Architecture and Nature (English, Sarah Bonnemaison)

About the Book

Winner of the 2006 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award 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…

ISBN: 9780415283588