La transformación del paisaje
Author: María Antonia Blanco Arroyo
Publisher:
Published: 2023
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788447224470
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Public Spaces
Author: Joao Teixeira Lopes
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2016-11-17
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 1786354632
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume is about the plurality and complexity of modern urban public spaces. The authors move far beyond the nostalgia of traditional streets, squares and gardens to mobilize contemporary sociological knowledge based on the mediated relations between spatial morphology and everyday life in cities across several continents.
Landscape + 100 Words to Inhabit it
Author: Daniela Colafranceschi
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9788425221750
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Intends to present a condition of contemporary landscape by measuring it through a direct and immediate form: terms, definitions, ideas, microstories, short texts, notes. This title is a collection of instant snaps rather than a complete critical and theoretical look at the subject.
Wind Power in View
Author: Martin Pasqualetti
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 2002-02-15
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780125463348
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →More than ever, travelers are encountering a different sort of landscape, one not only of nature but of technology. Wind Power in View is the first authoritative discourse on the aesthetic impact of wind turbines on the landscape and what can be done about it. It is a detailed and thoroughly illustrated discussion of the issue from several different perspectives. The book also provides an overview of the status of wind energy at the dawn of the new millennium, examines some of the ongoing battles, and offers guidelines on minimizing its visual impact.Taking examples from the United States, Germany, Denmark, Great Britain, and Sweden, Wind Power in View is the first book to tackle the thorny land use questions raised by wind energy's hard won respectability. What will be the future of wind energy? Will it be welcomed as savior, or will it be opposed as a new-age intrusion on open space and landscape preservation? These 11 essays, international in nature and written by objective experts, address landscape issues in creative, original ways.
Architecture Against the Post-Political
Author: Nadir Lahiji
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-05-23
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 131770231X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Written by a team of renowned contributors and carefully edited to address the themes laid out by the editors in their introduction, the book includes theoretical issues concerning the questions of aesthetics and politics and addresses city and urban strategies within the general critique of the "post-political". By focusing on specific case studies from Warsaw, Barcelona, Dubai, Tokyo and many more the book consolidates the contributions of a diverse group of academics, architects and critics from Europe, the Middle East and America. This collection fills the gap in the existing literature on the relation between politics and aesthetics, and its implications for the theoretical discourse of architecture today. In summary, this book provides a response to the predominant de-politicization in academic discourse and is an attempt to re-claim the abandoned critical project in architecture.
A Landscape of Events
Author: Paul Virilio
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780262720342
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The celebrated French architect, urban planner, and philosopher Paul Virilio focuses on the cultural chaos of the 1980s and 1990s. It was a time, he writes, that reflected the "cruelty of an epoch, the hills and dales of daily life, the usual clumps of habits and commonplaces." Urban disorientation, the machines of war, and the acceleration of events in contemporary life are Virilio's ongoing concerns. He explores them in events ranging from media coverage of the Gulf War to urban rioting and lawlessness.
Sensual Relations
Author: David Howes
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2010-02-22
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 0472026224
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With audacious dexterity, David Howes weaves together topics ranging from love and beauty magic in Papua New Guinea to nasal repression in Freudian psychology and from the erasure and recovery of the senses in contemporary ethnography to the specter of the body in Marx. Through this eclectic and penetrating exploration of the relationship between sensory experience and cultural expression, Sensual Relations contests the conventional exclusion of sensuality from intellectual inquiry and reclaims sensation as a fundamental domain of social theory. David Howes is Professor of Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec.
World Anthropologies
Author: Gustavo Lins Ribeiro
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-07-13
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1000184498
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Since its inception, anthropology's authority has been based on the assumption that it is a unified discipline emanating from the West. In an age of heightened globalization, anthropologists have failed to discuss consistently the current status of their practice and its mutations across the globe. World Anthropologies is the first book to provoke this conversation from various regions of the world in order to assess the diversity of relations between regional or national anthropologies and a contested, power-laden Western discourse. Can a planetary anthropology cope with both the 'provincial cosmopolitanism' of alternative anthropologies and the 'metropolitan provincialism' of hegemonic schools? How might the resulting 'world anthropologies' challenge the current panorama in which certain allegedly national anthropological traditions have more paradigmatic weight - and hence more power - than others? Critically examining the international dissemination of anthropology within and across national power fields, contributors address these questions and provide the outline for a veritable world anthropologies project.
Temporal Architecture
Author: Carlo Aiello
Publisher: eVolo Press
Published: 2015-02-01
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1938740211
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Temporal Architecture documents the latest architectural works designed for temporary use. The list includes pavilions, installations, and pop-up structures with a novel use of materials and cutting-edge design and fabrication processes. The book analyzes the role of these structures in the development of new ideas in architectural design. The relative small scale of the projects allow for forward-thinking concepts to be developed and materialized. Featured architects/designers in Temporal Architecture includes; John Frane, Aaron Neubert, Dora Epstein Jones, Monika Grzymala, Selgascano Architects, Judith Vrancken, Alisa Andrasek, José Sanchez, Zaha Hadid Architects, Directed Research Studio, Loom Studio, Baumgartner + Uriu, Andrew Saunders, Ramiro Díaz Granados, AFJD Studio, Yale School of Architecture, Sus&Hi Office, Dean McMurry, Qastic, Alvin Kung, MDLAB, and SOMA among others.
Landscapes of the Mind
Author: John Douglas Porteous
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Refers in particular to Graham Greene and Malcolm Lowry.
