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Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) is a contemporary art museum with two locations in Los Angeles, California. The main branch is located on Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, near the Walt Disney Concert Hall. MOCA's original space, initially intended as a temporary exhibit space while the main facility was built, is now known as the Geffen Contemporary and located in the Little Tokyo district of…

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1979

Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States

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Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in Los Angeles, United States

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Art museum in California , U.S.

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Arata Isozaki

1931-2022 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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Arata Isozaki was a Japanese architect, urban designer, and architectural theorist from Ōita. He was awarded the Royal Gold Medal in 1986 and the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2019. He taught at Columbia University, Harvard University, and Yale University.

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Arata Isozaki & Associates

practice · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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