DIRT
$90.06
- Paperback
330 pages
- Release Date
6 January 2012
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 |
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| 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 |
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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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