The Choreography of Environments: How the Anna and Lawrence Halprin Home Transformed Contemporary Dance and Urban Design

Author/Contributor(s):	Ross, Janice
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	02/21/2025
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

The Choreography of Environments traces how the objects and architectural features of our homes and gardens shape who we are. Specifically, this book focuses on the 1950s iconic mid-century modern home and gardens of urban designer Lawrence Halprin and dancer Anna Halprin as a hidden archive. It explores four objects from their house and gardens - staircase, deck, chair, and window --to trace how, despite the conservative postwar climate, this intimate domestic space became a radical laboratory reshaping postmodern dance invention urban design and their expansion into civic, social, and environmental awareness in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.