Ma Yansong designed a building that occupies almost four and a half hectares (eleven acres), in a lower-middle class residential neighbourhood inhabited mostly by the black and Latino communities, with an image reminiscent of a spaceship, a set made up of a sphere flattened bridge attached to a huge oval that overlooks the University of Southern California, located across the street and where the filmmaker of American Graffiti was trained.
The project is actually an element of access to the park, of which we can see the first images of the construction work in which light-coloured panels and curved shapes are already placed on the outside, specially manufactured in northern California with carbon fibre. glass by robots. 15% of the façade will also be covered by solar panels, which will help reduce the centre's energy consumption.
The building has about 7,600 square meters of exhibition space, with an investment of more than 1,000 million dollars.
George Lucas and his wife and his financier Mellody Hobson are the promoters of this idea of a "museum of the image" which is joined by the couple's interest in art, and which now seems to resurface again strongly.
Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles by MAD architects. Photograph by Sand Hill Media / Eric Furie, cortesía del Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.
Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles by MAD architects. Photograph by Sand Hill Media / Eric Furie, cortesía del Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.
About the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
As the first museum to focus exclusively on storytelling through images, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art believes that visual storytelling can connect us and help shape a more just society. With a growing collection that encompasses artworks from across cultures, places, times, and mediums, including paintings, sculptures, murals, photography, comic art, book and magazine illustrations, and the arts of filmmaking, the Lucas Museum will explore narrative art’s potential to prompt questions, invite opinions, inspire community, and move people to think about the impact of images on our world.
Co-founded by George Lucas and Mellody Hobson and led by director and CEO Sandra Jackson-Dumont, the Lucas Museum was designed by renowned architect Ma Yansong of MAD Architects with Stantec as executive architect and will open in Los Angeles’s Exposition Park in 2025. 11-acre campus with extensive new green space designed by Studio-MLA will embrace the museum’s 300,000-square-foot building, which will feature expansive galleries, two state-of-the-art theatres, and dedicated spaces for learning and engagement, dining, retail, and events.
The project is actually an element of access to the park, of which we can see the first images of the construction work in which light-coloured panels and curved shapes are already placed on the outside, specially manufactured in northern California with carbon fibre. glass by robots. 15% of the façade will also be covered by solar panels, which will help reduce the centre's energy consumption.
The building has about 7,600 square meters of exhibition space, with an investment of more than 1,000 million dollars.
George Lucas and his wife and his financier Mellody Hobson are the promoters of this idea of a "museum of the image" which is joined by the couple's interest in art, and which now seems to resurface again strongly.
Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles by MAD architects. Photograph by Sand Hill Media / Eric Furie, cortesía del Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.
Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles by MAD architects. Photograph by Sand Hill Media / Eric Furie, cortesía del Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.
About the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
As the first museum to focus exclusively on storytelling through images, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art believes that visual storytelling can connect us and help shape a more just society. With a growing collection that encompasses artworks from across cultures, places, times, and mediums, including paintings, sculptures, murals, photography, comic art, book and magazine illustrations, and the arts of filmmaking, the Lucas Museum will explore narrative art’s potential to prompt questions, invite opinions, inspire community, and move people to think about the impact of images on our world.
Co-founded by George Lucas and Mellody Hobson and led by director and CEO Sandra Jackson-Dumont, the Lucas Museum was designed by renowned architect Ma Yansong of MAD Architects with Stantec as executive architect and will open in Los Angeles’s Exposition Park in 2025. 11-acre campus with extensive new green space designed by Studio-MLA will embrace the museum’s 300,000-square-foot building, which will feature expansive galleries, two state-of-the-art theatres, and dedicated spaces for learning and engagement, dining, retail, and events.
