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A Landscape of Architecture, History and Fiction (Paperback)
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A Landscape of Architecture, History and Fiction (Paperback)
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Architecture can be analogous to a history, a fiction, and a
landscape. We expect a history or a novel to be written in words,
but they can also be cast in concrete or seeded in soil. The
catalyst to this tradition was the simultaneous and interdependent
emergence in the eighteenth century of new art forms: the
picturesque landscape, the analytical history, and the English
novel. Each of them instigated a creative and questioning response
to empiricism's detailed investigation of subjective experience and
the natural world, and together they stimulated a design practice
and lyrical environmentalism that profoundly influenced subsequent
centuries. Associating the changing natural world with journeys in
self-understanding, and the design process with a visual and
spatial autobiography, this book describes journeys between London
and the North Sea in successive centuries, analysing an enduring
and evolving tradition from the picturesque and romanticism to
modernism. Creative architects have often looked to the past to
understand the present and imagine the future. Twenty-first-century
architects need to appreciate the shock of the old as well as the
shock of the new.
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