Lawrence Halprin

Wikipedia

Halprin’s work is marked by his attention to human scale, user experience, and the social impact of his designs, in the egalitarian tradition of Frederick Law Olmsted. Halprin was the creative force behind the interactive, ‘playable’ civic fountains most common in the 1970s, an amenity which continues to greatly contribute to the pedestrian social experience in Portland Oregon, where “Ira’s Fountain” is loved and well-used, and which has been a chronic failure at the transient-ridden United Nations Plaza in San Francisco.

In his best work, he construed landscape architecture as narrative.

from

Rainey, Reuben M. (2001). “The Garden as Narrative: Lawrence Halprin’s Frankllin Delano Roosevelt Memorial,” in Places of Commemoration : Search for Identity and Landscape Design, pp. 377-413.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt_Memorial

http://d.hatena.ne.jp/caesar-blanca/20101219/p1

http://blog.enviro-studio.net/?eid=85

Ritsuko Taho, 田甫　律子

Artist’s website

MIT Visual Arts Program

Tokyo university of the arts

Biography

Ritsuko Taho is an artist who works in the public arena ranging from
landscape sculpture and earthwork to urban sculptural installations.

Taho is interested in relationships to the Other –for instance,
between nature and people, people and people. She has dealt with
these issues in public art and explored the use of various natural
materials while she has incorporated community participation within
her installations since the early 1980s.

Joy-Farm Shop with Many Orders,Minami-Ashiyahama, Ashiya, Japan,1998

MULTI-CULTURAL DIPLOMATS, City Program, Atlanta Arts Festival, Atlanta, GA,USA1994

Lamplighter on 5th planet, The Little Prince, 1943

夢のたね、高橋匡太　Kyota Takahashi、金沢、2005-

http://www.shimizuoffice.com/yumenotane/

Urban Interventions: Personal Projects in Public Places, R.Klanten et al., 2010

from amazon

Product Description

Evolving from graffiti and street art, urban interventions are the next generation of artwork to hit public space. Using any and all of the components that make up urban
and rural landscapes, these mostly spatial interventions bring art to the masses. They turn the street into a studio, laboratory, club, and gallery. Modified traffic signs, swings at bus stops, and images created out of sand or snow challenge us to rediscover
our environment and interact with it in new ways. The work is an intelligent and critical commentary on the planning, use, and commercialization of public space. With a rich visual selection of projects and methods, Urban Interventions documents
this new artistic approach to urban art that is currently making a profound
mark on our contemporary visual language. The book shows the growing connections and interplay of this scene with art, architecture, performance, and installation.
Propagators of urban intervention surprise and provoke with work in cities
including New York and London, but also in countries such as China, Columbia, and Turkey. Everywhere the work appears it turns public spaces into individual experiences. Urban Interventions is the first book to document these very current, personal art projects in a comprehensive way.

MEMO

Chapter 1: Urban Canvas

Haas & Hahn, Favela painting; Vila Cruzeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 2006 (p31)
ZASD,Berlin based artist

Arrow Pieses
Arrows Generation I,II
Acupunture Attempts; Berlin, 2009

Graffiti Research Lab

Laser Tag
LED Throwies

VR/Urban, SMSlingshot, Berlin, 2009
Electroboutique, Digiluck, Oslo, 2008-2009
Johannes Vogl, Five Moons, Vienna, 2007
Haque Design+Research, Open Burble Burble: Singapore, 2006 & Burble London, 2007
HeHe with Helen Evans, Nuage Vert(Green Cloud), helsinki. 2008

Chapter2: Localized

Pilar Lopez Baez, Little pieces of paper in the walls; Madrid, 2009(p79)

‘The artist writes short texts in small pieces of paper and inserts them into little crannies in street walls. This project aims at giving buildings a voice. The pieces of paper are left to be found by pedestrians at an improbable moment.’

Slinkachu,

Slinkachu is also featured in book”Beyond The Street(p330)”
What brings us together and what keeps us apart, 2009 (p85)
installation made at Fame Festival, at Grottaglie(South of Itary, near Brindisi) ,
‘For this street art and photography project, the “Little People Project”, the artist remodels and paints miniature model train set characters, which are then placed on the streets and in public spaces…’

Dan Witz,

Third Man Series; Brooklyn, New York, 2008
Dark Doings’ series, New York, 2009
Ugly New Buildings series, New York, 2009
In Plain View, Williamsburg, New York 2009
‘The “Kilroy Variations” are photo-based, heavily re-painted stickers glued to the walls of new modern architecture.

Chapter3: Attachments

‘extensions within the cityscape’
‘parasitic takeover of evーeryday spaces and structures, to which we adapt ourselves as we move through the city, can be witnessed in a wide array of works..’
Luzinterruptus

A lot of policeman for so few people..;Malasana district, Madrid, 2009
Urban Trash(IV); Carretas st., Madrid, 2009
Public toilets;Malasana district, Madrid, 2009
‘Luzinterruptus is an anonymous artistic group that carries out urban interventions in public spaces using light as a raw material and darkness as the canvas. The three members of the team come from three different disciplines: art, lighting, and photography.’

Jan Vormann

Dispatchwork; Berlin, Belgrade, Arnsberg, Israel, Arnsberg, Amsterdam
Using LEGO block to fill gaps and nicks in urban spaces.

Dan Wits

Prank;Greenpoint, New York, 2005

balloon on building facade to make it looks like a face.

Chapter4: Public Privacy

(the chapter) follows very different strategies that dissolve the boundaries between the private and the public, the familiar and the alien, in the urban realm.
Jason Eppink

Take a Seat; various metro stations, New York, 2007-ongoing
‘Take a seat’ is an ongoing series of public furniture installations aimed at increasing the availability of seating options in New York City subway stations. Perfectly functional chairs are rescued from trash piles and reassigned to stations.

Arno Piroud

Assises ephemeres (ephemeral seats); Paris, 2007-2009

Cedric Bernadotte

Sofa at “grenier a sons”; Cavaillon, 2004
Interventions in public space; Toulon, 2003, Pau, 2009
Cedric Bernadotte’s experiments focus on the human presence in cities, namely how to adapt public spaces using inexpensive and ephemeral means. Questioning the frontier between public and private spaces, he works with tape, cellophane, and inflatables and creates new spaces by grafting existing urban furniture (p143)

Liesbet Bussche

Urban Jewelry, Amsterdam, 2009(p145)

Carol Hummel

Knitscape Larchmere, 2009(p149)

Kristof Kintera(p 157)

Lay down and Shine; Paradubice, 2008
Miracle(500 days from 12th September 2008); Tilburg, 2008
My Light us Your Light; 2008

Michael Rakowitz

paraSITE, New York, 1998-2000

Chapter 5: Activated( p 173-)

The projects here range from flash mobs and other choreographed events within the city,…
Compagnie Willi Dorner (p179)

Bodies in urban spaces

The Yes Man(p191)

The New York Times, New York, 2008

LIGNA, Radio Ballet; Leipzig, 2003 (p196)

Chapter 6: Advertised (p201-)

Filippo Minelli, (p241)

Chapter 7: Natural Ways(p245-)

Vanessa Harden(p255)

The Subversive Gardener/Precision Bombing Device II/Precision Bombing Device I/MkII Agent Deployed Field Auger; London , 2009

Guerilla Gardening subculture

Markus Mai(p279)

godlovesoul

God; West Carpathians, 2004
Mind; Magdeburg glacial valley,2004
Play; Black Forest, 2004

Beautiful Bastards; Berlin, 2005

Tribute in Light, Municipal Art Society and Creative Time of NYC, 2002-present

http://mas.org/programs/tributeinlight/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribute_in_Light

Tribute in Light was first presented on March 11, 2002, six months after the attacks, and MAS has presented it annually since. Comprising eighty-eight 7,000-watt xenon light bulbs positioned into two 48-foot squares that echo the shape and orientation of the Twin Towers, Tribute in Light is assembled each year on a roof near the World Trade Center site. The illuminated memorial reaches 4 miles into the sky and is the strongest shaft of light ever projected from earth into the night sky. See this list of great Viewing Locations.

It was independently conceived by several artists and designers who were brought together under the auspices of MAS and Creative Time. Tribute was designed by John Bennett, Gustavo Bonevardi, Richard Nash Gould, Julian Laverdiere and Paul Myoda with lighting consultant Paul Marantz. It was originally made possible by a grant from the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation and with the generous assistance of Con Edison.

See and listen to the origins of Tribute in Light and how it is produced annually on September 11.