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The course of landscape architecture : a history of our designs on the natural world, from prehistory to the present / Christophe Girot.

By: Publisher: New York : Thames & Hudson, 2016Description: 352 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans ; 31 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780500342978
  • 0500342970
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • SB472 .G57 2016
Contents:
Foreword : Between the human and the non-human -- Introduction : Imagine landscape -- Roots: on the origins of landscapes : Avebury, England ; Bagh-i Fin, Iran -- Hydraulic civilizations: the geometry of water in landscapes : Faiyum Oasis, Egypt -- From Temenos to Physis : sacred landscapes in Greece : Delphi, Greece -- Of villas and woods: Roman and Barbarian landscapes : Hadrian's Villa, Italy -- Rule of faith : Santa Maria de Poblet, Spain -- Gardens of perspective: architectural landscapes in the Renaissance : Villa Lante, Italy -- Measure of reason : Vaux-le-Vicomte, France -- Gravity: constant of nature : Rousham, England -- Combustion: escape into the exotic : Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, France -- Acceleration: landscapes of the 20th Century : Parc de la Villette, France -- Terrain vague : Prospect Cottage, England -- Topology: rediscovering meaning in the landscape : Sigirino Mound, Ticino, Switzerland -- Afterword : Toward a cultural revolution of nature.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks SB472 .G57 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001404903

Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-347) and index.

Foreword : Between the human and the non-human -- Introduction : Imagine landscape -- Roots: on the origins of landscapes : Avebury, England ; Bagh-i Fin, Iran -- Hydraulic civilizations: the geometry of water in landscapes : Faiyum Oasis, Egypt -- From Temenos to Physis : sacred landscapes in Greece : Delphi, Greece -- Of villas and woods: Roman and Barbarian landscapes : Hadrian's Villa, Italy -- Rule of faith : Santa Maria de Poblet, Spain -- Gardens of perspective: architectural landscapes in the Renaissance : Villa Lante, Italy -- Measure of reason : Vaux-le-Vicomte, France -- Gravity: constant of nature : Rousham, England -- Combustion: escape into the exotic : Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, France -- Acceleration: landscapes of the 20th Century : Parc de la Villette, France -- Terrain vague : Prospect Cottage, England -- Topology: rediscovering meaning in the landscape : Sigirino Mound, Ticino, Switzerland -- Afterword : Toward a cultural revolution of nature.

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