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Architecture and ekphrasisSpace, time and the embodied description of the past
Architecture and ekphrasis examines how eighteenth-century prints and drawings of antique architecture operated as representations of thought. Using original archival material, it considers the idea of the past in the period, specifically how it was discovered and described, and investigates how space and time inform visual ekphrasis or descriptions of architecture. The idea of embodiment is us…
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- 9781526150288
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Grace and GravityArchitectures of the Figure
How do we live well? The first sentence of Grace and Gravity raises the fundamental question that constantly occupies our minds-and of all those who lived before us. Paradoxically, the impossibility of answering this question opens up the very room needed to find ways of living well. It is the gap where all disciplines fall short, where architecture does not fit its inhabitants, where economy i…
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- 9781350020825
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Writing ArchitecturesFicto-Critical Approaches
Architects and fiction writers share the same ambition: to imagine new worlds into being. Every architectural proposition is a kind of fiction before it becomes a built fact; likewise, every written fiction relies on the construction of a context in which a story can take place. This collection of essays explores what happens when fiction, experimental writing and criticism are combined and app…
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- 9781350137929
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- 1 online resource (264 pages)
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Modern Architecture and the SacredReligious Legacies and Spiritual Renewal
This edited volume, Modern Architecture and the Sacred, presents a timely reappraisal of the manifold engagements that modern architecture has had with 'the sacred'. It comprises fourteen individual chapters arranged in three thematic sections – Beginnings and Transformations of the Modern Sacred; Buildings for Modern Worship; and Semi-Sacred Settings in the Cultural Topography of Modernity. …
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- 9781350098725
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Future CitiesA Visual Guide
What might our cities look like in ten, twenty or fifty years? How may future cities face global challenges? Imagining the city of the future has long been an inspiration for many architects, artists and designers. This book examines how cities of the future have been visualised, what these projects sought to communicate and what the implications may be for us now. It provides a visual history …
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- 9781350011632
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The Tiny House Handbook
"This thought provoking book is a great resource for anyone considering joining the tiny house movement. It's all the information you need in one book! The author has done a phenomenal job blending real world experience, data and practical knowledge on all types of tiny homes." -Corinne Watson, Principle and Co-Founder, Tiny Homes of Maine "Charlie Wing's very readable Tiny House Handbook leads…
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Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans
Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans examines the hidden histories behind one of the nineteenth-century South's most famous maps: Norman's Chart of the Lower Mississippi River, created by surveyor Marie Adrien Persac before the Civil War and used for decades to guide the pilots of river vessels. Beyond its purely cartographic function, Persac's map depicted a world of a…
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SummandoLa arquitectura que nos contaron. Argentina: Décadas del 70, 80 y 90
La perspectiva histórica que da el transcurrir del tiempo otorga a toda producción cultural una comprensión más vasta e integral. La propuesta sobre la que versa Summando parte de entender que entre la arquitectura construida y el cÃrculo cultural desde el cual se realiza, se sostiene y se debate se encuentran los medios de difusión. Estos son la puerta por la cual entramos a una porción…
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- 9789508441751
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- 1 online resource (154 pages)
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Ciudades legiblesUna mirada desde el diseño de información y su contribuciÃ…
"Ciudades legibles: una mirada desde el diseño de información y su contribución para hacer mejores lugares es una obra en la que no solo se presentan los resultados de tres pasantÃas de investigación, sino también la descripción y recopilación de experiencias de ciudades legibles en todo el mundo a la luz de autores clave que han sentado las bases para estos ejercicios de diseño de la …
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- 9789586190503
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Historia de la arquitectura
Sugestivo resumen a partir de los primitivos monumentos megalÃticos hasta el funcionalismo contemporáneo, en el que se destacan las más luminosas lÃneas de influencia en la evolución de la arquitectura de Occidente en sus diversas etapas básicas.
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- 9786071638519
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