A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape

A new book demonstrates that even the ugliest industrial structures have a certain beauty when you consider their utility.

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November 29, 2005, 5:00 AM PST

By Chris Steins @planetizen

"Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape demonstrates that our artificial ecosystem can radiate similar beauty... When seen through the discriminating lens of author and photographer Brian Hayes, man-made objects appear as exquisite and natural as organic ones. Radar domes echo the beauty of a fly's eyes, a crop-irrigation rig takes on the twiggy grace of a praying mantis, and the miles of telephone towers and wires along US highways fuse into the western horizon."

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