Esherick House

“There is a level of immersion that we are bringing people into,” says co-curator Joseph Becker. “And an experience of the materiality of the site in as much as we can do within the museum.” Becker and Fletcher worked with the Penn Archive, which hosts the archive of landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, and the Berkeley College of Environmental Design archive, which has Joseph Esherick and MLTW’s archived works. Drawings by Esherick document his initial analysis of the site. “Not just in terms of flora and fauna, but kind of a historical perspective on what is the human impact on a site,” explains Becker. “That helps root us in kind of a sensitivity toward the environment that the human scale is so small compared to the geological scale, which created this incredible landscape.”

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