Getty Center Garden Designer

Contemporary garden of robert irwin in the museum projected by richard mayer.

Getty center garden designer. Spring summer and winter. Getty center central garden artist robert irwin designed the getty center central garden 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. He worked with the architect of the getty centre richard meier and with the landscape architecture firm spurlock poirier. 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.

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. 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. The central garden at the getty center is an evolving work of art designed to change with the seasons.

How often do plants change in the garden. The garden was designed by the artist robert irwin 1992 7. See lawrence weschler s 1984 midcareer biography of irwin seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees.

Created by california artist robert irwin the 134 000 square foot central garden lies at the heart of the getty center. In the robert irwin garden three intensive planting efforts occur each year. 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.

Irwin is an interior designer and was a part of the california society group light and space in the 1960s. He defined his artwork for getty as a statue in the shape of a garden that strives to be art. Through the use of scale models hand drawings and simulation we helped illustrate and facilitate the design process between artist architect and owner.