Lawrence Halprin
Lawrence Halprin
Lawrence Halprin Hebrew: לורנס הלפריןwas an influential American landscape architect, designer and teacher...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth1 July 1916
CountryUnited States of America
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The great challenge for the garden designer is not to make the garden look natural, but to make the garden so that the people in it will feel natural.
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I always say to young people when they ask me how I work, I always say to them, the only time you've ever going to do something good is if you have a good client. And by good I mean all kinds of things.
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Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks.
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It's not an imposed idea at all. Not like the Washington Monument, an Egyptian idea. Not like the Jefferson and Lincoln memorials, Greek or Roman or copies of other times. It's a place that is of this time, of this era. I think of it as an American monument to a great American president.
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Without question, he had more effect on people's interest in architecture and design in the Bay Area than anybody else.