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População e ambienteDesafios à sustentabilidade
A Série Sustentabilidade surgiu a partir da análise do panorama histórico com o inicio do conceito de desenvolvimento sustentável formulado pela Comissão Brundtland em 1970 até o evento da Agenda 21 com enorme influência no mundo em todas as áreas, reforçando o movimento ambientalista. A série, escrita por renomados pesquisadores nacionais que apresentam análises do impacto do concei…
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Prácticas artísticas y acciones colectivas en Bogotá: nuevas espacialidade…
Durante las últimas décadas han tenido lugar numerosas iniciativas artísticas en Bogotá, que han logrado cierta visibilidad y significación, gracias a su capacidad de incidir en la producción de espacios públicos, por su papel en la visibilización de sectores marginados de la ciudad, por la participación de sus agentes en las pugnas por la garantía de los derechos culturales de ampl…
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Munich and MemoryArchitecture, Monuments, and the Legacy of the Third Reich
Munich, notorious in recent history as the capital of the Nazi movement, is the site of Gavriel Rosenfeld's stimulating inquiry into the German collective memory of the Third Reich. Rosenfeld shows, with the aid of a wealth of photographs, how the city's urban form developed after 1945 in direct reflection of its inhabitants' evolving memory of the Second World War and the Nazi dictatorship. I…
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Old California HousesPortraits and Stories
Old California Houses: Portraits and Stories by Marion Randall Parsons is both an art book and a work of historical imagination. Originating in a painter’s sketching tour, the volume preserves vignettes of California’s architectural and cultural past—old adobes, mission-era ranch houses, miners’ boarding places, schools, churches, and grand mansions—through portrai…
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Middle Eastern CitiesA Symposium on Ancient, Islamic, and Contemporary Middle…
Middle Eastern Cities: A Symposium on Ancient, Islamic, and Contemporary Middle Eastern Urbanism is an essential exploration of the enduring relationship between urban centers and their surrounding societies throughout the history of the Middle East. This collection emerges from a landmark symposium held at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1966, which convened leading scholars across …
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The Word in StoneThe Role of Architecture in the National Socialist Ideology
The Word in Stone: The Role of Architecture in the National Socialist Ideology by Robert R. Taylor examines how Hitler’s regime sought to transform the built environment into a material language of power, identity, and control. Far more than background to political history, architecture stood at the very center of the Nazi project: a means of embodying ideology in stone and concrete, maki…
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TokyoA Spatial Anthropology
Tokyo: destroyed by the earthquake of 1923 and again by the firebombing of World War II. Does anything remain of the old city? The internationally known Japanese architectural historian Jinnai Hidenobu set out on foot to rediscover the city of Tokyo. Armed with old maps, he wandered through back alleys and lanes, trying to experience the city's space as it had been lived by earlier residents. H…
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StreetsCritical Perspectives on Public Space
This collection of twenty-one essays, written by colleagues and former students of the architectural historian Spiro Kostof (1936-1991), presents case studies on Kostof's model of urban forms and fabrics. The essays are remarkably diverse: the range includes pre-Columbian Inca settlements, fourteenth-century Cairo, nineteenth-century New Orleans, and twentieth-century Tokyo. Focusing on individ…
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Frank Lloyd WrightEurope and Beyond
Ask Americans to think of a famous architect and the person they are most likely to name is Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright's work, his reputation, and his long and colorful career have made him an icon of modern American architecture. But despite his status as America's most celebrated architect, his influence throughout an active practice spanning the years 1896 to 1959 is so wide and complex that…
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Midcentury Modern StyleAn Approachable Guide to Inspired Rooms
“Karen Nepacena surveys the midcentury modern aesthetic with panache in this vibrant, accessible bookperfect for retro-vibe home makeover inspiration....Midcentury Modern Style is a smart, fun guide to the major design concepts of a popular retro style.”Foreword Reviews This accessible guide shows how easy it is to bring midcentury modern touches to every room in the house whether …
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