Architecture and Nature

<p><strong>Winner of the 2006 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award!</strong></p><p>The word 'nature' comes from <em>natura</em> Latin for birth - as do the words nation native and innate. But nature and nation share more than a common root they share a common history where one term has been used to define the other. In the United States the relationship between nation and nature has been central to its colonial and post-colonial history from the idea of the noble savage to the myth of the frontier. Narrated painted and filmed American landscapes have been central to the construction of a national identity. </p><p><em>Architecture and Nature</em> presents an in-depth study of how changing ideas of what nature is and what it means for the country have been represented in buildings and landscapes over the past century.</p>