Mountains and Megastructures: Neo-Geologic Landscapes of Human Endeavour
Martin Beattie · Christos Kakalis · Matthew Ozga-Lawn
Dec 2020 · Springer Nature
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328
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This book explores the shared qualities of mountains as naturally-formed landscapes, and of megastructures as manmade landscapes, seeking to unravel how each can be understood as an open system of complex network relationships (human, natural and artificial). By looking at mountains and megastructures in an interchangeable way, the book negotiates the fixed boundaries of natural and artificial worlds, to suggest a more complex relationship between landscape and architecture. It suggests an ecological understanding of the interconnectedness of architecture and landscape, and an entangled network of relations. Urban, colonialist, fictional, rural and historical landscapes are interwoven into this fabric that also involves discontinuities, tensions and conflicts as parts of a system that is never linear, but rather fluid and organic as driven by human endeavor.
About the author
Dr. Martin Beattie is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK.
Dr. Christos Kakalis is a Lecturer in Architecture at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK.
Dr. Matthew Ozga-Lawn is a Lecturer in Architecture at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK.
Dr. Christos Kakalis is a Lecturer in Architecture at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK.
Dr. Matthew Ozga-Lawn is a Lecturer in Architecture at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK.
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