BSI Lauds Halprin With Bybee Award

ITASCA, Ill. – Lawrence Halprin, FASLA, is the honoree of the 2006 James Daniel Bybee Prize from the Building Stone Institute (BSI).
Halprin, a renowned San Francisco-based landscape architect, was selected for the award for his work and his excellence in the use of natural stone.
The 89-year-old Halprin’s body of work includes the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington; San Francisco’s Ghiradelli Square; the Lovejoy Fountain in Portland, Ore.; Skyline Park in Denver; and, with architect Charles Willard Moore, the Sea Ranch in Sonoma County, Calif.
His work, as noted by the BSI, is marked by a focus on citizen participation, user experience, and the human scale of his projects.
Among the previous honors received by Halprin are the 2003 Design Medal from the American Society of Landscape Architects; the 2002 National Medal of Arts; the 1979 Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement from the American Institute of Architects; and the 1979 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture from the University of Virginia School of Architecture.
He received the Bybee at a ceremony last month in San Francisco.