Embarcadero Plaza and Vaillancourt Fountain walking tour

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Join us on Saturday, January 31 at 11AM for a walking tour focusing on Lawrence Halprin's Embarcadero Plaza and the Vaillancourt Fountain designed by artist Armand Vaillancourt. Landscape architects Petra Marar and Andrew Sullivan will talk about the context and design of the Market Street Cultural Landscape District and the plaza. This free event is a chance to gather and experience the plaza and its landmark fountain in the face of their removal by the city. Meet in Harry Bridges Plaza behind the northbound F Market streetcar stop on the Embarcadero, opposite the Ferry Building. Registration is not required.

About our speakers

Petra Marar is a licensed historic landscape architect living and working in Oakland, California, with nearly a decade of experience in landscape architecture and preservation work. On the board of Docomomo US/Northern California, she’s secretary and has a particular interest in the historical, political, and economic influences on Modernist design and its legacy.

Andrew Sullivan is a published landscape architect with his own practice having worked as a senior associate in Lawrence Halprin's office. He has been an advocate for the preservation of the Vaillancourt Fountain. He's a modern architecture advocate, speaking on preserving key modernist works, like in presentations for Docomomo US/NOCA.