Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it's not just me. Me and my talent comes in taking that consensus and then making something wonderful out of it - a work of art.

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.