Architecture and Nature: Creating the American Landscape
, by Bonnemaison,SarahNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780415283595 | 0415283590
- Cover: Nonspecific Binding
- Copyright: 4/11/2003
The word "nature" comes from natura, Latin for birth - as do the words nation, native and innate. But nature and nation share more than a common root, they share a common history where one term has been used to define the other. In the United States, the relationship between nation and nature has been central to its colonial and post-colonial history, from the idea of the noble savage to the myth of the frontier. Narrated, painted and filmed, American landscapes have been central to the construction of a national identity. This book offers an in-depth look at how changing ideas of what nature is and what it means for the country have been represented in buildings and landscapes over the past century.