SCI-ARC GALLERY

According to its website, SCI-Arc Gallery is the only cultural institution in Los Angeles committed to exhibiting experimental projects by contemporary architects. Currently on show is the 'Live Wire' installation by Oyler Wu Collaborative, a practice established in NYC in 2001 and now based in LA, that "argues for an expanded relationship between tectonic expression and functional performance". The staircase can be read as a critique of static exhibition spaces, linking the ground and upper level to create movement through the gallery, but the computer generated design divided opionion.