Word: halprin
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This cry for understanding from the disabled community is being heard. At least 16 Roosevelt family members now seek a design alteration. A demonstration at a New York foundry casting some of the sculptures halted a press conference. Another protest is planned around the office of monument designer Lawrence Halprin in San Francisco...
Twenty years ago, San Francisco landscape architect Lawrence Halprin took over the enterprise and began to orchestrate an open gallery depicting F.D.R.'s four terms with 10 sculptures, both free-standing and bas-relief, and 23 slabs inscribed with the President's words. Progress was steady but tortured. A proposed statue of Eleanor Roosevelt, F.D.R.'s peripatetic wife, showed her in the New Deal period wearing her famous traveling fur piece. But to head off the animal-rights people, Eleanor was moved from the mid-1930s gallery to the time after F.D.R.'s death when she was a delegate...
Architect Halprin echoes the view held so far by the memorial commission and the Roosevelt family. "This is about Roosevelt's being President," he says. "He did not wish to appear before the people as disabled. This makes him out to be who he wanted to be. To do otherwise would be a historical denial of how he felt...
...procrastination has had less to do with political attitudes toward F.D.R. than with bickering over the size of the monument. The design by San Francisco landscape architect Lawrence Halprin was finally approved by the Commission of Fine Arts, which had accepted a larger version of the concept in 1978. It took a plea last fall by Florida Congressman Claude Pepper, who had been a Senator when F.D.R. was President, to get a $5.8 million appropriation | passed to begin the $47 million project. Terminally ill with cancer, Pepper got out of bed to make his pitch in his last public appearance...