Macy, Christine.

Architecture and nature : creating the American landscape / Christine Macy and Sarah Bonnemaison - England ; N.Y. : Routledge, c2003 - xii, 372 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Illustration credits. - Acknowledgments. - Introduction. - 1. Exhibiting wilderness at the Columbian Exposition, 1893. - 2. Accommodating the nature tourist in the national parks, 1903. - 3. Putting nature to work with the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933. - 4. Nature preserved in the nuclear age: the Case Study Houses of Los Angeles, 1945. - 5. Closing the circle: the geodesic domes and a new ecological consciousness, 1967. - Selected bibliography. - Index.

0415283582 (hbk)


Architecture--Environmental aspects--United States.
Architecture--History--United States--20th century

720.470973 / MAC