Escher Gunewardena

Los Angeles-based architects Frank Escher and Ravi GuneWardena serve as guest curators for a unique installation at MOCA’s West Hollywood location, MOCA Pacific Design Center. Since partnering in 1995, Escher and GuneWardena have addressed issues of sustainability and affordability, and engaged in the dialogue between form and construction through their residential and commercial architecture and exhibition design projects. Their firm, Escher GuneWardena Architecture, has designed many private homes, restored John Lautner’s 1960 Chemosphere House, and collaborated with artists Olafur Eliasson, Mike Kelley, and Sharon Lockhart on exhibition designs. They also conceived the exhibition design for the 2008 Carnegie International exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and designed Blum & Poe’s new gallery space, opening in October 2009 in Culver City, California.

Escher Gunewardena
Frank Escher, Ravi Gunewardena