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Building paradise : episodes in paradisiacal thinking /

A sweeping historical study, Building Paradise, seeks to construct a garden ethic for the design arts. It is an ethic predicated on the idea that, with our recent ecological and biological insights, we can build more intelligently and more creatively than the status quo of current design practices....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mallgrave, Harry Francis (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, [2022]
Subjects:
Architecture > Philosophy.
Design > Philosophy.
Paradise.
Table of Contents:
  • Imagining paradise
  • Divine cities
  • Oracles and augury
  • Paradises of faith
  • Renaissances
  • Paradise gardens
  • Simply baroque
  • New Arcadia
  • Eden revisited
  • Brave new world
  • Charteuse intermezzos
  • The passage of modernism
  • Epilogue: The garden-ethic.