Download or read book L orientalisme architectural entre imaginaires et savoirs written by Nabila Oulebsir and published by Editions A&J Picard. This book was released on 2009 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'orientalisme architectural n'a pas seulement essaimé des décors exotiques, fidèles ou allusifs, sur la presque totalité de la planète au XIXe siècle ; c'est aussi une forme de « savoir construit », à travers lequel une large palette de connaissances peut être auscultée. Le colloque international tenu à Paris en mai 2006 à l'Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA) visait à examiner les relations que la production architecturale d'inspiration orientale avait entretenu avec la connaissance et les savoirs produits sur les terrains qui l'avaient nourrie. Les contributions rassemblées dans cet ouvrage apportent de nombreux éclairages originaux, ainsi qu'un dossier iconographique fourni, largement inédit.
Download or read book Chandigarh s Le Corbusier written by Vikramaditya Prakash and published by Studies in Modernity and Natio. This book was released on 2002 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When India emerged from colonial rule in 1947, the division of Punjab left its historic capital, Lahore, in newly created Pakistan. Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru insisted that Punjab's new capital, Chandigarh, should be a symbol of the nation’s faith in the future, unfettered by the traditions of the past. Its design and construction galvanized national attention, and Le Corbusier, the icon of European architectural modernism, was invited to help remake India’s national ideal. Le Corbusier arrived in 1950, in the twilight of his career. He set to work alternately wooing and clashing with Nehru and with the Indian planners and builders, prevailing ultimately only in the design of the Capitol Complex and a few buildings in the Museum Complex, as well as in his enduring symbol of peace and nonalignment, the Open Hand. Vikramaditya Prakash tells the fascinating story that lies behind the planning and architecture of Chandigarh. Drawing on his intimate knowledge of the city, where he grew up as the son of one of the nine Indian architects who assisted in designing Chandigarh, Prakash brings to light stories of town planners, bureaucrats, and architects vying over the colonial past and the symbolic future of India. Different conceptions of the modern and the role of Indian civilization clashed and coalesced in a process that highlights the mutual interdependence of "East" and "West," and the fact that architecture and aesthetics cannot be separated from ideological claims and political implications. Prakash skillfully unfolds the intricate layers of the Capitol’s symbolism, tracing the cultural preconceptions and influences that produced Le Corbusier's understanding of India and animated his obsessions, desires, and aspirations. Chandigarh's Le Corbusier is the story of the making of an Indian modern architecture as both an aspect and an engine of post-colonial culture.
Download or read book International Conference on Automatic Processing of Art History Data and Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book L architecture et l urbanisme au Maghreb Au XIX XX si cle Cas d Alger 1800 2000 written by Mustapha Ben Hamouche and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-09 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Note de Cours Magistral de l'année 2018 dans le domaine Art - Architecture / Histoire de l'architecture, Entretien des monuments, cours: L'histoire d'architecture, langue: Français, résumé Quelle était la ville Maghrébine - La Médina- avant la conquête française? Quels sont les grands arrêts de l'architecture et l'urbanisme en Algérie pendant l'époque coloniale? Que représente actuellement l'architecture coloniale et Alger aux Algériens? Cet ouvrage est, à l'origine, une compilation de cours d'histoire d'architecture et d'urbanisme au Maghreb aux XIXème et XXème siècles. Il présente une analyse chronologique mais aussi critique de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme de la ville d'Alger pendant les deux derniers siècles (1800-2000). En reconstituant l'image précoloniale de la ville algérienne, l'ouvrage met en relif la repture abrupte entre deux mode de production de l'espace urbain dans la même ville. Au sein de la période coloniale tant considérée homogène, il retrace les différents styles et modes ayant forgé les façades urbaines et les quartiers de la villes pendant les 132 ans de colonisation. Enfin, l'ouvrage se termine par une questionnement sur l'identité culturelle dans la période postcoloniale.
Download or read book La Ville arabe dans l Islam written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book L Architecture et l urbanisme au Maghreb aux XIX XX si cles written by Mustapha Ben-Hamouche and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book L architecture et l urbanisme au Maghreb Au XIX XX si cle Cas d Alger 1800 2000 written by Mustapha Ben Hamouche and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2022-01-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Note de Cours Magistral de l’année 2018 dans le domaine Art - Architecture / Histoire de l'architecture, Entretien des monuments, , cours: L’histoire d’architecture, langue: Français, résumé: Quelle était la ville Maghrébine - La Médina- avant la conquête française? Quels sont les grands arrêts de l'architecture et l'urbanisme en Algérie pendant l'époque coloniale? Que représente actuellement l'architecture coloniale et Alger aux Algériens? Cet ouvrage est, à l’origine, une compilation de cours d’histoire d’architecture et d’urbanisme au Maghreb aux XIXème et XXème siècles. Il présente une analyse chronologique mais aussi critique de l’architecture et de l’urbanisme de la ville d’Alger pendant les deux derniers siècles (1800-2000). En reconstituant l'image précoloniale de la ville algérienne, l'ouvrage met en relif la repture abrupte entre deux mode de production de l'espace urbain dans la même ville. Au sein de la période coloniale tant considérée homogène, il retrace les différents styles et modes ayant forgé les façades urbaines et les quartiers de la villes pendant les 132 ans de colonisation. Enfin, l'ouvrage se termine par une questionnement sur l'identité culturelle dans la période postcoloniale.
Download or read book Terra 2008 written by Leslie Rainer and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earthen architecture constitutes one of the most diverse forms of cultural heritage and one of the most challenging to preserve. It dates from all periods and is found on all continents but is particularly prevalent in Africa, where it has been a building tradition for centuries. Sites range from ancestral cities in Mali to the palaces of Abomey in Benin, from monuments and mosques in Iran and Buddhist temples on the Silk Road to Spanish missions in California. This volume's sixty-four papers address such themes as earthen architecture in Mali, the conservation of living sites, local knowledge systems and intangible aspects, seismic and other natural forces, the conservation and management of archaeological sites, research advances, and training.
Download or read book Creole written by José Eduardo Agualusa and published by Arcadia Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creole paints a vivid and dramatic picture of a decadent social order in tatters. Extraordinary characters, real and fictional, look on as their world collapses.
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Download or read book The Vietnamese City in Transition written by Patrick Gubry and published by Institute of Southeast Asian. This book was released on 2010 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Doi Moi policy of economic renovation was introduced in 1986, Vietnam has undergone deep transformations as a result of the transition to a socialist-oriented market economy. Social and urban transition has taken place in parallel, as urban dynamics were spurred on by Vietnamese public and private stakeholders, and by external agents such as international organizations and international solidarity organizations, experts, consultants and bilateral aid organizations.Here are the results of research carried out by French, Canadian and Vietnamese teams from the north and south of the country on the overarching theme of Vietnamese cities in transition. Some of this research deals with urban dynamics, some with the issues at stake within such dynamics, or with the strategies of the most significant stakeholders in urban transition: civil society, donors within the framework of official aid for development, consultants and international consultancy firms. These projects were carried out between 2001 and 2004 as part of the Urban Research Programme for Development (PRUD), and mainly focus on Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, or both in the case of comparative studies.Is there such a thing as a Vietnamese model of an Asian city? It seems that urban transition in Vietnam is not taking place in as radical and abrupt a manner as in China. The country's capacity for absorbing external models, the quest for a third way between state intervention and economic liberalism, and the fact that the country's architectural heritage is taken into account in urban planning, are just some of the reasons for its particularity. The issues addressed in each chapter, as well as the proposals for further research suggested by the contributors, should act as a catalyst for urban research in Vietnam.
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Berbers Imazighen written by Hsain Ilahiane and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berbers, also known as Imazighen, are the ancient inhabitants of North Africa, but rarely have they formed an actual kingdom or separate nation state. Ranging anywhere between 15-50 million, depending on how they are classified, the Berbers have influenced the culture and religion of Roman North Africa and played key roles in the spread of Islam and its culture in North Africa, Spain, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Taken together, these dynamics have over time converted to redefine the field of Berber identity and its socio-political representations and symbols, making it an even more important issue in the 21st century. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Berbers contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 200 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, places, events, institutions, and aspects of culture, society, economy, and politics. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Berbers.
Download or read book The Evolving Arab City written by Yasser Elsheshtawy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today cities of the Arab world are subject to many of the same problems as other world cities, yet too often they are ignored in studies of urbanisation. This collection reveals the contrasts and similarities between older, traditional Arab cities and the newer oil-stimulated cities of the Gulf in their search for development and a place in the world order. The eight cities which form the core of the book – Rabat, Amman, Beirut, Kuwait, Manama, Doha, Abu Dhabi and Riyadh – provide a unique insight into today’s Middle Eastern city. Winner of The International Planning History Society (IPHS) Book Prize.
Download or read book Russia s Own Orient written by Vera Tolz and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-02-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia's own Orient examines how intellectuals in early twentieth-century Russia offered a new and radical critique of the ways in which Oriental cultures were understood at the time. Out of the ferment of revolution and war, a group of scholars in St. Petersburg articulated fresh ideas about the relationship between power and knowledge, and about Europe and Asia as mere political and cultural constructs. Their ideas anticipated the work of Edward Said and post-colonial scholarship by half a century. The similarities between the two groups were, in fact, genealogical. Said was indebted, via Arab intellectuals of the 1960s who studied in the Soviet Union, to the revisionist ideas of Russian Orientologists of the fin de siècle. But why did this body of Russian scholarship of the early twentieth century turn out to be so innovative? Should we agree with a popular claim of the Russian elites about their country's particular affinity with the 'Orient'? There is no single answer to this question. The early twentieth century was a period when all over Europe a fascination with things 'Oriental' engendered the questioning of many nineteenth-century assumptions and prejudices. In that sense, the revisionism of Russian Orientologists was part of a pan-European trend. And yet, Tolz also argues that a set of political, social, and cultural factors, which were specific to Russia, allowed its imperial scholars to engage in an unusual dialogue with representatives of the empire's non-European minorities. It is together that they were able to articulate a powerful long-lasting critique of modern imperialism and colonialism, and to shape ethnic politics in Russia across the divide of the 1917 revolutions.
Download or read book Designing Modern Germany written by Jeremy Aynsley and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German design and architecture reflects the country’s rich and fraught political history in its structure and aesthetic philosophy. Jeremy Aynsley now offers an in-depth study of this relationship between German history and design since 1870 and the complex principles underlying it. Designing Modern Germany reveals how German attitudes toward national identity, modernity and technology are crucial to understanding German design. Aynsley traces the historical development of German design, beginning in the 1870s with the first dedicated Arts and Crafts schools and stretching through to the famous institutions of the Bauhaus and the Ulm Hochschule für Gestaltung. He analyses the works of leading figures such as Peter Behrens and Hannes Meyer, through to Ingo Maurer and Jil Sander, and many others in design specialties including graphics, industrial and furniture design, fashion and architecture. He also offers the first consideration of the contrasting design traditions of East and West Germany between 1949 and 1989. Whether examining the pre-First World War department store, the National Socialist fashion system or East Germany’s official design culture, Designing Modern Germany reveals that German design significantly affected citizens’ daily lives. An essential read for designers and scholars of German design and history, Designing Modern Germany is a key text for understanding Germany’s major contribution to twentieth-century design.
Download or read book Writing Architectural History written by Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades, scholarship in architectural history has transformed, moving away from design studio pedagogy and postmodern historicism to draw instead from trends in critical theory focusing on gender, race, the environment, and more recently global history, connecting to revisionist trends in other fields. With examples across space and time—from medieval European coin trials and eighteenth-century Haitian revolutionary buildings to Weimar German construction firms and present-day African refugee camps—Writing Architectural History considers the impact of these shifting institutional landscapes and disciplinary positionings for architectural history. Contributors reveal how new methodological approaches have developed interdisciplinary research beyond the traditional boundaries of art history departments and architecture schools, and explore the challenges and opportunities presented by conventional and unorthodox forms of evidence and narrative, the tools used to write history.
