Wisdom of Place

A guide to Recovering the Sacred Origins of Landscape

Elizabeth Boults, Chip Sullivan (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

231 Seiten

2023
Oro Editions (Verlag)
978-1-957183-19-0 (ISBN)

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This book aims to help readers rediscover the sacredness of the everyday landscapes around them in order to shed light on the ecological imperatives of our time. Drawn from the union of art, nature, and metaphysics, it presents some of the myths and legends of antiquity as they might be recognised by our modern society of earth-shapers. Through word and image the authors reference the ecological and environmental concepts found at the core of traditional environmental knowledge and provide a new context for environmental engagement that merges the spiritual and phenomenological with the scientific and empirical. Wisdom of Place can be used by anyone — from creatives to spiritual seekers, landscape architects to coders — to call forth the voice of the genius loci — the spirit of place — and reveal the creative forces and hidden currents of nature.

Elizabeth Boults is a landscape architect and lecturer in human ecology at the University of California, Davis. Her areas of interest are graphic communication, site design, and landscape history, theory and criticism. Chip Sullivan is an artist and professor of landscape architecture and environmental design at the University of California, Berkeley. Chip is recognised for his expertise in landscape representation and illustration as well as innovative, energy-conserving design.

introduction 7
acknowledgments 12
the major arcana 14
The Green Man 16
The Biosphere 20
The Doors of Perception 24
Pachamama 28
Organic Proportion 32
The Geometer 36
The Green Woman 40
Alignments 44
The Hydrologic Cycle 48
Deep Ecology 52
Green Mandala 56
Geomancy 60
Axis Mundi 64
Metamorphosis 68
The Tree of Life 72
Koyaanisqatsi 76
Ecotones 80
Polaris 84
The Moon 88
The Sun 92
Closed Loop 96
Genius Loci 100

Erscheinungsdatum	05.09.2023
Verlagsort	San Rafael
Sprache	englisch
Maße	190 x 254 mm
Gewicht	788 g
Themenwelt	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-957183-19-5 / 1957183195
ISBN-13	978-1-957183-19-0 / 9781957183190
Zustand	Neuware