Berggruen Institute, 'Condemned to Be Modern'
Design and Architecture · KCRW
September 5, 201729m 25s
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Show Notes
<p>Billionaire philanthropist Nicolas Berggruen has likened his planned research center in the Santa Monica Mountains to a secular monastery. Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron is designing it. What is the Berggruen Institute, and will the building please the neighbors? And in <i>Condemned to Be Modern</i> at LA Municipal Art Gallery, artists from Cuba, Brazil and Mexico examine the legacy of modernism.</p>