Success! Kickstarter Campaign Funds Halprin Gallery Guide
Thanks to dozens of supporters, the gallery guide for the forthcoming exhibition The Landscape Architecture of Lawrence Halprin was successfully funded through a Kickstarter campaign. The final amount of $10,870 exceeded the goal by more than $1,000.
The guide, with more than 50 newly commissioned photographs of projects covering Halprin’s entire career – from recently re-discovered residential projects dating to the 1950s to capstone projects including Sigmund Stern Grove and the Yosemite Falls Corridor – is being published to accompany an exhibition opening at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. on 5 November, 2016. The Landscape Architecture of Lawrence Halprin is the third TCLF exhibition to be hosted by the Museum and the second to debut there. Along with the gallery guide, the exhibition will be accompanied by a dedicated website, and a video oral history with Halprin.
The photographs show the present state of Halprin’s projects, such as The Sea Ranch in California, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C., and the Portland Open Space Sequence in Oregon, which includes the Ira Keller Fountain that the New York Times architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable dubbed “one of the most important urban spaces since the Renaissance.” For the inaugural installation, the exhibition will include drawings, paintings, notebooks and other artifacts from Halprin’s archives held by the Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania, and early artwork from Edward Cella Art & Architecture in Los Angeles.
The exhibition will be on view at the National Building Museum through April 16, 2017, and will travel for three to five years thereafter.
