L.A. Architects Get Creative for Almost Anything Goes

We should probably thank Frank Gehry. In the 20-some-odd years since the architect designed his famously innovative — and gloriously dazzling — Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, it seems the architectural rulebook has been all but abandoned. Nowadays, top architects are also graphic designers, tech wizards, and fashion innovators — and the impact it’s having on the visual art world is both notable and game changing.

And that’s precisely where Almost Anything Goes fits in. The Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara’s newest group show, which opens this Sunday, January 5, is subtitled “Architecture and Inclusivity,” and it’s bringing together some of the most forward-thinking minds on the West Coast for an architecture show that’s anything but typical.

Curated and co-conceptualized by Miki Garcia, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara executive director, and longtime friend, colleague, and architect Brigitte Kouo, Almost Anything Goes features six rising stars of the Los Angeles architecture world, including Ramiro Diaz Granados of Amorphis L.A., Elena Manferdini of Atelier Manferdini, Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues of Ball-Nogues Studio, Catherine Johnson and Rebecca Rudolph of Design Bitches, Doris Sung of DO/SU Studio Architecture, and Miles Kemp of Variate Labs.