Lawrence halprin yosemite

An urban public park that runs above a highway; a master plan for an oceanfront community that’s both sustainable and resilient: these typify today’s progressive contemporary visions for landscape architecture.

It says a lot about Lawrence Halprin, whose life’s work forms the basis of a compelling new exhibition, that he was already imagining, engineering, and realizing these forward-thinking projects decades ago.

InThe Landscape Architecture of Lawrence Halprin, projects like Seattle’s Freeway Park, an array of Cubist concrete bricks and cascading waterfall that bridges Interstate 5, or the Sea Ranch, a rustic development north of San Francisco inspired by the Israeli concept of kibbutz, position Halprin as a pioneer, a designer, and a thinker whose engineered landscapes offer a pre-High Line look at inspired urban design.

According to Charles Birnbaum—president and CEO of The Cultural Landscape Foundation, the organization that staged the exhibition and created a complemen Lawrence halprin biography!