The Place of SilenceArchitecture / Media / Philosophy

The Place of Silence explores the poetics and politics of silence in architecture. Bringing together contributions by internationally recognized scholars in architecture and the humanities, it explores the diverse practices, affects, politics and cultural meanings of silence, silent places and silent buildings in historical and contemporary contexts. What counts as silence in specific situation…

Worldmaking as TechnéParticipatory Art, Music, and Architecture

Worldmaking as Techné: Participatory Art, Music, and Architecture outline a practice that challenges the World and how it could be through a kind of future-making, and/or other world-making, by creating alternate realities as artworks that are simultaneously ontological propositions. In simplified terms, the concept of techné is concerned with the art and craft of making. In particular a kind…

Experiment EinheitZeithistorische Essays

Die deutsche Wiedervereinigung als zeitgeschichtliche Herausforderung.Lange Zeit war die deutsche Einheit vor allem ein staatliches Projekt, ehe sie mehr und mehr zu einer gesellschaftlichen Realität wurde. Den einzelnen Aspekten dieses Prozesses widmete sich 2015 eine vom Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung und dem Deutschen Historischen Museum gemeinsam ausgerichtete Ausstellung »Alltag …

The Battle for HomeMemoir of a Syrian Architect

Drawing on the author's personal experience of living and working as an architect in Syria, this book offers an eyewitness perspective on the country's bitter conflict through the lens of architecture, showing how the built environment offers a mirror to the community that inhabits it. From Syria's tolerant past, with churches and mosques built alongside one another in Old Homs and members of…

Il futuro in una scatola di scarpe (di lusso)

La storia parla della formazione, attraverso la crescita e l'esperienza, di un ragazzo. Non uno qualsiasi, bensì uno che non volendo a volte rimane quasi isolato rispetto ai suoi coetanei, a causa delle sue strane, frequenti ma anche interessanti passioni e riflessioni. Prima su tutte c'è quella per la musica: a ogni episodio della vita del protagonista, infatti, è collegata una canzone; è …

CairoHistories of a City

From its earliest days as a royal settlement fronting the pyramids of Giza to its current manifestation as the largest metropolis in Africa, Cairo has forever captured the urban pulse of the Middle East. In Cairo: Histories of a City, Nezar AlSayyad narrates the many Cairos that have existed throughout time, offering a panoramic view of the city's history unmatched in temporal and geographic sc…

Boundary Landscapes

Il concetto di confine ripropone un tema “antico”, ma quanto mai attuale alla luce di una serie di eventi che rivelano come in un mondo che vuole innalzare muri, la natura dimostra che i confini non esistono.  Boundary Landscapes  raccoglie saggi e interventi che, a partire dai temi dell'architettura, della citt&agrave…

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Il lungo regnoVita avventurosa di Federico III Re di Sicilia

Pochi sovrani hanno avuto la fortuna di godere di un così vasto e convinto consenso come quello di cui godette Federico III d'Aragona, re di Sicilia. Su di lui ricadono le conseguenze della rivolta del Vespro ed è proprio lui che, per circa quarant'anni è costretto a guerreggiare per difendere la Sicilia dagli Angioini. Federico, che a buona ragione viene considerato il fondatore della "Nazi…

McAllen Architecture: A Visual Journey

McAllen Architecture: A Visual Journey reveals the heritage and history of Texas's southernmost industrial hub city as told by its buildings. Outstanding architectural images by Pino Shah show the influence of diverse cultures and regional styles that have shaped the border city's built environment since the early 1900s. Geoff Alger provides the narratives accompanying the buildings.