Event – Detail

Join us from 6PM-7PM in the 1st floor Haas Gallery for the opening of Laurie Olin, Drawing to See: The Italian Sketchbooks. Created over decades spent living and travelling in Italy, this new exhibition offers a rare glimpse of the singular process of one of today's most renowned landscape architects. Culled from sketchbooks filled between 1972 and 2023, these observations of gardens and architecture, sculptures and social life are as much a foray into the experience of Italy as they are examples of how a designer learns through the act of drawing.

Laurie Olin is a distinguished teacher, author and landscape architect. From vision to realization, he has guided many of OLIN’s signature projects, which span the history of the studio from the Washington Monument Grounds in Washington, DC to Bryant Park in New York City. His recent projects include the AIA award-winning Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Simon and Helen Director Park in Portland, Oregon. He is the recipient of the 2012 National Medal of Arts, the highest lifetime achievement award for artists and designers bestowed by the National Endowment for the Arts and the President of the United States.