"Think about a building and its surroundings . . . sculpture of a person or a thing gives life to that building," Mr. Crow said. Throughout the country, that idea has prevailed, and wherever you see a Trammell Crow Company building, you will see sculpture of some kind.

One of his first uses of sculpture was at his Dallas Market Center. Then, as he began to develop more and more business and industrial parks throughout the country, good landscape design and often sculpture was placed strategically to highlight each of them. During the heyday of the office development "boom" in Dallas, almost every building had to have some type of sculpture -- everything from kenetic to neon sculpture, from lifelike, lifesize sculptures of people to stained glass sculpture reflected by mirrors throughout a main entryway. There is no doubt that his influence has been great.

Recently, in Dallas, Mr. Crow's home base, something else has been added . . . Pioneer Plaza (see September 1994 issue of LASN ) where he personally developed the concept, organized the backing and funded the project. The longhorn steers and the cowboys sitting adjacent to Dallas' Convention Center is definitely a work of art that will be seen by literally thousands of people.

Trammell Crow, too, has probably given more design work to Landscape Architects in this country than any other one person. "You cannot do a good building without good landscape architecture," Mr. Crow continues to say, and he has proved it in buildings all over the U.S. And his legacy is continuing -- his son, Harlan, was responsible for the sculpture around the company headquarters at 2001 Ross Ave. in Dallas, including the Rodin horse.

It's all there . . . and the man who started the whole trend still embraces sculpture as the final human touch to any edifice . . . wherever it is . . . whatever its use. LASN