Architecture Words 11 Maps & Territories

Sobre el libro Architecture Words 11 Maps & Territories de Alessandra Ponte publicado por Architectural Association Press al 2012:

Written by landscape historian Alessandra Ponte, this collection of essays begins with an investigation of the American obsession with lawns and then continues to collectively map the aesthetic, scientific and technological production of past and present North American landscapes. These include the American desert as a privileged site of scientific and artistic testing; the faraway projects of electrification of the Canadian North; the transformation of the notion and perception of waste and wasteland during the twentieth century; the photographic medium and its encounters with Native Americans; as well as an introductory essay, ´The Map and the Territory´, written specifically for this volume.