Eric Owen Moss, busy provocateur

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“Los Angeles, probably to be fair, is probably an adolescent city,” the architect, 65, says, leaning behind his desk. “People talk about Los Angeles as a world city — I was in Tokyo and I was in Beijing, I was in London, I was in Milan, — you talk about cities with long, long histories. Kings and queens  and plagues and Medicis and Marco Polos and every ... thing. And then you’re looking at a city of 10 million people, and it really is an infant city.”

A conversation with Moss, whose style is both brusque and speculative, can be a bit like his Culver City neighborhood — a cross between free association and surrealist poetry. One minute, he’s off on a metaphor — likening his design style to the late, grammar-busting work of James Joyce — or offering Yogi Berra-isms, such as, “The future of L.A. is probably in front of it.”
He’s also busy designing a handful of intriguing projects.

Scott Timberg has the story in Sunday Arts & Books.