A collection offering global perspectives on the intersections of mind and environment across a variety of discourses—from history and politics to the visual arts and architecture.
Presents Mesopotamian civilization “from the ground up,” including with reference to a range of climatic and environmental factors.
A history of constructed and designed landscapes in the United States’ national parks.
This book shifts through historical material, Salomon de Caus’s writings, and his extant landscape designs to determine what is fact and what is fiction in the life of this polymathic and prolific figure.
In this fictional future history, written by the co-founder of Life magazine, the Persian prince and admiral Khan-Li records his astonishing journey through the ruins of “Nhu-Yok,” the famed city of the extinct “Mehrikan” people.
In this article, Andrew Light and Aurora Wallace highlight several examples of how environmental architecture has combined success and failure at taking a broader view of environmental questions, with a specific focus on one green skyscraper that may be good for the natural environment but not necessarily for the human environment of the city.
In her article Annelie Sjölander-Lindqvist highlights several examples of how environmental architecture has combined success and failure at taking a broader view of environmental questions.
The article describes how, ultimately, it was precisely the transitory nature of ice that undermined a successful and lasting presentation of power in St. Petersburg, Russia.
This essay explores the choices made in how people are building eco-housing themselves and why, what makes eco-housing work, what it is like to live in such dwellings, and what the accompanying constraints and opportunities are.
This film investigates how people in Italy respond to the permanently unfinished infrastructure surrounding them.
