Designs on the Land
Exploring America from the Air
Photographs by Alexander S. MacLean
With texts by James Corner
Gilles A. Tiberghien
Jean-Marc Besse
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| ‘A breath-taking collection of images of the country in all its grandeur, scars and curiosities’ | | – Telegraph Magazine |
| ‘A really extraordinary collection of aerial photographs of the US landscape ... moving and beautiful’ | | – Condé Nast Traveller |
| ‘Well worth investing in, not only for the quality of the images, but for the historical value contained within’ | | – MacFormat |
More than 400 exemplary aerial photographs reveal the splendour of the United States of America: both the beauty of the ongoing inhabiting of the land and the potential for modern planning to create spectacular environments.
For thirty years, Alex MacLean has portrayed the history and evolution of the American land, from great desert spaces to agricultural patterns to city grids. A trained architect who is closely involved in landscape heritage protection issues, MacLean has set out to create a series of pictures that show and explain the universal history of town and countryside. What he has to say may be invigorating or alarming, but it always raises the issue of the landscape’s future.
This new collection reflects MacLean’s passionate interest in the effects of time, geological movements, shifting landscapes, redeployment, pollution, urban sprawl, and the overlapping of surfaces and activities.
Alex MacLean’s previous books include Look at the Land: Aerial Reflections on America and, with James Corner, Taking Measures Across the American Landscape.
Also of interest:
The Earth from the Air
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|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500284148 | | ISBN-13 978-0500284148 | | | | 25.0 x 19.0 cm | | Paperback with flaps | | 368pp | | 420 illustrations, 420 in colour | | First published 2003 | | | | £27.50 | | | |  | | | | 
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