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Architecture and nature
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- Book Synopsis
- 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.
- About The Author
- 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 taught courses on tourism and landscape interpretation in art history and architecture departments in Canada and the United States.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780415283595
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Routledge, (13 February 2003)
- Number of Pages
- 400
- Weight
- 861 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 156 x 22 mm
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