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MacDonald Research Laboratories and Gonda Center, UCLA Courtesy Brian Guido<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In this series from our May issue, we revisit the under appreciated\u00a0architectural experimentation that characterized urban development in\u00a0Los Angeles<\/a>\u00a0from the 1970s to the early 1990s, and discover a variety of individualistic, unconventional, and radical styles\u2014some of which occasionally even approached \u201cfun.\u201d Stay tuned to our homepage as we add more entries!<\/em><\/p>\n

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To talk to Denise Scott Brown<\/a> is to listen to Denise Scott Brown. To talk to her about laboratory design, a too-often-neglected architectural typology, is to pull at a seemingly endless string of subjects, including campus planning, Ricardian<\/a> rent theory, and\u2014quickly now\u2014Postmodernism. The design of laboratories, she states somewhere along the way, \u201cis an honorable problem\u201d\u2014one she and partner Robert Venturi tackled throughout the ’80s and ’90s, when the two built a string of them, first at Princeton, then UCLA and UPenn.<\/p>\n

Among the buildings’ commonalities are their \u201chonorably squat proportions\u201d and patterned brick facades that are right at home in their Romanesque collegiate settings. Scott Brown is particularly proud of the UCLA tableau, which features, on the building\u2019s street-facing front, a playful sequence of Renaissance double arches. \u201cI was thrilled,\u201d she says, \u201cwhen they had the opening [of the lab] because they gave out pins with that theme of the double arch on them.\u201d<\/p>\n

But what she would really like to talk about is the project\u2019s urban siting and the way it inhabits its sloped perch. The two \u201cbig shoeboxes\u201d of the Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Medical Research Labs and the Gonda Neuroscience and Genetics Research Center commune over a central quad, cranked up a couple of stories to accommodate an underground parking garage. The green is crisscrossed by diagonal footpaths that connect the complex to the Westwood Plaza thoroughfare via two grand stairs at the short ends of the lab block. It\u2019s a seamless itinerary and attests to Scott Brown\u2019s skill in planning.<\/p>\n

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