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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://d.hatena.ne.jp/caesar-blanca/20101219/p1
http://blog.enviro-studio.net/?eid=85
Philips Design’s latest Design Probe ‘Metamorphosis’ explores how we have become separated from the natural world, both in terms of our surroundings and how we perceive and manage our time.
http://www.situatedtechnologies.net/
http://www.amazon.com/Architecture-Poor-Experiment-Rural-Phoenix/dp/0226239160/ref=pd_sim_b_4
Challenging the dominance of the visual in the urban environment, the exhibition catalogue Sense of the City proposes a re-thinking and re-presenting of the city, and offers a more complex analysis of the qualities, comforts, communication systems, and sensory dimensions of urban life. From darkness and night to urban soundscapes, to the urban air and climate, this book presents a new, “sensorial” approach to urbanism. In defense of public spaces in contemporary cities, writer Cedric Price has observed that “mental, physical, and sensory well-being is required.” Included here is a rich collection of images on the different urban themes addressed in the exhibition, along with a series of insightful and critical essays. Contributors include Constance Classen, David Howes, Norman Pressman, Emily Thompson, and Mirko Zardini. Edited by Mirko Zardini. Hardcover, 6.5 x 9.5 in./320 pgs / Illustrated throughout.