DAV Magazine — 2016 AVDLM Book
American Veterans Disabled For Life Memorial Credits
Memorial Design Team
Michael Vergason Landscape Architects
Design and Landscaping
Michael Vergason Landscape Architects (MVLA) is founded on the belief that landscape architecture is a poetic, humanizing discipline responding to the fundamental human need for connection to the surrounding world. MVLA designs lasting places through creative and rigorous study of the site and its context.
The firm carefully considers the past yet articulates a distinctly contemporary vision. Form and function merge through a seamless integration of the built and natural environments, taking cues from natural and social processes. MVLA seeks ways to integrate human uses and creative interventions with the distinctive qualities of the land: its form, materiality, and vegetation.
MVLA has received numerous awards for its work throughout the United States and internationally, which includes design projects that range from master planning to private homes. Clients include the National Cathedral, American Cemetery in Normandy and the Monticello Visitor Center.
Shalom Baranes Associates
Architect
Shalom Baranes Associates is a Washington, D.C.-based architectural firm with expertise in institutional, commercial and public-sector projects. The firm, established in 1981, has received more than 120 design awards and has been recognized for its influence on the development of the nation’s capital.
Shalom Baranes maintains one of the District’s strongest portfolios, ranging from offices and mixed-use buildings to multi-unit residential and hospitality programs. In addition to the American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial, notable projects include the Association of American Medical Colleges headquarters, CityCenter DC, renovation of the Pentagon, CityMarket at O, office buildings at 101 Constitution Avenue and 1875 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Postal Square, The Yards at Southeast Federal Center, Burnham Place at Union Station and the headquarters for the Department of Homeland Security.
Larry Kirkland
Bronze Sculptures
Artist Larry Kirkland moved with his military family throughout the United States and abroad during his childhood. He received his undergraduate degree in environmental design in 1972 from Oregon State University and his Master of Fine Arts degree in 1974 from the University of Kansas, both with honors.
Since then, he has collaborated with community and business leaders and design professionals to conceive and create his large-scale, multidimensional public artworks. Kirkland’s installations can be found in institutional and municipal buildings, transit hubs, research facilities, libraries, universities, cruise ships and urban parks and plazas.
Among his many commissions are artworks installed at Pennsylvania Station in New York; the American Red Cross headquarters in Washington, D.C.; the National Academies of Science in Washington, D.C.; Putra World Trade Center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and Iwate Prefecture University in Marioka, Japan.
Cloud Gehshan Associates
Graphic Design
Cloud Gehshan Associates, founded in 1986, is an internationally recognized environmental graphic design consultancy based in Philadelphia. The company specializes in place-branding, signage and wayfinding and interpretive and interactive design. Clients include cities, institutions, heritage areas, medical centers, universities, parks and public spaces.
The firm designs its work to integrate seamlessly with the architecture and landscape, providing information without overwhelming the environment. Design vocabularies are developed through careful study of the site, client identity, architecture and streetscape. In addition to identification and wayfinding signage, Cloud Gehshan creates interpretive signage, gateways, donor recognition programs, banners and commemorative signs. The company’s staff has expertise in graphic design, industrial design, model making, map design and identity and symbol development.
Project Team
Sponsoring Agency
National Park Service
Design and Fabrication
Memorial Designer
Michael Vergason Landscape Architects
Design Consultant
Larry Kirkland, Artist
Architect of Record
Shalom Baranes Associates
Bronze Sculptures
Larry Kirkland
Walla Walla Foundry
Environmental Graphics
Cloud Gehshan Associates
Ceremonial Flame
Technifex
Fountain
Fluidity Design Consultants
Glass Panels
Moon Shadow Glass
Glass Strategies
Savoy Studios
Glass Engineer
Eckersley O’Callaghan
Granite
North Carolina Granite
Lighting Designer
Claude R. Engle
Civil Engineer
RK&K-Rummel Klepper & Kahl
MEP Engineer
WSP Group
Specifications
Heller & Metzger
Irrigation
Lynch & Associates
Arborist
Urban Trees & Soils
Construction
General Contractor
Turner Construction Company
Construction Management
The Temple Group
Landscaping
Heritage Custom Landscaping
Deep Root Green Infrastructure
Water Features
Fluidity Design Consultants
BF Joy
High Purity Systems
Electrical Contractor
PerLectric
Glass Panel and Sculpture Installation
Engineering Products
Tidewater Glazing
Crane Services
Gas
Dennis Stubbs Plumbing
Civil and Structural Engineering
Meyer Consulting Engineering
Surveyor
Land Design Consultants
Stone Carving
The John Stevens Shop
Nicholas Benson
Paul Russo
Andy Del Gallo
Landscaping
Heritage Custom Landscaping
Deep Root Green Infrastructure
Waterproofing
Stillwater Construction Group
Prospect Waterproofing Company
Concrete and Paving
Semper Fi Construction Group
L.A. Howard Construction
Ft. Meyer Construction
Structural Foundations
LEVELIFT Systems
Steel Installation
TLP Steel Erectors
Tree Well Paving
Capitol Flexi-Pave
Security Surveillance
Schneider Electric
Flag Pole
Pole Tech
Painting
Knight Solution
Stone Assemblies
Lorton Stone
Book Credits
Writer and Editor
Carolyn Horwitz
Graphic Design
Aislinn Weidele
Photography
All photographs by Craig Collins, except the following: p.2 by Richard Latoff; pp. 7, 33, 50, 68, 69, 74 by Eric Long; pp. 13, 77 by Don Ripper; p. 24 by Cloud Gehshan Associates; p. 74, by Amanda Kleinman and pp. 20, 21, 22, 23, 26 by The Disabled
Veterans’ Life Memorial Foundation.
Copy Editor
Shayna Sobol
All quotations are presented in the original layouts as depicted on the Memorial.
www.avdlm.org
Michael Vergason Landscape Architects
Design and Landscaping
Michael Vergason Landscape Architects (MVLA) is founded on the belief that landscape architecture is a poetic, humanizing discipline responding to the fundamental human need for connection to the surrounding world. MVLA designs lasting places through creative and rigorous study of the site and its context.
The firm carefully considers the past yet articulates a distinctly contemporary vision. Form and function merge through a seamless integration of the built and natural environments, taking cues from natural and social processes. MVLA seeks ways to integrate human uses and creative interventions with the distinctive qualities of the land: its form, materiality, and vegetation.
MVLA has received numerous awards for its work throughout the United States and internationally, which includes design projects that range from master planning to private homes. Clients include the National Cathedral, American Cemetery in Normandy and the Monticello Visitor Center.
Shalom Baranes Associates
Architect
Shalom Baranes Associates is a Washington, D.C.-based architectural firm with expertise in institutional, commercial and public-sector projects. The firm, established in 1981, has received more than 120 design awards and has been recognized for its influence on the development of the nation’s capital.
Shalom Baranes maintains one of the District’s strongest portfolios, ranging from offices and mixed-use buildings to multi-unit residential and hospitality programs. In addition to the American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial, notable projects include the Association of American Medical Colleges headquarters, CityCenter DC, renovation of the Pentagon, CityMarket at O, office buildings at 101 Constitution Avenue and 1875 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Postal Square, The Yards at Southeast Federal Center, Burnham Place at Union Station and the headquarters for the Department of Homeland Security.
Larry Kirkland
Bronze Sculptures
Artist Larry Kirkland moved with his military family throughout the United States and abroad during his childhood. He received his undergraduate degree in environmental design in 1972 from Oregon State University and his Master of Fine Arts degree in 1974 from the University of Kansas, both with honors.
Since then, he has collaborated with community and business leaders and design professionals to conceive and create his large-scale, multidimensional public artworks. Kirkland’s installations can be found in institutional and municipal buildings, transit hubs, research facilities, libraries, universities, cruise ships and urban parks and plazas.
Among his many commissions are artworks installed at Pennsylvania Station in New York; the American Red Cross headquarters in Washington, D.C.; the National Academies of Science in Washington, D.C.; Putra World Trade Center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and Iwate Prefecture University in Marioka, Japan.
Cloud Gehshan Associates
Graphic Design
Cloud Gehshan Associates, founded in 1986, is an internationally recognized environmental graphic design consultancy based in Philadelphia. The company specializes in place-branding, signage and wayfinding and interpretive and interactive design. Clients include cities, institutions, heritage areas, medical centers, universities, parks and public spaces.
The firm designs its work to integrate seamlessly with the architecture and landscape, providing information without overwhelming the environment. Design vocabularies are developed through careful study of the site, client identity, architecture and streetscape. In addition to identification and wayfinding signage, Cloud Gehshan creates interpretive signage, gateways, donor recognition programs, banners and commemorative signs. The company’s staff has expertise in graphic design, industrial design, model making, map design and identity and symbol development.
Project Team
Sponsoring Agency
National Park Service
Design and Fabrication
Memorial Designer
Michael Vergason Landscape Architects
Design Consultant
Larry Kirkland, Artist
Architect of Record
Shalom Baranes Associates
Bronze Sculptures
Larry Kirkland
Walla Walla Foundry
Environmental Graphics
Cloud Gehshan Associates
Ceremonial Flame
Technifex
Fountain
Fluidity Design Consultants
Glass Panels
Moon Shadow Glass
Glass Strategies
Savoy Studios
Glass Engineer
Eckersley O’Callaghan
Granite
North Carolina Granite
Lighting Designer
Claude R. Engle
Civil Engineer
RK&K-Rummel Klepper & Kahl
MEP Engineer
WSP Group
Specifications
Heller & Metzger
Irrigation
Lynch & Associates
Arborist
Urban Trees & Soils
Construction
General Contractor
Turner Construction Company
Construction Management
The Temple Group
Landscaping
Heritage Custom Landscaping
Deep Root Green Infrastructure
Water Features
Fluidity Design Consultants
BF Joy
High Purity Systems
Electrical Contractor
PerLectric
Glass Panel and Sculpture Installation
Engineering Products
Tidewater Glazing
Crane Services
Gas
Dennis Stubbs Plumbing
Civil and Structural Engineering
Meyer Consulting Engineering
Surveyor
Land Design Consultants
Stone Carving
The John Stevens Shop
Nicholas Benson
Paul Russo
Andy Del Gallo
Landscaping
Heritage Custom Landscaping
Deep Root Green Infrastructure
Waterproofing
Stillwater Construction Group
Prospect Waterproofing Company
Concrete and Paving
Semper Fi Construction Group
L.A. Howard Construction
Ft. Meyer Construction
Structural Foundations
LEVELIFT Systems
Steel Installation
TLP Steel Erectors
Tree Well Paving
Capitol Flexi-Pave
Security Surveillance
Schneider Electric
Flag Pole
Pole Tech
Painting
Knight Solution
Stone Assemblies
Lorton Stone
Book Credits
Writer and Editor
Carolyn Horwitz
Graphic Design
Aislinn Weidele
Photography
All photographs by Craig Collins, except the following: p.2 by Richard Latoff; pp. 7, 33, 50, 68, 69, 74 by Eric Long; pp. 13, 77 by Don Ripper; p. 24 by Cloud Gehshan Associates; p. 74, by Amanda Kleinman and pp. 20, 21, 22, 23, 26 by The Disabled
Veterans’ Life Memorial Foundation.
Copy Editor
Shayna Sobol
All quotations are presented in the original layouts as depicted on the Memorial.
www.avdlm.org
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