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Design Like a Girl & Architectural Foundation— Virtual Workshop: Exercise 02 You will visit many areas near the that have been designed by Landscape Architects.

Tour. Take the various virtual tours around Washington DC

Identify. Which sites have you visited in person? Which ones are new to you?

Be CREATIVE! + Select two sites from these tours.

+ Analyze each space. • What type of landscaped spaces are they? (see the Typologies in Exercise 01)

• What elements are used in the spaces? (see the Elements & Terminology in Exercise 01)

• How does the landscape contribute to the experience of the space?

• Draw a plan, section or other drawings showing how you would redesign the spaces you selected

+ What Fun Fact did you learn about the sites you selected?

Exercise 03 Redesigning a Landmark

2 HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL MALL Explore!

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To National To National To Gandhi, Shevchenko, Mary McLeod Bethune To African American To Carter G. Woodson Home Y and Masaryk statues Visitor Services Tourmobile Metrorail System W Zoological Park and Zoological Council House Civil War Memorial National Historic Site K (temporarily closed) P Park National Historic Site

Narrated shuttle tour Information Restrooms Station name Metro lines C N STREET John Witherspoon Webster Scott Samuel Hahnemann Memorial N STREET between sites METRO Red line A Memorial CENTER M Refreshment Ice skating rink O Orange line T stand S Tourmobile stop O Entrance/exit P Blue line Souvenir shop Tennis court Tourmobile route to Metro station D VERMONT AVENUE Green line N A McMillan Plan L’Enfant Plan

7th STREET 6th STREET Yellow line 9th STREET K 11th STREET Bookstore Golf course Statue or 12th STREET 10th STREET E E monument R k Longfellow C e K e M STREET Nuns of the Battlefield M STREET Help keep the National Mall clean; place trash in receptacles. C r O C MOUNT VERNON R Old Stone House National National SQUARE-7th STREET-

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GWU JAMES MONROE FARRAGUT WEST I STREET MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE Thompson Boat Center

G PARK EORGE Department WASHING Boat and bicycle rentals R I STREET TO O N St. John’s Church of Veterans M C FRANCIS ESCOTTM KEY MEMORIAL BRIDGE K Affairs H STREET H STREET University Hospital EDWARD R. OR C H STREET Von Steuben Kosciuszko IA R CHINATOWN Government E 66 MURROW L G Decatur House U.S. Court of National Museum 2nd STREET E P NEW HAMPSHIRE AVENUE GEORGE Friendship Printing Office A E K PARK LAFAYETTE Appeals and of Women in the Arts H STREET R New Executive Archway O HIG K A Baruch Bench GPO Bookstore LEE HWAY W WASHINGTON H STREET Office Building U.S. Court N Jackson A R 1 1 G STREET 29 Y D UNIVERSITY PARK of Claims NEW YORK AVENUE 50 50 General Renwick G P Accounting National O Martin Gallery Rochambeau Treasury Annex Victims of 66 E T Lafayette Luther King, Jr., GALLERY PLACE- Office Postal O Juarez Blair-Lee House Communism M CHINATOWN Museum Bicycle and T Memorial Library G ST Memorial A 11th STREET Union Station Footbridge O C G STREET Eisenhower Executive Department G STREET Verizon G STREET

THEODORE P Office Building of the Treasury UNION

A American Art Museum Center W 24th STREET National Building

E STATION R V 23rd STREET 23rd 21st STREET 22nd STREET 19th STREET 18th STREET National Portrait Gallery

ROOSEVELT K Museum S I Thurgood

R W METRO (Old Patent Office) F STREET N (Old Pension Building)

D A Marshall MEMORIAL CENTER American Legion

R Y F STREET F STREET PARKING Freedom Bell Judicial E International Y National Law General THE Visitor Center Christopher Columbus Building

M East Executive Park Spy Museum Enforcement The House Where Ford’s Theatre Memorial Fountain COLUMBUS T Services

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JUDICIARY F PERSHING PENNSYLVANIA AVE NORTH E STREET JUDICIARY E STREET T Corcoran HOUSE SQUARE PARK E E STREET NEW YORK AVE First Division FREEDOM E Sherman JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER SQUARE Gallery Federal T Pulaski R Monument District of

E PLAZA T Footbridge Rawlins Rush of Art Pershing Bureau of 9th ST E Galvez S Columbia ROSSLYN FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS R L D.C. Court

E Butt-Millet PENNSYLVANIA AVE SOUTH Investigation T E STREET Government R Zero S 2nd STREET 1st STREET 8th STREET NATIONAL HISTORIC7th STREET SITE C Memorial I THEODORE Navy Bureau O San Martin American (F.B.I) N Pavilion S 6th STREET Darlington Lincoln Guns into Plowshares National Japanese O U.S. Navy T of Medicine District D.C. D STREET D STREET N Office of Department H National Building American Memorial

M Y National Building Visitor Memorial and Pike L ROOSEVELT and Surgery Personnel of the Interior T Red Cross Christmas Franklin to Patriotism A Discobolos Center Naval Heritage Department of State Management Museum D STREET Old Post INDIANA AVE WI L Tree ARCHIVES- Municipal Department LSO ISLAND Diplomatic Reception Boy Scout Center N N Constitution Daughters of Office Tower NAVY MEMORIAL D.C. Court Center of Labor B E Memorial O Rooms the American FEDERAL Sewell- U Hall ELLIPSE National Building and Temperance Fountain UNION N Hancock L TRIANGLE Belmont E C STREET Revolution Aquarium International LOUISIANA AVENUE V Franklin D. Roosevelt C STREET A Bolivar House E National C STREET Original Trade Center Stone STATION Hart R American Department Marshall Russell Dirksen D Academy Organization Patentees Internal Grand Army Senate National R L Department Pharmaceutical Federal of Commerce Canadian U.S. District Senate Senate ROSSLYN of Science of the Interior of American Revenue Department of the Republic PLAZA Office Historic DELAWARE AVENUE National I Institute Reserve Memorial Embassy Court Office Office and South Organization States Second Division Bulfinch Service of Justice JOHN Robert A. Taft Building Site V Board Memorial Archives Building Building Engineering of American Gatehouse Federal STREET 3rd Memorial

22nd MARSHALL 12th STREET

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Keeper’s P S German-American of the U.S. THEODORE ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL BRIDGE A

House National Museum National National 1st STREET O R The 56 Signers of the Friendship Garden National Museum ARLINGT N BO K Sculpture West Building 50 ULE W Declaration of Independence of American History of Natural History Gallery of Art V A 17th ST A 66 Y Garden East Building PENNSYLVANIA AVE U.S. CAPITOL RD D Vietnam Veterans Memorial R IV Memorial E CONSTITUTION 4th STREET Arts of S S S U.S. Peace Vietnam MADISON DRIVE MADISON DRIVE Henry BaconThree Dr Women’s GARDENS Peace SUPREME Servicemen Memorial S U.S. Marine Corps Marker Monument COURT LINCOLN tickets Ulysses S. Grant Entrances to War Memorial World War II WASHINGTON Memorial REFLECTING POOL underground (Iwo Jima Memorial) MEMORIAL Memorial THE MALL CAPITOL MONUMENT SMITHSONIAN U.S. Capitol Folger Henry INSTITUTION Hirshhorn REFLECTING Visitor Center Shakespeare 15th STREET S 14th STREET Sculpture POOL Library Daniel French Dr NATIONAL MALL & MEMORIAL PARKS Garden Garfield Arts of JEFFERSON DRIVE Thomas War S Smithsonian Castle Jefferson S S JEFFERSON DRIVE S John ive S Visitor Information Dr SMITHSONIAN Building Adams t S. Dillon Ripley Arts and National AVE n John Paul Jones Center Hirshhorn National Air and U.S. Building Korean War Veterans ro 1 Department of Freer Industries Museum of the F Memorial Park Sylvan Haupt Garden Museum Space Museum Botanic Memorial e Agriculture Gallery Building American Indian T m Ranger Theater Garden LIBRARY OF

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3 SITES NEAR THE NATIONAL MALL

Tidal Basin Washington Monument

Thomas Lincoln Memorial Explore! Explore! Explore more!

Reflecting Pool Explore!

4 HIRSHORN SCULPTURE GARDEN

Explore! AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM

Explore!

WAR MEMORIALS Explore!

WWII Veterans’ Memorial Korean War Veterans’ Memorial Explore! Explore!

5 Vietnam War Veterans’ Memorial Vietnam War Women Veterans’ Memorial Explore! Explore!

Explore!

6 GOOGLE ARTS & CULTURE. Explore!

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