Cal Poly Pomona to Honor Environmental Designer

Lawrence Halprin has been named this year’s recipient of Cal Poly Pomona’s Richard Neutra Award for Professional Excellence, given for outstanding careers in education and environmental design. It will be presented in the Exhibit Gallery of the School of Environmental Design on April 16 at 5 p.m., with an exhibit of his work planned for April 14-18.

Halprin, seventh recipient of the award, is an environmental designer, town planner, landscape architect and author.

He has written seven books, published during the past 12 years; made two films (one on Salvador Dali, which won the Special Jury Award at the San Francisco Film Festival in 1976, and another, with his wife Anna, about dance and theater), and earned numerous other awards, including the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement.

He is also a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and the American Institute of Interior Design.

Among his environmental-design work, he applied town-planning principles to the rural landscape of Sonoma County’s Sea Ranch and planned the restoration of old buildings for new uses in San Francisco’s Ghirardelli Square.