Lawrence Halprin’s The Sea Ranch
Architecture tends to think of open space simply as a foreground or background to buildings and not significant in itself; engineering thinks of it in terms of drainage or road alignment; city planning tends to think of it as undifferentiated green swatches in the beehive of city streets. Landscape architects, however, want to design it in all its detail as the medium within which life occurs: so that we can walk through it, lie on the grass, court our girl friends in the spring and watch the unfolding buds on the spring branches. Open space for us is an end in itself –
Lawrence Halprin, “The Landscape Architect and the Planner” in Landscape Architecture and the Allied Arts and Professions, p 47. ed. Sylvia Crowe. Djambatan: Netherlands, 1961.