L'auteur étudie la sous-culture (mode de vie, comportements, prises de risque, activités délinquantes et festives, système de représentation) des groupes fermés touchant une partie de la jeunesse. Ces analyses concernent nombre de jeunes de milieu populaire précarisé, avec un effet miroir grossissant pour les bandes, eu égard à l'absence d'interlocuteurs extérieurs et au système de …
On ignore souvent que l'art byzantin, l'art roman, les traits distinctifs du gothique, l'art des miniatures et des enluminures trouvent leur source chez les Arméniens. Ils ont apporté tout cela aux européens, mais ils ont même construit les premières mosquées de l'islam arabe et turc. En choisissant quelques exemples, les auteurs démontrent par l'antériorité des réalisations et leur o…
Que nous disent les interfaces vidéoludiques de la ville, des territoires et de leur fabrique? Que disent les jeux vidéo de la représentation et de la mise en récit d'un territoire, de ses ressources, de son histoire et de son devenir? Avec quelles conséquences en retour sur son image? Peut-on mesurer l'impact de la culture vidéoludique chez les professionnel-le-s de la fabrique de la vil…
Now available for the first time in paperback, Farm House tells the story of the first structure built on the Iowa State University campus. Mary Atherly provides a comprehensive history of the Farm House from its founding days to its role as the center of activity for the new college to its second life as a welcoming museum visited by thousands each year. This second edition includes a discussi…
Discover how you can run the practical side of your practice more profitably. This comprehensive guide to managing an interior design business gives you an arsenal of proven procedures and practical tools and techniques perfected over the course of some thirty years. New to this edition are sections on establishing an electronic office, the pros and cons of working alone and creating partnershi…
CONSTRUCTION DRAWINGS AND DETAILS FOR INTERIORS DISCOVER FOUNDATIONAL CONCEPTS AND THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN INTERIOR CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS In the newly revised Fourth Edition of Construction Drawings and Details for Interiors, distinguished interior design professors Rosemary Kilmer and W. Otie Kilmer deliver a comprehensive and practical perspective on the preparation and understanding of…
Provides a "real-world" perspective on the preparation of construction documents. * Highly visual book with extensive drawings and details. * Essential reference for NCIDQ examination.
Chicago is a city dedicated to the modern—from the skyscrapers that punctuate its skyline to the spirited style that inflects many of its dwellings and institutions, from the New Bauhaus to Hull-House. Despite this, the city has long been overlooked as a locus for modernism in the arts, its rich tradition of architecture, design, and education disregarded. Still the modern in Chicago continue…
In recent years, Brazil has discovered vast quantities of petroleum deep within its territorial waters, inciting the construction of a series of cities along its coast and in the ocean. We could term these developments as Petropolises, or cities formed from resource extraction. The Petropolis of Tomorrow is a design and research project, originally undertaken at Rice University that examines th…