Main entry:

Eigen, Edward, author.

Title & Author:

On accident : episodes in architecture and landscape / Edward Eigen ; edited by Chelsea Spencer.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]
©2018

Description:

xxxi, 373 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm

Series:

Writing architecture series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
On Accident -- Frederick Law Olmsted and the Origins of Landscape Architecture -- The Disappearance of Charles Perrault -- On Hedging -- Web-Based Learning: within the Structure of Architectural Theory -- The Plagiarism of the Heathens Detected: John Wood the Elder on the Temple of Solomon -- The Perils of Historical Geography: On a Lost Map to the Sunken Forest of Mont-Saint-Michel -- Rain and Rainfall -- Great Britain -- Periodicity -- Periodicals -- On the Record: J.M.W. Turner's Studies for the Burning of the Houses of Parliament -- Madame De Pompadour and Le Havre-De-Grace: An Unnatural History -- Banking, Botany, and Bibliotheconomie: The Herbarium of Benjamin Delessert -- The Odd Case of William W. Slack, Architect.

Summary:

These essays by Edward Eigen do not walk in a straight line, but roam across uncertain territory, discovering sunken forests, unclassifiable islands, inflammable skies, unvisited shores, plagiarised tabernacles. Taken together, they offer a group portrait of how certain things fall apart.

ISBN:

9780262534840 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0262534843 (paperback ; alkaline paper)

Subject:

Architecture.
Landscapes.
Paysages.
landscapes (environments)
Architecture History.
Landscapes History.

Added entries:

Spencer, Chelsea, editor.
Eigen, Edward. Essays. Selections.
Writing architecture.

Episodes in architecture and landscape

Holdings:

Location: Library main 299658
Call No.: BIB 245809
Status: Available