Landscape in Sight: Looking at AmericaYale University Press, 1997 M01 1 - 400 páginas During a long and distinguished career, John Brinckerhoff Jackson (1909-1996) brought about a new understanding and appreciation of the American landscape. Hailed in 1995 by New York Times architectural critic Herbert Muschamp as 'America’s greatest living writer on the forces that have shaped the land this nation occupies,' Jackson founded Landscape Magazine in 1951, taught at Harvard University and the University of California at Berkeley, and wrote nearly 200 essays and reviews. This appealing anthology of his most important writings on the American landscape, illustrated with his own sketches and photographs, brings together Jackson’s most famous essays, significant but less well known writings, and articles that were originally published unsigned or under various pseudonyms. Jackson also completed a new essay for this volume, 'Places for Fun and Games,' a few months before his death. Focusing not on nature but on landscape - land shaped by human presence - Jackson insists in his writings that the workaday world gives form to the essential American landscape. In the everyday places of the countryside and city, he discerns texts capable of revealing important truths about society and culture, present and past. For this collection Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz provides an introduction that discusses the larger body of Jackson’s writing and locates each of the selected essays within his oeuvre. She also includes a complete bibliography of Jackson’s writings. |
Contenido
The Strangers Path | 19 |
The Almost Perfect Town | 31 |
Chihuahua as We Might Have Been | 43 |
Looking at New Mexico | 55 |
The Accessible Landscape | 68 |
The WestwardMoving House | 81 |
Ghosts at the Door | 107 |
The Domestication of the Garage | 118 |
Roads Belong in the Landscape abridged | 249 |
Truck City | 255 |
Editors Introduction | 269 |
Review of Built in U S A H G West | 277 |
Hail and Farewell | 285 |
From Whither Architecture? Some Outside Views | 292 |
The Word Itself | 299 |
How to Study the Landscape | 307 |
The Courthouse the Small | 139 |
The Centennial Years | 149 |
High Plains | 160 |
Jefferson Thoreau and After | 175 |
OtherDirected Houses | 185 |
The Movable Dwelling and How It Came to America | 210 |
An Engineered Environment | 225 |
Contents | 232 |
The Vernacular City | 237 |
The Tale of a House Ajax | 321 |
Notes and Comments | 333 |
To Pity the Plumage and Forget the Dying Bird | 355 |
Sterile Restorations Cannot Replace a Sense | 366 |
Expulsion from the Garden 340 | 371 |
Notes | 373 |
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The Automobile in American History and Culture: A Reference Guide Michael L. Berger Sin vista previa disponible - 2001 |