Inhabited Machines

Inhabited Machines PDF

Author: Moritz Gleich

Publisher: Birkhäuser

Published: 2022-12-19

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 3035623775

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Around 1800, one of the most influential architectural concepts of the last 250 years emerged—that of built spaces as technical devices. Climate, morality, and comfort are the three main themes of this study, and each is vividly examined in separate chapters through synchronous comparison and with the help of examples. The emergence of corresponding metaphors, knowledge, and construction forms is traced over a period of about 70 years. The author focuses particularly on the operative dimension of architecture. Thus, the book provides a historical perspective on a key topic for the future of architecture. The book is aimed at readers interested in architecture, technology or the cultural history of building and living.

Rawson's Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk

Rawson's Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk PDF

Author: Hugh Rawson

Publisher: Crown

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13:

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This is the perennially popular, witty and entertaining guidebook to thousands of linguistic fig leaves and intentionally vague terms that we all say, write and read every day to cushion the real meaning of what is intended--from Victorian examples like "delicate condition" to relatively recent inventions like "massage parlor" and "covert operation".

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