The Civic Landscape: Exploring Prospect Park’s Concert Grove

Prospect Park
Brooklyn, NY

10:30AM to 12PM

COST/RESERVATIONS
ICAA Members: $15 / General Public: $25

1.5 credits towards the Certificate in Classical Architecture (Elective) | 1.5 AIA CES Learning Units | Elective | 1.5 LA CES PDHs

When Olmsted and Vaux designed Prospect Park, they envisioned a naturalistic setting of forest, lake, and meadow. Yet they also created one formal outdoor space dedicated to gathering for musical performances known as Concert Grove. This 90-minute walking tour will focus on the history, design and landscape/architectural elements of the grove. Our walk will begin at the newly restored Concert Grove Pavilion with its colorful eclectic columns and stained-glass skylight. At the conclusion of the walk, we will contemplate the elegant and moving 1921 Prospect Park War Memorial adjacent to the grove.

Instructor

Martin Brandwein, AIA, is a New York City architect specializing in traditional design. His firm has worked on numerous projects including the restoration of a Greek Revival townhouse which received the Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award from the New York Landmarks Conservancy in 1997. For over twenty-five years, Mr. Brandwein has taught drawing classes in classical architecture at the National Academy of Design, the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, Historic Windsor’s Preservation Institute, the University of Miami School of Architecture, and the School of Architecture at Mississippi State University. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art and a LEED AP.

Prospect Park is easily accessible by car and NYC Subway: B, F, G & Q trains