The UCLA Margo Leavin Graduate Art Studios Receives 2017 Lafarge Holcim Award
The UCLA Margo Leavin Graduate Art Studios, designed by Los Angeles-based architecture firm Johnston Marklee and Associates, receives accolades in the world’s most significant competition for sustainable design. The transformational project will further enrich the top-ranked UCLA Department of Art's engagement with the arts community locally and globally. In July 2016, the School of the Arts and Architecture received a generous $20 million lead gift from alumna and renowned art dealer Margo Leavin in support of the project.
In the regional LafargeHolcim Awards, four projects in each region receive an Acknowledgement prize. Johnston Marklee in Los Angeles plan to renovate and expand the UCLA Graduate Art Studios in Culver City, CA, exclusively using sustainable materials and methods. The project’s basic objectives are twofold: to rehabilitate existing urban and architectural elements – through adaptive reuse and complementary additions; and to frame a discourse on the role of mundane construction as the generator of space and form.
This award was originally announced on the Lafarge Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction website.
Read more about the Art Department Graduate Studio renovations here.