Atlanta Art Park
Permanent Installations

BARREN GROUND CARIBOU
fabricated by Bruce Gitlin
located in the gardens of the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum

Bruce Gitlin, owner and CEO of MILGO BUFKIN, long desired to create origami in metal. If a delicate bird could be created from a sheet of paper, he wondered if a sheet of metal could be similarly folded to yield elegant new forms.

When Gitlin was searching for new approaches that would transform architecture in the new millennium, he met Dr. Haresh Lalvani, a prominent architect-morphologist, known for his use of higher dimensional mathematics to create structures based on new geometries.
Their serendipitous meeting began a collaboration that enabled Dr. Lalvani to create new architectural forms with the potential to transform the design field, for they facilitate the creation of endless variations of integrated design environments with innovative, curvilinear surfaces.
Bruce Gitlin and Dr. Haresh Lalvani have created a new architectural language grounded in nature and higher mathematics. They have gone far beyond their initial search for origami in metal.

This structure depicts a life-size Porcupine caribou and was a gift from the Alaska Wilderness League in December 2000 to former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. The statue commemorates the 20th anniversary of Carter’s signing the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, which protected 104 million acres of Alaska’s public land from development.