Michael Maltzan

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Michael Maltzan
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Born (1959-10-10) October 10, 1959 (age 61)
United States
NationalityAmerican
Alma materRhode Island School of Design Harvard University
OccupationArchitect
Practice
BuildingsSixth Street Viaduct, Star Apartments , , ,

Michael Maltzan is the principal architect at Michael Maltzan Architecture (MMA), a Los Angeles-based architecture firm. He received a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University and both a Bachelor of Architecture degree and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design.[1] Maltzan was selected as a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 2007.[2]

Maltzan founded Michael Maltzan Architecture, Inc. in 1995. The practice has been recognized with five Progressive Architecture awards, 31 citations from the American Institute of Architects, the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence, and as a finalist for the Smithsonian/Cooper-Hewitt Museum's National Design Award.[3] Maltzan was awarded the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture in 2012[4] and the Society of Architectural Historians Change Agent Award in 2021.[5] Michael received the 2016 AIA Los Angeles Gold Medal and was elected to the National Academy of Design in 2020. [6] He currently serves on the Deans leadership council at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Visiting Committee to the GSD. He was featured in the Canadian Centre for Architecture’s 2019 film, What It Takes to Make a Home, delivered the 20th Annual John T. Dunlop Lecture for the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, and his work was named One of the 25 Best Inventions of 2015 by Time Magazine. [7] [8] [9]


Work[]

In 2012, Michael Maltzan and engineering firm HNTB were selected through an international competition to design the Sixth Street Viaduct. The bridge will replace the original 1932 Sixth Street Viaduct that suffers from alkali-silica reaction which makes the bridge vulnerable to seismic failure.[10] The bridge design is known as “The Ribbon of Light” and is the largest bridge project in the history of Los Angeles. The project is set to be completed in 2019.[11]

One Santa Fe[]

The firm designed a 438-unit mixed use apartment complex, "One Santa Fe," in the Arts District of Los Angeles. Opened in 2014, the 6 story building is over 3/10th of a mile long (0.48 km) and holds 510,000-square-foot of interior space (47,000 m2). In addition there is parking for 800 vehicles. The 438 units are set above an 80,000 sq. ft. retail/commercial podium. The design adds drama to what would otherwise be a wood frame slathered in white stucco above a concrete parking deck. A curling concrete parking ramp is located where the building faces the intersection of Santa Fe Avenue and 3rd Street and the structure has a 200-foot-wide opening (61 m) in the center of the project. A generous, eccentrically shaped courtyard is framed with a long bar that holds three stories of apartments above the opening.[12]

Other projects by Michael Maltzan include:

  • Inuit Art Centre, Winnipeg, Canada (2020)
  • Rice University Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, TX (2016)
  • Crest Apartments, Los Angeles, CA (2016)
  • One Santa Fe, Los Angeles, CA (2015)
  • Hammer Museum John V. Tunney Bridge, Los Angeles, CA (2015)
  • Art Center College of Design Master Plan, Pasadena, CA (2015)
  • Star Apartments, Los Angeles, CA (2014)
  • Playa Vista Park, Playa Vista, CA (2010)
  • Pittman Dowell Residence, La Crescenta, CA (2009)
  • New Carver Apartments, Los Angeles, CA (2009)
  • Inner-City Arts, Los Angeles, CA (1995, 2005, 2008)
  • Rainbow Apartments, Los Angeles, CA (2005)
  • Billy Wilder Theater, Los Angeles, CA (2006)
  • MOMA QNS, Long Island City, NY (2002)
  • Hergott Shepard Residence, Beverly Hills, CA (1998)

References[]

  1. ^ "Inner-City Arts". Museum of Modern (MoMA). Archived from the original on 2015-06-28. Retrieved 2015-09-08.
  2. ^ http://info.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek07/0223/0223n_fellows.htm
  3. ^ http://archinect.com/firms/cover/2145/michael-maltzan-architecture
  4. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-08-06. Retrieved 2015-09-08.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ^ "Change Agent Award | Society of Architectural Historians". www.sah.org. Retrieved 2021-05-25.
  6. ^ https://www.aialosangeles.org/content/Design%20Awards/2016/2016-aiala-presidential-honorees#.V-VpLvkrLmF
  7. ^ https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/events/67843/what-it-takes-to-make-a-home
  8. ^ https://time.com/4115398/best-inventions-2015/
  9. ^ https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/calendar/20th-annual-dunlop-lecture-addressing-homelessness-what-can-and-cant-architecture-do
  10. ^ "New 6th Street Viaduct is a bridge to a different future". latimes.com. Retrieved 2016-02-01.
  11. ^ "About the Project". Sixth Street Viaduct Replacement Project. Archived from the original on 2016-01-26. Retrieved 2016-02-01.
  12. ^ Hawthorne, Christopher (October 10, 2014). "Maltzan's One Santa Fe apartment complex plays with notion of density". Los Angeles Times.

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