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Interpreting Environments: Tradition, Deconstruction, Hermeneutics

By Robert Mugerauer

Book information

Publisher
University of Texas Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9780292754973
DOI
10.7560/751781
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
102 MB (107081123 bytes)
Pages
232\232
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-23 08:33:07

Description

In this pioneering book, Robert Mugerauer seeks to make deconstruction and hermeneutics accessible to people in the environmental disciplines, including architecture, planning, urban studies, environmental studies, and cultural geography. Mugerauer demonstrates each methodology through a case study. The first study uses the traditional approach to recover the meaning of Jung's and Wittgenstein's houses by analyzing their historical, intentional contexts. The second case study utilizes deconstruction to explore Egyptian, French neoclassical, and postmodern attempts to use pyramids to constitute a sense of lasting presence. And the third case study employs hermeneutics to reveal how the American understanding of the natural landscape has evolved from religious to secular to ecological since the nineteenth century.

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