Title & Author:

The Ecology of Form / [presented by] Lawrence Halprin.

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1982.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (31 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Lawrence Halprin In Jerusalem, 1982 -- High Sierra In California -- Lovejoy Fountain, Portland, Oregon, By L.Halprin -- Auditorium Forecourt In Portland, Oregon, By L.Halprin -- Aerial View Of Seattle Freeway, Washington -- Seattle Freeway Park, Washington, By L. Halprin -- Sea Ranch, California -- Sea Ranch, California- Halprin Study Of Ecology -- Sea Ranch, California- Halprin Sketch Of Development -- Sea Ranch, California- Charles Moore's Condominium -- Sea Ranch, California- Houses By Joseph Esherick -- Kiva At Pueblo Indian Community, Santa Clara, Near Santa Fé, New Mexico -- Embarcadero Plaza, San Francisco, By L.Halprin. Dance Festival -- Portland Auditorium Forecourt With Dancers -- Manhattan Square Park, Rochester, New York -- Children Enjoying Seattle Freeway Park -- Embarcadero Plaza Fountain.

Summary:

The plant world was the subject of Lawrence Halprin's early studies at Cornell University before he came under the spell of Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin East, then moved to Wisconsin and eventually Harvard, under Gropius and Tunnard, to become a landscape architect. Since he started to practice in San Francisco in 1964, his work, especially the fountain plaza in Portland, Oregon, has been admired the world over. Recipient of innumerable awards, he is the author of many articles and several books of which "RSVP Cycles" and "Taking Part" are the ones that best illuminate his methods of helping people to participate in the creation of their own environments. Halprin is profoundly influenced by the process by which natural environments arise. In his talk, he explains how he translates this into our everyday lives, not by copying nature's shapes and materials, but by producing abstractions of the processes. He endeavours to capture the essence of what the landscape, be it urban or rural, has to offer and, moreover, to create an environment that contributes to the creative enlargement of human life.

Subject:

Landscape architecture United States.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture du paysage États-Unis.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture, Modern.
Landscape architecture.
United States.

Added entries:

Halprin, Lawrence, narrator.