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El Reino Medio del Antiguo EgiptoHistoria, arqueología y sociedad
Para los antiguos egipcios, el Imperio Medio (c. 2000- 1700 a. C.) fue un período clásico de arte, historia y literatura. La XII Dinastía fue una de las más fuertes que jamás gobernaron en las orillas del Nilo: algunos de sus reyes fueron posteriormente adorados y se hicieron famosos por los autores griegos clásicos. Sin embargo, los egiptólogos tienden a no mirar más allá de la extr…
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Ardeth #14TIME. As content for designing
In the realm of hard sciences, time is seen as moving forward towards the future, providing a framework for navigating the entropy and disorder of systems. Time is seen subjectively in the humanities, as Bergson describes it in terms of recursive cycles exposed via sentient experience. From both angles, humanity is inevitably susceptible to time; either they die from entropic dispersion or depe…
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The Allegorical Architectural Machine
The intersection of architecture and the machine has a history that stretches back to the Industrial Revolution, however the machine has recently begun to appear in new ways in speculative architectural drawing and modelling. This issue of AD considers the influence of the machine as an allegorical device for exploring alternative architectural practices, and includes a cross-section of viewpoi…
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The Bauhaus Ideal Then and NowAn Illustrated Guide to Modern Design
The Bauhaus Ideal is both a picture book and a guidebook to the fascinating and enduring legacy of modernist design, and to the continuing influence of Bauhaus on interior design—not just on architecture, but also on furniture, glassware, tableware, and kitchen utensils: the whole range of domestic arts. This unique volume introduces modern design principles and examines them from an histori…
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Exhibition MattersContemporary Displays and Exhibition-Making Practices
'The artwork is no longer the integral part of the exhibition; to curate an exhibition is to curate an experience.' Bridging the gap between curatorial practices and spatial display methods, this book considers the impact of exhibition design not only on the material structure of the exhibition but also on its narrative potential. Exhibition Matters-an international collection of writings fro…
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Cities in the SkyThe Quest to Build the World's Tallest Skyscrapers
From one of the world’s top experts on the economics of skyscrapersa “fascinating” (Daily Mail, London) and “informative” (Publishers Weekly) account of the ever-growing quest for super tall buildings across the globe. The world’s skyscrapers have brought us awe and wonder, and yet they remain controversialfor their high costs, shadows, and overt grandiosity…
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Lineages of the Global CityOccult Modernism and the Spiritualization of Democ…
The forgotten history of the occult foundations of the early twentieth-century global city. War, revolution, genocide, rebellion, slump. The economic and political turmoil of the early twentieth century seemed destined to rip asunder the ties that bound colonizers and the colonized to one another. The upheaval represented an opportunity, and not just to nationalists who imagined new homelands …
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The Dark AgesA Comprehensive Chronicle of Europe's Turbulent Transformation f…
In The Dark Ages, Charles Oman delivers a detailed and compelling survey of the centuries following the fall of Rome—an era marked by invasions, shifting kingdoms, cultural upheaval, and the slow rebuilding of European society. This restored edition presents Oman's authoritative narrative in a clear, modern format, preserving his insightful analysis of political developments, military history…
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HumanizeA Maker's Guide to Designing Our Cities
From one of the world’s most innovative designers comes a fiercely passionate manifesto on why so many places have become miserable and boring and how we can make them better for everyonefeaturing hundreds of photographs and illustrations that will change how you see the world around you. We are living through a global catastrophe. Buildings affect how we feel, moment by moment, day by d…
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Architettura Open Source reloadedVerso una progettazione aperta
Nel Novecento l'architettura è stata spesso associata alla figura dell'architetto- eroe, che plasma da solo intere città. Oggi invece viviamo un momento di profonda trasformazione: l'approccio collaborativo emerge con forza. L'Architettura Open Source si connette ai meccanismi sia del mondo naturale sia dell'Intelligenza Artificiale. Nel Novecento, l'architettura è stata spesso associata all…
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