The Architect’s Newspaper | A Contemporary Quadrangle: Arquitectonica Does East Los Angeles

“East LA, usually off the city’s cultural radar, gets back on the map with the opening of East Los Angeles College’s new $65-million, 160,000-square-foot Performing and Fine Arts Complex designed by Miami-based Arquitectonica. The project is the second largest in the LA Community College District’s $6 billion Sustainable Building Program, which includes 85 new structures and more than 500 total projects. The program came under fire for corruption and mismanagement this spring, leading to the firing of its director, Larry Eisenberg. But controversy notwithstanding, it has produced some impressive architecture.”

Read the complete article here.