A ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½°²×¿Æƽâ°æ alum is designing two fountains for a plaza under construction at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Jim Garland, ’82, is founding principal of Fluidity Design Consultants, a Los Angeles-based water feature design and engineering firm with an international reputation.
The firm was selected to create fountains for the new David H. Koch Plaza. The four-block-long outdoor plaza along Fifth Avenue is expected to open to the public in fall 2014.
Garland’s work is showcased at VivoCity, a retail and entertainment development in Singapore; Cairo Festival City, a mixed-use urban community in Cairo, Egypt; Hearst Tower in New York City; Dubai Festival City, a residential, business and entertainment development in United Arab Emirates; and Roppongi Hills, a building complex in Tokyo.
He also designed the granite and steel water wall at the Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum on St. Mary Boulevard in Lafayette.
Before founding Fluidity Design Consultants Inc. in 2002, Garland worked for WET Design. That firm created the complex water features at Bellagio resort in Las Vegas.
Garland holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture from ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½°²×¿Æƽâ°æ Lafayette and graduated from UCLA’s Master of Architecture degree program.