Lawrence Halprin (101 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. Skyline Park is the first book in our new Masterworks of Modern Landscape series. Designed by acclaimed landscape designer Lawrence Halprin in the 1970s, the park was part of an effort for urban renewal in downtown Denver and became a signature landmark of the city after its construction, attracting local residents, businesses, workers, and visitors alike. Skyline Park exemplifies Halprin's unique vision of the importance of a city's "livability" within the urban context, offering an oasis from the surrounding streets and businesses while still remaining a part of the city?s vibrant downtown area. Drawing on Denver's natural surroundings for inspiration, Halprin captured colourado's rugged beauty in his design. This monograph documents the history of the park?s conception, construction and use in the time before its complete redesign in 2003, which essentially destroyed Halprin's original work. Conceived as a series of short monographs, the Masterworks of Modern Landscape series spotlights iconic landscapes that have been demolished or substantially altered and in the process chronicle their history and honour their legacies. Additionally, this series is intended to highlight our mid-century landscape treasures while raising awareness of their unique design value, inherent vulnerability and historic preservation needs. The series serves as both a reminder of a significant designed landscape while also providing a ?best practices? model for documentation.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Skyline Park is the first book in our new Masterworks of Modern Landscape series. Designed by acclaimed landscape designer Lawrence Halprin in the 1970s, the park was part of an effort for urban renewal in downtown Denver and became a signature landmark of the city after its construction, attracting local residents, businesses, workers, and visitors alike. Skyline Park exemplifies Halprin's unique vision of the importance of a city's "livability" within the urban context, offering an oasis from the surrounding streets and businesses while still remaining a part of the city?s vibrant downtown area. Drawing on Denver's natural surroundings for inspiration, Halprin captured colourado's rugged beauty in his design. This monograph documents the history of the park?s conception, construction and use in the time before its complete redesign in 2003, which essentially destroyed Halprin's original work. Conceived as a series of short monographs, the Masterworks of Modern Landscape series spotlights iconic landscapes that have been demolished or substantially altered and in the process chronicle their history and honour their legacies. Additionally, this series is intended to highlight our mid-century landscape treasures while raising awareness of their unique design value, inherent vulnerability and historic preservation needs. The series serves as both a reminder of a significant designed landscape while also providing a ?best practices? model for documentation.…

Condition: acceptable. Fairly worn, but readable and intact. If applicable: Dust jacket, disc or access code may not be included.

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Paperback. Condition: Good. The Choreography of Environments: How the Anna and Lawrence Halprin Home Transformed Contemporary Dance and Urban Design explores how objects and the domestic spaces seep into the aesthetic consciousness of movement-based artists, like dancers and urban designers, significantly shaping their approach to movement invention and choreography. If these objects and spaces happen to have been designed by a leading modernist architect and landscape designer working with the dancer, then the aesthetic imprint is amplified. Dance innovation becomes pressed into dialogue with spatial, environmental, and urban agendas. The Choreography of Environments builds on this premise to consider the use of ordinary objects from a private residence as lenses into viewing dance innovation. Author Janice Ross posits the Halprins' 1950s iconic mid-century modern home and expansive outdoor dance deck as a hidden archive. She explores four objects from their house and gardens -- staircase, deck, chair, and window -- to trace how, despite the conservative postwar climate, this intimate domestic space became a radical template reshaping postmodern dance invention and its expansion into civic, social, and environmental engagement in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The work that happened in this white, middle class, Jewish-American home in a San Francisco suburb paved the way for changes that continue to resonate today across contemporary dance, performance, and urban design. These include: defamiliarizing urban landscape and gardens as cloistered theaters where civic identities are rehearsed, orchestrating collective problem solving and invention, normalizing the nude body, privileging a utilitarian and responsive rather than sentimental approach to dance in the environment, and re-positioning choreography as a vital medium for urban problem solving.These four representative objects in the Halprin home are also used to trace the burgeoning of dance as a forceful medium for civic engagement, and its valorization of the ordinary in movement. As a whole, this book shows how dance, architecture, and landscape design would have a profound confluence through these shared domestic spaces and objects of the Halprins' lives. …

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Paperback. Condition: near fine(+). White follio, color portrait to rear cover, color and b&w illus to front cover, 152 pages, chiefly b&w illustrations (some color), 31 cm. Landscape architects -- United States -- Biography -- Exhibitions. Extremely mild wear to spine head and foot, faint soiling to rear board and two fore-edges, ink gift inscription to front free endpaper, bright pages in tight binding, else near fine(+). First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated).…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. First Paperback Edition. Uqp Poetry; B&W Illustrations; Square Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 320 pages; Larger, square format paperback in glossy color illustrated covers. Bright, snug and very neat; no marks. Superficial curl to the front edge of the cover. Otherwise exceptionally neat. Illustrated in b&w. VG++ to NF . Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. The Choreography of Environments: How the Anna and Lawrence Halprin Home Transformed Contemporary Dance and Urban Design explores how objects and the domestic spaces seep into the aesthetic consciousness of movement-based artists, like dancers and urban designers, significantly shaping their approach to movement invention and choreography. If these objects and spaces happen to have been designed by a leading modernist architect and landscape designer working with the dancer, then the aesthetic imprint is amplified. Dance innovation becomes pressed into dialogue with spatial, environmental, and urban agendas. The Choreography of Environments builds on this premise to consider the use of ordinary objects from a private residence as lenses into viewing dance innovation. Author Janice Ross posits the Halprins' 1950s iconic mid-century modern home and expansive outdoor dance deck as a hidden archive. She explores four objects from their house and gardens -- staircase, deck, chair, and window -- to trace how, despite the conservative postwar climate, this intimate domestic space became a radical template reshaping postmodern dance invention and its expansion into civic, social, and environmental engagement in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The work that happened in this white, middle class, Jewish-American home in a San Francisco suburb paved the way for changes that continue to resonate today across contemporary dance, performance, and urban design. These include: defamiliarizing urban landscape and gardens as cloistered theaters where civic identities are rehearsed, orchestrating collective problem solving and invention, normalizing the nude body, privileging a utilitarian and responsive rather than sentimental approach to dance in the environment, and re-positioning choreography as a vital medium for urban problem solving.These four representative objects in the Halprin home are also used to trace the burgeoning of dance as a forceful medium for civic engagement, and its valorization of the ordinary in movement. As a whole, this book shows how dance, architecture, and landscape design would have a profound confluence through these shared domestic spaces and objects of the Halprins' lives. …

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. During a career spanning six decades, Lawrence Halprin (19162009) became one of the most prolific and outspoken landscape architects of his generation. He took on challenging new project types, developing a multidisciplinary practice while experimenting with adaptive reuse and ecological designs for new shopping malls, freeways, and urban parks. In his lifelong effort to improve the American landscape, Halprin celebrated the creative process as a form of social activism.A native New Yorker, Halprin earned degrees from Cornell and the University of Wisconsin before completing his design degree at Harvard. In 1945 he joined Thomas Churchs firm, where he collaborated on the iconic Donnell Garden. He opened his own San Francisco office in 1949, where he initially focused on residential commissions in the Bay Area, completing close to three hundred in ten years time. By the 1960s the firm had gained recognition for significant urban renewal projects such as Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco (196268), Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis (196267), and Freeway Park in Seattle (197074). Halprin used his conception of a Sierra stream as the catalyst for the Portland Open Space Sequence, a series of parks featuring great fountains that linked housing and civic space in the inner city.A charismatic speaker and passionate artist, Halprin designed landscapes that reflected the democratic and participatory ethic characteristic of his era. He communicated his ideas as well in lectures, books, exhibits, and performances. Along with his contemporary Ian McHarg, Halprin was his generations great proselytizer for landscape architecture as environmental design. Throughout his long career, he strived to develop poetic and symbolic landscapes that, in his words, could articulate a cultures most spiritual values. During a career spanning six decades, Lawrence Halprin (19162009) became one of the most prolific and outspoken landscape architects of his generation. He took on challenging new project types, developing a multidisciplinary practice while experimenting with adaptive reuse and ecological designs for new shopping malls, freeways, and urban parks. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Softcover, 152 pages; good condition; small piece of linen tape around bottom of spine; light rubbing to covers; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Good paperback, bumped/creased with shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Oversized.

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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial. By Lawrence Halprin. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Large square softcover with French flaps, 128 pages. Published to commemorate the dedication of the FDR Memorial in Washington, D.C., this visually striking volume by renowned landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, designer of the memorial, offers a firsthand account of the twenty-year design process and the historical vision that shaped it. Combining architectural renderings, photographs, and Roosevelt's own words, Halprin's narrative explores the challenges of memorial design and the translation of FDR?s ideals from democracy, social justice, and collective effort into stone, water, and landscape. Includes color and black-and-white photography, drawings, and design notes on each of the memorial's sculptural spaces. In Near Fine condition: crisp and clean throughout with only minor surface wear to covers, no owner marks or creases. A powerful blend of history and design, part biography, part architectural monograph, by one of America's most influential modern landscape architects. Lawrence Halprin (1916-2009) was one of the most influential landscape architects of the 20th century, celebrated for his human-centered and ecologically integrated designs. His major works include San Francisco's Ghirardelli Square and the Sea Ranch community, Portland's Lovejoy and Keller Fountains, and the FDR Memorial in Washington, D.C. Halprin's work combined modernist form with natural movement and social purpose, shaping the philosophy of environmental design for generations of architects and planners.…

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