Landscrapers: Building with the Land
Author:   Aaron Betsky
Publisher:   Thames & Hudson Ltd
ISBN:  

9780500341889


Pages:   192
Publication Date:   28 October 2002
Format:   Hardback
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained


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Aaron Betsky begins this global tour with an introduction that considers our historical preoccupation with communing with the land through building. In four central chapters, Betsky explores the different ways in which ""geotecture"" responds to, interacts with, becomes part of, is integrated into - and yet remains distinctive within - our natural landscape. A reference section includes useful project and architect information, along with further reading.

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Author:   Aaron Betsky
Publisher:   Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint:   Thames & Hudson Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 26.70cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   1.200kg
ISBN:  

9780500341889


ISBN 10:   0500341885
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   28 October 2002
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

Table of Contents

Engineered Utopias - the material and physical act of shaping the earth and its strata through technology and innovation has opened up a realm of ideals; caves and caverns - burrowing into the land to discover new spatial experiences; unfolding the land - buildings that transform the earth into a tectonic merge landscape with architecture, the natural with the human; a new nature - landscapes can inform buildings to become architecture that wears its nature on the outside.

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Aaron Betsky is a critic and teacher living in Philadelphia. Previously, he was professor and director of the School of Architecture and Design at Virginia Tech and, prior to that, president of the School of Architecture at Taliesin. A critic of art, architecture, and design, Betsky is the author of over twenty books on those subjects, including 50 Lessons to Learn from Frank Lloyd Wright, Making It Modern: The History of Modernism in Architecture of Design, Architecture Matters, and The Monster Leviathan: Anarchitecture.

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