Civilizing Terrains: Mountains, Mounds and Mesas (Architectural documents)

Civilizing Terrains reproduces the sketchbook of William Rees Morrish, Director of the Design Center for American Urban Landscape at the University of Minnesota. Originally published in an elegant oversized format, this portable reprint contains Morrish's collection of historical archetypes of the American landscape, supplemented with contemporary architectural models, urban spatial patterns, building and site vocabularies and personal philosophical conjecture. Morrish is one of our major thinkers in the field of contemporary American urbanism.