C. Erik Karlsson, RLA
Landscape Architect | Planner
James A. Michener Art Museum
Pfundt Sculpture Garden
The Patricia D. Pfundt Sculpture Garden is the newest gallery space at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown Pennsylvania. The garden is a place to exhibit sculpture and an outdoor cafe and space for museum functions.The theme of the garden is the landscape of Bucks County home of the museum and James Michener. The garden features the Headwaters Fountain, serpentine stone wall, and Oak Grove of the upper terrace recalling Bucks County’s rolling fields, forests, and farms. A stone rill, recalling area streams, connects this terrace and the lower Main Terrace. Along the way a bosque of flowering trees symbolizes the Bucks County’s agrarian landscape. At the lower terrace a reflecting pool overflowing with water and riverside plantings symbolize Lower Bucks County’s Delaware River estuary.
The Michener Museum was constructed on the site of the old Bucks County Prison. The 23-foot high prison wall which encloses the garden and the footprint of demolished prison buildings in the pavement add dramatic elements to the garden. An interpretive prison cell exhibit, by Josh Dudley, will give visitors the experience of the prisoners world.
Erik Karlsson was project landscape architect providing: design, construction documentation, project coordination, and construction observation for the project in collaboration with Edgar David.
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