The Getty Villa Case Study

1. The museum I attended was the Getty Villa, located right off Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu. Designed by Robert E. Langdon, Jr and Ernest C. Wilson, Jr, the Getty Villa distinguishes itself as an amalgamation of Etruscan, Roman, Greek elements from the antiquity under oil tycoon Jean Paul Getty’s direction.
2. Unlike other cities in the world, what differentiates Los Angeles from other cities across the world is its architectural novelty. Lacking ancient ruins or cathedrals, Los Angeles instead hosts a variety of different styles to reflect the city’s character or the waves of immigrants who helped shape the city’s history: Getty’s contributions to the city both comply and disobeys Los Angeles’ architectural standard. As demonstrated by

Finally, the third theme is globalization. Globalization describes how people, companies, and governments interact and integrate on a global level. Thanks to technological advancements made to communication, sharing ideas and values across the world has become easier and more efficient. One of the chief reasons for Jean Paul Getty’s immense success and wealth lies in globalization. A known polyglot and travel enthusiast, Getty extended his love for travel into business; in 1949, Getty invested heavily in an area near Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to find oil four years later, propelling him to unimaginable wealth. His collaboration with Ibn Saud, the first monarch and founder of Saudi Arabia, factored in greatly for his success, as had it not been for the globalization to allow such a business partnership, it would have been infeasible to construct the Getty Villa without the capital acquired from Getty’s relationship with Saud. Furthermore, without his and his architects’ knowledge of art history abroad, the Getty Villa’s conception would have been more improbable. Stephen Garrett, one of the leading architects for the Getty Villa project, remarked that not many know of the Villa of the Papyri. However, with information’s increasing accessibility due to globalization, structures such as the Getty Villa can be constructed for public enjoyment. Globalization is a crucial theme to discuss in world history, for it will determine the course of the upcoming centuries’ history. It is the result of millennia’s worth of human interaction, from the Silk Road to the feuding empires across the world. In this course, human interaction above all determines world