Title & Author:

The Roosevelt Memorial / [presented by] Lawrence Halprin.

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1997.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (40 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Lawrence Halprin -- L'Enfant Plan -- Kite Plan -- FDR Plan -- Halprin Rendering Of The Wall -- Rough & Smooth Stones -- Different Sized Stones -- John Benson Carving Stone -- Water & Wall In Room 2 -- Halprin Drawing Of Gate & Seal -- Robert Graham Bas-Relief -- Aerial View -- Bread Line' Sculpture, By George Segal -- George Segal Sculpture Of FDR Listening To The Radio -- Robert Graham Sculptures Of 'Social Programs' -- View To Room 3 -- Room 3 Devoted To The War Years -- Sculpture Of Seated FDR In Room 3 -- Sculpture Of Funeral Cortége, By Leonard Baskin -- The Last Room & Sculpture Of Eleanor Roosevelt -- Eleanor Roosevelt Sculpture -- End Of The Memorial By Night.

Summary:

Lawrence Halprin won the competition for a Memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington D.C. some years ago, but it was actually realised and completed at the end of 1997. For the site alongside the Potomac River, Halprin's solution was not a monument, but a long processional experience stretching between the Lincoln and Jefferson Monuments. The route is divided into four linked outdoor rooms, each devoted to one of Roosevelt's terms in office, enclosed by a twelve foot high granite wall which becomes the spine of the experience. On this wall are engraved quotations from Roosevelt's "Fireside Talks", and hanging from it are sculptures and cascades of water. The four thousand stones of different size, shape and thickness that comprise the wall had each to be designed in clay, before going through the complicated manufacturing processes leading to the final manageable sizes in granite.

Subject:

Monuments United States.
Monuments États-Unis.
Monuments.
United States.

Added entries:

Halprin, Lawrence, narrator.