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1 online resource |
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Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1 Mountains and Megastructures: Neo-Geologic Landscapes of Human Endeavour -- Part I Framing Mountains/Megastructures -- 2 Border Versus Boundary: The Holy Mountain and the Inhabitation of Its Periphery -- 3 From Picturesque Detachment to Bodily Engagement: The Entwined Histories of Photography, Architecture and Climbing -- First Pitch*: The Alps -- Second Pitch: The English Lake District -- Third Pitch: Cities of Towers -- Fourth Pitch: Big Walls, Human Flies and Tall Buildings -- Fifth Pitch: A Last Push to the Summit |
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4 House-Building in the Alps with Ruskin and Tyndall or CZOgraphy: An Ecocriticism for the Critical Zone -- Introduction -- CZOgraphy: An Ecocriticism for the Critical Zone -- House-Building with Ruskin-The Fieldtrip -- House-Building with Ruskin-The Archive -- Ruskin Sees 'Tyndall Hotel' -- House-Building with Tyndall-The Archive -- House-Building with Tyndall-The Fieldtrip -- Conclusion -- 5 Bachelard's Phenomenology and Verticality -- Introduction -- Images of Verticality -- Negation -- Rejection and Affordance -- Affording -- Conclusion -- References |
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6 Chthonic Countermeasures: A Geological Conte -- Prologue -- Chapter 1-Literary and Geometric Measures of Micromegas (and of the Earth) -- Chapter 2-(Under)Ground Geologies -- Chapter 3-Drawing Chthonic Countermeasures -- Epilogue-A Geological Conte (or a Tale Describing Logics of the Earth) -- Part II Mountains -- 7 Everest Death Zone: Bodily Transgressions in Architectural Drawing -- 8 The Making and Unmaking of Kunanyi -- Kunanyi and Its Landscape -- Kunanyi and Its Attachments -- Kunanyi, Place or Displace? -- Kunanyi, Construction and Place -- Bibliography |
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9 Lost on the Edges of Empire: John Stapylton Grey Pemberton's Expedition to Darjeeling and the 'Snowy Ranges' -- Introduction: Scientific Rationality, Self-Control and Its Loss -- Masculinity, Colonial Discourse and Emotional Lives -- Arrival in Darjeeling -- Journey to the 'Snowy Ranges' -- The Return to Darjeeling, and the 'Flitting Glance' -- Conclusions: Dispositions of Disregard -- 10 Conquering Dragons -- Introduction -- The Collective -- The Velan and Monte Rosa Huts: Contrasting Approaches -- The Individual -- The Initiated -- The Uninitiated -- The Visitors -- References |
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Part III Megastructures -- 11 Artificial Mountains -- Figure 1: Artificial Qì -- Figure 2: Miniature Qì -- Figure 3: Domestication -- Figure 4: être Suprême -- Figure 5: Attraction -- Figure 6: Grey Goo -- 12 Terremoto in Palazzo: A Disruptive Analysis of the Vele of Scampia -- Structural Disruptions -- Nature, Human and the Vele -- A 'Forceful' Reconstruction -- 13 How Old Is the Barcelona Pavilion? -- Mountain Megastructure -- Berlin Acropolis -- Miniature Acropolis -- Barcelona Acropolis -- 14 'Crowding the Stoop': Climbing the Mega-Structures of Science Fiction -- Make Room! Make Room! |
| Summary |
This book explores the shared qualities of mountains as naturally-formed landscapes, and of megastructures as manmade landscapes, seeking to unravel how each can be understood as an open system of complex network relationships (human, natural and artificial). By looking at mountains and megastructures in an interchangeable way, the book negotiates the fixed boundaries of natural and artificial worlds, to suggest a more complex relationship between landscape and architecture. It suggests an ecological understanding of the interconnectedness of architecture and landscape, and an entangled network of relations. Urban, colonialist, fictional, rural and historical landscapes are interwoven into this fabric that also involves discontinuities, tensions and conflicts as parts of a system that is never linear, but rather fluid and organic as driven byhuman endeavor |
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Megastructures -- Environmental aspects
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Architecture -- Environmental aspects.
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Mountains.
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Human geography.
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Landscape architecture.
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Culture -- Study and teaching.
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mountains (landforms)
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landscape architecture (discipline)
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Landscape architecture
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Human geography
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Culture -- Study and teaching
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Architecture -- Environmental aspects
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Megastructures
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Mountains
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Beattie, Martin, editor
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Kakalis, Christos, editor
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Ozga-Lawn, Matt, 1984- editor.
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| ISBN |
9789811571107 |
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9811571104 |
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9789811571114 |
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9811571112 |
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