Fundamentals of Building Construction by Edward Allen
10: What is Nature Now?
How is nature treated in contemporary culture—in landscape architecture, science, politics, planning, advertising, commerce, philosophy, and tourism? How have our attitudes toward and understandings of nature changed in recent years, due to the unprecedented ability of humans to manipulate and control nature? Is the idea of wilderness still valid? In what ways can landscape architects and other artists influence the state of nature? These are some of the issues considered in the essays that follow.
Articles
Table of Contents
Essay
After the War
Andreas Huyssen
Describing the World at the End of the Millenium
Thomas Bender
Designs Necessary and Sublime
Jack Temple Kirby
Humans Supplant God; Everything Changes
Bill McKibben
Kiss Nature Goodbye
John Beardsley
Learning from Lutyens
Hélène Lipstadt
Legacy at Risk
Rachel Carley
Letters
Ivan Žaknić
Nature Used and Abused
Rossana Vaccarino
Smoky Mirrors and Unreflected Vampires
Robert France
The Destitution of Space
Albert Borgmann
The Persistence of the Picturesque
Kate Soper, Martin Ryle
The Struggle of Dawning Intelligence
Rebecca Solnit
Three Trees
Charles C. Mann
Time Incorporated
Richard M. Sommer
Too Much: The Grand Canyon(s)
Lucy R. Lippard
What Do We Make of Nature Now?
Catherine Howett
Review
Fundamentals of Building Construction by Edward Allen
Daniel Willis
FutureNatural edited by Robertson, Mash, Tickner, Bird, Curtis, and Putnam
Robert Riley
Sidewalk Critic edited by Robert Wojtowicz
Robert Campbell
The Favored Circle by Garry Stevens
Magali Sarfatti Larson
Towards a New Museum by Victoria Newhouse
James Cuno