Architecture and Nature: Creating the American Landscape
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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 the frontier. Narrated,
painted and filmed, American landscapes have been central to the
construction of a national identity. Architecture and Nature presents an
in-depth study of how changing ideas of what nature is and what it
means for the country have been represented in buildings and landscapes
over the past century.
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