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Norman Crowe seeks the wonderment of a cooperation between thenatural and the man-made world, and he does so with the hand of anexcellent writer. As a professor and teacher of architecture, hehas reached out well beyond most of his colleagues to understandthe history and ideas governing the current state of architecture srelation to nature. Kent Bloomer , Yale University Norman Crowe offers a plausible set of interpretations of the nature of the world that humankind has already built, as well as useful guidance on how we might build better in the future than we are doing now. In contrast with many conventional books that deal with the architecture of the past, he teaches us to see buildings not just as facade patterns and spaces, but also as experiences, feelings, symbols, manmade landscapes, places. This is enormously important. Edward Allen, Architect

Norman Crowe seeks the wonderment of a cooperation between the natural and the man-made world, and he does so with the hand of an excellent writer. As a professor and teacher of architecture, he has reached out well beyond most of his colleagues to understand the history and ideas governing the current state of architecture's relation to nature. --Kent Bloomer, Yale University

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