| Architecture and Nature: Creating the American Landscape Contributor(s): Bonnemaison, Sarah (Author), Macy, Christine (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415283590 ISBN-13: 9780415283595 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $71.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2003 Annotation: 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. This book offers an in-depth look at 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Landscape - Architecture | History - General |
| Dewey: 720.470 |
| LCCN: 2002009266 |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 6.36" W x 9.06" (1.92 lbs) 400 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |