Getty Center, Richard Meier, 1989-1997; photograph by Studio Practice

Ahead of the Closing Plenary and Reception, conference attendees are invited to enjoy open hours at The Getty.

Set on a hilltop in the Santa Monica Mountains, the Getty Center offers panoramic views of Los Angeles and the Pacific Ocean. It is the home of the J. Paul Getty Trust; the Getty Museum, one of LA’s premier art museums; the Getty Research Institute, one of the largest art and architecture libraries and archives in the US; and the Getty Conservation Institute. Designed by architect Richard Meier and opened to the public in 1997, the Getty Center was conceived as a cultural acropolis. Meier employed his signature vocabulary of neo-Corbusian shapes and forms to create a dynamic composition of buildings and open spaces rendered in Italian travertine and painted metal panels.

The landscape of the 700-acre site (238 hectares) was designed by the Olin Partnership with a sophisticated palette of California and Mediterranean trees, shrubs, and groundcover that also contains a network of water features woven through the site which reinforce the building organization and massing, enhance and define its open spaces, and soften its stark off-white walls and pavements. The complex’s Central Garden was designed by American installation artist Robert Irwin. Getty is a leading global arts organization committed to exhibiting, conserving, and understanding the world’s artistic and cultural heritage.