Product Description

This volume combines aerial photographs and map-drawings of the American landscape with 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #148474 in Books
• Published on: 2000-10-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Tim Hilton, Independent on Sunday
"A remarkable and beautiful album. Aerial photographs are hardly ever inspiring, but these sing. They illuminate the vastness of a continent and its different cultures. There's a thoughtful, politically important commentary by the landscape architect James Corner."

From the Publisher
Winner of the 1997 American Institute of Architects Book of the Year Award Winner of the American Society of Landscape Architects Award in the Communications category

About the Author
James Corner is assistant professor of landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Alex S. MacLean is a photographer and founder of Landslides, a firm that specialises in low altitude aerial photography.

Customer Reviews

The peak of aesthetics
This dream of aesthetics is a must for anyone - architect or not - interested in beauty and the arts of the landscape. With a birds eye view the book presents the motifs, of both the natural landscapes self-creation, and the (surprisingly good) work of man. It's no encyclopedia, but a poetic source of inspiration. The beautiful Airphotos (in color) reflects the patterns, colors, arts and aesthetics of the American Landscape. Alas, the Airphotos do not provide the spatial display, essential to the full architectural understanding! Even so, it is highly recommendable. Amazon only alows five crowns, so given. Bye it, its a joy to behold, and your bookcase a pride to possess.