Thinking the Contemporary Landscape

This book PDF is perfect for those who love Architecture genre, written by Christophe Girot and published by Chronicle Books which was released on 25 October 2016 with total hardcover pages 289. You could read this book directly on your devices with pdf, epub and kindle format, check detail and related Thinking the Contemporary Landscape books below.

Thinking the Contemporary Landscape

Author	: Christophe Girot
File Size	: 43,6 Mb
Publisher	: Chronicle Books
Language	: English
Release Date	: 25 October 2016
ISBN	: 9781616895594
Pages	: 289 pages

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Thinking the Contemporary Landscape by Christophe Girot Book PDF Summary

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.

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