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 Jungs and Wittgensteins 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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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Pleased I PurchasedBy TnafbratLovely book. Many artists freeze when it comes to portraits or life drawing. Perhaps it is a mental fear of attempting to create an image of something that is real; live and with personality. Also; creating a life drawing is just different from sketching a tree; or flower or any other still life until you get past the fact that you are drawing a HUMAN. The book has some good concepts and steps for portrait/human figure artwork. Nice explanations on washes and shading and methods of initially sketching the portrait without becoming overly wrapped up in creating photographic details. This is a good reference book to have.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. New artist who want a better understanding of colored pencil technique will be pleased to ...By jujujebFor anyone new to colored pencil portraits; this is a must have. I have been drawing portraits for many years primarily in graphite and charcoal and slowly ventured into the world of prismacolor. New artist who want a better understanding of colored pencil technique will be pleased to find that it is all here in this book. Thing such as suggested color combinations to mimic lifelike skintones or a great section on how to make the over all piece (compisition) more appealing to the audiance. And a great section on capturing light which is important in all portrait mediums. However for those who have no experiance with portraits; the book lacks in depth instructions on the actual drawing of a portrait. Although it give great instructions on how to lay out and choose the proper colors as well as proper application; no real instruction on how to DRAW a lifelike resemblence is present. It does touch shortly on tracing and graphing; but for those who truly wish to capture the likeness through traditional drawing will be dissappointed (not that i have anything against tracing; but tracing can prevent an artist from improving technique). However; there is a solution. This book flows perfectly with Lee Hammonds "Lifelike portraits from photography" which goes heavily in to detail on how to achieve very accurate line drawing using the graphing technique (i have had my copy for about 20 years and cherish it). With the combination of these two books and practice i know artist of any level can achieve beautiful portraits.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. I really like this bookBy CustomerI really like this book. It has good hints; and a good discussion about skin tone colors. I liked the tone of the book; the approach is very easy going. I really liked the addition of discussing portraits/art as a business.The cons:There wasnt a discussion about various age groups; wrinkles; freckles or skin textures. Most of the subjects are children or teens.There was only one subject that was with a darker skin tone; and honestly I wanted to see more examples.Over all; I will definitely go back to this book for reference.
