Petersen Automotive Museum
Executive Director, Petersen Automotive Museum
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Terry Karges
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FROM Terry Karges
Design and Architecture
Petersen Museum Almost 20 years ago the founder of Hot Rod magazine, Robert E. Petersen, created his museum to cars. Now Robert Petersen is gone, and the museum’s current management is ringing in some big changes.
Design and Architecture
Peterson Automotive Museum Accelerates the Changes on Miracle Mile Just a few weeks ago, LACMA unveiled its proposed “inkblot” by architect Peter Zumthor that would replace four early buildings. Now, just yards away, the Petersen Automotive Museum has announced its own dramatic overhaul, reconfiguring the interior, and wrapping the building in “ribbons” of steel conceived to evoke speed.
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