The Best in Leisure and Public Architecture
Author: Alan Phillips
Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 234
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Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 234
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9782880461904
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Zoë Ryan
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2006-09-28
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9781568986289
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The Good Life: New Public Spaces For Recreation explores how architects, designers, landscape architects, end artists ore reinventing urban public spaces to meet the needs of 21st-century recreation. Chosen for their innovative solutions and high-quality designs, the seventy projects provide a cross-section of some of the most interesting new spaces for leisure around the world."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Justin Thomas McDaniel
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2018-04-30
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 082487675X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Buddhism, often described as an austere religion that condemns desire, promotes denial, and idealizes the contemplative life, actually has a thriving leisure culture in Asia. Creative religious improvisations designed by Buddhists have been produced both within and outside of monasteries across the region—in Nepal, Japan, Korea, Macau, Hong Kong, Singapore, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Justin McDaniel looks at the growth of Asia’s culture of Buddhist leisure—what he calls “socially disengaged Buddhism”—through a study of architects responsible for monuments, museums, amusement parks, and other sites. In conversation with noted theorists of material and visual culture and anthropologists of art, McDaniel argues that such sites highlight the importance of public, leisure, and spectacle culture from a Buddhist perspective and illustrate how “secular” and “religious,” “public” and “private,” are in many ways false binaries. Moreover, places like Lek Wiriyaphan’s Sanctuary of Truth in Thailand, Suối Tiên Amusement Park in Saigon, and Shi Fa Zhao’s multilevel museum/ritual space/tea house in Singapore reflect a growing Buddhist ecumenism built through repetitive affective encounters instead of didactic sermons and sectarian developments. They present different Buddhist traditions, images, and aesthetic expressions as united but not uniform, collected but not concise: Together they form a gathering, not a movement. Despite the ingenuity of lay and ordained visionaries like Wiriyaphan and Zhao and their colleagues Kenzo Tange, Chan-soo Park, Tadao Ando, and others discussed in this book, creators of Buddhist leisure sites often face problems along the way. Parks and museums are complex adaptive systems that are changed and influenced by budgets, available materials, local and global economic conditions, and visitors. Architects must often compromise and settle at local optima, and no matter what they intend, their buildings will develop lives of their own. Provocative and theoretically innovative, Architects of Buddhist Leisure asks readers to question the very category of “religious” architecture. It challenges current methodological approaches in religious studies and speaks to a broad audience interested in modern art, architecture, religion, anthropology, and material culture.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Grounds
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Published: 1960
Total Pages: 120
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Considers S. 3279 and related S. 3280 and S. 3403, to amend the Public Buildings Act of 1959 to authorize a study to determine the location for the Court of Claims, the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, and the Tax Court of the U.S. near the Supreme Court Building in D.C.; and to preserve the historic Lafayette Square area of D.C.
Author: Rodrigo Pérez de Arce
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-05-31
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 135003214X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →City of Play shows how play is built into the very fabric of the modern city. From playgrounds to theme parks, skittle alleys to swimming pools, to the countless uncontrolled spaces which the urban habitat affords – play is by no means just a childhood affair. A myriad essentially unproductive playful pursuits have, through time, modelled the modern city and landscape. Architect and scholar Rodrigo Pérez de Arce's erudite, original, and often surprising study explores a curiously neglected dimension of architectural design and practice: ludic space. It is an architectural history of the playground – from the hippodrome to the Situationist city – of space released from productive ends in the pursuit of leisure. But this is more than just a book about how architecture has incorporated play into its spaces and structures, it is a history of the modern city itself. The ludic imagination impregnated modernist ideals, and what begins with the playground ends with a re-consideration of the whole sweep of the modern movement through the filter of leisure and play. Because play is such a basic or fundamental human experience, the book re-grounds the architect's concerns with those of non-architects – and not only those of adults but also of children. It seeks to give everyone – architects and other ordinary city-dwellers alike – a better understanding about what is at stake in the making of the public spaces of our cities.
Author: Municipal Reference Library (Chicago, Ill.)
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 244
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 446
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