A life spent changing places. txt
Lawrence Halprin.
- 1st edition
- xv, 258 p. ill. ;col. ; 23 cm. book
- Penn studies in landscape architecture .
Include index
Foreword by Laurie Olin -- Preface -- PART I -- Family and Tribal Heritage -- The Grand Tour -- Poly Prep -- Return to Palestine -- My College Career -- World War II -- PART II -- Beginning My Career -- The Israel Thread -- Growing Pains -- The Rebellious Sixties -- A Time for Introspection -- A Transitional Search -- After the Show Was Over -- The New Millennium -- Reflections --
Landscape architect, urban planner, teacher, and social visionary: over the course of a sixty-year career, Lawrence Halprin (1916-2009) reshaped the spaces we inhabit and our ways of moving through them. The New York Timescalled him "the tribal elder of American landscape architecture" and the critic Ada Louise Huxtable credited him with creating what "may be the one of the most important urban spaces since the Renaissance." His bold use of abstract imagery could evoke the landscape of the American West in a sequence of city squares and fountains, while his plan for repurposing an abandoned factory near San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf showed how adaptive use of a historic structure could turn commercial development into urban theater. A man who deeply loved cities, he left as one of his most important legacies the five thousand acres of coastline, hedgerows, and meadows that became Sonoma County's environmentally sensitive and enormously influential Sea Ranch. Featuring more than ninety black-and-white and one hundred color reproductions of photographs, plans, and sketchbooks, A Life Spent Changing Placesis Halprin's own account of how a young boy who listened to the fireside chats of FDR on the radio became the man who designed the memorial to that president in the nation's capital. It is a book about the invention and reinvention of an extraordinary man over the span of decades and how he helped to reframe the world around him.
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Halprin, Lawrence.
Architects--California--San Francisco Bay Area--Biography.