The Playbook

Maclean, Alex S

ISBN 10 : 0500513236 ISBN 13 : 9780500513231

Editeur : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

For more than thirty years, aerial photographer Alex S. MacLean has portrayed the history and evolution of the American land, from great desert spaces to agricultural patterns to city grids. A trained architect who is closely involved in landscape heritage protection issues, MacLean has set out to create a series of pictures that record the universal history of town and countryside, and raise the issue of the landscape's future. Here he turns his camera on the colorful, exhilarating world of American leisure. From the beauty of perfectly symmetric sports stadiums to the spaghetti-like tangles of theme parks to picnickers on a stretch of splendid beach, he illuminates how we inhabit the land and the potential for modern planning to create spectacular environments. 80 color illustrations.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

A Harvard-trained architect-turned-photographer-pilot, Alex MacLean has spent his entire career - almost thirty years - in tiny planes and the occasional helicopter, gazing down. His camera captures polluted rivers, pristine forests, the ribbony patterns of plowed wheat fields, burned-out urban row houses - the gamut of the American landscape. His previous book Designs on the Land was published by Thames & Hudson in 2003. Susan Yelavich is an authority on architecture and design. Her books include Inside Design Now, Design for Life and The Edge of the Millennium.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0500513236
• ISBN 13: 9780500513231
• Reliure: Vinyle relié
• Nombre de pages: 126
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• Personne responsable: non disponible