Screen LibraryOn accident : episodes in architecture and landscape /
These essays by Edward Eigen do not walk in a straight line, but roam across uncertain territory, discovering sunken forests, unclassifiable islands, inflammable skies, unvisited shores, plagiarised tabernacles. Taken together, they offer a group portrait of how certain things fall apart.
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The MIT Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Writing architecture series
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These essays by Edward Eigen do not walk in a straight line, but roam across uncertain territory, discovering sunken forests, unclassifiable islands, inflammable skies, unvisited shores, plagiarised tabernacles. Taken together, they offer a group portrait of how certain things fall apart. |
| Carrier Form: | xxxi, 373 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780262534840 0262534843 |
| Index Number: | NA2540 |
| CLC: | TU-856 |
| Call Number: | TU-856/E346 |
| Contents: | On Accident -- Frederick Law Olmsted and the Origins of Landscape Architecture -- The Disappearance of Charles Perrault -- On Hedging -- Web-Based Learning: within the Structure of Architectural Theory -- The Plagiarism of the Heathens Detected: John Wood the Elder on the Temple of Solomon -- The Perils of Historical Geography: On a Lost Map to the Sunken Forest of Mont-Saint-Michel -- Rain and Rainfall-- Great Britain-- Periodicity-- Periodicals -- On the Record: J.M.W. Turner's Studies for the Burning of the Houses of Parliament -- Madame De Pompadour and Le Havre-De-Grace: An Unnatural Hi |