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Twenty-five+ buildings every architect should understand
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ISBN: 1032532351 9781032532394 1032532394 9781032532356 Year: 2024 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon Routledge

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"The underlying theme of Twenty-Five+ Buildings Every Architect Should Understand is the relationship of architecture to the human being, how it frames our lives and orchestrates our experience; how it can help us make sense of the world and contribute to our sense of identity and place. Exploring these dimensions through a wide range of case studies that illustrate the rich diversity of twentieth- and twenty-first-century architecture, this book is essential reading for every architect. With the addition of numerous shorter analyses, this new edition covers an even greater range of architectural ideas, providing students and architects with further inspiration for exploration in their own design work. Architects live by ideas. But where do they come from? And how do they shape buildings? There is no one right way to do architecture. This book illustrates many. Its aim is to explore the rich diversity of architectural creativity by analysing a wide range of examples to extract the ideas behind them. Twenty-Five+ Buildings Every Architect Should Understand is a companion to Simon Unwin's Analysing Architecture: the Universal Language of Place- Making (most recent edition, 2021), and part of the trilogy which also includes his Exercises in Architecture: Learning to Think as an Architect (second edition, 2022). Together the three books offer an introduction to the workings of architecture providing for the three aspects of learning: theory, examples and practice. Twenty-Five+ Buildings focusses on analysing examples using the methodology offered by Analysing Architecture, which operates primarily through the medium of drawing. An underlying theme of Twenty-Five+ Buildings Every Architect Should Understand is the relationship of architecture to the human being, how it frames our lives and orchestrates our experiences; how it can help us give form to the world and contributes to our senses of identity and place. Exploring these dimensions through case studies that illustrate the rich diversity of twentieth- and twenty-first-century architecture, this book is essential reading, and hopefully an inspiration, for every architect. In this new edition supplementary analysis and discussion has been added to each of the twenty-five case studies, drawing attention to their influences from and on other architects. A number of extra shorter analyses have been included too, following the practice of presenting extra small dishes interspersed among main courses in high-end restaurants. These additional short analyses account for the + sign after 'Twenty-Five' in the title of this edition, and double the number of buildings analysed to around fifty"--


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L'Europe et le monde : XVIe-XVIIIe siècle
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ISBN: 9782200626198 2200626193 Year: 2024 Publisher: Malakoff: Armand Colin,

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XVIe, XVIIe, XVIIIe : trois siècles durant lesquels l’histoire du monde est d’abord celle de la domination de l’Europe sur le reste du monde. La période s’ouvre avec les grandes découvertes et voit se dessiner de grandes évolutions telles que le renforcement des appareils d’État, avec la tendance générale à la centralisation dont bénéficient les grandes monarchies de l’Europe de l’Ouest, de la France de Louis XIV à la Prusse de Frédéric II, de l’Angleterre des George à la Russie de Pierre le Grand et de Catherine II ; la fin de l’unité religieuse qui fait de l’Europe le théâtre d’affrontements sanglants ; l’émergence de la notion d’équilibre européen après l’échec des tentatives d’hégémonie d’un Charles Quint ou d’un Louis XIV ; la naissance de la science moderne avec Galilée et Newton et les débuts de la révolution industrielle. Sous la plume magistrale de François Lebrun, ce livre offre aux étudiants de premier cycle d’histoire et à tous ceux qu’intéresse cette période la trame événementielle indispensable. Des tableaux généalogiques, des cartes, un glossaire, un index et une chronologie complètent l’ouvrage et en font un outil clair et commode pour tous.


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Sculpture, monuments and open space.
ISSN: 29933439 Year: 2024 Publisher: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley Periodicals LLC,

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Sculpture --- Art, Modern --- Art, Modern


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Cosmic connections : poetry in the age of disenchantment
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ISBN: 9780674296084 0674296087 Year: 2024 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,

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"Charles Taylor delves into the poetry of the Romantics and their heirs, a foundation of his distinctive philosophy of language. Taylor holds that Romantic poetry responded to disenchantment: with old cosmic orders depleted, artists groped to articulate new meanings by bringing connections to life rather than merely reasoning abstractly about life."


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The art of dance composition : writing the body
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ISBN: 0367824167 100093599X Year: 2024 Publisher: New York, NY : Routledge,

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The lyre book : modern poetic media
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ISBN: 9781421448121 Year: 2024 Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press

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Lyric poetry has always been a media problem. Despite its long dependence on the written page, there are few more enduring commonplaces in literary studies than lyric’s so-called “musicality”—the prosodic, ideological, and historical claims to sound that render silent texts so variously audible. Either as transcriptions of past events, or scores for future ones, lyric poems resist and unsettle their print medium by bringing the printed page into contact with other media, not least the sounding body. The word lyric itself alludes to a musical technology—the ancient Greek lyre—and the etymological persistence of this lyre brands lyric as an exemplary media problem, one defined by the historically variable, phenomenally mercurial tension between writing and sound. “The Lyre Book: Modern Poetic Media” explains how the relations of word to sound on which lyric are founded have been recast, again and again, in dynamic confrontations with modern sound technologies. In the middle decades of the twentieth century, the everyday experience of phonography, radio, and commercial pop music fundamentally transformed the writing of poetry, if not at the level of content than at the level of poetic technē, or material craft. In the course of unfolding a theory of lyric from the rich archive of poetry’s interactions with this mass-mediated soundscape, “The Lyre Book” discovers in late modernist lyric a surprising potential for media critique. Lyric poetry illuminates the history of technology because its formal reactions to a technologized culture industry furnish a uniquely perceptive record of the social processes determining the force and direction—the cultural and sociopolitical meaning—of these new machines and infrastructures. In other words, lyric poetry is an exquisite barometer of technological change. This dissertation examines such poets as Sterling Brown, Lorine Niedecker, John Wheelwright, Langston Hughes, Marianne Moore, and Russell Atkins, as well as illustrative collaborations between poets and composers like Harry Partch, Kurt Weill, and Celia Thaew Zukofsky. By arguing for a theory of lyric materiality structured-in-tension between sound and print, lyres and books, “The Lyre Book” establishes modern lyric as a privileged artifact at the intersection of media studies and literary history.


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The interwar world
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ISBN: 036761684X 1003105998 100091948X 100091951X 1003105998 9781003105992 Year: 2024 Publisher: Abingdon, England : Routledge,

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"The Interwar World collects an international group of over 50 contributors to discuss, analyse and interpret this crucial period in twentieth century history. A comprehensive understanding of the interwar era has been limited by Euro-American approaches and strict adherence to the temporal limits of the world wars. The volume's contributors challenge the era's accepted temporal and geographic framings by privileging global processes and interactions. Each contribution takes a global, thematic approach, integrating world regions into a shared narrative. Three central questions frame the chapters. . First, when was the interwar? Viewed globally, the years 1918 and 1939 are arbitrary limits, and the volume explicitly engages with the artificiality of the temporal framework while closely examining the specific dynamics of the 1920s and 1930s. Second, where was the interwar? Contributors use global history methodologies and training in varied world regions to decenter Euro-American frameworks, engaging directly with the usefulness of the interwar as both an era and an analytical category. Third, how global was the interwar? Authors trace accelerating connections in areas such as public health and mass culture counterbalanced by processes of economic protectionism, exclusive nationalism, and limits to migration. By approaching the era thematically, the volume disaggregates and interrogates the meaning of the 'global' in this era. As a comprehensive guide, this volume offers overviews of key themes of the interwar period for undergraduates, while offering up-to-date historiographical insights for postgraduates and scholars interested in this pivotal period in global history"--


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Rethinking the Concept of World : Towards Transcendental Multiplicity
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ISBN: 9781399502917 1399502913 Year: 2024 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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Explores the idea that reality is structured as a multiplicity of divergent, yet coexisting worldsMaps different concepts of world in contemporary philosophy and traces their genealogiesCritically examines the ideas on the multiplicity of worlds in contemporary continental philosophyRethinks the concept of world as a transcendental frameworkContrasts political cosmopolitanism with Rancière's conception of politics as a conflict of worlds in order to reframe discussions about current political crisesProposes a Leibnizian approach to contemporary aesthetics by understanding artworks as monadic objects, which reconfigure the transcendental coordinates of experienceBy engaging with the work of modern and contemporary philosophers and writers, in particular G. W. Leibniz, Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Rancière and Marcel Proust, Rok Benčin proposes a new understanding of these worlds as overlapping transcendental frameworks consisting of fictional structures that frame ontological multiplicity.Examining political conflicts and aesthetic interferences that exist between divergent worlds today, he reconsiders the way political and artistic practices reconfigure contemporary experiences of worldliness.


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The Edinburgh Companion to the New European Humanities
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ISBN: 9781399505208 1399505203 Year: 2024 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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Assesses the rise of the 'New' Humanities alongside the traditional disciplines and inter-disciplinary 'studies' areasTakes an original approach in its European scope and institutional representationFocusses on the 'New' or 'Post' HumanitiesIncorporates an exceptional degree of inter and trans-disciplinarity, covering areas including the intercultural humanities, post- and decolonial perspectives, digital humanities, medical humanities, environmental humanities and moreDraws from many European languages and traditionsCombines theoretical speculation with policy-making pragmatismThis is the first collection that highlights the strengths and contributions of the Humanities in the European region. The volume stresses the positive and multidimensional impact of the Humanities on core areas of human experience, and their ability to formulate new frames to represent our collective and individual relation to the world. Further, it explores new ethical social imaginaries, gendered scenarios and spaces of decolonial transculturality. This collection also confronts the threats the Humanities face today and proposes ways to respond. These threats include public discourses that question the value of the Humanities; the chronic underfunding of teaching and research at our universities and institutions, and the more fundamental risks to intellectual freedom, democracy and critical discourse, diversity, and the radical imagination posed by political and market forces and organisations. Overall, this volume proposes innovative tools to increase our collective awareness of forms of injustice, exclusion and the suffering of both the human and the non-human inhabitants of this planet. It discusses the posthuman future of the Humanities and makes recommendations for the implementation of innovative approaches to the Humanities.


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GA houses 191
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ISBN: 9784871407427 487140742X 1921352030509 Year: 2024 Publisher: Tokyo ADA Edita

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‘GA Houses’ documents outstanding new residential architecture from all over the world. With projects by Zaha Hadid Architects, Olson Kundig + Faulkner Architects, Erika Nakagawa, OPA, Yoshihiko Iida, Setsuko Sakakibara, and Patrick Tighe.

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