A Life Spent Changing Places by Lawrence Halprin
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.
"Richly illustrated with hundreds of never before published photos and sketches, this deeply reflective book by Halprin covers the personal and professional, and in the process sheds light on how the maverick designer helped give places life, while they did the very same for himIn the process, Halprin illustrates how he helped to change the perception and practice of landscape architecture." (The Huffington Post) "The remark that 'every great artist inhabits a genre and remakes it' could find no better proof than in . . . the life and work [of Lawrence Halprin]. He produced a series of masterpieces of iconic stature: Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco; Sea Ranch on the north California coast; the Lovejoy and Ira Keller Fountain sequence in Portland, Oregon; Freeway Park in Seattle, Washington; the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C.; and Stern Grove Theater in San Francisco, to name some of the best known. He knew plants horticulturally and could use them architecturally. Many of his greatest works were executed with humble, ordinary building materials: concrete, asphalt, stucco, wood, soil, and plants. . . . [His ideas have] been so heavily copied and thoroughly absorbed into the vernacular of late twentieth-century urban development that they now appear as cliché. At the time, however, he and his staff were designing and building a new kind of public space." (Laurie Olin, from the Foreword)
A transplanted Brooklynite, Lawrence Halprin began his professional career in San Francisco in 1949, and his work over the next 60 years spanned the country, from Oregon to Virginia. Among his publications are The RSVP Cycles: Creative Processes in the Human Environment (1969) and The Sea Ranch: Diary of an Idea (2003). Laurie Olin is Practice Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and Principal of the Olin Partnership, a landscape architecture firm in Philadelphia. He is coauthor of La Foce: A Garden and Landscape in Tuscany and Vizcaya: An American Villa and Its Makers, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780812242638 |
| ISBN 10 | 0812242637 |
| Title | A Life Spent Changing Places |
| Author | Lawrence Halprin |
| Series | Penn Studies In Landscape Architecture |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Year published | 2011-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 277 |
| Prizes | Winner of Winner of the 2012 J. B. Jackson Book Prize from the Foundation for Landscape Studies 2021 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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