Building Paradise Episodes in Paradisiacal Thinking【電子書籍】[ Harry Francis Mallgrave ]

＜p＞A sweeping historical study, ＜em＞Building Paradise＜/em＞ seeks to construct a garden ethic for the design arts. It is an ethic predicated on the idea that, with our recent ecological and biological insights, we can build more intelligently than the status quo of current design practices. The paradisiacal instinct is the motivation behind every artistic impulse. From its theological origins to the present, the idea of paradiseーthe garden as a place of peace, beauty, and happinessーhas acquired numerous meanings. It was a motif expounded in the earliest cultures of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus Valley, and it later became a dominant feature of Buddhist, Judeo-Christian, and Islamic practices. It informed Greco-Roman mythologies and the design of a Japanese garden; it was a motivation for the Renaissance humanists, and was complicit in visions of a New Arcadia within the landscapes of the Americas. This book, underscoring how the built and urban environments shapes culture, takes a b．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る