Although Meier designed the buildings
with great care and patience over a great amount of time, they
exhibit his typical approach, based on rigid geometry and monochromatic
tone to accentuate the play of light through the volumes. Fine
buildings in their own right, together they are too much of
the same. One realizes that an occasional Meier building is
refreshing, especially in an urban context full of variety and
the distractions that are missing at the Getty. Given that realization,
though, the spaces between the buildings become that much more
important, and the Central Garden is the most important of those
spaces.
