Getty Center Research Institute

Los Angeles, CA | 201,000 sq ft

The multi-building Getty Center includes the 201,000-square-foot Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities. Located at the southwest corner of the Center, the round steel space frame structure is built above a substructure constructed of reinforced concrete columns, slabs, and walls. The building houses a several hundred thousand volume library that also provides research and conference space for visiting scholars and archival storage of rare manuscripts, drawings, and sketches.

The Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities is located at the southwest corner of the Getty Center. The round steel space frame structure is built above a substructure constructed of reinforced concrete columns, slabs,  and walls.