Architecture and Nature: Creating the American Landscape
- ISBN-10
- 1134455399
- ISBN-13
- 9781134455393
- Category
- Architecture
- Pages
- 400
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003-09-02
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Authors
- Sarah Bonnemaison, Christine Macy
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.
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