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