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Item Number: 130107
Title: The Course of Landscape Architecture : A History of our Designs on the Natural World, from Prehistory to the Present
Author: Girot, Christophe
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780500342978
Description: London: Thames and Hudson, 2016. 28cm., hardcover, 304pp., 600 illus., most in color. Summary: The first significant history of human intervention on the landscape since Geoffrey Jellicoe’s Landscape of Man, originally published in 1975. In many ways the history of civilization is a history of humans’ relationship with nature. Starting from the dual inclination to clear land for cultivation and to enclose space for protection—the forest clearing and the walled garden—there emerges a vital and multifaceted narrative that describes our cultural relationship to, and dependence on, the landscape. Christophe Girot sets out to chronicle this history, drawing on all aspects of mankind’s creativity and ingenuity. In twelve chapters, he brings together the key stories that have shaped our man-made landscapes. Each chapter consists of a thematic essay that ties together the central developments, as well as a case study illustrated with specially commissioned photographs and meticulously detailed 3D re–creations showing the featured site in its original context.
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