Alessandra Ponte - Architecture Words 11: The House of Light and Entropy Corraini Edizioni 15 x 20 cm

15 x 20 cm

Edited by Fulcrum

it suggests intertextual relationships between the narratives of American fiction

Published by AA London (London)

this extensive volume gives a detailed insight into the workings of the world's most innovative and experimental architecture schools and great architectural publishers

Alessandra Ponte - Architecture Words 11: The House of Light and Entropy Corraini Edizioni 15 x 20 cmFormerly announced as Maps and Territories, this collection of essays written by landscape historian Alessandra Ponte begins with an investigation of the American obsession with lawns and then continues to collectively map the aesthetic, scientific and technological production of past and present North American landscapes. These include the American desert as a privileged site of scientific and artistic testing; the faraway projects of electrification