The Necessity for Ruins and Other Topics

by J.B. Jackson

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870232924
• ISBN13: 9780870232923
• Release Date: March 1980
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher