A First Look at the Otherworldly Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles | Architectural Digest

Filmmaker George Lucas and his wife, Mellody Hobson, tapped architect Ma Yansong to develop an astonishing design that matches the audacity of their project’s populist curatorial conceit

The spaceship has landed. Perched on an 11-acre campus in Exposition Park, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art looks as if it alighted in Los Angeles from a galaxy far, far away. An instant landmark, the building was designed by Chinese architect Ma Yansong of MAD, working in tandem with executive architect Michael Siegel of Stantec and landscape maestro Mia Lehrer of Studio-MLA. With its futuristic forms and sinuous lines, the project echoes the radical vision of its founders, filmmaker George Lucas and his wife, Mellody Hobson, who dared to defy the shibboleths of the modern museum world by exalting art and artists long excluded from the sanctums of high culture. The city—indeed the world—has never seen anything like it.

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