Word: pseudomodernist
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...wing of LACMA comes nowhere near MOCA's ensemble in architectural quality. It is hampered by its relationship -- or lack of one -- to the existing buildings. These were probably the worst of any large museum in America, a mincing trio of pseudomodernist boxes completed in 1964 by Los Angeles Architect William Pereira. When the time came, in 1981, to expand LACMA, the proper response to them would have been the bulldozer. But that would have meant closing the museum. So its trustees engaged Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates, a New York firm with a name for brash, virile signature buildings heavily...
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