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	Lawrence Halprin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lawrence Halprin (born July 1, 1916 in New York City) is a prolific and accomplished American landscape architect and educator.
		Halprin's wife, accomplished avant-grade dancer Anna Halprin, is a long-time collaborator, with whom he has explored the common areas between choreography and the way users move through a public space.
		Halprin was the creative force behind the interactive, 'playable' civic fountains most common in the 1970's, an amenity which continues to greatly contribute to the pedestrian social experience in Portland Oregon, where "Ira's Fountain" is loved and well-used, and which has been a chronic failure at the transient-ridden United Nations Plaza in San Francisco.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lawrence_Halprin (584 words)

	Facts about topic: (Lawrence Halprin) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Lawrence Halprin (1916 New York City -) is a prolific and accomplished American landscape architect and educator.
		Halprin's wife, accomplished avant-grade dancer Anna Halprin, is a long-time collaborator, with whom he has explored the common areas between choreography (A notation used by choreographers) and the way users move through a public space.
		Halprin's work is marked by his attention to human scale (additional info and facts about human scale), user experience, and the social impact of his designs, in the egalitarian tradition of Frederick Law Olmsted (United States landscape architect primarily responsible for the design of Central Park in New York City (1822-1903)).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/la/lawrence_halprin.htm (687 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: A Natural Choice to Honor FDR
		Halprin, whose interests included urban design and regional planning as well as landscape architecture, was poised to take advantage of the new opportunities -- particularly in the cities.
		Halprin's vision was to bridge the road and fill both the broad bridge and the top of an adjacent parking garage with grass, trees, water and dramatic concrete forms.
		Halprin is an astute observer of human nature, too, particularly when it involves movement -- he often refers to his park design as "choreography." This reflects his many collaborations with his wife on dances and performances, as well as his lifelong study of how people move about in public spaces.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/local/longterm/tours/fdr/halprin.htm (1362 words)

	Eating Bark: February 2005 Archives
		Halprin is often to said to have desired to imitate the process of nature without copying the forms of nature.
		Halprin did a good bit of work with regional planning and urban renewal, but its easiest to find information on the parks he worked on and eatingbark is all about the ease of acquistion.
		Halprin is generally considered a modernist, which should be understood in the same way as you might understand "modernist" if someone used it to describe Rem Koolhaas or Frank Gehry.
	www.covblogs.com /eatingbark/archives/2005_02.html (447 words)

	Viginia Chapter: ASLA - Protection of the Halprin Sculpture Garden in Richmond
		Halprin's notable career and the national recognition he has received, we believe the sculpture garden may be eligible for the National Register and should be carefully evaluated.
		Halprin is lauded and respected by landscape architects, architects, engineers, and planners throughout the nation, and is also recognized internationally for his cutting-edge design, environmental ethic, and approach to involving communities in the design process.
		The sculpture garden of Lawrence Halprin is as much a work of art as the paintings, sculpture, and other pieces in the collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and should be attributed the respect due to such an effort.
	www.vaasla.org /halprin.htm (1039 words)

	Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial: Architect and Artists - Halprin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Halprin has moved outside and beyond the confines traditionally imposed by the field of landscape architects, working on a variety of scale.
		Halprin's major focus, and one for which he has become famous, is the participation of people in his landscapes.
		Lawrence Halprin was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1916.
	www.nps.gov /fdrm/memorial/archart.htm (251 words)

	Keller and Heckman LLP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Halprin draws on his technical and business background to counsel individual companies and trade associations in a broad range of workplace health and safety, environmental, product safety, and business transactions issues.
		Halprin works with clients in developing, implementing and auditing environmental, health and safety management programs; he advises on legal compliance issues; and he represents clients in a broad range of enforcement and rulemaking proceedings at the federal and state levels.
		Halprin is a frequent writer and speaker on regulatory reform and a broad range of environmental, health and safety management issues.
	www.khlaw.com /index.cfm?fuseaction=biographies.showBioDetail&id=138&lastName=Halprin&firstName=Lawrence&initial=P.& (263 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: San Francisco plaza becomes eyesore, embarrassment
		Halprin, immersed in other projects, including one in Yosemite National Park, is among those quietly trying to save the plaza — for the sake of both the city and the organization.
		Halprin said he was helping to design a permanent barrier that city officials hope will be less of an eyesore while still keeping people away.
		Halprin's other ideas include improving the lighting and restoring seating to the plaza, which had been removed in years past because of the sordid activities it attracted.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2001982437_sanfran18.html (1147 words)

	Stern Grove redesign has classical note
		Halprin obliged with a plan to renovate the run-down facility, making it more comfortable and accessible while retaining and enhancing the natural beauty of the canyon meadow.
		Halprin's design, which was developed with the city's Department of Public Works, makes it easier to maneuver through the meadow and find a place to plop down without stepping on too many toes.
		Halprin, who first sketched his vision of the grove on the top of his box lunch that Sunday afternoon long ago, would like audiences to find that the glade has the same essential qualities but has been transformed into something better.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2004/05/12/DDGU16J7QU1.DTL (699 words)

	MetroActive Arts \| Anna Halprin
		Participants in Halprin's workshops, which she still conducts from the studio, may at first not know they harbor this material, but the stuff is there, waiting for movement to let it out.
		Following her diagnosis, Halprin began leading movement workshops for people with life-threatening illnesses, an approach to healing that proved so powerful that she and one of her two daughters, Daria Halprin, decided to found the Tamalpa Institute in 1978, an educational facility dedicated to expressive-arts therapy.
		Halprin also began to explore ways to tap the spectator/participant energy she had felt for years with her performances and public happenings.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/12.14.00/halprin-0050.html (1353 words)

	riverfronttimes.com \| \| Muse \| Gates of Eden \| 2001-08-01
		Lawrence Halprin: "I should confess to you that I consider that these may very well be one of the most important things I've ever done."
		Halprin doesn't mind a lot of people yelling about something he's designed: "We artists are not any better than anybody else; it just happens that we have a way of looking at the world and certain kinds of abilities just like somebody else can make cars or is a carpenter.
		Halprin saw acres of asphalt at the entrances of Forest Park and nothing that spoke of the park's distinctiveness.
	www.riverfronttimes.com /issues/2001-08-01/muse.html (1871 words)

	Recent Past Preservation Network
		The designs of Lawrence Halprin, a leader in landscape architecture for decades, are particularly vulnerable at this time.
		Halprin recently received the National Endowment for the Arts gold medal from the President Bush.
		Halprin incorporated his signature use of the sculptural fountain in the design of the courtyard, and crafted the design to accommodate each individual piece in a site-specific manner.
	www.recentpast.org /types/landscapes/halprin/index.html (767 words)

	Focus of this paper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The workshop represented the first collaboration between Anna Halprin, who is one of the pioneers in Modern Dance as well as a leading figure among those who integrate the expressive and healing arts, and the Institute for Deep Ecology.
		Halprin has continued to be an innovator and experimenter, expanding the place of dance into city streets, mountain slopes and beaches, and has in the last twenty years established the Tamalpa Institute.
		Halprin’s work with dancers as well as with the Tamalpa Institute has combined improvisations with nature, within the self, and with a group.
	www.conspiritu.org /craig/EmNa1_1.htm (616 words)

	j. - Planting a legacy
		It’s going to be very dense and very much a town in and of itself,” says Halprin, whose speaking voice still bears ever so slight a trace of his hometown, Brooklyn, where he was once a promising pitching prospect for the hometown Dodgers (he chose, instead, to pitch a tent on a kibbutz).
		And Halprin’s musings about potentially hurling for the Brooklyn Dodgers aren’t merely an old man’s fancy; he was a two-time schoolboy player of the year in New York City in the 1930s.
		Halprin had previously observed the outdoor theater he designed filled to the metaphorical rafters at a Lucinda Williams concert that kicked off the summer’s Stern Grove Festival, but this was to be a small, private affair, in concert only with nature.
	www.jewishsf.com /content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/27010/format/html/displaystory.html (1440 words)

	Lawrence Halprin - Great Buildings Online
		New York, N.Y. Lawrence Halprin was born in New York City in 1916.
		Halprin worked at a series of scales from sculptural fountains to urban renewal schemes to regional planning.
		Halprin considered the design process as important as the end result.
	www.greatbuildings.com /architects/Lawrence_Halprin.html (250 words)

	The Slatin Report \| Real Estate Intelligence
		Lucas’ decision to hire Halprin to design what could be the designer’s last major project in the Bay Area is particularly moving.
		Halprin is one of the very few landscape architects who are universally known outside the profession.
		Cities, after all, are interventions on a natural landscape, and Halprin seems intent on reminding us of forces that continue to operate beneath the concrete and asphalt.
	www.theslatinreport.com /top_story.jsp?StoryName=0815halprin.txt (970 words)

	Reason magazine -- April 2001, A Rendezvous with Density by Michael Valdez Moses
		To be sure, when architect Halprin first drafted his design in the mid-1970s, he could not have anticipated how faithfully his work would embody the animating spirit of the Clinton years.
		Halprin repeatedly calls the monument "a sacred memorial space" set apart from the "secular" recreational areas that flank it.
		Halprin’s book reveals that Segal wrapped his models from head to foot in bandages, before covering them in plaster molds, which were later used to caste the bronze statues.
	www.reason.com /0104/cr.mm.a.html (1726 words)

	Dance Magazine: Anna Halprin: from dance art to healing art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Halprin's isolation from the dominant trends and dance-makers of the modern dance world has given her the freedom to experiment.
		Halprin's use of audiences and non-dancers as performers, her incorporation of spoken texts, her abandonment of the proscenium stage, and her early use of nudity in the first version of Parades and Changes (1965) made Halprin difficult to categorize as a modern dancer.
		Halprin continues to be sought after as a teacher because of her ability, to lead dancers gently into new territory for their own choreographic invention.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1083/is_1_78/ai_112212768 (1362 words)

	Killer Whale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This interactive water feature originated when the State Capitol Committee hired California landscape architect Lawrence Halprin in 1967 to develop a landscape plan for the east capitol campus (built between 1961 and 1976).
		Due to the immense scale of the plaza, Halprin and his associates felt that a large-scale water fountain or pool (approximately 80 feet square) was needed to break up the expanse.
		Lawrence Halprin, recommended to the State Capitol Committee by Walker, McGough, and Folz, architects for the east capitol campus construction project, was considered the premier landscape architect in the nation at the time of his hiring.
	www.ga.wa.gov /Visitor/WaterGarden/Garden.htm (542 words)

	Cornell News: Distinguished Arts awards
		The alumni award, which is given annually by the Cornell University Council Cultural Endeavors Committee, was presented to Halprin on Oct. 12 in San Francisco by Professor Herbert Gottfried, chair of Cornell's Department of Landscape Architecture on behalf of Cornell President Hunter Rawlings.
		Halprin, who is perhaps best known for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C., grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., in the 1930s, a period that saw the emergence of modern landscape architecture.
		Halprin has applied his talents and artistry to the design of urban parks, plazas, commercial and cultural centers and other public spaces around the world.
	www.news.cornell.edu /releases/Oct99/Halprin.awd.html (720 words)

	Landscape Architect Lawrence Halprin to Accept Michelangelo Award from CSI
		Halprin was an apprentice of Thomas Church, with whom he developed the contemporary California Garden concept.
		A native of Brooklyn, New York, Halprin holds a bachelor’s degree in Plant Sciences from Cornell University, a master’s degree in Horticulture from the University of Wisconsin, and a bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture from Harvard University.
		“(Halprin's) works are viewed by everyone from the common man to presidents and royalty,” said Lewis M. Finkel, former president of the American Society of Professional Estimators and a judge on the 2005 Michelangelo Award panel.
	www.csinet.org /s_csi/sec.asp?TRACKID=&CID=249&DID=11245 (682 words)

	Protecting Portland / The Cultural Landscape Foundation
		The Lawrence Halprin Landscapes Conservancy, Restoration Master Plan + Tree Rejuvenation Project, Portland, Oregon is a multi-faceted project that will restore and protect an important cultural landscape and landmark urban design.
		Ian McHarg described the project this way: "Halprin designed this fabulous creation in Portland where there was such a vitality of water, such a vitality of different spaces-that it became a sinecure for the whole city.
		He is currently chair of the Portland Development Commission, the redevelopment agency that redeveloped the South Auditorium Redevelopment District and commissioned Lawrence Halprin to design the landscape.
	www.tclf.org /halprin_portland.htm (1149 words)

	The Estate Project
		Anna Halprin is highly regarded in the Bay Area and international dance scenes as a pioneer in combining improvisation, audience participation, environmental/street theater, and community-based performance in her work.
		In 2001 Halprin's husband, Lawrence Halprin, became seriously ill and she created the dance video Intensive Care: Reflections on Death and Dying to cope with her fear of his impending death.
		Halprin is founder of the San Francisco Dancers' workshop (1955) and co-founder, with her daughter Daria Halprin Khalighi, of the Tamalpa Institute (1978).
	www.artistswithaids.org /artforms/dance/catalogue/halprin.html (1178 words)

	Famed dancer marking her 80th with a retrospective (May 26, 2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Now Halprin is dancing out her life in an 80th birthday performance that not only marks her illness and recovery, but also celebrates the Jewish roots from which she grew.
		Halprin and her husband of 60 years, famed environmental architect Lawrence Halprin, met at a Hillel function at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
		That was nearly 30 years ago, and, on the eve of her 80th birthday, Halprin is still working -- teaching, writing, choreographing and, incredibly, dancing.
	www.jewishsf.com /bk000526/bnannahalpin.shtml (770 words)

	Online NewsHour: FDR Memorial Opening- May 1, 1997
		LAWRENCE HALPRIN, FDR Memorial Designer: It’s built the way I wanted it to be built, so I’m very happy about that part of it, very happy about that part of it.
		LAWRENCE HALPRIN: At the beginning he was assistant secretary of the navy.
		LAWRENCE HALPRIN: What we’re going to do is to spend whatever time is needed to discover and look at different options as to how--if they want it to go one step further and communicate a little more readily to people who may not understand it--that he was disabled.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/remember/1997/fdr_5-1.html (1207 words)

	Style Weekly in Richmond, Virginia
		Halprin enjoys enormous stature as an artist and visionary whose designs have been recognized worldwide as civic assets and as catalysts for positive social change (http://tclf.org/view_halprin.htm).
		It seems a miracle that Halprin, who left Brooklyn at age 17 to work on the first kibbutz in Palestine, was able to return some 60 years later to see his Haas Promenade dedicated.
		Because the museum and architect have (so far) excluded Halprin, it is their responsibility to revise their program rather than make the irreversible, binary decision to destroy the work.
	www.styleweekly.com /article.asp?idarticle=6556 (899 words)

	A Part of the Landscape / Lawrence Halprin's 60 years of green innovation
		And it might, because just now Halprin is on the edge of unveiling two of the most visible urban projects of his 60-year career.
		The boundary is shaped like a leg that Halprin is resculpting from the hip joint at 19th Avenue all the way down to the sole at Wawona Street and Crestlake Drive.
		They met when they were both at the University of Wisconsin, she as an undergraduate and he as a graduate student in botany.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/05/22/CMGELCF3IQ1.DTL (1140 words)

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