Lawrence Halprin

Lawrence Halprin was a landscape architecture, designer and teacher.

• Helped forge a new, sharper style of landscape architecture as postwar America sprouted suburban malls, urban parks, corporate compounds and federal urban renewal projects
• Emphasized nature rather than obscured, His Sea Ranch, a development for 1,500 houses on a 5,000-acre stretch of coast in Sonoma County, preserved natural contours, open spaces and integrated the half-million trees he planted
• Designed the Roosevelt memorial meticulously of four outdoor rooms and gardens animated by water, stone and sculpture, hand picking some of the 4,000 stones for the walls
• Claimed little interest in decoration or prettiness, but cared deeply how people would move through a created space
• Graduated from Cornell and earned a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin and a second bachelor’s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design

Lawrence Halprin passed away on October 25, 2009

Last updated 8/25/16