Author : Christophe Girot,Dora Imhof
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781616895594
Thinking the Contemporary Landscape by Christophe Girot,Dora Imhof Pdf
On the heels of our groundbreaking books in landscape architecture, James Corner's Recovering Landscape and Charles Waldheim's Landscape Urbanism Reader, comes another essential reader, . Examining our shifting perceptions of nature and place in the context of environmental challenges and how these affect urbanism and architecture, the seventeen essayists in argue for an all-encompassing view of landscape that integrates the scientific, intellectual, aesthetic, and mythic into a new multidisciplinary understanding of the contemporary landscape. A must-read for anyone concerned about the changing nature of our landscape in a time of climate crisis.