Mounds Halprin, is a Lawrence Halprin park in Portland. It highlights the use of a set of abstract forms, the land is used to create mounds, trees are vertical emphasis that stand as a contrast. It definitely is like an abstract sculpture with landscape materials.
Lawrence Halprin
this is recognized landscape architect as one of the highlights of the modern era because it had their own stamp on the peculiar way of thinking and connect with the outdoors. Very attentive to the human scale and user experience to live and enjoy the view proposed. He was aware that each design had a social impact and had a priority user needs. "His philosophy led him to put space landscapes available to all segments of society. " (1)
landscape architect, theorist and teacher, Lawrence Halprin was born in New York in 1916, grew up in Brooklyn. After graduating from high school lived for three years in a kibbutz in Israel. In 1935 he began his studies at Cornell University in Plant Sciences. Then continued his advanced studies at the University of Wisconsin where he received a Master of Science in Horticulture in 1941. While living in Wisconsin, frequently visited Taliesin East , home study Frank Lloyd Wright and decided to study architecture focusing on the landscape. He studied landscape architecture at Harvard under the tutelage of Walter Gropius and Christopher Tunnard where he graduated in 1942 with a degree in landscape architecture. Apprenticed to Thomas Church , the leading architect who developed the concept of contemporary California garden . Halprin opened his own office in 1949.
S and married Ana Schuman, a student dance avant-garde whose work was able to play a significant role in Halprin's ideas about movement in the landscape, and their new graphic techniques to represent the experience of the landscape. His proposal "the choreography of Gardens", explores the relationship between the "movement" and landscape architecture. Writing in 1949 , often called his designs as "choreography" and said that a garden is like "the fine sense of the dance." studied for a long time for people to "move" in public spaces and coined the word "motation" (movement and notation) to describe its path of movement through space with a notation system that some say look like hieroglyphics, or even a type of music. Halprin projected his work from his care and respect for human scale, user experience, and social impact they could have their designs.
As Halprin wrote in 1981:
"Space is the choreography for movement with silent nodes and contemplation, action and inaction, hard and soft, Yin and Yang. "
He considered the design process as important as the final result for this design methodology developed in including client participation. The final presentation included models and the images that were required.
Lawrence Halprin: The Choreography of Gardens
In the mid 60's, after several trips to Europe, Lawrence Halprin and Associates were known more for urban projects by the developers in suburban areas such as design and construction of Ghirardelli Square (1962 -1968) and Embarcedero Plaza (1962-1972), both in San Francisco, Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis (1962-1967); Central Park Square, Springfield, Missouri (1969-70), four of the public spaces of Portland: Lovejoy Plaza, Pettigrove Park, Auditorium Forecourt and the Transit Mall (1965-1978), and Freeway Park, Seattle ( 1970-1974). Since 1976, Sue was a member of Li Yung Ikeda.
Ira Keller Fountain designed by Lawrence Halprin
These projects, where he reaffirmed the role of landscape architect in the regeneration of American cities, made the social spaces and pedestrian were vital in places that were previously marginal industrial complexes such as historical or spaces on or under highways. Doing so, re-imagined a public domain of American cities that had been cleared by federal urban renewal programs and yet abandoned for new suburban developments.
One of his flagship is a monument dedicated to former U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The Roosevelt Memorial is a memorial dedicated to both the presidential figure as to the time he represented. It has an area of \u200b\u200b30,000 square meters.
was a prolific career throughout his life, was a leading landscape planning environment that was always at the forefront of innovation in urban design in the United States. Her practice includes an innovative environmental design catalog urban projects that are within National Parks. His reputation is based on ongoing work of more than fifty years to expand expectations of the landscape in the field of environment. Halprin garnered numerous awards including the Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture and the National Medal of Arts as a tribute to the President of the United States .
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