The lawn has always occupied a central place in a diverse range of cultural practices. It has staged political demonstrations, sporting events. The lawn forms the common ground between daily life and suburban pastoralism. References are drawn from film and television, horticultural and architectural images, revealing an everyday site on which has been played out a remarkable history. This book serves as the catalogue for an exhibition being held in Spring 1998 at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal.94 Donaldson (op. cit., 208) writes of the aquot;domesticated version of the middle landscape.aquot; He also ... 98 See John Cheever, aquot;The Swimmer, aquot; in The Brigadier and the Golf Widow (New York and London: Evanston, 1964), 61-76. 99 Williamanbsp;...
Title | : | The American Lawn |
Author | : | Georges Teyssot |
Publisher | : | Princeton Architectural Press - 1999-01-01 |
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