Koert van Mensvoort
Hendik-Jan Grievink
Actar, Barcelona, Spain, 2012, English
Nonfiction, Architecture; Design, General
6.69 x 9.44 inches, paperback, 472 pages, 600 color illustrations
ISBN: 9788492861538
Suggested Retail Price: $44.95

From the Publisher. Today the human impact on our planet can hardly be underestimated. Climate change, population explosion, genetic manipulation, digital networks, plastics islands floating in the oceans. Untouched old nature is almost nowhere to be found. This book explores our changing notion of nature. How nature has become one of the most successful products of our time, yet much of what we perceive as nature is merely a simulation: a romanticized idea of a balanced, harmonic, inherently good and threatened entity. How evolution continues nonetheless. How technology—traditionally created to protect us from the forces of nature—gives rise to a next nature, that is just as wild, cruel, unpredictable and threatening as ever.

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