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Vaastu ShaastraAn Ancient Technological Treatise
Vaastu Shaastra, the Vedic treatise on the principles of design and construction, is more intricate and elaborate than how the texts in circulation today understand it. These books erroneously attempt to provide readymade solutions in the form of drawings for designs of buildings, thereby fixing the architectural expression of the norms. What makes this book exclusive is its intensive discussio…
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Kem WeberMid-Century Furniture Designs for the Disney Studios
This book is a comprehensive overview of the Kem Weber designed Disney animation furniture that takes the reader on a journey from concept sketches and photos to interviews with legendary artists. Kem Weber, a well-known mid-century architect, influenced California style during the mid-twentieth century with buildings architecture, interior designs and furniture, including his famed Air Line ch…
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Mysticism and ArchitectureWittgenstein and the Meanings of the Palais Stonbor…
Mysticism and Architecture: Wittgenstein and the Palais Stonborough is a multi-disciplinary study of the Viennese palais that the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein helped design and build for his sister shortly after he abandoned philosophy for more practical activities and during the period that supposedly separates his "early" from his "late" philosophy. Weaving together discussions of a number…
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Building Nazi GermanyPlace, Space, Architecture, and Ideology
This richly illustrated book details the wide-ranging construction and urban planning projects launched across Germany after the Nazi Party seized power. Hagen and Ostergren show that it was far more than just an architectural and stylistic enterprise. Instead, it was a series of interrelated programs intended to thoroughly reorganize Germany's economic, cultural, and political landscapes. The …
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Facilitating Watershed ManagementFostering Awareness and Stewardship
Facilitating Watershed Management brings together myriad distinctive voices to create an experiential learning process drawn from the most important innovators in the field. Presenting an introduction to the diversity of tools (sociological, pedagogical, phenomenological) needed to implement watershed management in the real world trenches, the book helps move students and practitioners from bei…
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Reconstructing Past Monastic Life: Volume 1: Bioarchaeology, Life and DeathNe…
Explores health and lifeways in monastic communities, focusing on palaeopathological insights into well-being, disabilities, and burial practices across various periods. Monasticism is a form of religious life in which participants renounce worldly activities to dedicate themselves primarily to spiritual matters, living in small communities subject to a set of rules and isolated from the secula…
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Reconstructing Past Monastic Life: Volume 2: Diet, Landscape and Monastic Spa…
Explores the organization of diet, food practices, water management, and spatial use within historical monastic complexes and landscapes. Monasticism is a form of religious life in which participants renounce worldly activities to dedicate themselves primarily to spiritual matters, living in small communities subject to a set of rules and isolated from the secular world. Christian monasticism, …
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Imagining ModernityThe Architecture of Valentine Gunasekara
This book is a detailed study of the architecture of Valentine Gunasekara (1931-2017). It provides an innovative lens to understand the formation of a Ceylonese middle-class, which was inspired by the post-independence desire for modernity. Their experiments, values and dynamic social history are the framework for this research. Although neglected by his peers and marginalized by the prevalen…
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A cidade como negócio
A urbanização e a produção do espaço urbano são entendidas, na maioria das vezes, como simples resultantes do desenvolvimento econômico nas cidades. Nesta obra, o espaço é entendido não mais apenas como matéria-prima e meio de produção, mas como mercadoria que se valoriza segundo dinâmicas propriamente urbanas/espaciais e financeiras. Obra voltada para profissionais, professores e…
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Ecohábitat: Estudios interculturales en territorios ancestrales
Diversos estudios sobre el territorio se han orientado desde disciplinas como la sociología, la historia, la antropología, la biología, el derecho, entre otras, que han dado una mirada a múltiples factores del lugar y a mecanismos para analizar problemas situados. En este libro, sus lectores pueden encontrar una nueva manera de acercarse a este asunto desde el punto de vista de la Arquitect…
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