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Lawrence Halprin (July 1, 1916 – October 25, 2009) was an American landscape architect, designer and teacher. Beginning his career in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, in 1949, Halprin often collaborated with a local circle of modernist architects on relatively modest projects.
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In the spring of 1945, he returned to California and opened his own firm in San Francisco. By the mid-1960s, Lawrence Halprin and Associates gained recognition for their urban landscape redevelopment projects and continued to receive major commissions for another three decades.
Lawrence Halprin opened his own firm in 1949 called Lawrence Halprin Associates located in San Francisco. His firm started with only a few people but after a few years it grew to 60 employees and became very successful.
In 1949, Halprin opened his own firm, soon hiring Jean Walton, Donald Carter, Satoru Nishita, and Richard "Viggie" Vignolo, who would remain with him for several decades while the practice grew to more than sixty staff.
Acclaimed for redefining and rehabilitating urban spaces, Halprin created landscapes from Portland to Jerusalem. He gained national prominence in 1962 as the chief designer of the master plan for the Seattle World’s Fair.
May 18, 2016 · In 1980, a new proposal for revitalization of the Bunker Hill area, known as “A Grand Avenue,” was offered by the Maguire Brothers for a competition sponsored by the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency.
In 1945 he joined Thomas Church’s firm, where he collaborated on the iconic Donnell Garden. Halprin opened his own San Francisco office in 1949. Halprin’s firm initially focused on residential commissions in the Bay Area, completing close to three hundred in its inaugural decade.
