Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1526–1569), “The Tower of Babel,” 1563. The mountain-like tower reaching toward heaven can be seen as both an image of the human desire to create something monumental and a symbol of an impossible enterprise. “Mountains and the Rise of Landscape” is the culmination of a curatorial project and a research seminar conducted at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, the latter focusing on the question, How do you model a mountain?
