Building Paradise

Episodes in Paradisiacal Thinking

Harry Francis Mallgrave

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Routledge
12 October 2021

Environmentally-friendly architecture & design; History of architecture; Psychological theory & schools of thought; The environment; Regional & area planning

A sweeping historical study, Building Paradise seeks to construct a garden ethic for the design arts. It is an ethic predicated on the idea that, with our recent ecological and biological insights, we can build more intelligently than the status quo of current design practices. The paradisiacal instinct is the motivation behind every artistic impulse. From its theological origins to the present, the idea of paradise—the garden as a place of peace, beauty, and happiness—has acquired numerous meanings. It was a motif expounded in the earliest cultures of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus Valley, and it later became a dominant feature of Buddhist, Judeo-Christian, and Islamic practices. It informed Greco-Roman mythologies and the design of a Japanese garden; it was a motivation for the Renaissance humanists, and was complicit in visions of a New Arcadia within the landscapes of the Americas. This book, underscoring how the built and urban environments shapes culture, takes a biophilic approach and draws upon the major advances of the human sciences of the last few decades to argue on behalf of a design ethic centered squarely on human needs and aspirations. Written for students and academics within architecture and all related fields, this book focuses on the efforts to build paradise in a material way.

By: Harry Francis Mallgrave
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032014012
ISBN 10: 1032014016
Pages: 306
Publication Date: 12 October 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

FOREWORD by Klaske Havik PREFACE 1. IMAGINING PARADISE 2. DIVINE CITIES 3. ORACLES AND AUGURY 4. PARADISES OF FAITH 5. RENAISSANCES 6. PARADISE GARDENS 7. SIMPLY BAROQUE 8. NEW ARCADIA 9. EDEN REVISITED 10. BRAVE NEW WORLD 11. CHARTEUSE INTERMEZZOS 12. THE PASSAGE OF MODERNISM EPILOGUE: THE GARDEN-ETHIC

Harry Francis Mallgrave is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus from Illinois Institute of Technology and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He received his PhD in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, and over the years he has enjoyed a career as teacher, scholar, editor, translator, and architect.