X Ray Architecture

Author : Beatriz Colomina
Publisher : Lars Muller Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UIUC:30112116890887

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X-Ray Architecture by Beatriz Colomina Pdf

X-Ray Architecture explores the enormous impact of medical discourse and imaging technologies on the formation, representation and reception of twentieth-century architecture. It challenges the normal understanding of modern architecture by proposing that it was shaped by the dominant medical obsession of its time: tuberculosis and its primary diagnostic tool, the X-ray. Modern architecture and the X-ray were born around the same time and evolved in parallel. While the X-ray exposed the inside of the body to the public eye, the modern building unveiled its interior, dramatically inverting the relationship between private and public. Architects presented their buildings as a kind of medical instrument for protecting and enhancing the body and psyche. Beatriz Colomina traces the psychopathologies of twentieth-century architecture--from the trauma of tuberculosis to more recent disorders such as burn-out syndrome and ADHD--and the huge transformations of privacy and publicity instigated by diagnostic tools from X-Rays to MRIs and beyond. She suggests that if we want to talk about the state of architecture today, we should look to the dominant obsessions with illness and the latest techniques of imaging the body--and ask what effects they have on the way we conceive architecture. --Publisher's website.

Author : Beatriz Colomina,Mark Wigley
Publisher : Lars Müller Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Design
ISBN : 303778511X

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Are We Human? by Beatriz Colomina,Mark Wigley Pdf

The question Are We Human? is both urgent and ancient. Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley offer a multilayered exploration of the intimate relationship between human and design and rethink the philosophy of design in a multi-dimensional exploration from the very first tools and ornaments to the constant buzz of social media. The average day involves the experience of thousands of layers of design that reach to outside space but also reach deep into our bodies and brains. Even the planet itself has been completely encrusted by design as a geological layer. There is no longer an outside to the world of design. Colomina's and Wigley's field notes offer an archaeology of the way design has gone viral and is now bigger than the world. They range across the last few hundred thousand years and the last few seconds to scrutinize the uniquely plastic relation between brain and artifact. A vivid portrait emerges. Design is what makes the human. It becomes the way humans ask questions and thereby continuously redesign themselves.

Author : Beatriz Colomina
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1996-02-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262531399

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Privacy and Publicity by Beatriz Colomina Pdf

Through a series of close readings of two major figures of the modern movement, Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier, Beatriz Colomina argues that architecture only becomes modern in its engagement with the mass media, and that in so doing it radically displaces the traditional sense of space and subjectivity. Privacy and Publicity boldly questions certain ideological assumptions underlying the received view of modern architecture and reconsiders the methodology of architectural criticism itself. Where conventional criticism portrays modern architecture as a high artistic practice in opposition to mass culture, Colomina sees the emerging systems of communication that have come to define twentieth-century culture—the mass media—as the true site within which modern architecture was produced. She considers architectural discourse as the intersection of a number of systems of representation such as drawings, models, photographs, books, films, and advertisements. This does not mean abandoning the architectural object, the building, but rather looking at it in a different way. The building is understood here in the same way as all the media that frame it, as a mechanism of representation in its own right. With modernity, the site of architectural production literally moved from the street into photographs, films, publications, and exhibitions—a displacement that presupposes a new sense of space, one defined by images rather than walls. This age of publicity corresponds to a transformation in the status of the private, Colomina argues; modernity is actually the publicity of the private. Modern architecture renegotiates the traditional relationship between public and private in a way that profoundly alters the experience of space. In a fascinating intellectual journey, Colomina tracks this shift through the modern incarnations of the archive, the city, fashion, war, sexuality, advertising, the window, and the museum, finally concentrating on the domestic interior that constructs the modern subject it appears merely to house.

Author : Adam Tornhill
Publisher : Pragmatic Bookshelf
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781680505801

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Software Design X-Rays by Adam Tornhill Pdf

Are you working on a codebase where cost overruns, death marches, and heroic fights with legacy code monsters are the norm? Battle these adversaries with novel ways to identify and prioritize technical debt, based on behavioral data from how developers work with code. And that's just for starters. Because good code involves social design, as well as technical design, you can find surprising dependencies between people and code to resolve coordination bottlenecks among teams. Best of all, the techniques build on behavioral data that you already have: your version-control system. Join the fight for better code! Use statistics and data science to uncover both problematic code and the behavioral patterns of the developers who build your software. This combination gives you insights you can't get from the code alone. Use these insights to prioritize refactoring needs, measure their effect, find implicit dependencies between different modules, and automatically create knowledge maps of your system based on actual code contributions. In a radical, much-needed change from common practice, guide organizational decisions with objective data by measuring how well your development teams align with the software architecture. Discover a comprehensive set of practical analysis techniques based on version-control data, where each point is illustrated with a case study from a real-world codebase. Because the techniques are language neutral, you can apply them to your own code no matter what programming language you use. Guide organizational decisions with objective data by measuring how well your development teams align with the software architecture. Apply research findings from social psychology to software development, ensuring you get the tools you need to coach your organization towards better code. If you're an experienced programmer, software architect, or technical manager, you'll get a new perspective that will change how you work with code. What You Need: You don't have to install anything to follow along in the book. TThe case studies in the book use well-known open source projects hosted on GitHub. You'll use CodeScene, a free software analysis tool for open source projects, for the case studies. We also discuss alternative tooling options where they exist.

Author : Jennifer Bloomer
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Arts, Modern
ISBN : 1878271083

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Sexuality & Space by Jennifer Bloomer Pdf

"Both timely and well worth the time."-Thomas Keenan, Newsline. aia Award Winner & Oculus Bestseller.

Author : Beatriz Colomina
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 8496540111

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Domesticidad en Guerra by Beatriz Colomina Pdf

Author : Nicholas Ray
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134274710

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Architecture and its Ethical Dilemmas by Nicholas Ray Pdf

A cast of leading writers and practitioners tackle the ethical questions that architects are increasingly facing in their work, from practical considerations in construction to the wider social context of buildings, their appearance, use and place in the narrative of the environment. This book gives an account of these ethical questions from the perspectives of historical architectural practice, philosophy, and business, and examines the implications of such dilemmas. Taking the current discussion of ethics in architecture on to a new stage, this volume provides an accumulation of diverse opinions, focusing on architects' actions and products that materially affect the lives of people in all urbanized societies.

Author : Beatriz Colomina,Ignacio G. Galán,Evangelos Kotsioris,Anna-Maria Meister
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262543385

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Radical Pedagogies by Beatriz Colomina,Ignacio G. Galán,Evangelos Kotsioris,Anna-Maria Meister Pdf

Experiments in architectural education in the post–World War II era that challenged and transformed architectural discourse and practice. In the decades after World War II, new forms of learning transformed architectural education. These radical experiments sought to upend disciplinary foundations and conventional assumptions about the nature of architecture as much as they challenged modernist and colonial norms, decentered building, imagined new roles for the architect, and envisioned participatory forms of practice. Although many of the experimental programs were subsequently abandoned, terminated, or assimilated, they nevertheless helped shape and in some sense define architectural discourse and practice. This book explores and documents these radical pedagogies and efforts to defy architecture’s status quo. The experiments include the adaptation of Bauhaus pedagogy as a means of “unlearning” under the conditions of decolonization in Africa; a movement to design for “every body,” including the disabled, by architecture students and faculty at the University of California, Berkeley; the founding of a support network for women interested in the built environment, regardless of their academic backgrounds; and a design studio in the USSR that offered an alternative to the widespread functionalist approach in Soviet design. Viewed through their dissolution and afterlife as well as through their founding stories, these projects from the last century raise provocative questions about architecture’s role in the new century.

Author : Caitlin Blanchfield,Farzin Lotfi-Jam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1941332560

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Modern Management Methods by Caitlin Blanchfield,Farzin Lotfi-Jam Pdf

Modern Management Methods asks how the value of a building is produced through instruments of expertise, management ideologies, and historical narratives. It uses the imaging techniques of conservation and the documentary detritus of heritage preservation to show how scientific methods attempt to produce stable notions of history and value.

Author : Ashok Kumar Singh
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1586035371

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Advanced X-ray Techniques in Research and Industry by Ashok Kumar Singh Pdf

Papers presented at the seminar held in Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory, Hyderabad India in 2003.

Author : Peter Luger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783110370614

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Modern X-Ray Analysis on Single Crystals by Peter Luger Pdf

An excellent book for professional crystallographers! In 2012 the crystallographic community celebrated 100 years of X-ray diffraction in honour of the pioneering experiment in 1912 by Max von Laue, Friedrich and Knipping. Experimental developments e.g. brilliant X-ray sources, area detection, and developments in computer hardware and software have led to increasing applications in X-ray analysis. This completely revised edition is a guide for practical work in X-ray analysis. An introduction to basic crystallography moves quickly to a practical and experimental treatment of structure analysis. Emphasis is placed on understanding results and avoiding pitfalls. Essential reading for researchers from the student to the professional level interested in understanding the structure of molecules.

Author : George Simon
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781483195315

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Principles of Bone X-Ray Diagnosis by George Simon Pdf

Principles of Bone X-Ray Diagnosis follows the method set by Principles of Chest X-ray Diagnosis (Simon, 1956) in placing more value in the grouping of x-ray material according to the type of x-ray shadow rather than the clinical disease label. Biochemical and hematological values quoted throughout the book, especially in the captions to figures, are all from the Department of Pathology, St. Bartholomew's Hospital. This book is organized into 12 chapters. Much of the original text has been used in this third edition, though some changes of order have been made to give a more logical approach to the description of the bone changes seen in various diseases. A chapter on widespread and regional reduction in bone density has been completely rewritten. This volume provides radiographs to illustrate every condition described. These radiographs were selected to illustrate the principles of bone x-ray diagnosis rather than to make a complete catalogue of all the conditions referred. This book will be of interest to persons dealing with studies on the diagnostic value of bone x-ray.

Author : Colin St John Wilson
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1995-09-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1854904124

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The Other Tradition of Modern Architecture by Colin St John Wilson Pdf

Author : Margaret Campbell
Publisher : Lars Muller Publishers
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCBK:C107171730

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Imperfect Health by Margaret Campbell Pdf

'Imperfect Health' looks at the complexity of today's health problems juxtaposed with a variety of proposed architectural and urban solutions. Essays by Margaret Campbell, David Gissen, Carla C. Keirns, and Sarah Schrank deal with different aspects of the topic of health in the context of architecture.

Author : Christian Illies,Nicholas Ray,Nicholas Ray (historien d'art).)
Publisher : Cambridge Architectural Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0993053009

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Philosophy of Architecture by Christian Illies,Nicholas Ray,Nicholas Ray (historien d'art).) Pdf

This little handbook acts as a brief introduction to philosophical ideas and how they intersect with architecture: its reception and appreciation as well as its practice. It suggests that since design is the core human discipline, being the only activity that involves the imaginative conception of ideas, leading to artifacts that are realised as actual constructions in the world, architecture itself can be regarded as a way of overcoming philosophical tensions by suggesting practical possibilities, namely designs, that appear to bridge between rival theories and approaches.