A Landscape of Architecture, History and Fiction

This book's principal aims are to identify the eighteenth-century origins of an evolving tradition in which architecture is analogous to a landscape, a history and a fiction, and to understand its influence on subsequent centuries.

Jonathan Hill is Professor of Architecture and Visual Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL), UK, where he directs the MPhil/PhD Architectural Design programme. Jonathan is the author of The Illegal Architect (1998), Actions of Architecture (2003), Immaterial Architecture (2006) and Weather Architecture (2012); editor of Occupying Architecture (1998) and Architecture-the Subject is Matter (2001); and co-editor of Critical Architecture (2007).

List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction 1. A Hellish Cloud and a Sublime Sea 2. Architecture in Ruins 3. The History Man Conclusion Bibliography Index