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Getty Villa, J. Paul Getty Museum, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles: detail of the colonnade

RIBA Ref No RIBA33251
Architect/DesignerDennis L Kurutz Associates
Langdon Wilson Architects
Machado & Silvetti Associates
Artist/PhotographerTinero, Danielle
CountryUnited States
CityLos Angeles
Subject Date1974
Image Date2006
ViewExterior
StyleClassical Revival
MediumDigital image
OrientationLandscape
Colour InfoColour
CreditDanielle Tinero / RIBA Collections
SubjectMarble ; Villas ; Gardens ; Columns ; Art galleries ; Museums ; Courtyards ; Colonnades ; Restoration
NOTES: The original Villa was designed by Langdon Wilson Architects for the oil-magnate J. Paul Getty to house his private art collection adjacent to his home. This his second museum, a re-creation of the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum, opened as an art museum in 1974. The Villa was closed between 1997-2006 for restoration undertaken by Machado & Silvetti Associates with landscape architects Dennis L Kurutz Associates.
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