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The Cultural Landscape Foundation |
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The Cultural Landscape Foundation is the only not-for-profit foundation in America dedicated to increasing the public’s awareness of the importance and irreplaceable legacy of cultural landscapes. Through education, technical assistance, and outreach, the Cultural Landscape Foundation broadens the support and understanding for cultural landscapes nationwide in hopes of saving our priceless heritage for future generations. |
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The Lawrence Halprin Landscape Conservancy,
Restoration Master Plan + Tree Rejuvenation Project |
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Article written by Marcy McInelly, Urbsworks about the Halprin Landscape Conservancy. |
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The Lawrence Halprin Collection: Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania |
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Though some projects remain with the firm, the Halprin collection extensively documents his organic approach to landscape design over sixty years. Contained are thousands of drawings, photos, audio materials, office correspondence, reports, proposals and awards. The Halprin archive is currently being processed. |
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Oregon Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) |
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Landscape architecture is essential to Oregon in a number of ways. Landscape architects protect public health, safety and welfare through environmentally conscious planning and design. The work of landscape architecture protects and manages natural resources by planning land uses which respect natural systems and accommodate the needs of people. Landscape architects are registered by the State of Oregon to maintain a mandated level of professional responsibility and service. |
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Walt Lockley: Illustrated appreciation of Ira Keller Fountain in Portland Oregon |
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The Keller Fountain exists in what landscape designer Lawrence Halprin describes as an eight-block interconnected complex of walkways and urban interfaces in Portland, but the rest of the system is easy to overlook, at least in its current state. Moving from south to north the sequence of fountains is Lovejoy - Pettygrove - Keller, with connecting and adjacent pedestrian avenues and channels, carefully planted and landscaped and vaguely European... |
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Washington Post profile of Halprin on the dedication of the FDR Memorial |
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Like many of his generation, landscape architect Lawrence Halprin has maintained a strong identification with Franklin D. Roosevelt. Unlike most, however, Halprin was able to do something big about his admiration: He designed the memorial to FDR that will be dedicated on Friday in West Potomac Park... |
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National Park Service: Lawrence Halprin |
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He was selected by the FDR Memorial Commission in 1974 to design the FDR Memorial. His design, encompassing 7.5 acres in a park-like setting, fits within the 1901 McMillan plan, identifying sites for Presidential Memorials and Monuments.... |
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Building Stone Magazine – Lawrence Halrpin: A Legacy in Stone |
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Lawrence Halprin, FASLA, is renowned the world over for his innovative, user-friendly and community-sensitive designs, which run the gamut from his critically acclaimed Franklin Delano Roosevelt memorial in Washington, D.C., to the Ben Yehuda promenade in Jerusalem, to the more recent Sigmund Stern Grove restoration and Letterman Digital Arts Center, a part of the Lucasfilm campus in San Francisco. Given the range of his work, it is no wonder Halprin is considered a pioneer of landscape design and winner of the coveted 2006 Building Stone Institute Bybee Prize award. |
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