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Product Description: Landscape architect, urban planner, teacher, and social visionary: over the course of a sixty-year career, Lawrence Halprin (1916-2009) reshaped the spaces we inhabit and our ways of moving through them. The New York Times called him "the tribal elder of American landscape architecture" and the critic Ada Louise Huxtable credited him with creating what "may be one of the most important urban spaces since the Renaissance...read more
By Laurie Olin (foreword by)
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9780812242638 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, June 3, 2011, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Landscape architect, urban planner, teacher, and social visionary: over the course of a sixty-year career, Lawrence Halprin (1916-2009) reshaped the spaces we inhabit and our ways of moving through them.

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Product Description: While we all live our lives in designed landscapes of various types, only on occasion do we consider what these landscapes mean to us and how they have acquired that significance. Can a landscape architect or garden designer really imbue new settings with meaning, or does meaning evolve over time, created by those who perceive and use these landscapes? What role does the selection and arrangement of plants and hard materials play in this process and just where does the passage of time enter into the equation? These questions collectively provide the core material for Meaning in Landscape Architecture and Gardens, a compendium of four landmark essays written over a period of twenty years by leading scholars in the field of landscape architecture...read more
By Jane Gillette (contributor), Susan Herrington (contributor), Laurie Olin (contributor) and Marc Treib (editor)
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9780415617253 | Routledge, April 6, 2011, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: While we all live our lives in designed landscapes of various types, only on occasion do we consider what these landscapes mean to us and how they have acquired that significance.

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Product Description: The Miami estate of Vizcaya, like its palatial contemporaries Biltmore and San Simeon, represents an achievement of the Gilded Age, when country houses and their gardens were a conspicuous measure of personal wealth and power. In Vizcaya: An American Villa and Its Makers, a celebrated architecture critic and writer and an award-winning landscape architect explore the little-known story of Vizcaya, an extraordinary national treasure...read more
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9780812239515 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, December 7, 2006, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: The Miami estate of Vizcaya, like its palatial contemporaries Biltmore and San Simeon, represents an achievement of the Gilded Age, when country houses and their gardens were a conspicuous measure of personal wealth and power.

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A beautiful homage to the breathtaking Italian gardens retraces the history of these brilliantly tailored grounds at La Foce, Tuscany, while showcasing their most spectacular assets and describing the history of the gardens.
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9780812235937 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, September 28, 2001, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: A beautiful homage to the breathtaking Italian gardens retraces the history of these brilliantly tailored grounds at La Foce, Tuscany, while showcasing their most spectacular assets and describing the history of the gardens.

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Product Description: "Twenty-eight years ago I went to England for a three-month visit and rest. What I found changed my life."So begins this memoir by one of America's best-known landscape architects, Laurie Olin. Raised in a frontier town in Alaska, trained in Seattle and New York, Olin found himself dissatisfied with his job as an urban architect and accepted an invitation to England to take a respite from work...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780812235319 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, November 5, 1999, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: "Twenty-eight years ago I went to England for a three-month visit and rest.

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Product Description: Transforming the Common/Placepresents selected projects by landscape architect Laurie Olin and his firm Hanna/Olin. Considered by many to be an heir to Frederick Law Olmsted's legacy, Olin has put his stamp on public spaces from Manhattan to Los Angeles and from Columbus, Ohio to London, England...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781878271884 | Princeton Architectural Pr, February 1, 1997, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Transforming the Common/Placepresents selected projects by landscape architect Laurie Olin and his firm Hanna/Olin.

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