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Design TechnicsArchaeologies of Architectural Practice
Leading scholars historicize and theorize technology’s role in architectural design Although the question of technics pervades the contemporary discipline of architecture, there are few critical analyses on the topic. Design Technics fills this gap, arguing that the technical dimension of design has often been flattened into the broader celebratory rhetoric of innovation. Bringing toget…
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Seizing JerusalemThe Architectures of Unilateral Unification
After seizing Jerusalem’s eastern precincts from Jordan at the conclusion of the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel unilaterally unified the city and plunged into an ambitious building program, eager to transform the very meaning of one of the world’s most emotionally charged urban spaces. The goal was as simple as it was controversial: to both Judaize and modernize Jerusalem. Seizing Jer…
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Architecture's Historical TurnPhenomenology and the Rise of the Postmodern
Architecture’s Historical Turn traces the hidden history of architectural phenomenology, a movement that reflected a key turning point in the early phases of postmodernism and a legitimating source for those architects who first dared to confront history as an intellectual problem and not merely as a stylistic question. Jorge Otero-Pailos shows how architectural phenomenology radically t…
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Il castello di Serravalle
Il sito di Serravalle, in valle di Blenio, è stato strappato dall'oblio con un progetto interdisciplinare unico nel suo genere, comprendente indagini archeologiche sistematiche (2002-2006) e un progetto di valorizzazione (2006-2022). I risultati raggiunti sono importanti per la storia non solo del sito, ma anche per gli studi castrensi in generale. Le migliaia di reperti portati alla luce hann…
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Die Entdeckung der GesellschaftSattelzeit in Europa, 1770-1850
Was ist "Gesellschaft?" Christof Dipper beschreibt und analysiert die Entdeckung dessen, was wir als "Gesellschaft" verstehen. In den 80 Jahren zwischen 1770 und 1850 überschritt die deutsche Gesellschaft eine Schwelle und veränderte sich drastisch. Vielfach ist diese als "Sattelzeit" (Reinhart Koselleck) beschriebene Übergangsphase skizziert worden. Doch Christof Dipper schlägt mit seiner …
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City and CampusAn Architectural History of South Bend, Notre Dame, and Saint …
City and Campus tells the rich history of a Midwest industrial town and its two academic institutions through the buildings that helped bring these places to life. John W. Stamper paints a narrative portrait of South Bend and the campuses of the University of Notre Dame and Saint Mary's College from their founding and earliest settlement in the 1830s through the boom of the Roaring Twenties. I…
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La montagna di Carlo MollinoArchitetture e progetti nelle Alpi
Abitualmente descritta come una delle tante"passioni" dell'eclettico architetto torinese, la montagna per Carlo Molino (1905-1973) è in realtà uno strardinario laboratorio sperimentale ed estremo, che ha contribuito in modo sostanziale a delineare il suo fare progettuale. Lo studio inedito dei progetti montani di Carlo Molino in relazione al milieu sociale e culturale dell'epoca, alle influen…
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Strongholds of the Border ReiversFortifications of the Anglo-Scottish Border …
A detailed examination of the Border fortresses involved in raids, or 'reives', on both sides of the Anglo-Scottish border in the 13th - 17th centuries. In the year 1296, Edward I of England launched a series of vicious raids across the Anglo-Scottish Border in his attempt to annexe Scotland. The Scots retaliated and the two countries were plunged into 300 years of war in which the Borderland …
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Beyond GreenwaysThe Next Step for City Trails and Walking Routes
If your doorstep were a trailhead, how would you experience your city? With this newfound freedom, you might head in a new direction—walk to a restaurant in an area you've never explored, begin to savor your daily walk to work, or set out with a daypack to the city edges for fresh air and nature. Despite the known health benefits of routine walking, many people don't have pleasant, safe place…
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The Freedom of the City
"Congestion is the life of the city . . . it is what we came for, what we stay for, what we hunger for", wrote Charles Downing Lay, prominent American landscape architect and planner of the early 1920s. These words are relevant today as density and congestion are once again under siege, especially in our most productive and thriving cities. Published in 1926, The Freedom of the City by C…
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