Why write about buildings? Buildings are chunks of natural material, refashioned by humans and set down into place to stand as silent as the rocks and trees from which they were made. How can we descr
According to Paul Shepheard, architecture is the rearranging of the world for humanpurposes. Sculpture, machines, and landscapes are all architecture-every bit as much as buildingsare. In his writings
British architect and critic Paul Shepheard is a fresh new voice in currentpostmodern debates about the history and meaning of architecture. In this wonderfully unorthodoxquasi-novelistic essay, compl
Paul Shepheard's previous book, What is Architecture?, was about making real,material things in the world -- landscapes, buildings, and machines. The Cultivated Wilderness isabout those landscapes, an
In this unorthodox quasi-novelistic essay, complete with characters and dialogue (but no plot), Shepheard draws a boundary around the subject of architecture, describing its place in art and technolog
According to Paul Shepheard, architecture is the rearranging of the world for human purposes. Sculpture, machines, and landscapes are all architecture-every bit as much as buildings are. In his writin
This book is about seeing things that are too big to see. Paul Shepheard has written about six landscapes, in order of descending scale, and has given each landscape a thematic heading. The Wilderness
