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The Necessity for Ruins and Other Topics

Essays examine the way we perceive landscape, the effect of gardens and cities of the past on the landscapes of the present, and the way American architecture has broken with tradition. Discussion relates the importance of space to relativism throughout time.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 136 pages

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