Spirit And Place

Author : Christopher Day
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136365249

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Built environment surrounds us for 90% of our lives but only now are we realising its influence on the environment, our health, and how we think, feel and behave both individually and socially. Spirit & Place shows how to work towards a sustainable environment through socially inclusive processes of placemaking, and how to create places that are nourishing psychologically and physically, to soul and spirit as well as body. This book's unique arguments identify important, but often unrecognised, principles and illustrate their applicability in a wide range of situations, price-ranges and climates. It shows how to reconcile the apparently incompatible demands of environmental, economic and social sustainability; how to moderate climate to make places of delight, and realign social pressures so places both support society and maximise economic viability. Thought provoking and easy to understand, Christopher Day uses everyday examples to relate his theories to practice and our experience.

Author : Patrick Summers
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226095240

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The Spirit of This Place by Patrick Summers Pdf

Artists today are at a crossroads. With funding for the arts and humanities endowments perpetually under attack, and school districts all over the United States scrapping their art curricula altogether, the place of the arts in our civic future is uncertain to say the least. At the same time, faced with the problems of the modern world—from water shortages and grave health concerns to global climate change and the now constant threat of terrorism—one might question the urgency of this waning support for the arts. In the politically fraught world we live in, is the “felt” experience even something worth fighting for? In this soul-searching collection of vignettes, Patrick Summers gives us an adamant, impassioned affirmative. Art, he argues, nurtures freedom of thought, and is more necessary now than ever before. As artistic director of the Houston Grand Opera, Summers is well positioned to take stock of the limitations of the professional arts world—a world where the conversation revolves almost entirely around financial questions and whose reputation tends toward elitism—and to remind us of art’s fundamental relationship to joy and meaning. Offering a vehement defense of long-form arts in a world with a short attention span, Summers argues that art is spiritual, and that music in particular has the ability to ask spiritual questions, to inspire cathartic pathos, and to express spiritual truths. Summers guides us through his personal encounters with art and music in disparate places, from Houston’s Rothko Chapel to a music classroom in rural China, and reflects on musical works he has conducted all over the world. Assessing the growing canon of new operas performed in American opera houses today, he calls for musical artists to be innovative and brave as opera continues to reinvent itself. This book is a moving credo elucidating Summers’s belief that the arts, especially music, help us to understand our own humanity as intellectual, aesthetic, and ultimately spiritual.

Author : Susan Owens
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780500775592

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Shortlisted for the Apollo Awards Book of the Year 2020 When we look at the landscape, what do we see? Do we experience the view over a valley or dappled sunlight on a path in the same way as those who were there before us? We have altered the countryside in innumerable ways over the last thousand years, and never more so than in the last hundred. How are these changes reflected in and affected by art and literature? English landscape painting is often said to be an 18th-century invention. But when we look for representations of the countryside in British art and literature, we find a story that begins with Old English poetry and treads a winding path up to the present day. Spirit of Place offers a panoramic view of the British landscape as seen through the eyes of writers and artists from Bede and the Gawain-poet to Gainsborough, Austen, Turner and Constable; from Paul Nash and Barbara Hepworth to Robert Macfarlane. Guided by these distinctive voices and imagery, and with a sharp eye for an anecdote, Susan Owens elucidates how the British landscape has been framed, reimagined and reshaped by generations. Each account, whether limned in a psalter, jotted down in a journal or constructed from sticks and stones, holds up a mirror to its maker and their world.

Author : Samuel Shem
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101617021

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The Spirit of the Place by Samuel Shem Pdf

From the bestselling author of the The House of God comes an ambitious novel about the complicated relationships between mothers and sons, doctors and patients, the past and the present, and love and death... Settled into a relationship with an Italian yoga instructor and working in Europe, Dr. Orville Rose's peace is shaken by his mother's death. On his return to Columbia, a Hudson River town of quirky people and “plagued by breakage,” he learns that his mother has willed him a large sum of money, her 1981 Chrysler, and her Victorian house in the center of town. There's one odd catch: he must live in her house for one year and thirteen days. As he struggles with his decision—to stay and meet the terms of the will or return to his life in Italy—Orville reconnects with family, reunites with former friends, and comes to terms with old rivals and bitter memories. In the process he’ll discover his own history, as well as his mother’s, and finally learn what it really means to be a healer, and to be healed.

Author : Bill Noble
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781643260280

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“Delve into this beautiful book. You’ll come away sharing his passion for the beauty that gardens bring into our lives.” —Sigourney Weaver, environmentalist, actor, trustee of New York Botanical Garden How does an individual garden relate to the larger landscape? How does it connect to the natural and cultural environment? Does it evoke a sense of place? In Spirit of Place, Bill Noble—a lifelong gardener, and the former director of preservation for the Garden Conservancy—helps gardeners answer these questions by sharing how they influenced the creation of his garden in Vermont. Throughout, Noble reveals that a garden is never created in a vacuum but is rather the outcome of an individual’s personal vision combined with historical and cultural forces. Sumptuously illustrated, this thoughtful look at the process of garden-making shares insights gleaned over a long career that will inspire you to create a garden rich in context, personal vision, and spirit.

Author : Chad Oppenheim
Publisher : Tra Publishing
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781732297821

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Spirit of Place by Chad Oppenheim Pdf

Spirit of Place is the first monograph on the work of Chad Oppenheim and his firm, Oppenheim Architects, and features seven of the award-winning firm’s projects, with a focus on how the architectural design honors the natural elements of each site. Oppenheim Architects’ first monograph, Spirit of Place, explores seven of the award-winning architectural firm’s acclaimed projects, located in beautiful settings across the globe. The book includes 120 stunning photographs and minimal text. The projects presented range in scale and location from homes in the Bahamas and Aspen to a resort in the Jordanian desert. The images, like the architecture, focus on and celebrate the natural world, illustrating Chad Oppenheim’s design philosophy that “form follows feeling.” Through passion and sensitivity towards man and nature, the firm designs monumental yet silent work that invokes a site’s inherent power. “For thousands of years, civilization has constructed its buildings on the land. We prefer to construct our buildings with the land, where architecture recedes and becomes a frame,” writes Chad Oppenheim. The projects are categorized by each site’s predominant natural element: dune, desert, stream, river, sea, canyon, and peninsula. The volume includes text by Chad Oppenheim, Val K. Warke, Antón García-Abril, and Mark Jarzombek. This book will appeal to readers interested in architecture, photography, nature, sustainability, and the environment.

Author : Ellen Miles
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338212662

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Spirit (The Puppy Place #50) by Ellen Miles Pdf

Welcome to the Puppy Place -- where every puppy finds a home! While walking in a snowstorm, Lizzie sees two dark eyes and a little black nose. It's Spirit, a white German shepherd puppy! Spirit's owners found new homes for all of his brothers and sisters, but they still don't have a place for him. Can Lizzie find a forever home for this helpful little pup?

Author : Loren Cruden
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995-09
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0892815116

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The Spirit of Place by Loren Cruden Pdf

All of Earth’s life is interconnected and sacred. An awareness of that sacred relationship opens a direct path to spiritual understanding. These powerful techniques join mind, will, spirit, and intuition to the plants, animals, and minerals sharing our world, aligning the practitioner in a deeper relationship with life’s sacred matrix.

Author : Anne Fadiman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1998-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781429931113

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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman Pdf

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy. Lia's parents and her doctors both wanted what was best for Lia, but the lack of understanding between them led to tragedy. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, and the Salon Book Award, Anne Fadiman's compassionate account of this cultural impasse is literary journalism at its finest. ______ Lia Lee 1982-2012 Lia Lee died on August 31, 2012. She was thirty years old and had been in a vegetative state since the age of four. Until the day of her death, her family cared for her lovingly at home.

Author : John McQuarrie
Publisher : Magic Light Pub.
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-18
Category : Earth (Planet)
ISBN : 1894673689

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Earth, Spirit of Place by John McQuarrie Pdf

"Featuring the photographs of Chris Hadfield."

Author : Lucy Maud Montgomery
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Prince Edward Island
ISBN : UOM:39015008879184

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Author : Bob Krist
Publisher : Watson-Guptill Publications
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0817458948

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Spirit of Place by Bob Krist Pdf

The natural synergy between photography and travel is explored in these exquisite, lavishly illustrated, and instructive pages that demonstrate how artful camera use can record the true spirit of a place. On this thrilling worldwide tour, the author shows traveling nonprofessional photographers how to bring home memorable pictures of people, festivals, wildlife, architecture—even aerial and underwater shots. Directions are detailed for composing landscapes with a variety of lenses, working in both natural and artificial lilght. Valuable tips tell how to pack and carry photo equipment, deal with airport and hotel security, and prepare for various locations and weather conditions.

Author : Harry Launce Garnham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015009420509

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Maintaining the Spirit of Place by Harry Launce Garnham Pdf

Author : Philip Marsden
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781847086297

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Rising Ground by Philip Marsden Pdf

When Philip Marsden moved to a remote, creekside farmhouse in Cornwall, the intensity of his response took him aback. It led him to wonder why we react so strongly to certain places and set him off on a journey on foot westwards to Land's End through one of the most myth-rich regions of Europe. From the Neolithic ritual landscape of Bodmin Moor to the Arthurian traditions at Tintagel, from the mysterious china-clay region to the granite tors and tombs of the far south-west, Marsden assembles a chronology of Britain's attitude to place. In archives, he uncovers the life and work of other enthusiasts before him - medieval chroniclers and Tudor topographers, eighteenth-century antiquarians, post-industrial poets and abstract painters. Drawing also on his travels from further afield, Marsden reveals that the shape of the land lies not just at the heart of our own history but of man's perennial struggle to belong on this earth.

Author : Uncle Warren Taggart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0646879308

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Spirit of Place by Uncle Warren Taggart Pdf

Uncle Warren Taggart is a Wonnarua elder and teacher of Aboriginal culture. In 2021, he collaborated with photographers Carol Carter and Allan Chawner to publish 'Spirit of Place: Aboriginal Sites of the Hunter Region', a beautifully presented book which documents important Aboriginal sites through a large section of Country - Wonnarua, Darkinung, Awabakal, Dharug - in the Hunter Region. This exhibition at Singleton Arts + Cultural Centre presents many of the fascinating photographic images that are included in 'Spirit of Place' alongside a selection of cultural objects from Uncle Warren's personal collection.