Site Section, Lucy Daniels Foundation & Preschool
1990
Dye based ink print on archival paper
15” x 15” framed

Minimum Bid: $250

Gregg Bleam ASLA

Bio: Gregg Bleam is Principal of Gregg Bleam Landscape Architect in Charlottesville, Virginia. The firm provides a full range of landscape architecture services based on modernist design principles. The American Society of Landscape Architects, the American Institute of Architects, and the Virginia Association for the Preservation of Antiquities have recognized Mr. Bleam’s work. He recently received a 2005 ASLA National Honor Award for the Garden of Planes project in Richmond, Virginia.

Artist Statement: The Lucy Daniels Research Foundation and Preschool in Cary, North Carolina, were designed around the themes of transparency and reciprocity between building and landscape. Throughout the project, architectural details and landscape processes are made visible in order to heighten a child’s awareness of their environment. The assembly room terrace faces a low concrete block wall and water rill. Water in the rill falls into a small basin that symbolically waters a copse of witch-hazel trees. A walking trail through the woods connects the site’s diverse vegetation, from the dry upland hillside to the wetter sites below. The site becomes an extension of the classroom that will be used for teaching children and adults about the natural environment.