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Author : Camille Washington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 0935640991
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minn. and three other institutions between January 29, 2011 and March 18, 2012.
Author : Jean-Louis Bourgeois,Basil Davidson
Publisher : Aperture
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015035772204
In these images, white arabesques dance on red walls, and abacus-like mud colonnades shield farmers from sun and wind; mud is "twisted" into playful columns, sculpted into ornate facade relief, and massed into lofty towers of majestic mosques. This edition's new afterword discusses adobe politics in New Mexico, and illustrates the authors' own adobe home.
Author : David Long
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752480305
Delve into London's architectural curiositites and discover the unexpected gems waiting around every corner. London is full of extraordinary, enigmatic and, above all, unexpected buildings: a pirate castle in Camden, an art gallery made of shipping containers, underground ghost stations, and much more. Here David Long reveals the very best of the capital's extraordinary buildings, some of which are passed by every day, hidden in plain sight.
Author : Russell A. Potter
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0791426254
Viewing hip-hop as the postmodern successor to African American culture's Jazz modernism, this book examines hip-hop music's role in the history of the African-American experience.
Author : Doris Behrens-Abouseif,Stephen Vernoit
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004144422
This collection of essays provides a timely reassessment of nineteenth-century Islamic art and architecture. The essays demonstrate that the arts of that era were vibrant and diverse, making ingenious use of native traditions and materials or adopting imported conventions and new technologies. However, traditionalists, revivalists and modernists all referred in one way or another to an Islamic heritage, whether to reinvent, revive or reject it. Beginning with an historical introduction and an assessment of changing attitudes towards the visual arts the following essays provide case studies of architecture and art in Ottoman Turkey, Egypt, Morocco, sub-Saharan Africa, Iran, Central Asia, India and the Caribbean. They examine such issues as patronage, sources of artistic inspiration and responses to European art. The essays have a relevance and importance for our understanding of the societies and attitudes of that time, and have a direct bearing on the more general debate concerning cultural identity and the integration of modern ideas in the Muslim world. The book is richly illustrated with very many illustrations in black-and-white and in full colour.
Author : Nick Baker,Koen Steemers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134257416
To complement the critical and objective view gleaned from the study of some sixty buildings, this design manual has been developed to provide a more synthetic approach to the principles which lie behind successful daylight design. These principles are illustrated with examples drawn from the case study buildings. The emphasis throughout has been on practical methods to improve design, rather than techniques studied for any intrinsic interest. The book provides the necessary tools to assist the designer to provide well daylit interiors, and shows that good daylight design is not a restriction on architectural expression but, on the contrary, acts as an inspiration and foundation for good architecture.
Author : Maiken Umbach,Bernd-Rüdiger Hüppauf
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0804753431
Vernacular Modernism advocates a rethinking of the importance of the vernacular as part of the modernist discourse of place, from art to literature, from architectural to social practice.
Author : Amy Abugo Ongiri
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780813928593
Exploring the interface between the cultural politics of the Black Power and the Black Arts movements and the production of postwar African American popular culture, Amy Ongiri shows how the reliance of Black politics on an oppositional image of African Americans was the formative moment in the construction of "authentic blackness" as a cultural identity. While other books have adopted either a literary approach to the language, poetry, and arts of these movements or a historical analysis of them, Ongiri's captures the cultural and political interconnections of the postwar period by using an interdisciplinary methodology drawn from cinema studies and music theory. She traces the emergence of this Black aesthetic from its origin in the Black Power movement's emphasis on the creation of visual icons and the Black Arts movement's celebration of urban vernacular culture.
Author : Trevor Hugh James Marchand
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780253313683
Artful building practices in one of Africa's most beautiful places
Author : Ahmadreza Foruzanmehr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781315527116
With increases in global temperatures, the risk of overheating is expected to rise around the world. This results in a much higher dependency upon energy-intensive cooling systems and air-conditioners to provide thermal comfort, but how sustainable is this in a world where problems with the production of electricity are predicted? Vernacular houses in hot and dry central Iran have been adapted to the climate through passive cooling techniques, and this book provides a valuable assessment of the thermal performance of such housing. Shedding new light on the ability of traditional housing forms to provide thermal comfort, Thermal Comfort in Hot Dry Climates identifies the main cooling systems and methods in traditional houses in central Iran, and examines how architectural elements such as central courtyards, distinct seasonal rooms, loggias, basements and wind-catchers can contribute to the provision of thermal comfort in vernacular houses.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Vernacular architecture
ISBN : IND:30000008554085
Author : Jean-Louis Bourgeois
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015006331998
Author : Henning Klöter
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789004184930
An incisive, multi-faceted study of a Spanish-Chinese manuscript grammar of the seventeenth century, The Language of the Sangleys presents a fascinating, new chapter in the history of Chinese and general linguistics.
Author : Shannon Lee Dawdy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226351223
When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the world reacted with shock on seeing residents of this distinctive city left abandoned to the floodwaters. After the last rescue was completed, a new worry arose—that New Orleans’s unique historic fabric sat in ruins, and we had lost one of the most charming old cities of the New World. In Patina, anthropologist Shannon Lee Dawdy examines what was lost and found through the destruction of Hurricane Katrina. Tracking the rich history and unique physicality of New Orleans, she explains how it came to adopt the nickname “the antique city.” With innovative applications of thing theory, Patina studies the influence of specific items—such as souvenirs, heirlooms, and Hurricane Katrina ruins—to explore how the city’s residents use material objects to comprehend time, history, and their connection to one another. A leading figure in archaeology of the contemporary, Dawdy draws on material evidence, archival and literary texts, and dozens of post-Katrina interviews to explore how the patina aesthetic informs a trenchant political critique. An intriguing study of the power of everyday objects, Patina demonstrates how sharing in the care of a historic landscape can unite a city’s population—despite extreme divisions of class and race—and inspire civil camaraderie based on a nostalgia that offers not a return to the past but an alternative future.
Author : Adam Jasper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351106276
Both architecture and anthropology emerged as autonomous theoretical disciplines in the 18th-century enlightenment. Throughout the 19th century, the fields shared a common icon—the primitive hut—and a common concern with both routine needs and ceremonial behaviours. Both could lay strong claims to a special knowledge of the everyday. And yet, in the 20th century, notwithstanding genre classics such as Bernard Rudofsky’s Architecture without Architects or Paul Oliver’s Shelter, and various attempts to make architecture anthropocentric (such as Corbusier’s Modulor), disciplinary exchanges between architecture and anthropology were often disappointingly slight. This book attempts to locate the various points of departure that might be taken in a contemporary discussion between architecture and anthropology. The results are radical: post-colonial theory is here counterpoised to 19th-century theories of primitivism, archaeology is set against dentistry, fieldwork is juxtaposed against indigenous critique, and climate science is applied to questions of shelter. This publication will be of interest to both architects and anthropologists. The chapters in this book were originally published within two special issues of Architectural Theory Review.