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...exhibition’s title implicitly suggests, Maltzan??s current work responds to this issue of “groundedness.” He is creating an architecture that is trying to exist somewhere in between the effects of gravity and spatial aeronautics...
Dimly lit, the exhibit’s installation of four of Maltzan??s buildings turns a busy hallway into a sort of monotone runway, with architectural models queued up to take off. The exhibition presents four current Maltzan projects, all of them located in California: two expensive residences (Leona Drive in Beverly Hills and a residence along the beach in Malibu) and the expansion of two small regional museums (the Fresno Metropolitan Museum in the agricultural town of Fresno and the Sonoma County Museum in Santa Rosa...
...visiting design critic. Before beginning his own firm, he worked for architect Frank Gehry as an designer for the winning competition entry for the Los Angeles Walt Disney Concert Hall (although the Hall, which opened in Los Angeles last month, bears little resemblance to the original design). Looking at Maltzan??s work, it is clear that Gehry has had a strong influence on his formal and professional maturation as a designer...
...shame that Maltzan??s earlier work is not included in “Lift,” as it would have provided valuable context for his work thus far. His art center projects in Los Angeles (one for the non-profit Inner-City Arts program and the other for the afflient Harvard-Westlake School) show Maltzan trying to find his own voice. Only in his early 40s, Maltzan is charting a career of Gehry-like proportions; it is hard to dismiss the suspicion that “Lift” is something of a resume-builder...