Isamu Noguchi

Noguchi spent decades arguing that sculpture should be something children could climb on. New York's parks department rejected his Play Mountain of 1933 and most of his later playground designs, but the idea survived in Playscapes in Atlanta's Piedmont Park, finished in 1976 and still in use, and in Moerenuma Park in Sapporo, a former rubbish dump he planned as a whole landscape of play hills, fountains and climbing forms, completed after his death by Japanese architects in 2005. Both show sculpture as somewhere to spend an afternoon.