• Larry Richards (architect)

MCA Universal, 1995-1996

1995-1996

During 1995-96, L.W. Richards was architectural advisor to Edgar Bronfman Jr., for the selection of an architect for a master plan and new headquarters building at Universal Studios, Los Angeles. The search that L.W. Richards conducted resulted in the selection of OMA and Rem Koolhaas. Two items are included here: a) bound notebook from the summer and fall of 1995, documenting meetings with Edgar Bronfman Jr., conversations with various architects (including Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, and Peter Rose), and a record of the meeting between Edgar, Rem Koolhaas, and L.W. Richards in Malibu in which Rem was selected for the project, and b) spiral bound booklet, PLAN (vision plan for de development of Universal City) by the Office of Metropolitan Architecture and presented to MCA Inc., July 1996, no.58.

DR2007:0021

Contient:

• DR2007:0021:001, Notes by Larry W. Richards for Edgar Bronfman Jr., 19 September 1995
• DR2007:0021:002, MCA Universal, 1995-1996, 1995-1996