02795nam a2200301Ia 4500003000600000005001700006008004100023010001700064020001800081020001500099040003400114050002300148082001500171100002300186245005800209250001600267264007700283300004300360336002600403337002800429338002700457490004300484500001800527505038800545520146000933600003002393650007002423pucpr20220609154553.0100311s2011 pau 001 0aeng c a 2010053546 a9780812242638 a0812242637 apucprbengcpucprdpucprerda00aNA737.H27bA2 201100222a720.921 aHalprin, Lawrence.12aA life spent changing places.cLawrence Halprin.htxt a1st edition aPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press , c2011. axv, 258 p.bill. ;col. ;c23 cm.fbook 2rdacontentatextbtxt 2rdamediaaunmediadedbn 2rdacarrieravolumebnc1 aPenn studies in landscape architecture aInclude index aForeword 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 -- aLandscape 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.10aHalprin, Lawrence.2Local 0aArchitectszCaliforniazSan Francisco Bay AreavBiography.2Local