Galina Balashova

Author : Philipp Meuser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Architects
ISBN : 3869223553

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Galina Balashova by Philipp Meuser Pdf

This publication on the work of the Russian architect Galina Balashova presents a unique collection of designs for Soviet cosmonautics. These include plans and design drawings for both Soyuz capsules and space stations such as Salyut and Mir. Balashova acted as a consultant to the Buran programme, the Soviet equivalent of the US American Space Shuttle. Faced with the duty of demonstrating architectural creativity in manned space capsules, Balashova's remarkable accomplishments when entrusted with this unprecedented task make an impressive read. Striving for harmony and beauty, the architect strikes an emotional chord in the high-tech world of propulsion rockets, laboratories and survival equipment. Therefore, it is due to Balashova's talent that a unique chapter has been added to Soviet architectural history. Her exceptional achievements, including designs for medals and emblems, are still scarcely known today - even in Russia. Galina Balashova currently lives in Korolyov, near Moscow.

Author : Philipp Meuser
Publisher : Dom Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3869229004

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Galina Balashova by Philipp Meuser Pdf

This monograph on the work of the Russian architect Galina Balashova presents a unique collection of designs for Soviet cosmonautics. These include plans and engineering drawings for Soyuz capsules and the space stations Salyut and Mir. Balashova acted as a consultant to the Buran program, the Soviet counterpart to the American Space Shuttle. Trilingual in English, Russian, German

Author : Annalisa Dominoni
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030609429

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Design of Supporting Systems for Life in Outer Space by Annalisa Dominoni Pdf

This book is a rich source of information on design research and solutions for the support and development of space missions. International experiences and researches are presented in order to cast light on the role of space design in improving living and working conditions in outer space and to highlight the particularities of the necessary design skills, taking into account specific requirements and constraints. The challenge facing designers is how to approach environmentally extreme conditions in such a way that they are transformed from limitations into opportunities. The author has herself developed products that have been tested during on-orbit experiments on the International Space Station. Drawing on this unique experience and other case studies, the author proposes a new design methodology for space and demonstrates how the discipline of design is able to generate innovation thanks to the strong capacity of visioning. Ultimately this will lead to the development of further new equipment for astronauts that will facilitate space travel. While the book is intended primarily for students and researchers, it is also of interest for a broad readership attracted by space, innovation, and future scenarios.

Author : Anna Sokolina
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000387360

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The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture by Anna Sokolina Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture illuminates the names of pioneering women who over time continue to foster, shape, and build cultural, spiritual, and physical environments in diverse regions around the globe. It uncovers the remarkable evolution of women’s leadership, professional perspectives, craftsmanship, and scholarship in architecture from the preindustrial age to the present. The book is organized chronologically in five parts, outlining the stages of women’s expanding engagement, leadership, and contributions to architecture through the centuries. It contains twenty-nine chapters written by thirty-three recognized scholars committed to probing broader topographies across time and place and presenting portraits of practicing architects, leaders, teachers, writers, critics, and other kinds of professionals in the built environment. The intertwined research sets out debates, questions, and projects around women in architecture, stimulates broader studies and discussions in emerging areas, and becomes a catalyst for academic programs and future publications on the subject. The novelty of this volume is in presenting not only a collection of case studies but in broadening the discipline by advancing an incisive overview of the topic as a whole. It is an invaluable resource for architectural historians, academics, students, and professionals.

Author : Paul Meuser
Publisher : Dom Publishers
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3869226706

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Moon by Paul Meuser Pdf

"Architecture on the moon is no longer a naive fantasy dreamt up by space-flight pioneers. In fact, various building typologies for lunar architecture have emerged in recent years. Their prototypes are being tested in hostile regions on Earth and are waiting to be deployed on the moon. This book's publication marks the 50th anniversary of the first human landing on the moon. It examines all artefacts that we have sent to the moon, from bizarre technologies to habitation modules for astronauts. This architectural guide thus offers a full retrospective of the history of lunar missions, from the space race during the Cold War through to the missions being prepared by China, India, and Israel in the present day. All of these are considered under the rubric of architecture. At the same time, efforts to commercialise space travel have come to the fore in recent years. New players have entered the stage, competing to utilise the moon's vast and untouched resources. This book also presents essays by and interviews with space experts, including a discussion with Galina Balashova, renowned architect of the Soviet space programme, and a piece by Alexander Glushko, son of Valentin Glushko, legendary head engineer of the Soviet space programme. Brian Harvey, Gurbir Singh, and Olga Bannova provide an insight into current and future developments in lunar architecture, writing on China, India, and the US, respectively" -- DOM Publishers.

Author : Martin Banham,James Gibbs,Femi Osofisan,Kimani Njogu
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781847010988

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Ngũgĩ Wa Thiongʼo & Wole Soyinka by Martin Banham,James Gibbs,Femi Osofisan,Kimani Njogu Pdf

Directors and collaborators assess and comment on the production of plays by West Africa's Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka and East Africa's most influential author Ngugi wa Thiong'o.

Author : Balashova, G.A.
Publisher : MeaBooks Inc
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781988391021

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Ethiopian literature (in amharic) by Balashova, G.A. Pdf

The Reader includes sample works of modern writers starting with the first story by Afewerk Ghebre Jesus written in 1908 up to the writings of the early 2000s, which continue Amharic literature in various genres. The Chrestomathy is supplemented with linguistic and cultural comments of lexical, grammatical and ethno-cultural nature. Short biographies of the writers are included. Ethiopian literature is justly considered young, though it is based on a very old cultural foundation. Its major benefit is the focus on an individual person displaying moral integrity and unity with the environment.

Author : Mark Hinchman,Elyssa Yoneda
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351685276

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Interior Design Masters by Mark Hinchman,Elyssa Yoneda Pdf

Interior Design Masters contains 300 biographical entries of people who have significantly impacted design. They are the people, historical and contemporary, that students and practitioners should know. Coverage starts in the late Renaissance, with a focus on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book has five sections, with the entries alphabetical in each, so it can serve as a history textbook and a reference guide. The seventeeth- and eighteenth-century section covers figures from Thomas Chippendale to Horace Walpole. The nineteenth-century section includes William Morris and Candace Wheeler. The early twentieth-century section presents modernism’s design heroes, including Marcel Breuer, Eileen Gray, and Gilbert Rohde. The post-World War II designers range from Madeleine Castaing to Raymond Loewy. The final contemporary section includes Ron Arad and the Bouroullec brothers. These are the canonical figures who belong to any design history. The book also contains less well-known figures who deserve attention, such as Betty Joel, the British art deco furniture designer; Paul Veysseyre, the Frenchman active in China in the 1930s; and more recently Lanzavecchia-Wai, the Italian-Singaporean duo whose work ranges from health care to helicopters. Global in its coverage, the book is richly illustrated with over 600 black-and-white and color photographs.

Author : Marc Blancher,Marc Bonner,Colleen Boyle,Martin Butler,Jörg Hartmann,Alexander Hauk,Sophia Hauk,Thomas Hensel,Matthew H. Hersch,Ansgar Oswald,Nils Daniel Peiler,Umberto Rossi
Publisher : Neofelis Verlag
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783958082632

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We Are All Astronauts by Marc Blancher,Marc Bonner,Colleen Boyle,Martin Butler,Jörg Hartmann,Alexander Hauk,Sophia Hauk,Thomas Hensel,Matthew H. Hersch,Ansgar Oswald,Nils Daniel Peiler,Umberto Rossi Pdf

"We are all astronauts", the American architect and thinker Richard Buckminster Fuller wrote in 1968 in his book Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, where he compared Earth to a spaceship, provided only with exhaustible resources while flying through space. These words show the presence the phenomenon of the astronaut and the cosmonaut had in the public mind from the second half of the twentieth century on: Buckminster Fuller was able to drive his point home by asking his audience to identify with one of the most prominent figures in the public sphere then: the space traveler. At the same time, Buckminster Fuller's words themselves seem to have played a significant role in further shaping the space-exploring human as a symbol and an image of humankind in general. The twelve contributions in this book by authors from the fields of literature, music, politics, history, the visual arts, film, computer games, comics, social sciences, and media theory track the development, changes and dynamics of this symbol by analyzing the various images of the astronaut and the cosmonaut as constructed throughout the different decades of space exploration, from its beginning to the present day.

Author : Lars Berge,Irma Taddia
Publisher : libreriauniversitaria.it ed.
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9788862923637

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Themes in Modern African History and Culture by Lars Berge,Irma Taddia Pdf

Author : Rick Heinrich
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480885738

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Red Moon by Rick Heinrich Pdf

JULY 1969. Apollo 11's lunar module Eagle has crashed against the Sea of Tranquility killing astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. As Michael Collins returns to Earth alone, the country mourns and then demands answers; NASA and the United States space program is thrown into turmoil. ON the other side of the world the Soviet Union re-energize their own lunar program and race to launch a mission and upstage the wounded Americans - but can they navigate their own political and technical challenges in time? WHO will win the race to safely land a man on the MOON?

Author : Siegbert Uhlig,David Appleyard,Alessandro Bausi,Wolfgang Hahn,Steven Kaplan
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10
Category : Ethiopia
ISBN : 9783643908926

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Ethiopia by Siegbert Uhlig,David Appleyard,Alessandro Bausi,Wolfgang Hahn,Steven Kaplan Pdf

ETHIOPIA is a compendium on Ethiopia and Northeast Africa for travellers, students, businessmen, people interested in Africa, policymakers and organisations. In this book 85 specialists from 15 countries write about the land of our fossil ancestor `Lucy', about its rock-hewn churches and national parks, about the coexistence of Christians and Muslims, and about strange cultures, but also about contemporary developments and major challenges to the region. Across ten chapters they describe the land and people, its history, cultures, religions, society and politics, as well as recent issues and unique destinations, documented with tables, maps, further reading suggestions and photos.

Author : Christina Bartz,Jens Ruchatz,Eva Wattolik
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839464793

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Food - Media - Senses by Christina Bartz,Jens Ruchatz,Eva Wattolik Pdf

Food is more than just nutrition. Its preparation, presentation and consumption is a multifold communicative practice which includes the meal's design and its whole field of experience. How is food represented in cookbooks, product packaging or in paintings? How is dining semantically charged? How is the sensuality of eating treated in different cultural contexts? In order to acknowledge the material and media-related aspects of eating as a cultural praxis, experts from media studies, art history, literary studies, philosophy, experimental psychology, anthropology, food studies, cultural studies and design studies share their specific approaches.

Author : Sumita Singha
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781003822509

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Thrive by Sumita Singha Pdf

Architecture needs women. How can the built environment be designed without the expert input of half the population? In spite of the significant number of women choosing to study architecture as undergraduates, once qualified women remain in the minority. As professionals their expertise is often overlooked, their work devalued and their contribution to the canon forgotten. Yet women’s work is critical to the sustainability of a profession that must aspire to design high-quality buildings for the whole of society. How can architecture attract, recruit and retain women? And how can women find ways to thrive within it? Underpinned by inclusion, internationalism and intersectionality, this practical guide looks back as well as forward, exploring the history of women working in architecture as well as interrogating the contemporary landscape. It provides guidance, tips and examples for navigating key points in an architect’s career, including education, practice, projects and promotion. Inspiring case studies of women and women-led practices consider what success means, and how to negotiate a route to a fruitful career and a balanced life as an architect. The book covers women architects from all walks of life, all sizes of practice and from all over the world, including Jeanne Gang, Yasmeen Lari and Anupama Kundoo as well as many other historical and contemporary women architects and emerging practices. Featuring guidance on: Understanding the barriers and history of women in architecture Expanding the opportunities and visibility of women in leading roles The importance of role models and mentoring. With a foreword by Jane Duncan OBE PPRIBA.

Author : Sandra Häuplik-Meusburger,Sheryl Bishop
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030697402

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Space Habitats and Habitability by Sandra Häuplik-Meusburger,Sheryl Bishop Pdf

This book explores creative solutions to the unique challenges inherent in crafting livable spaces in extra-terrestrial environments. The goal is to foster a constructive dialogue between the researchers and planners of future (space) habitats. The authors explore the diverse concepts of the term Habitability from the perspectives of the inhabitants as well as the planners and social sciences. The book provides an overview of the evolution and advancements of designed living spaces for manned space craft, as well as analogue research and simulation facilities in extreme environments on Earth. It highlights how various current and future concepts of Habitability have been translated into design and which ones are still missing. The main emphasis of this book is to identify the important factors that will provide for well-being in our future space environments and promote creative solutions to achieving living spaces where humans can thrive. Selected aspects are discussed from a socio-spatial professional background and possible applications are illustrated. Human factors and habitability design are important topics for all working and living spaces. For space exploration, they are vital. While human factors and certain habitability issues have been integrated into the design process of manned spacecraft, there is a crucial need to move from mere survivability to factors that support thriving. As of today, the risk of an incompatible vehicle or habitat design has already been identified by NASA as recognized key risk to human health and performance in space. Habitability and human factors will become even more important determinants for the design of future long-term and commercial space facilities as larger and more diverse groups occupy off-earth habitats. The book will not only benefit individuals and organizations responsible for manned space missions and mission simulators, but also provides relevant information to designers of terrestrial austere environments (e.g., remote operational and research facilities, hospitals, prisons, manufacturing). In addition it presents general insights on the socio-spatial relationship which is of interest to researchers of social sciences, engineers and architects.