October 29, 2009
KENTFIELD, Calif. — Landscape architect Lawrence Halprin died in his home on Sunday at the age 93 after complications from a fall, according to published news reports.
He designed Seattle's Freeway Park with Angela Danadjieva. His other Northwest works include Lovejoy Fountain and the downtown transit mall in Portland.
“He almost single-handedly reclaimed the city as the purview of the landscape architect,” Charles Birnbaum, founder and president of the Cultural Landscape Foundation, told The New York Times.
Haprin's best-known works include the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C., and Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco.
Halprin grew up in New York and attended the Harvard Graduate School of Design under Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer. He opened his own firm in 1949.
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