Halprin, Lawrence

Lawrence Halprin grew up in Brooklyn , New York , in a Jewish family ^{[3] of} Samuel Halprin and Rose Luria (her parents Philip (Passover) Luria and Rebekah Isaacson were born Radoshkovich ). He spent three years as a teenager in a kibbutz in Palestine . He received a bachelor 's degree in natural sciences from Cornell University. In 1935 he returned to the United States to continue his studies at Harvard Graduate School of Design under the leadership of Walter Gropius , Marcel Breuer and landscape architect Christopher Tunnard.

On September 19, 1940, he married Anna Schumann, born in 1920 ^[4] .

In 1944, he was called up to the US Navy , and he was sent to the destroyer Morris in the Pacific Ocean . His ship was attacked by a kamikaze . As one of the survivors, he was sent on vacation to San Francisco . And he began to study under the landscape architect Thomas Dolliver Church ( English Thomas Dolliver Church ). After graduating, he opened his own company, 1949. Since 1976, he worked in partnership with a partner, Sue Yung Li Ikeda.

• Franklin Roosevelt Memorial Complex , Washington , USA ;
• Yosemite Falls Approaches, Yosemite National Park ;
• "Sea Ranch", California , USA (The Sea Ranch, California, USA);
• Air Keller Fountain , Portland , Oregon , USA ;
• Ghirardelli Square , San Francisco , California , USA ;
• United Nations Square, (United Nations Plaza), San Francisco , California , USA (San Francisco, California, USA);
• Levi Plaza, San Francisco , California , USA (San Francisco, California, USA);
• Cascade Plaza (Cascade Plaza), Akron , Ohio , USA (Akron, Ohio, USA);
• Landscaping of Main Street Streetscape, Greenville , South Carolina , USA (Greenville, South Carolina, USA);
• “Innerbelt Freeway”, Akron , Ohio , USA (Akron, Ohio, USA);
• Landscape project for Oak Brook Center (landscape work for Oakbrook Center), Oak Brook , Illinois , USA (Oak Brook, Illinois, USA);
• Landscaping and fountain scheme, Northwest Plaza (landscaping and fountain scheme for Northwest Plaza), San Luis , Missouri , USA (St. Louis, Missouri, USA);
• "Jacob Riz Plaza" (Jacob Riis Plaza), the city of New York , USA (New York City, USA);
• Freeway Park, Seattle , Washington , USA (Seattle, Washington, USA);
• Park Skyline (Skyline Park), Denver , Colorado , USA (Denver, Colorado, USA);
• Letterman Digital Arts Center, San Francisco , California , USA (San Francisco, California, USA);
• Waterfront Park (Riverbank Park), Flint , Michigan , USA (Flint, Michigan, USA);
• Park Manhattan Square (Manhattan Square Park), Rochester , New York , USA (Rochester, NY, USA), 1975;
• Mall "Downtown" Charlottesville , Virginia , 1976;
• Park Central Square (Park Central Square), Springfield , Missouri , USA (Springfield MO, USA);
• Stern Grove Amphitheater , San Francisco , California , USA ;
• Mall "Nicollet" (Nicollet Mall), Minneapolis , Minnesota , USA (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA).

Lawrence's wife Anna Halprin (Schumann) was one of the founders of the American avant-garde in modern dance. Lawrence and Anna had two daughters: Daria (1948) and Rana (1951). Daria Halprin Khaligi works in the field of art, and Rana Halprin is a marriage counselor ^[4] .

• Photos of Halprin and his works
• Obituary at The New York Times
• Lawrence Halprin article
• Obituary in the Places magazine of the MIT and Berkley School of Architecture
• An article on the Halprin Landscape Conservancy website