Title & Author:

Architecture and nature : creating the American landscape / edited by Sarah Bonnemaison and Christine Macy.

Publication:

New York ; London : Routledge, 2003.

Description:

372 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Exhibiting wilderness at the Columbian Exposition, 1893 -- 2. Accommodating the nature tourist in the national parks, 1903 -- 3. Putting nature to work with the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933 -- 4. Nature preserved in the nuclear age: the Case Study Houses of Los Angeles, 1945 -- 5. Closing the circle: the geodesic domes and a new ecological consciousness, 1967.

Summary:

"This book explores changing ideas of what nature has meant for the United States and how it has been represented in buildings and landscapes over the past century." "It begins with the close of the frontier and the rise of the conservation movement in the 1890s, and it ends with the opening of the "final" frontier of outer space and the rise of the ecology movement in the 1960s. In this 75-year period, certain American myths about nature have endured while others have been invented, reworked or abandoned. The buildings and landscapes that have resulted from this dynamic process represent the dreams and ambitions of the country for its relationship to nature: the architecture of the national parks, the streamlined dams of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the modernist dream houses of post-war California, and the geodesic domes of the countercultural sixties."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

0415283582
9780415283588
0415283590 (pbk.)
9780415283595

Subject:

Architecture Environmental aspects United States.
Architecture United States History 20th century.
Architecture Aspect de l'environnement États-Unis.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture.
Architecture Environmental aspects.
United States.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Bonnemaison, Sarah.
MacWilliams, F. J.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 227109
Call No.: NA712 .M3 2003
Status: Available