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"This is not a book for lazy minds, but pay attention and you will take a journey led by a guide who is generous and humane, profound, and poetic." * Billie Tsien, architect, Tod Williams Billie Tsien and Associates *
"A revealing study of the cultural imperatives of context. Leatherbarrow reminds us that the poetics of place depend not on the abstraction and will of design, or in the contingency of site, but in the dialogue between the two. This is a book for those with a broad cultural concern for the implications of architecture, with an interest in the specificity of place, and with a desire to engage the temporal framework of a site." * Journal of Architectural Education *

Topographical Stories Studies in Landscape and

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      Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
      Published 6 November 2015
      ISBN-13 9780812223507
      978-0812223507
      ISBN-10 0812223500
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      Landscape architecture and design

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      Book Synopsis


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      "This is not a book for lazy minds, but pay attention and you will take a journey led by a guide who is generous and humane, profound, and poetic." * Billie Tsien, architect, Tod Williams Billie Tsien and Associates *
      "A revealing study of the cultural imperatives of context. Leatherbarrow reminds us that the poetics of place depend not on the abstraction and will of design, or in the contingency of site, but in the dialogue between the two. This is a book for those with a broad cultural concern for the implications of architecture, with an interest in the specificity of place, and with a desire to engage the temporal framework of a site." * Journal of Architectural Education *

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