ISBN: 9780415283588 - architecture and nature: creating the american landscape (5 Ergebnisse)

Gebunden. Zustand: New. Christine Macy has taught upper division survey courses in the history of modern architecture and in architectural theory and criticism for nine years. Sarah Bonnemaison has a doctorate in human geography and a professional degree in architecture. She has t.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Winner of the 2006 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award!The word 'nature' comes from natura, Latin for birth - as do the words nation, native and innate. But nature and nation share more than a common root, they share a common history where one term has been used to define the other. In the United States, the relationship between nation and nature has been central to its colonial and post-colonial history, from the idea of the noble savage to the myth of the frontier. Narrated, painted and filmed, American landscapes have been central to the construction of a national identity. Architecture and Nature presents an in-depth study of how changing ideas of what nature is and what it means for the country have been represented in buildings and landscapes over the past century.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 400 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. Narrated, painted and filmed, American landscapes have been central to the construction of a national identity. This book explores how such rhetorical landscapes have also been designed into the built environment of architecture. Num Pages: 388 pages, 36 line figures, 145 b&w and 25 colour photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; AMC; AMV; RNF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 998. . 2003. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.