Lawrence Halprin stands as one of the great landscape architects of the twentieth century. In a distinguished career spanning 60 years, he created numerous iconic and trailblazing projects. His signature design methodology and the series of workshops he developed with his wife, choreographer, and dancer Anna Halprin, grew to be landmarks in creative design practice. Halprin’s work helped to spark a renaissance in landscape architecture in the United States and evolved into a model for creative and innovative work that addresses the urban condition.
In 1963 the Portland Development Commission invited Lawrence Halprin and Associates to design a series of fountains in Portland’s downtown. Lawrence Halpin, Fountains celebrates Portland’s Open Space Sequence, a reinvention of public space in the city’s first urban renewal district that wiped away a Jewish immigrant community and replaced it with fountain plazas that launched the city’s traditions of world-class public space and urban greenspaces.
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