Country. Building Metaphors

_ selected works by Michael A. Landes
_ Representative of architectural pluralism
_ holistic answers to architectural and urban planning issues
_ Thinking and designing in metaphors

Michael A. Landes seeks holistic answers to architectural and urban planning questions. Thinking and designing in metaphors is the most important fundamental insight for his work. He uses the resulting images at different scales—urban planning, object-related, or detailed—or assembles them as collages that create urban experiential spaces.

"This extremely unusual and beautiful book weaves together the intriguing pictures of an architecture that goes beyond the tired Vitruvian triad of utilitas, firmitas, and venustas, to suggest the spatial translation of a condition – patina, of a state of mind – nostalgia, and of two attitudes - effort and idleness. Beyond the materiality of the bricks and the cements, it is built with humanity, and therefore doesn't fail to move us. An excellent book by all means. Very sensitive, and beautifully designed!"
Jean-Louis Cohen, architect, author and art historian, Paris/New York