberg icon, Prentice Women’s Hospital (1975), is in the news. Architects, critics, and preservation groups are lobbying the Commission on Chicago Landmarks to save the building from the wrecking ball. Both Prentice and Marina City pose a challenge to traditional architectural aesthetics. The debate and documentation around these buildings can serve as a lesson for Los Angeles, a city that is increasingly faced with issues of late-Modern preservation.
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