Lawrence Halprin

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United Nations Plaza 1962-75 • SAN FRANCISCO, CA Christina Dikas 2016 C-print 24 x 16 inches At the mid-point of the three-mile-long Market Street that traverses the city, United Nations Plaza acts as the gateway to San Francisco’s City Hall. Surrounded by the city’s cultural district, including theaters, museums, and civic buildings, the site was conceived as Civic Center Plaza. The 2.5-acre pedestrian space was completed in 1975, with architects Mario Ciampi and John Carl Warnecke, and immediately renamed United National Plaza to commemorate the signing of the 1945 Charter of the United Nations at the nearby Veterans War Memorial Building. A portion of Fulton Street was closed to vehicular traffic, and a wide pedestrian allée was installed that terminates at City Hall. The other end of the allée features an asymmetrical red brick plaza with a sunken sculptural fountain. In his design, Halprin experimented with a concept he called “motation,” a method for scoring how perception of environment changes depending on the speed and motion of the observer. DESIGN TEAM Don Carter (principal-in-charge) Angela Danadjieva (landscape architect) Mario Ciampi and John Carl Warnecke (architects) 42 The Cultural Landscape Foundation www.tclf.org 43
Jeremy Bittermann 2016 C-print 24.5 x 36 inches 42 x 20 inches (pgs. 46-47) Portland Open Space Sequence 1965-70 • PORTLAND, OR During the 1960s, Portland officials sought to energize their public spaces, and Lawrence Halprin & Associates was commissioned to redesign an eight-block sequence of parks. Planned as a series of outdoor rooms, the design presents a procession of four public spaces connected via leafy allées: starting with the Source Fountain designed by Angela Danadjieva, before proceeding to Lovejoy Plaza [photo opposite], Pettygrove Park [photo on pg. 49], and terminating at Ira Keller Forecourt Fountain (formerly named Auditorium Forecourt) [photo on pgs. 46-47]. Featuring large-scale highly animated fountains with waterfalls and pools, these spaces offer abstracted representations of the nearby Cascade Range and Columbia River in an urban environment. Following the opening of the Ira Keller Forecourt Fountain in June, 1970, New York Times architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable dubbed it “one of the most important urban spaces since the Renaissance.” In 2013 the Sequence was listed in the National Register of Historic Places. 44 The Cultural Landscape Foundation www.tclf.org 45
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Page 3 and 4: Lawrence Halprin in his first offic
Page 5 and 6: About this Guide This gallery guide
Page 7 and 8: Donnell Pool 1948 • SONOMA COUNTY
Page 9 and 10: Lehman Garden 1960-62 • KENTFIELD
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Page 13 and 14: Greenwood Common 1955-58 • BERKEL
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Page 21: Justin Herman Plaza 1962-71 • SAN
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Page 27 and 28: Manhattan Square Park 1971-76 • R
Page 29 and 30: Freeway Park 1969-76 • SEATTLE, W
Page 31 and 32: Halprin reopened his office in June
Page 33 and 34: Babi Yar Park 1982 • DENVER, CO T
Page 35 and 36: Haas Promenade 1987 • JERUSALEM,
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Page 39 and 40: Lake Shore Drive 1995-96 • CHICAG
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