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Fantasy Islands: Landsccaping Long Beach's Oil Platforms
August 29 - October 15, 2006Fantasy Islands explores the landscaping and architectural design of four manmade oil-drilling platforms off the coast of Long Beach through the historic drawings and photographs of landscape architect Joseph Linesch. Linesch created a camouflage that employed waterfalls, palm trees, and shrubs set against abstract, brightly colored concrete walls and 180-foot-tall towers—all dramatically lit at night. Praised by Time magazine as an outstanding engineering feat that successfully wed industry and aesthetics, these “fantasy islands” testify to our changing attitudes toward environmental and ecological concerns
Fantasy Islands: Landscaping Long Beach's Oil Platforms was organized by Kurt Helfrich, Curator, Architecture and Design Collection, University Art Museum, UC Santa Barbara. The accompanying exhibition brochure was made possible by funding from the Grace Jones Richardson Trust and the Friends of the University Art Museum, UC Santa Barbara.
Image Credit: Gary Seagroves, Linesch & Reynolds, Island Alfa, Design Concept Study, 1966, rendering Courtesy Architecture and Design Collection, University Art Museum, UC Santa Barbara.
