Dolomiti GeoScape - Geography+Geology= Landscape (Hardcover)

DOLOMITI is the first of a collection of annual books on the Dolomites, with a different look and more attentive than of the traditional iconography of these places, recently UNESCO heritage. A look, result of crossing work of the photography, architecture and urbanism wich explain, together, research on the alpine landscape in the Atelier Around Dolomites, established at the University of Trento in cooperation with other European Schools of Architecture. This first volume consists of the original images of the photographer Gregor Sailer and a series of texts that describe the various steps from the UNESCO nomination, to the nature of the Dolomites, until the first studies undertaken on this fascinating natural complex. "Geoscape" is a summary that best represents the dolomitic area, the result of a unique cross between geography and geology to defining the landscape, but also alluding to a new way of addressing the knowledge and the design for the contexts of particular sensitivity.