• Author: Kenneth Helphand
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• ISBN: 9780820352077
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• Page: 256
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• Author: Donlyn Lyndon,James Alinder,Donald Canty,Lawrence Halprin
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• ISBN: 1568983867
• Category: Architecture
• Page: 304
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This monograph, illustrated with over three hundred new photographs by Jim Alinder and including maps, plans, detailed descriptions of selected houses, an account of the development process and land management issues, as well as essays by Donald Canty and Lawrence Halprin, presents the definitive portrait of The Sea Ranch."--Jacket.

• Author: N.A
• Publisher: N.A
• ISBN: N.A
• Category: Architectural firms
• Page: 180
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Lawrence Halprin in Urban Renewal America

• Author: Alison Bick Hirsch
• Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
• ISBN: 1452940975
• Category: Architecture
• Page: 320
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One of the most prolific and influential landscape architects of the twentieth century, Lawrence Halprin (1916–2009) was best known for the FDR Memorial in Washington, D.C., and Sea Ranch, the iconic planned community in California. These projects, as well as vibrant public spaces throughout the country—from Ghirardelli Square and Market Street in San Francisco to Lovejoy Fountain Park in Portland and Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis—grew out of a participatory design process that was central to Halprin’s work and is proving ever more relevant to urban design today. In City Choreographer, urban designer and historian Alison Bick Hirsch explains and interprets this creative process, called the RSVP Cycles, referring to the four components: resources, score, valuation, and performance. With access to a vast archive of drawings and documents, Hirsch provides the first close-up look at how Halprin changed our ideas about urban landscapes. As an urban pioneer, he found his frontier in the nation’s densely settled metropolitan areas during the 1960s. Blurring the line between observer and participant, he sought a way to bring openness to the rigidly controlled worlds of architectural modernism and urban renewal. With his wife, Anna, a renowned avant-garde dancer and choreographer, Halprin organized workshops involving artists, dancers, and interested citizens that produced “scores,” which then informed his designs. City Choreographer situates Halprin within the larger social, artistic, and environmental ferment of the 1960s and 1970s. In doing so, it demonstrates his profound impact on the shape of landscape architecture and his work’s widening reach into urban and regional development and contemporary concerns of sustainability.

• Author: Lawrence Halprin,Ching-Yu Chang
• Publisher: N.A
• ISBN: N.A
• Category: Architectural design
• Page: 262
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creative processes in the human environment

• Author: Lawrence Halprin
• Publisher: George Braziller
• ISBN: N.A
• Category: Art
• Page: 207
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A Workshop Approach to Collective Creativity

• Author: Lawrence Halprin,Jim Burns
• Publisher: N.A
• ISBN: 9780262080798
• Category: Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• Page: 328
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• Author: Lawrence Halprin
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• ISBN: 9780812242638
• Category: Architecture
• Page: 280
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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.