{"id":593779,"date":"2026-04-19T14:29:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T14:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/593779\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T14:29:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T14:29:21","slug":"watch-peter-zumthors-lacma-opening-remarks-i-love-this-city-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/593779\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Peter Zumthor&#8217;s LACMA opening remarks: &#8216;I love this city&#8217; | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"floatbox\" href=\"https:\/\/archinect.gumlet.io\/uploads\/6d\/6d68649c1935d132172d08f8206a6937.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat\" title=\"Swiss architect Peter Zumthor addressing the crowd at the preopening ceremony in Los Angeles, April 15, 2026. Image: Archinect\" data-size=\"1207x788\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/6d68649c1935d132172d08f8206a6937.jpg\" border=\"0\" class=\"Cover\" title=\"Swiss architect Peter Zumthor addressing the crowd at the preopening ceremony in Los Angeles, April 15, 2026. Image: Archinect\" alt=\"Swiss architect Peter Zumthor addressing the crowd at the preopening ceremony in Los Angeles, April 15, 2026. Image: Archinect\" width=\"514\" height=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Swiss architect Peter Zumthor addressing the crowd at the preopening ceremony in Los Angeles, April 15, 2026. Image: Archinect<\/p>\n<p>Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/archinect.com\/zumthor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Peter Zumthor<\/a>&#8216;s impromptu remarks at the preopening ceremony of <a href=\"https:\/\/archinect.com\/firms\/cover\/96280247\/los-angeles-county-museum-of-art-lacma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LACMA&#8217;s new David Geffen Galleries<\/a> in Los Angeles this week.<\/p>\n<p>Seemingly unprepared (or reluctant) to talk about his design, Zumthor instead talked about his connection to the United States: From his childhood in Basel, Switzerland, during the WWII liberation by American troops to his time as a young architecture student at <a href=\"https:\/\/archinect.com\/pratt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pratt Institute<\/a> in NYC and later teaching at <a href=\"https:\/\/archinect.com\/sciarc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SCI-Arc<\/a> in LA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love this city,&#8221; he said about Los Angeles with a smile. &#8220;This is a great city!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"figcaption\">Video by Archinect, recorded on April 15, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t miss our previous <a href=\"https:\/\/archinect.com\/news\/tag\/524084\/lacma-makeover\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LACMA makeover saga coverage<\/a>, including <a href=\"https:\/\/archinect.com\/news\/article\/150537228\/a-first-look-inside-lacma-s-completed-david-geffen-galleries-by-peter-zumthor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">new photos of the completed building<\/a> and our extensive <a href=\"https:\/\/archinect.com\/features\/article\/150537080\/inside-the-decades-long-rollercoaster-of-zumthor-s-lacma-expansion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">look back at the scheme&#8217;s timeline<\/a> (remember that original OMA proposal?).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Swiss architect Peter Zumthor addressing the crowd at the preopening ceremony in Los Angeles, April 15, 2026.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-593779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}