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Lawrence Halprin & Associates, 1954: A Brief Memoir

Lawrence Halprin & Associates, 1954: A Brief Memoir Lawrence Halprin & Associates, 1954: A Brief Memoir Peter Walker Over the years I have had a number of mentors— among them, Stanley White, Hideo Sasaki, and Dan Kiley—but the very first was Lawrence Halprin. In 1954 the office of Lawrence Halprin and Associates was small, with little of the driving ambition that was to characterize the much larger Halprin offices of later years. In addition to Larry, the 1954 office consisted of Jean Walton, Satoru Nishita, Don Carter, and Richard “Viggie” Vignola, all graduates of the University of California, Berkeley, and two part-time students from Berkeley, Michael Painter and myself. I remember climbing the long flight of steps up to my job interview with fear and trepidation. I had been recommended for the job by “Punc” Vaughn, the chair- man of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Berkeley, and my professor, Mai Arbegast. I showed Mr. Halprin my drawings, which were much influenced by Garrett Eckbo’s Landscape for Living—a book that was the thing in our design class. Larry took one look at them and said he hated the design and the style. My heart sank. Then he said, “But I’m going to hire you anyway. You can learn http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Landscape Journal: design, planning, and management of the land University of Wisconsin Press

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Lawrence Halprin & Associates, 1954: A Brief Memoir Peter Walker Over the years I have had a number of mentors— among them, Stanley White, Hideo Sasaki, and Dan Kiley—but the very first was Lawrence Halprin. In 1954 the office of Lawrence Halprin and Associates was small, with little of the driving ambition that was to characterize the much larger Halprin offices of later years. In addition to Larry, the 1954 office consisted of Jean Walton, Satoru Nishita, Don Carter, and Richard “Viggie” Vignola, all graduates of the University of California, Berkeley, and two part-time students from Berkeley, Michael Painter and myself. I remember climbing the long flight of steps up to my job interview with fear and trepidation. I had been recommended for the job by “Punc” Vaughn, the chair- man of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Berkeley, and my professor, Mai Arbegast. I showed Mr. Halprin my drawings, which were much influenced by Garrett Eckbo’s Landscape for Living—a book that was the thing in our design class. Larry took one look at them and said he hated the design and the style. My heart sank. Then he said, “But I’m going to hire you anyway. You can learn

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Published: Feb 16, 2013

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