Architectures Of Survival

Author : Adam Page
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526122605

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Architectures of survival is an original and innovative work of history that investigates the relationship between air war and urbanism in modern Britain. It asks how the development of airpower and the targeting of cities influenced perceptions of urban spaces and visions of urban futures from the interwar period into the Cold War, highlighting the importance of war and the anticipation of war in modern urban history. Airpower created a permanent threat to cities and civilians, and this book considers how architects, planners and government officials reframed bombing as an ongoing urban problem, rather than one contingent to a particular conflict. It draws on archival material from local and national government, architectural and town planning journals and cultural texts, to demonstrate how cities were recast as targets, and planning for defence and planning for development became increasingly entangled.

Author : Kongjian Yu,Mary Padua
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture and society
ISBN : 1864702516

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The Art of Survival by Kongjian Yu,Mary Padua Pdf

For thousands of years, people have struggled with the forces of nature to survive. The result is a landscape that reflects the balanced relationship between humans and the world around them. Generation after generation has been sustained by the knowledg

Author : Iain Jackson
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1780675801

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The Architecture School Survival Guide by Iain Jackson Pdf

Oops! Forgot to include a door! Every year new architecture students make the same mistakes, forgetting the same essential elements in their studio work. This handy guide provides basic tips and hints to help students make the most of their work. Advice ranges from the practical (how to orient a building on a site) to the thought-provoking (notions of taste) to just plain fun (how to dress, or not to dress, like an architect). All accompanied by the author's witty and beautiful illustrations. The Architecture Student's Survival Kit is a life-saving and entertaining resource for any first-year student or anyone thinking about studying architecture.

Author : George L. Fouke Ph.D.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496921758

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The Global Architecture of Survival: by George L. Fouke Ph.D. Pdf

Human civilization is in danger politically, economically, culturally and environmentally, of a final, tragic collapse. New ideas and resolutions are needed now as never before in history. Dr. Fouke has built upon Sir Henry Maine’s formula for how societies progress from “Societies of Status” to “Societies of Contract.” He has added a third stage: the Society of Dignity. While the Society of Contract preaches merit and ability, the Society of Dignity would expand on that to include the worth and dignity of every individual. Historically, not everyone is successful in the Society of Contract—the disabled, minorities, those born into poverty, the luckless. A Society of Dignity is a Society of Contract with Purpose. It represents affirmative rights for all, including a minimum standard of living—dignified and humane work, healthcare, education, freedom from hunger, freedom from discrimination—and these human rights are for all, regardless of merit and ability. The Society of Dignity is one that takes seriously the notion that “I am my brother’s keeper,” one that takes seriously the notion that “as you do unto the least of these, you do unto me.” Using as a case-study Jewish history and culture, and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a refracting lens, Dr. Fouke examines what a Society of Dignity would look like, and how we might achieve such a society in as many parts of the world as possible. His message is an urgent plea, because the economic, social, political and environmental deterioration of world civilization has become too obvious to ignore. It is clear that we need a new architecture of survival, and Dr. Fouke's unique interdisciplinary, pragmatic and positive perspective is just the kind of realistic idealism that is called for.

Author : Deyan Sudjic
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262369442

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Stalin's Architect by Deyan Sudjic Pdf

The story of Boris Iofan—designer of the iconic but unbuilt Palace of the Soviets—whose buildings came to define the language of Soviet architecture. What would an architect do for the chance to build the tallest building in the world? What would he sacrifice to stay alive in the midst of Stalin’s murderous purges? This is the first major publication on the remarkable life and career of Boris Iofan (1891–1976), state architect to Joseph Stalin. Iofan’s story is an insight into the troubled relationship of all successful architects with power. A gifted designer and a committed Communist, Iofan became the Soviet Union’s most celebrated architect after Alexei Rykov, Lenin’s successor, persuaded him to return to Moscow from Rome with his aristocratic wife, Olga Sasso-Ruffo. Iofan was at the heart of political life in the Soviet Union and his work is key to understanding its official culture. When Stalin’s henchmen crushed the architectural avant-garde, it was Iofan who created the new national style, from the grand projects he realized—including the House on the Embankment, a megastructure of 505 homes for the Soviet elite—to even more ambitious unbuilt projects, in particular the Palace of the Soviets, a baroque Stalinist dream whose image was reproduced throughout the Soviet Union. His career took him to New York and Paris, and to the destroyed city of Stalingrad. He was a friend of Frank Lloyd Wright; a rival of Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, and Erich Mendelsohn; and an enemy of Hitler’s architect Albert Speer, whose Nazi pavilion faced Iofan’s Soviet one at the Paris Expo in 1937. He kept silent when Stalin executed his friends, including Rykov; he also sacrificed his own talent by following the dictator’s instructions to the letter in creating the regime’s landmarks. Generously illustrated, with a wide range of previously unpublished material, this book is an exploration of architecture as an instrument of statecraft. It is an insight into the key moments of 20th-century politics and culture from a unique perspective, and the personal story of a remarkable individual who witnessed many of the most dramatic turning points of modern history.

Author : Kenneth Lancet Kaplan
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1878271830

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Pamphlet Architecture 14: Mosquitoes by Kenneth Lancet Kaplan Pdf

Architects Ken Kaplan and Ted Krueger present a blunt criticism of present social and political conditions. In response to the "dogmatic gas" that they perceive as invading today's architectural ideology, they attempt to find an antidote to the "deluded blather" through architectural experimentation.

Author : Garbis Armen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39076002687924

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An Architecture of Survival by Garbis Armen Pdf

Author : C. C. Troebst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Survival
ISBN : OCLC:500050828

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Art of Survival by C. C. Troebst Pdf

Author : Mark Wigley
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262731142

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The Architecture of Deconstruction by Mark Wigley Pdf

By locatingthe architecture already hidden within deconstructive discourse, Wigley opens up more radical possibilities for both architectureand deconstruction.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Art
ISBN : OCLC:901632645

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Survival Through Design by Anonim Pdf

Author : James Stevens Curl
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780191068164

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Making Dystopia by James Stevens Curl Pdf

In Making Dystopia, distinguished architectural historian James Stevens Curl tells the story of the advent of architectural Modernism in the aftermath of the First World War, its protagonists, and its astonishing, almost global acceptance after 1945. He argues forcefully that the triumph of architectural Modernism in the second half of the twentieth century led to massive destruction, the creation of alien urban landscapes, and a huge waste of resources. Moreover, the coming of Modernism was not an inevitable, seamless evolution, as many have insisted, but a massive, unparalled disruption that demanded a clean slate and the elimination of all ornament, decoration, and choice. Tracing the effects of the Modernist revolution in architecture to the present, Stevens Curl argues that, with each passing year, so-called 'iconic' architecture by supposed 'star' architects has become more and more bizarre, unsettling, and expensive, ignoring established contexts and proving to be stratospherically remote from the aspirations and needs of humanity. In the elite world of contemporary architecture, form increasingly follows finance, and in a society in which the 'haves' have more and more, and the 'have-nots' are ever more marginalized, he warns that contemporary architecture continues to stack up huge potential problems for the future, as housing costs spiral out of control, resources are squandered on architectural bling, and society fractures. This courageous, passionate, deeply researched, and profoundly argued book should be read by everyone concerned with what is around us. Its combative critique of the entire Modernist architectural project and its apologists will be highly controversial to many. But it contains salutary warnings that we ignore at our peril. And it asks awkward questions to which answers are long overdue.

Author : Grant Hildebrand
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999-06-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0520215052

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Origins of Architectural Pleasure by Grant Hildebrand Pdf

This engaging study discusses ways in which architectural forms emulate some archetypal settings that humans have found appealing--and useful for survival--from ancient times to the present. 119 photos. 6 line figures.

Author : Erik Trump,Jake Parcell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781666908213

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The Architecture of Survival by Erik Trump,Jake Parcell Pdf

The Architecture of Survival: Setting and Politics in Apocalypse Films offers a compelling exploration of how popular films and TV series from the past two decades use architectural spaces to comment on socio-political issues. The authors harness varied theoretical perspectives to demonstrate how, through set design, these works suggest that certain kinds of architecture support human development, community, and freedom, while other kinds separate us from our fellow humans and make democratic politics impossible. The clean lines of modernist design serve in films such as Contagion and Ex Machina as a metaphor for the sanitized, sterile politics that drive disaster. In The Walking Dead apocalypse survivors favor traditional architectural styles when rebuilding society, a choice that symbolically affirms their democratic principles. The massive walls and super-gentrification as seen in Elysium and Army of the Dead divide humanity, with those on one side wielding illegitimate power. Empty streetscapes intensify loneliness, alienation, and the destruction of civil norms. "Smart cities," offering a blend of high-tech surveillance and big data, erode social capital and community in Her and Transcendence. The book concludes with a somewhat hopeful glimpse into architecture’s potential to mitigate the catastrophic adverse effects of climate change, as seen in films like Zootopia.

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Publisher : Delene Kvasnicka www.survivalebooks.com
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Reference
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Author : Ryan Vice,Muhammad Shujaat Siddiqi
Publisher : Packt Publishing Ltd
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781849683432

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MVVM Survival Guide for Enterprise Architectures in Silverlight and WPF by Ryan Vice,Muhammad Shujaat Siddiqi Pdf

Eliminate unnecessary code by taking advantage of the MVVM pattern in Silverlight and WPF using this book and eBook ? less code, fewer bugs