After An Argument With Renzo Piano, Architect Quits On Academy Of Motion Pictures Museum

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Zoltan Pali, the respected Los Angeles architect hired to work on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences’ future movie museum, has been forced out of the project amid growing tension with Renzo Piano, his internationally renowned counterpart, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

AMPAS declined to comment. Both architects’ offices did not return calls.

Pali’s Culver City-based firm, SPF:a — best known locally for its recent transformation of the historic Beverly Hills Post Office into the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, which opened last fall — was working on a renovation of the former May Company department store building on the Los Angeles County Museum of Art campus when the Academy announced in 2012 that it would use the firm for its $300 million facility dedicated to film.

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