The FDR Memorial: Designed by Lawrence Halprin
The creation of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial is a political story and a personal saga that took half a century to complete. Friends and supporters of FDR began lobbying for a memorial shortly after his death, and overcame partisan opposition, public ridicule, and bureaucratic inertia to make it happen. For the final two decades of the struggle, landscape architect Lawrence Halprin designed and redesigned the memorial in response to changing political and social circumstances, including budget cuts, oil embargoes, and appeals from the disabled for more explicit acknowledgement of FDR's handicap.Written by David Dillon, photographed by Alan Ward, paperback, 84 pages, ISBN: 1-888931-11-6.