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- catalog abstract ""Moving across space and time, from prehistory to the present and around the world, this fascinating volume explores the many ways in which the earth has been transformed by human effort. In discerning text, more than 150 fabulous photographs - many of them taken by some of the world's premier aerial photographers - and 21 arresting drawings, paintings, and other artworks, Designing the Earth examines such diverse works as clay dwellings in Chad and Mali, adobe pueblos in the American Southwest, mud-brick ziggurats in Babylon, ancient Egyptian funerary monuments, subterranean aqueducts in Iran, Native American effigy mounds, the Nazca lines of Peru, artificial islands in Japan, the Great Wall of China, Mount Rushmore, and earth-sheltered housing by Frank Lloyd Wright, as well as earthworks by contemporary artists such as Michael Heizer and Andy Goldsworthy." "By considering the works in a larger design context, and by discussing their meaning, import, and use, author David Bourdon opens the reader's eyes to the formal and functional characteristics of earthworks around the world as he explores how people on different continents, unknown to each other, demonstrated remarkable similarities in the recontouring of their landscapes."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b8797655.
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description ""Moving across space and time, from prehistory to the present and around the world, this fascinating volume explores the many ways in which the earth has been transformed by human effort. In discerning text, more than 150 fabulous photographs - many of them taken by some of the world's premier aerial photographers - and 21 arresting drawings, paintings, and other artworks, Designing the Earth examines such diverse works as clay dwellings in Chad and Mali, adobe pueblos in the American Southwest, mud-brick ziggurats in Babylon, ancient Egyptian funerary monuments, subterranean aqueducts in Iran, Native American effigy mounds, the Nazca lines of Peru, artificial islands in Japan, the Great Wall of China, Mount Rushmore, and earth-sheltered housing by Frank Lloyd Wright, as well as earthworks by contemporary artists such as Michael Heizer and Andy Goldsworthy." "By considering the works in a larger design context, and by discussing their meaning, import, and use, author David Bourdon opens the reader's eyes to the formal and functional characteristics of earthworks around the world as he explores how people on different continents, unknown to each other, demonstrated remarkable similarities in the recontouring of their landscapes."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-234) and index.".
- catalog description "Shelter: be it ever so humble -- Commerce: modifying the land to make a living -- Defense: from ramparts and moats to trenches and foxholes -- Tombs: dwellings for the dead -- Sacred places: mud-brick mountains, rock-cut caves -- Land art: paradise gardens, provocative earthworks.".
- catalog extent "240 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0810932245 (hardcover)".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : H.N. Abrams,".
- catalog subject "709/.04 20".
- catalog subject "Earth construction.".
- catalog subject "Earthwork.".
- catalog subject "Earthworks (Art)".
- catalog subject "TA715 .B65 1995".
- catalog tableOfContents "Shelter: be it ever so humble -- Commerce: modifying the land to make a living -- Defense: from ramparts and moats to trenches and foxholes -- Tombs: dwellings for the dead -- Sacred places: mud-brick mountains, rock-cut caves -- Land art: paradise gardens, provocative earthworks.".
- catalog title "Designing the earth : the human impulse to shape nature / by David Bourdon.".
- catalog type "text".