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...Lift” is a presentation of four current architectural commissions by GSD Visiting Design Critic Michael Maltzan, a young Los Angeles-based architect. Maltzan will also deliver this year’s Eliot Noyes Lecture in Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, on Wednesday...
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...
...Maltzan, a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and the GSD, has returned to the GSD this semester as a 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...
...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 for him, especially because it is a somewhat conservative exhibition...
...Maltzan has moved from an early focus on Gehry-influenced sculptural forms—full of undulating but still massive geometry—to a current engagement with the contemporary architectural project of systems and folds; “Lift” shows this transition, presenting a story of an architect developing his own vocabulary and involvement in a larger architectural discourse...