Atelier Hitoshi Abe: len-tic-u-lar-is

Photo by Jeremy J. Quinn

If you’re around Los Angeles, don’t forget to see len-tic-u-lar-is before it closes this weekend. The installation is a 1:7 scale mock-up of the proposed design for a shade structure designed to mitigate the harsh sunbeams which render the plaza in front of the Japanese American Cultural Center too hot to inhabit. It is also referred to as a cloud-scope, which sounds a lot more exciting. The architect behind the structure is Hitoshi Abe, and len-tic-u-lar-is is his first project in the city since taking over as the Chair of the UCLA Department of Architecture.

Alex