Maya Lin Unveils West Coast Design

 

Maya Lin (right) discusses work at the University of California at Irvine with project landscape architect Pamela Burton on Oct. 25. Lin's signature "water table" fountain is under the cover at left, with With California sycamores behind Lin. Photo by Erik Skindrud.

Maya Lin traveled from her New York studio to the University of California at Irvine to dedicate a new 30,000-square-foot, high-tech outdoor arts plaza on Oct. 25.

Lin collaborated with noted Santa Monica landscape architect Pamela Burton on the project.

“I don’t know plants, I don’t know living things that well so I trusted Pamela with that,” Lin said.

“One of the things that we could lend to [Lin] was our experience designing on many campuses,” Burton said at the event. “We wanted more than anything to provide a backdrop for Maya’s ideas about bringing students out of the classroom to this exterior space.”

Pamela Burton & Company Landscape Architecture is based in Santa Monica, Calif. The web address is https://pamelaburtonco.com/

Design celebrity Maya Lin inspects her signature "water table" ag U.C. Irvine's arts facility. Santa Monica landscape architect Pamela Burton collaborated on the project.
Photo by Jacquie Sisemore.

The transformed plaza creates space for contemplation and creative interaction, while expanding campus venues for performing and exhibiting new media art.

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The $3.6-million plaza blends art and technology to offer an outside learning and gathering place for students, faculty and the community.

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--Erik Skindrud