Unnatural Horizons : Paradox and Contradiction in Landscape Architecture
Editorial Reviews
Landscape Design
According to this book's cover: "Unnatural Horizons presents a selective history of the last five centuries of landscape architecture, at the intersection of poetics and science, rhetoric and technology, philosophy and politics." This is followed under the heading of 'praise' where no-doubt eminent critics congratulate it for being a revelation of landscape architecture, a beautiful pioneering work: freshness and boldness and writing strong and clear.
Professor Daniel Charles, University of Nice/Sophia Antipolis
Allen S. Weiss has written a beautiful pioneering piece of work, which unfolds, among other things, a thrilling account of how natural beauty has been determined by our arts since the Renaissance. Each of the chapters is documented by a wealth of philosophical and artistic material, astutely brought into play and shown in its multifold interrelationships....As ever, Weiss uses history in a fresh and imaginative (and even subtly perverse!) manner so that Unnatural Horizons, with its original iconography and the delightful music of its language, sounds very much like a Gesamtkunstwerk in itself. It is, indeed, a masterwork.
Unnatural Horizons : Paradox and Contradiction in Landscape Architecture
Unnatural Horizons: Paradox and Contradiction in Landscape Architecture,Allen Weiss,Princeton Architectural Press,1568981392,Architecture,Design,Gardens,History,Landscape,Landscape Architecture And Design,Landscape architecture,Philosophy,Aesthetics,Garden design & planning,Landscape art & architecture,Non-Classifiable,Theory of architecture
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