The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)

I frame MOCA through its site. The building stands where working-class Victorian Los Angeles once existed. That's not incidental to understanding what 'contemporary' means here.

Arata Isozaki's 1986 building on Bunker Hill was itself a statement — contemporary architecture on the land that had been cleared of Victorian homes twenty years earlier.

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