The house of light and entropy / Alessandra Ponte.

Main entry:

Ponte, Alessandra, author.

Title & Author:

The house of light and entropy / Alessandra Ponte.

Publication:

London : Architectural Association, [2014]
©2014

Description:

227 pages : illustrations, map ; 18 cm.

Series:

Architecture words ; 11

Notes:
Title and statement of responsibility from cover; book has no title page.
Includes bibliographical references.
Professional pastoral : writing on the lawn 1850-1950 -- Photographic encounters in the American desert -- The house of light and entropy : inhabiting the American desert -- Desert testing -- Journey to the north of Quebec : understanding (McLuhan's) media -- Maps and territories.
Includes mentions of the CCA and Phyllis Lambert in acknowledgements, and on dust jacket, and reproduces CCA collection material (page 49).
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"Formerly announced as Maps and Territories, this collection of [six] essays written by landscape historian Alessandra Ponte, begins with an investigation of the American obsession with lawns and then continues to collectively map the aesthetic, scientific and technological production of past and present North American landscapes. These include the American desert as a privileged site of scientific and artistic testing; the faraway projects of electrification of the Canadian North; the transformation of the notion and perception of waste and wasteland during the twentieth century; the photographic medium and its encounters with Native Americans; as well as an introductory essay 'The Map and the Territory' [the last essay in this volume, entitled 'Maps and Territories'], written specifically for this volume."-- Publisher's website.

ISBN:

9781907896170 (paperback)
1907896171 (paperback)
9781907896569 (eBook)

Subject:

Landscape assessment.
Landscapes United States.
Landscapes Québec (Province)
Paysages Évaluation.
Paysages États-Unis.
Paysages Québec (Province)
Landscapes.
Architecture United States
Architecture
Landscapes Canada.
Human geography
Québec.
United States.

Form/genre:

Essays.

Added entries:

Lambert, Phyllis
Centre canadien d'architecture
Architecture words ; 11.

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 287257
Call No.: BIB 228172
Status: External loan

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