DIRT by Megan Born - ISBN: 9780262516921
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Dirt as fertile medium and metaphor in cities, landscapes, process, and design: dirty attitudes in essays, interviews, and projects.

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    330 pages

  • Release Date

    6 January 2012

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Summary

Dirt as fertile medium and metaphor in cities, landscapes, process, and design- dirty attitudes in essays, interviews, and projects.Dirt presents a selection of works that share dirty attitudes- essays, interviews, excavations, and projects that view dirt not as filth but as a medium, a metaphor, a material, a process, a design tool, a narrative, a system. Rooted in the landscape architect’s perspective, Dirt views dirt not as repulsive but endlessly giving, fertile, adaptive, and able to acc…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262516921
ISBN-10:0262516926
Author:Megan Born, Helene Furján, Lily Jencks
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:330
Release Date:6 January 2012
Weight:1.16kg
Dimensions:267mm x 203mm x 25mm
Series:DIRT
Audience Age:18
About The Author

Megan Born

Megan Born is a landscape and architectural designer at James Corner Field Operations in New York.Helene Furjan, Director and founding editor of viaBooks, is Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design and author of Glorious Visions- John Soane’s Spectacular Theater.Lily Jencks runs the landscape and architectural design office LJA+Land in London.

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