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Breve historia de la Vida Cotidiana de los Pueblos Godos
A través de una narrativa clara y documentada, esta obra revela cómo los ostrogodos y visigodos adaptaron sus tradiciones al mundo romano y bizantino, dejando una huella indeleble en la historia de Europa y, especialmente, en España. Desde los rituales funerarios hasta la educación, pasando por el papel de la mujer y la evolución de la monarquía, este libro reconstruye el alma de un puebl…
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L’effet patrimoineTransmissions entre ruptures et continuités
L'institution du patrimoine, qu'elle concerne des collections, des monuments, ou encore des manifestations immatérielles, fait appel à des valeurs en principe partagées au sein d'une société : savantes, politiques, religieuses, idéologiques, esthétiques. Communément, son effet aujourd'hui est identifié à un développement culturel, associé à des activités qui vont de l'histoir…
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- 9782766306954
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Architecture and Power in Early Central Europe
The book presents the panorama of social, cultural, and religious changes in the states of the Piast, P?emyslid, and Arpad dynasties. Major change occurred in the tenth century and again at the turn of the eleventh century. Given the scarcity of written sources, the author employs an analysis of architectural forms which she applies to buildings founded by dukes, kings, and nobles at this perio…
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Arquitectura para una Lima sostenibleBuenas prácticas sobre nuestro entorno …
Este libro propone repensar el modo en que concebimos y construimos nuestras ciudades, utilizando Lima como laboratorio urbano y social. En una ciudad que crece sin planificación y refleja profundas brechas sociales y ambientales, las autoras plantean que la sostenibilidad debe asumirse como un principio ético y colectivo, más allá de la eficiencia técnica o la certificación verde. Constr…
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Forms of BelongingArmenian Architects, Vernacular Style and Architectural Pla…
Contrary to the historical record, which views the architecture of the eastern Ottoman cities as unchanging remnants of a medieval and proto-Turkish golden age, this richly illustrated book highlights the wide-ranging transformations that Mardin, Diyarbakir, Urfa, Antep, Bitlis and Erzurum, saw at the hands of Armenian architects of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Case studies reflect …
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Paisaje Cultural de Chiloé
Paisaje Cultural de Chiloé invita a recorrer un territorio donde geografía, arquitectura, historia y vida comunitaria se entrelazan de manera inseparable, desde los asentamientos costeros y la relación cotidiana con el mar, hasta las iglesias, palafitos, festividades y prácticas contemporáneas. El libro muestra la manera en que el archipiélago se ha configurado como un paisaje cultural ú…
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Photographic Architecture in the Twentieth Century
One hundred years ago, architects found in the medium of photography—so good at representing a building’s lines and planes—a necessary way to promote their practices. It soon became apparent, however, that photography did more than reproduce what it depicted. It altered both subject and reception, as architecture in the twentieth century was enlisted as a form of mass communic…
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City ChoreographerLawrence Halprin in Urban Renewal America
One of the most prolific and influential landscape architects of the twentieth century, Lawrence Halprin (1916–2009) was best known for the FDR Memorial in Washington, D.C., and Sea Ranch, the iconic planned community in California. These projects, as well as vibrant public spaces throughout the country—from Ghirardelli Square and Market Street in San Francisco to Lovejoy Fountain P…
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The InterfaceIBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945–1976
" In February 1956 the president of IBM, Thomas Watson Jr., hired the industrial designer and architect Eliot F. Noyes, charging him with reinventing IBM’s corporate image, from stationery and curtains to products such as typewriters and computers and to laboratory and administration buildings. What followed—a story told in full for the first time in John Harwood’s The Interf…
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The Shape of UtopiaThe Architecture of Radical Reform in Nineteenth-Century A…
How nineteenth-century social reformers devised a new set of radical blueprints for society In the middle of the nineteenth century, a utopian impulse flourished in the United States through the circulation of architectural and urban plans predicated on geometrically distinct designs. Though the majority of such plans remained unrealized, The Shape of Utopia emphasizes the enduring importance …
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