Photo courtesy of BuildingCollector.com
With a campus as varied as the Getty Center, I suppose it shouldn’t be a surprise to find on visitors’ blogs an almost infinite range of topics and images taken from their experiences here.
In turn, one of the delights of doing this blog is that we get to see what captures our visitors’ attention. For instance, it would seem there is a mini-cult surrounding our 3D stainless steel maps.
Why have such maps, you wonder? For starters, some people aren’t able to read 2D maps well, so it helps to see the buildings and their relationships in miniature. And it also helps those with eyesight limitations, since they can touch the map and its braille captions.
Photo courtesy of Glenda Sims
Note how the giant rocks are accurately depicted:
Photo courtesy of Marshall Astor
Here the map is disguised as a guesswhereLA entry:
And here it is contrasted with the real architecture:
