Lawrence Halprin
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<strong>Halprin</strong> reopened his office<br />
in June 1978 as the Office of <strong>Lawrence</strong><br />
<strong>Halprin</strong>. The firm was smaller, thereby<br />
allowing for greater intellectual exploration<br />
and experimentation. The work from this<br />
period incorporated new Postmodernist<br />
elements. While Modernism sought to<br />
create the perfect form on an empty<br />
or open site with a fixed program,<br />
Postmodernism embraced wideranging<br />
social, economic, cultural, and<br />
ecological histories of a site and the<br />
equally diverse needs of potential users.<br />
Projects included plazas, promenades,<br />
and park networks, which often grew<br />
out of workshops that encouraged broad<br />
community involvement and were realized<br />
with noted collaborators like architect<br />
Charles Moore (Los Angeles Open Space<br />
Network) and Israeli landscape architect<br />
Shlomo Aronson (Haas Promenade).<br />
Postmodernist<br />
Era<br />
60 The Cultural Landscape Foundation<br />
Sketch plan of the Los Angeles Open Space Network<br />
by <strong>Lawrence</strong> <strong>Halprin</strong> (Courtesy the Architectural<br />
Archives of the University of Pennsylvania, by the gift<br />
of <strong>Lawrence</strong> <strong>Halprin</strong>)<br />
www.tclf.org 61
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