PROFILE

William Kopelk is a Founder and Chairman of the Palm Springs Modernism Week and has served since 2005; he also served on the Outreach Committee for the Modernism Committee of the State Historical Preservation Committee; previously served as a Commissioner on the Palm Springs Architectural Advisory Committee from 2004-2008; served as a Council Board member on the Palm Springs Art Museum Architecture and Design Council from 2003-2008; past Board member and President of the Palm Springs Historic Site Preservation Foundation (PSPF); Founder of the Edwards Harris Pavilion, Palm Springs Art Museum of Architecture and Design; received a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the University of Oregon (1979); worked as a Landscape Architect at Harvard University; Cambridge, MA; worked as a Landscape Architect at The Architect’s Collaborative (TAC, founded by Walter Gropius) in Cambridge, MA from 1981-1984; worked in various architectural offices in New York City from 1985-1995; since 1998 William has owned and operated his own landscape design firm, Inside Outside Inc.

Inside Outside Inc. has worked with structures designed by the following architects:

• Richard Neutra

• Frank Lloyd Wright

• Hugh Kaptur

• Pereira & Luckman

• Palmer and Krisel

• William Cody

• Donald Wexler

• Albert Frey

• John Porter Clark

• Craig Ellwood

• Herbert Burns

• Steven Ehrlich

• James Cioffi

• Lance O'Donnell

• Sean Lockyer

Partial client list:

• ACE Hotel

• The Saguaro Hotel

• The Town and Desert Hotel

• Desert AIDS Project

• Robinson's Department Store

• Kaufmann House

• Wexler Steel House

• Wexler Family Home