Architecture and Nature
Creating the American Landscape
List Price: $58.95
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-28359-5
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 02/13/2003
- Pages: 400
- Trim Size: 234X156
- Illustrations: 36 line figures, 145 b+w photos and 25 colour photos
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About the Book
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.