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 | | Taking Measures Across the American Landscape by James Corner, Alex S. MacLean, Denis Cosgrove ISBN-10: 9780300065664 ISBN-10: 0-300-06566-3 ISBN-13: 9780300065664 ISBN-13: 978-0-300-06566-4 Hardcover 1996-10-30 Yale University Press Find Lowest Price |
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Book Description This book combines breathtaking aerial photographs and exquisite map-drawings of the American landscape with thoughtful essays that explore how various cultures have forged the landscapes in different regions of the country and what the possibilities are for future landscape design. The authors demonstrate that landscape representation is more than descriptive-it can also instruct and construct how people perceive, shape, and transform the land. | ||
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Thought provoking Just brilliant. A series of photographs and related diagrams & montages about the US landscape - every one worth sitting over and considering in detail A book I come back to time and time again | ||
A Must Have! This book is incredible, the essays, photography, map drawings and descriptions really changed the way I looked at the world around me. This book was used as our text book for a Senior Project class in design school. | ||
You've never seen anything like this This book will change the way you look at and think about landscape. Technically, it's a landscape architecture book, and the essays that deal with that subject are excellent. James Corner is one of the best landscape architects/theorists around, and his writing is though-provoking, lucid and enjoyable to read. He draws an wonderful comparison between this work and Le Corbusier's sightseeing flights over North Africa in the 1930's. But without a doubt, the reason to buy this book are the photographs that document the unexpected beauty that arises out of the interaction between man and nature. The incongruities of landscape, juxtaposed against the linear certainty of the Land Ordinance Act grid, farm plots and other common interventions make for stunning photography. There are also little subplots, such as creative reuses of already built spaces (tennis courts as parking lots & football field yard lines over a baseball diamond), and the similarity of totally unrelated natural forms (who knew that from 7,000 feet, cracked pond ice looks like microscopic images of streptococcal bacteria?). There are dozens of other little thoughts I could include, and one of most remarkable things about this book is that the photogrpahs allow the reader to draw on his or her own knowledge to make connections and interpertations. There's no right or wrong way to see these things, which makes it universally rewarding and enjoyable. | ||
Excellent graphic representation of landscape documentation I always enjoy graphic design, but this one integrates intelligent visual graphic representation and it portraits site/landscape analysis. Not your usual blueprint survey, but delightful new way of documentation. | ||
Excellent for all Perceptive and conciousness raising while an aesthetic visual pleasure. An unforgettable book. | ||