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In the Land of the PatriarchsDesign and Contestation in West Bank Settlements
2024 On The Brinck Book Award and Lecture Series, University of New Mexico 2024 PROSE Award, Architecture–Urban Planning, Association of American Publishers An on-the-ground account of the design and evolution of West Bank settlements, showing how one of the world's most contested landscapes was produced by unexpected conflicts and collaborations among widely divergent actors. Since capturi…
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La Roma di Augusto in 100 monumenti
L'universo di Roma antica sfugge a una decifrazione immediata. Il patrimonio sterminato di architetture, sculture, pitture e arti minori è letto spesso come un insieme di capolavori isolati, mirabilia estrapolati da ogni contesto. Andrea Carandini - uno dei massimi archeologi contemporanei, artefice di quello straordinario tour de force erudito e intellettuale che è l'Atlante di Roma antica -…
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After the GulagA History of Memory in Russia's Far North
From 1929 to 1958, hundreds of thousands of prisoners and exiles from across the Soviet Union were sent to the harsh yet resource-rich Komi Republic in Russia's Far North. When the Soviet Union collapsed, former prisoners sent their autobiographies to Komi's local branches of the anti-Stalinist Memorial Society and history museums. Using these previously unavailable personal records, alongside…
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Housing As If People MatteredSite Design Guidelines for the Planning of Mediu…
From the Introduction: Consider these two places: Walking into Green Acres, you immediately sense that you have entered an oasis-traffic noise left behind, negative urban distractions out of sight, children playing and running on the grass, adults puttering on plant-filled balconies. Signs of life and care for the environment abound. Innumerable social and physical clues communicate to visitors…
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Ecohábitat y territorios ancestrales: Nasa-páez y afrodescendientes
En el estudio del hábitat humano como sistema son pertinentes todas las acciones humanas que se desarrollan en un territorio, pero sobre todo las relaciones que se producen. Por lo tanto, el hábitat es un mundo construido y artificial, compuesto por elementos que interactúan entre sí. El hábitat como sistema de relaciones está definido por una tríada conceptual básica: naturaleza-socied…
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PAGONScandinavian Avant-Garde Architecture 1945-1956
Through the 1940s and 1950s, PAGON (Progressive Architects Group Oslo Norway) was an alliance of young CIAM-affiliated Norwegian architects known for their innovative joint projects. As a group, PAGON went on to become largely overlooked in the history of modern architecture, even though its individual members – which included Sverre Fehn, Jørn Utzon, Arne Korsmo, and Christian Norberg-Schul…
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Guía para proyectar espacios sustentablesApuntes para arquitectos y diseñad…
En la presente publicación se aborda el diseño de ambientes sustentables en arquitectura. Se presenta material de clases dictadas por el autor, escritos en prensa sobre sustentabilidad en arquitectura y casos de proyectos asesorados, con el fin de entregar información desde diversas perspectivas para abordar el tema de la manera más amplia posible. Así, lo que se constata en el mundo profe…
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Germania – Mit ausführlichen Erläuterungen und über 130 Fußnoten
Publius Cornelius Tacitus: Germania – Über Ursprung und Sitten der Germanen | Neuausgabe 2022 | Mit einem Vorwort des Herausgebers, Nachwort des Übersetzers und mehr als 130 erläuternden verlinkten Fußnoten | Tacitus' ›Germania‹ spielt eine ganz besondere Rolle in der Genese der deutschen Nation, denn sie bildete von Anbeginn das einzige konsistente ethnographische Werk über dieses V…
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Inventar en el fin del mundoOrígenes de la propiedad industrial y el sistema…
Esta publicación explora los orígenes del sistema de patentes de invención en Chile, con énfasis en los discursos, representaciones y prácticas de los principales agentes e inventores que participaron del sistema de propiedad industrial entre los años 1840 y 1880. Se documentan los adelantos técnicos introducidos en el país y la actitud del Estado respecto a la innovación nacional en p…
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A Critic WritesSelected Essays by Reyner Banham
Few twentieth-century writers on architecture and design have enjoyed the renown of Reyner Banham. Born and trained in England and a U.S. resident starting in 1976, Banham wrote incisively about American and European buildings and culture. Now readers can enjoy a chronological cross-section of essays, polemics, and reviews drawn from more than three decades of Banham's writings. The volume, whi…
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