Lawrence Halprin's Skyline Park: Modern Landscapes: Transition & Transformation

Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA, FAAR is the Founder and President of The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF). Prior to joining TCLF, Mr. Birnbaum spent fifteen years as the coordinator of the National Park Service Historic Landscape Initiative (HLI) and a decade in private practice in New York City with a focus on landscape preservation and urban design. His recent projects include two web based initiatives: What's Out There? (a searchable database of the nation's designed landscape heritage) and Cultural Landscapes as Classrooms. His has authored and edited numerous publications including Shaping the American Landscape (UVA Press, 2009), Design with Culture: Claiming America's Landscape Heritage (UVA Press 2005), Preserving Modern Landscape Architecture (1999) and its follow up publication, Making Post War Landscapes Visible (2004, both for Spacemaker Press), Pioneers of American Landscape Design (McGraw Hill 2000) and The Guidelines for the Treatment of Cultural Landscapes (National Park Service, 1996). Ann Komara is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Colorado Denver. She is a licensed landscape architect as well as a landscape historian. Her work on cultural landscapes addresses the theoretical and experiential aspects of landscape reception, landscape design as a cultural product reflecting specific material and building practices, and issues of preservation for modern landscapes.

Lawrence Halprin's Skyline Park; By Charles Birnbaum; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Lawrence Halprin and Landscape Architecture; Chapter 2: Conceiving the Park; Chapter 3: e Masterplan: Connections and Infrastructure; Chapter 4: Materials: Brick, Concrete, Trees; Chapter 5: Water: the Signature Fountains; Chapter 6: Skyline Park's Life; Chapter 7: Documentation of the Site for the Historic American Landscapes Survey; Epilogue; By Lawrence Halprin; Notes; Bibliography.