The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act.

Ciampi and others associated with UC Berkeley. He was assigned to the destroyer USS Morris in the Pacific which was struck by a kamikaze attack.

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In his best work he construed landscape architecture as narrative. Beginning his career in the San Francisco Bay Area California in 1949 Halprin often collaborated with a local circle of modernist architects on relatively modest projects.