This book is a cutting edge study examining the attitudes to both nature and the built environment of the designer, the client and the society in which an intervention (be it architecture, landscape design or a piece of art) is made. The legacy of the Modernist view of nature and the environment is also addressed, and the degree to which such ideas continue to impinge on contemporary interventions is assessed.

Introduction. Part 1. Mind. Projecting a Relationship 1. The Aesthetics in Place 2. The Sacred Environment: an Investigation of the Sacred and is Implications for Place-making 3. What use is the Genius Loci? 4. Constructing Place... on the Beach 5. Constructing Informal Places 6. Migrant Homes: Ethnicity, Identity and Domestic Space Culture 7. Communities of Dread 8. Design in the City: Actors and Contexts. Philosophy of Place 9. The Professor's House: Heidegger's House at Freiberg-im-Breisgau 10. Place-Making: The Notion of Centre 11. Hybrid Identities: 'Public' and 'Private' Life in the Courtyard Houses of Barabazaar, Kolkata, India 12. Diagonal: Transversality and Worldmaking 13. Modernity and the Threshold: Psychologising the Places In-between 14. Transparency and Catatonia. Part 2. Matter. Modern Metiation 15. Siting Lives: Postwar Place-making 16. Awakening Place: Le Corbusier's Scheme at La Sainte Baume 17. Retreating to Dwell: Playing and Reality at Muuratsalo 18. From Place to Planet: Jörn Utzon's Earth-Bound Platforms and Floating Roofs 19. The Landscape of Work: A Place for the Car Considerate Intervention 20. Rooted Modernism: Reconstructing Memory in Architecture 21. Making Our Place: The Museum of New Zealand 23. Architecture of Spoils; Francesco Venezia and Sicily's Spogliatoia 23. Horizon in the Hamar Museum: An Instrument of Architecture and a Way of Looking at Site. Index