Calder Gardens
Calder Gardens is not a conventional museum. From the beginning the client wanted a space that would provide a totally new, intimate and ever-changing encounter with the work of Alexander Calder. While the building is still tasked with the typical technical requirements of a traditional museum, it is conceived as a new type of place for being with art: a place that provides an interplay between art, architecture, nature, people, and the surrounding city. Philadelphia is Calder’s birth city and was the home of two previous generations of Calders who, as artists, left their own impressions on the city. Their sculptures can be found along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, a boulevard that is a product of the 19th century ‘city beautiful’ movement and is anchored by two of America’s most remarkable museums, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Barnes Foundation. Cutting across this Parkway is the sunken Vine Street Expressway which, like many of its counterparts in other American cities, sliced through the existing city fabric in the mid-20th century. Calder Gardens is located at the intersection of these two significant streets.
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