On the Nature of Things
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
Published: October 31, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9783764361921
Subjects: Landscape art & architecture; Landscape Architecture And Design; Architecture; USA; Landscape; Architecture / General; Landschaftsarchitektur; Landscape architecture; United States
First sentence: In their implicit critique of abstract urban planning, Marpillero Pollak Architects envision complex, heterogeneous urban landscape that integrates function, social ambiance, architecture and landscape through the subtle manipulation of scales and the layering, inversion and metamorphosis of historical and formal frames of reference.