|Finding the Place of Architecture in the Landscape|
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• Campus addresses the interdependence between buildings and
open space that creates a composite designed place, a designed landscape.
• Landscapes and Buildings addresses exurban settings, open green landscapes – designed, vernacular, or natural.
• Gardens and Houses embraces the Italian villa idea and the Romantic landscape tradition.
• Transformation is the adventure of changing a building or a designed landscape that already exists.
“His buildings adjust their style to the place, always unemphatically enhancing the landscape and disciplined by it. This book is filled with examples of the shaping of places, the physical development of architecture’s holistic realm.” - from the Introduction by Vincent J. Scully, Jr.
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