SIMON, Jacques. Detournement des Grand Paysages: The Futur of our Built and Natural Environment.

[Angers: Ministère de l’Environnement et du Cadre de Vie / Bureau de la Recherche Architecturale / Espaces Verts, 1983].  First edition.  Softcover.  21cm by 29.7cm  100 pages. Volume 20 in the influential “Aménagement des Espaces Libres” series, a landmark work of experimental landscape theory and practice. Through bold photomontages and critical visual essays, Simon reimagines the relation between built form, natural terrain, and the viewer’s perceptual experience. His radical proposals “detour” traditional readings of the landscape, collapsing scales and contexts in pursuit of a liberated and often surreal spatial imagination. Simon’s work in this volume challenges the fixity of geographic and architectural identity—repositioning landscape not as a passive setting, but as an active, malleable surface shaped by human intervention, time, and socio-political tensions.  Illustrated throughout.  A very good copy.