THE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE OF LAWRENCE HALPRIN
900 E 4th St, Los Angeles, CA 90013
Thursday, October 19 at 6:00 PM 9:00 PM
Ends Dec 31, 2017
Featuring fifty-six newly commissioned photographs by leading landscape photographers, the exhibition offers an overview of the life and work of landscape architect Lawrence Halprin (1916-2009). Organized during the 2016 during the centennial anniversary of Halprin’s birth by The Cultural Landscape Foundation, the exhibition includes recently rediscovered residential projects created early in his career in the 1950s to the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C., capstone projects such as Stern Grove in San Francisco and the Yosemite Falls approach, and significant postmodernist projects in the Los Angeles area including a sequence of public parks in DTLA including Grand Hope Park, the Bunker Hill Steps, Maguire Gardens and Plaza Las Fuentes in Pasadena. The exhibition both honors the influential designer and calls attention to the need for informed and effective stewardship of his irreplaceable legacy.