{"id":2367,"date":"2009-08-23T06:37:41","date_gmt":"2009-08-23T06:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=2367"},"modified":"2009-08-23T06:37:41","modified_gmt":"2009-08-23T06:37:41","slug":"pioneering-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/pioneering-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Pioneering spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/landscape-and-dance.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/landscape-and-dance1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2372\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/landscape-and-dance1.jpg\" alt=\"landscape-and-dance1\" width=\"330\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a>It is said that the landscape architect Lawerence Halprin\u00a0&#8220;worked closely with his wife, whose experiments with movement \u2013 in conjunction with a circle of avant-garde composers \u2013 informed his user-friendly designs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Halprin was keen to design participatory spaces rather than spaces that were merely aesthetic.<\/p>\n<p>It is surprising,\u00a0given his background was in plant sciences and\u00a0horticulture before studying landscape architecture at Harvard, that he is best known for his work on public spaces. Although it is possible to surmise that his formative architectural interests and Bauhaus teachers influenced his sense of\u00a0formal spatial design.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artscatter.com\/general\/deep-portland-history-lawrence-halprin-and-ira-keller\/\">http<\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #810081;\">:<\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandtribune.com\/features\/story.php?story_id=122098201532999900\">\/\/www.portlandtribune.com\/features\/story.php?story_id=122098201532999900<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artscatter.com\/general\/deep-portland-history-lawrence-halprin-and-ira-keller\/\">http:\/\/www.artscatter.com\/general\/deep-portland-history-lawrence-halprin-and-ira-keller\/<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tclf.org\/pioneers\/profiles\/halprin\/index.htm\">http:\/\/www.tclf.org\/pioneers\/profiles\/halprin\/index.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is said that the landscape architect Lawerence Halprin\u00a0&#8220;worked closely with his wife, whose experiments with movement \u2013 in conjunction with a circle of avant-garde composers \u2013 informed his user-friendly designs.&#8221; Halprin was keen to design participatory spaces rather than spaces that were merely aesthetic. It is surprising,\u00a0given his background was in plant sciences and\u00a0horticulture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,22,23,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}