Lawrence Halprin.
Hennepin Avenue Area Report.
San Francisco: Lawrence Halprin & Associates, 1969.
Spiral-bound Hardcover.
92 pages including a mylar overlay and a fold-out + 9 sheets of hand-written and photocopied land-usage and building condition notes in Video Artist Dara Birnbaum's hand + a photograph by Paul Ryan (Stamped by Lawrence Halprin & Associates as well as Ryan to back) of Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis which was designed by Halprin in 1967.
Good.
Minor staining near spine. Wear to covers. Back Cover at spiral binding shows bare cardboard and creasing. Top is chipping. Bare cardboard at corners. Blue covers and orange section dividers are thick cardboard. Orange section divider's color has rubbed off to facing white page to a small degree. Binding secure though a bit fragile.
Scarce "urban design study for a portion of Minneapolis, Minnesota" signed by noted architect Lawrence Halprin to introduction. This volume comes from the library of trained architect, former Halprin associate and Video Artist Dara Birnbaum, hence her notes laid-in.
Prepared for The Downtown Council & The City of Minneapolis by Lawrence Halprin & Associates: Felix M. Warburg, Project Director, May 1969. Quote from T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets' to bottom of contents page. Graphic Design by Barbara Stauffacher (Solomon) who became a pioneer of Supergraphics and later became a landscape architect.
Lawrence Halprin (1916-2009), the tribal elder of American landscape architecture, used the word choreography to describe his melding of modernism, nature and movement in hundreds of projects, including the memorial to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington.
Dara Birnbaum was an American video and installation artist based in New York City. Birnbaum entered the nascent field of video art in the mid-to-late 1970s, challenging the gendered biases of the period and television’s ever-growing presence within the American household.
