La Jolla Project

Fleischner's La Jolla Project, completed in 1984 and the third work in the Stuart Collection, is located on the Revelle College lawn south of Galbraith Hall. Seventy-one blocks of pink and gray granite are arranged in configurations that refer to architectural vocabulary: posts, lintels, columns, arches, windows, doorways, and thresholds. Like players on a field or game pieces (Fleischner made a series of small gamelike sculptures in the late sixties), these elements transform an ordinary, nearly flat lawn into a space with allusions ranging from an ancient ruin to the contemporary construction site. Fleischner's work is always determined by the topography of a site, its spatial relationships, and the distinctive ways people move through and around it. What is most important for him is to interpret and essentialize a place by using minimal means to delineate natural lines and boundaries, while establishing an interplay of horizontal and vertical elements. There is no single way to experience La Jolla Project - it generates a complex set of spatial and historical relationships which invigorate and give meaning to the formerly undefined area it occupies. From: http://stuartcollection.ucsd.edu/artists/fleischner.shtml

• 1984

• Stuart Collection (San Diego, Calif.)

• Rittermann, Philipp Scholz (American photographer, 1955 CE-)

• Fleischner, Richard (American environmental artist and sculptor, born 1944)

• Beebe, Mary Livingstone (American, born 1940)

Revelle College: University of California, San Diego; La Jolla, California, United States

lawns (landscaped grass); pink granite; granite (rock); site approximately 2 acres

• University of California, San Diego

• Abstract (fine arts style)
• Antique, the
• Arches
• Architecture (object genre)
• Artificial ruins
• Classicism
• Contemporary
• Follies (architectural)
• Geometric abstraction
• History
• Installations (visual works)
• Lawns (landscaped grass)
• Light (energy)
• Minimal
• Outdoor sculpture
• Portals
• Post-and-beam structures
• Public art
• Ruins
• Sculpture (visual work)
• Sculpture gardens
• Shadows
• Site-specific works
• Space (composition concept)

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• image

• No linguistic content; Not applicable

Architecture and City Planning

Garden and Landscape

Sculpture and Installations

• Rittermann, Philipp Scholz (American photographer, 1955 CE-)

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2026-05-12