Alice Davis Hitchcock Award Winner 2006! The word "nature" comes from Natura and Latin to birth - as do native, native and fungal words. But nature and the nation share more than one common root, they share a common history, using one term to define the other.

In the United States, the relationship between the nation and nature was central in its colonial and postcolonial history, from the idea of ​​noble brutality to the myth of borders. The American landscape, which was narrated, painted and photographed, is central to building national identity.

Architecture and nature offer an in-depth study on how to represent the changing ideas of what nature is and what it represents to the country in buildings and landscapes during the last century.

I want that book.