Lawrence Halprin

Halprin worked in the San Francisco office of Thomas Church before opening his own firm in 1949. Awarded the AIA medal for Allied Professions,1964; Appointed to the first National Council on the Arts by President Johnson,1966; Appointed to the first Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, 1967; Elected fellow in ASLA, 1969; Delivered the annual lecture for RIBA, 1971; Elected honorary fellow of the Institute of Interior Design, 1970; Awarded the ASLA Gold Medal and elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1978; Awarded Thomas Jefferson Gold Medal in architecture by the University of Virginia, 1979.