Landscrapers
Building with the land
Aaron Betsky

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Author(s)

Aaron Betsky

Publication

London : Thames & Hudson, 2002

Scope

191 Pages, illustrated, 24 x 28 cm.

ISBN

0500341885

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With an increasing awareness of our planet’s limited natural resources, the most acclaimed architectural practices from around the world are building into the earth and merging man-made forms with the contours of the land. Aaron Betsky first considers our historical preoccupation with communing with the land through building, then four central chapters – ‘Engineered Utopias’, ‘Caves and Caverns’, ‘Unfolding the Land’ and ‘A New Nature’ – explore the ways in which ‘geotecture’ responds to, becomes a part of and yet remains distinctive within our natural landscape.

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Keywords

utopia , architecture theory , landscape , organic architecture , shelters

Location

Cabinet 15 - 1: Architectuur

Extra themes

Architecture and Nature

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