Getty Center Garden Designer

The getty center in los angeles california is a campus of the getty museum and other programs of the getty trust the 1 3 billion center opened to the public on december 16 1997 and is well known for its architecture gardens and views overlooking los angeles.

Getty center garden designer. Getty center central garden artist robert irwin designed the getty center central garden in los angeles. Dating from approximately 1992 to 1996 materials comprise drawings presentation boards and a landscape study model generated as part of the design process for the central garden at the getty center in los angeles. A walk through the garden provides an extraordinary experience of sights sounds and scents.

The center sits atop a hill connected to a visitors parking garage at the bottom of the hill by a three car cable pulled. The design of the garden re establishes the natural ravine between the museum and the research institute. Through the use of scale models hand drawings and simulation we helped illustrate and facilitate the design process between artist architect and owner.

In the robert irwin garden three intensive planting efforts occur each year. He worked with the architect of the getty centre richard meier and with the landscape architecture firm spurlock poirier. Created by california artist robert irwin the 134 000 square foot central garden lies at the heart of the getty center.

The garden was designed by the artist robert irwin 1992 7. The central garden at the getty center is an evolving work of art designed to change with the seasons. When irwin was asked in the mid 1990s to contribute a design for the central garden at the then under construction getty center he had traveled a road of constant self transformation as an artist for forty years.

Spring summer and winter. Is the design of the grounds and gardens influenced by the architecture or art collection of the getty. Contemporary garden of robert irwin in the museum projected by richard mayer.

These seasonal shows highlight the design intent in each season. Working as the primary design consultant and landscape architect spurlock assisted artist robert irwin in developing his vision for a three acre garden at the getty center. Artist robert irwin conceived of the design and produced the materials assisted by spurlock poirier landscape architects.