Join us for a lively conversation about L.A.’s many
downtowns—past, present and future—and the rise of the Grand Avenue arts
corridor in particular. Organized in conjunction with Mapping an Art
World: Los Angeles in the 1970s-80s, an exhibition of works from MOCA’s
the permanent collection currently on view, the panel will look back at the
history of Bunker Hill and its emergence as a cultural center, including
architect Arata Isozaki’s design for MOCA’s Grand Avenue venue, and
forward to consider emerging models for housing, work, culture,
planning, and mobility in and around downtown. It will examine the Grand
Avenue, and the redevelopment funds that helped create it, as a complex
a case study in urban development, as opposed to the more organic
the emergence of gallery and performance hubs elsewhere in downtown.

The panel includes Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee, principals of Johnston Marklee & Associates; Shana Bonstin, Deputy Director of the Los Angeles Department of City Planning; and Michael Maltzan of Michael Maltzan Architecture. The moderator is Christopher Hawthorne,
former Chief Design Officer for the City of Los Angeles, former
architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times, and now Senior Critic at
the Yale School of Architecture.

This program is supported by The Ron Burkle Endowment for Architecture and Design Programs.

https://www.moca.org/program/mapping-grand-avenue