Christophe Girot

The Course of Landscape Architecture

A History of Our Designs on the Natural World, from Prehistory to the Present

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In many ways the history of civilization is a history of our relationship with nature and landscape. Drawing on all aspects of mankind's creativity and ingenuity, and bringing together the key stories that have shaped our man-made landscapes, this title sets out to chronicle this intimate connection.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Thames & Hudson / Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 307mm x 258mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 2460g
• ISBN-13: 9780500342978
• ISBN-10: 0500342970
• Artikelnr.: 40477145

Autorenporträt

Christophe Girot is Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture at the highly prestigious Institute of Landscape Architecture, ETH Zurich.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Imagining Nature as Landscape - 1. Roots: On the Origins of Landscapes - 2. Hydraulic Civilizations: The Geometry of Water in Landscapes - 3. From Temenos to Physis: Sacred Landscapes in Greece - 4. Of Villas and Woods: Roman and Barbarian Landscapes - 5. The Rule of Faith - 6. Gardens of Perspective: Architectural Landscapes in the Renaissance - 7. The Measure of Reason - 8. Gravity: The Constant of Nature - 9. Combustion and the Exotic: Romantic Landscapes as Escape - 10. Acceleration: Landscapes of the 20th Century - 11. Terrain Vague - 12. Topology: Rediscovering Meaning in the Landscape - Afterword: Towards a Cultural Revolution in Nature

Rezensionen

'This book will become essential to our discipline, encouraging not only those in academia to experience landscape architecture as a multilayered profession' - Landezin.com