‘Architectural Disaster’ at County Museum

What a great pleasure it was to read Aaron Betsky’s architectural comments regarding the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s “Anderson Facade” (Times, Sept. 12). Finally, someone has the courage to step forward and denounce this travesty.

How is it that the donor and the directors and officers of the museum could allow themselves to be so artistically hornswoggled by some screwball architect from New York? Where is the taste, the artistic judgment and the common sense that one might reasonably expect from such a distinguished group?

This monumental mess is bad enough in the daytime, but try driving by at night and observe the defective, dirty-looking and dated glass block elements, which put a final shabby “finishing touch” on this architectural disaster.

ROGER C. OLSON, Los Angeles