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Three Cultural Ecologies (Hardcover)
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Three Cultural Ecologies (Hardcover)
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Three Cultural Ecologies reverses common conceptions of modern
architecture. It reveals how selected works of two modern
architects, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, embraced
environmental and cultural conditions as reciprocal and
complementary. A basic premise of this book's arguments is that
cultural patterns cannot be adequately conceptualized in the terms
that typically define ecology today. Instead, studies based on the
natural sciences must be complemented by descriptions and
interpretations of historical narratives, cultural norms, and
individual expressions. Previously unpublished images and new
interpretations will allow readers to rediscover works they thought
they knew; Villa Savoye, Taliesin, La Tourette, and Ocatilla; as
well as projects that are less well known: by Wright, the House on
the Mesa and the City Residential Plan, and by Le Corbusier, the
Immeuble-villas and Ilot Insalubre projects. More broadly, this
study of cultural ecology at three scales - domestic, monastic, and
urban - reconsiders the history of modern architecture. The
conditions brought about by societal and technological
modernization and confronted by modern architecture have not
disappeared in our time, but have intensified, making the task of
imagining how some measure of equilibrium between culture and
ecology might be achieved even more pressing.
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