Lawrence Halprin, best known for a series of iconic masterpieces--including the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C., and Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco--recounts how his personality and recurring themes along his life path contributed to his legacy in landscape architecture.
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Lawrence Halprin, best known for a series of iconic masterpieces--including the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C., and Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco--recounts how his personality and recurring themes along his life path contributed to his legacy in landscape architecture.
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New. 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 Times' called him 'the tribal elder of American landscape architecture' and the critic Ada Louise Huxtable credited him with creating what 'may be 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 Places' is 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. Lawrence Halprin, best known for a series of iconic masterpieces--including the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C., and Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco--recounts how his personality and recurring themes along his life path contributed to his legacy in landscape architecture. BEAUTIFUL COPY! ! !
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This is a very biographic book: expect a chronologic approach of Halprin's carreer. The book is full of drawings from his travel journals and sketches from his work. There also many photos of the people he met and his wife from whom he learned a lot about the "street ballet" as Jane Jacobs calls it.
