These are the clearest, most detailed diagrams published of the Getty Center architecture, similar to the larger versions on display at the Center.

The nineteen illustrations of the new Museum and Getty Center constitute the only representative group of images of the Museum to date, most notably including twelve high quality photographs of the galleries, interior passages and exterior museum terraces.

The Getty Center is an exhilarating architectural achievement. To visit the Center at its transcendent hilltop location is to be lifted above the constraints of everyday life to experience architectural design at its finest, rethinking the best from …

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Architecture of the Getty Center. Choose an Edition. 2nd edition - 600 photographs. Posted on June 28, 2000, adding photographs taken after the opening of the Getty Center. 1st edition - 200 photographs. Posted on December 5, 1997 for the opening of the Getty Center.

This 2nd enlarged edition provides an introductory image survey and 600 images linked from a map of the entire Getty Center. Images are also linked from categories such as distant views, travertine, signage, fountains, and design axes.

Architecture of the Getty Center return to Image Categories. Click images below to enlarge page 1 | page 2 | page 3 | page 4 | page 5 | page 6. typical walls and paving, southeast corner of arrival plaza Sept. 1998 "archway" on upper level ... architect's favorite Sept. 1998 ...

This website focuses on the architecture of the Center, including its landscaping. It does not deal more broadly with the J. Paul Getty Trust and its programs or with the architects, Richard Meier and Michael Palladino, or other individuals involved in the design and construction of the Center.

The J. Paul Getty Trust is the world's largest private foundation in support of the world's artistic and cultural heritage, and the Getty Center is one of the largest privately funded architectural complexes ever designed and constructed in a single architectural campaign.

Getty Center area - north at top. Adapted fromMap data ©2012 Cybercity, Google. Reproduced April 2012 with appreciation. North at top. Imagery ©2012 DigitalGlobe. GeoEye. U.S. Geological Survey. USDA Farm Service Agency, Map data ©2012 Cybercity. Google. Reproduced April 2012 with appreciation: North toward right. ©2012 Microsoft Corporation.