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Book Light  Air   Openness

Download or read book Light Air Openness written by Paul Overy and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book examines the relationship between the modernist architecture of the 1920s and 1930s and that eras preoccupations with health, cleanliness, fresh air and sunshine, exploring how utopian notions of the clean machine and the hygienist movement inspired the pure geometric forms and sparkling surfaces of early modernist buildings. Anyone with an interest in architecture and/or modernism will find this original approach to a popular theme both engaging and enlightening.

Book 100

    100

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gennaro Postiglione
  • Publisher : Taschen
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9783822863121
  • Pages : 496 pages

Download or read book 100 written by Gennaro Postiglione and published by Taschen. This book was released on 2004 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The present publication includes the work done by the MEAM Net research group at the Politecnico di Milano in collaboration with 27 institutions Europe-wide. This work, titled "One hundred houses for one hundred European architects of the 20th century", bore fruit in a travelling exhibition and a website"

Book A Dictionary of the English Language     Abstracted from the folio edition of the author     Fourteenth edition  corrected  etc

Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language Abstracted from the folio edition of the author Fourteenth edition corrected etc written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Dictionary of the English Language  in which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals Explained in Their Different Meanings

Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language in which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals Explained in Their Different Meanings written by Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Neither use nor ornament

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tracey Potts
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2024-06-18
  • ISBN : 1526173913
  • Pages : 230 pages

Download or read book Neither use nor ornament written by Tracey Potts and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neither use nor ornament is a book about personal productivity, narrated from the perspective of its obstacles: clutter and procrastination. It offers a challenge to the self-help promise of a clutter-free life, lived in a permanent state of efficiency and flow. The book reveals how contemporary projections of the good, productive life rely on images of failure. Riffing on the aphorism ‘less is more’ – a dominant refrain in present day productivity advice – it tells stories about streamlining, efficiency and tidiness over a time period of around 100 years. By focusing on the shadows of productivity advice, Neither use nor ornament seeks to unravel the moral narratives that hold individuals to account for their inefficiencies and muddles.

Book Designing Schools

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kate Darian-Smith
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-09-13
  • ISBN : 1317502663
  • Pages : 498 pages

Download or read book Designing Schools written by Kate Darian-Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designing Schools explores the close connections between the design of school buildings and educational practices throughout the twentieth century to today. Through international cases studies that span the Americas, Europe, Africa and Australia, this volume examines historical innovations in school architecture and situates these within changing pedagogical ideas about the ‘best’ ways to educate children. It also investigates the challenges posed by new technologies and the digital age to the design and use of school places. Set around three interlinked themes – school buildings, school spaces and school cultures – this book argues that education is mediated or framed by the spaces in which it takes place, and that those spaces are in turn influenced by cultural, political and social concerns about teaching, learning and the child.

Book Le Corbusier

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stanislaus von Moos
  • Publisher : 010 Publishers
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9064506426
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book Le Corbusier written by Stanislaus von Moos and published by 010 Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in Germany in 1968, this first comprehensive and critical survey of Le Corbusier's life and work soon became the standard text on the architect and polymath. French, Spanish, English, Japanese and Korean editions followed, but the book has now been out of print for almost two decades. In the meantime, Le Corbusier's archives in Paris have become available for research, resulting in an avalanche of scholarship. Von Moos' critical take and the basic criteria by which the subject is organized and historicized remain surprisingly pertinent in the context of this recent jungle of Corbusier studies. This new, completely revised edition is based on the 1979 version published in English by the MIT Press but offers a substantially updated body of illustrations. Each of the seven chapters is supplemented by a critical survey of recent scholarship on the respective issues. An updated edition of this acclaimed book, an essential read for students of architecture and architectural history.

Book Architecture Post Mortem

Download or read book Architecture Post Mortem written by Dr David Bertolini and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-09-28 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture Post Mortem surveys architecture’s encounter with death, decline, and ruination following late capitalism. As the world moves closer to an economic abyss that many perceive to be the death of capital, contraction and crisis are no longer mere phases of normal market fluctuations, but rather the irruption of the unconscious of ideology itself. Post mortem is that historical moment wherein architecture’s symbolic contract with capital is put on stage, naked to all. Architecture is not irrelevant to fiscal and political contagion as is commonly believed; it is the victim and penetrating analytical agent of the current crisis. As the very apparatus for modernity’s guilt and unfulfilled drives-modernity’s debt-architecture is that ideological element that functions as a master signifier of its own destruction, ordering all other signifiers and modes of signification beneath it. It is under these conditions that architecture theory has retreated to an 'Alamo' of history, a final desert outpost where history has been asked to transcend itself. For architecture’s hoped-for utopia always involves an apocalypse. This timely collection of essays reformulates architecture’s relation to modernity via the operational death-drive: architecture is but a passage between life and death. This collection includes essays by Kazi K. Ashraf, David Bertolini, Simone Brott, Peggy Deamer, Didem Ekici, Paul Emmons, Donald Kunze, Todd McGowan, Gevork Hartoonian, Nadir Lahiji, Erika Naginski, and Dennis Maher.

Book A Dictionary of the English Language     Abstracted from the Folio Edition by the Author     To which is Prefixed a Grammar of the English Language

Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language Abstracted from the Folio Edition by the Author To which is Prefixed a Grammar of the English Language written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lessons from Modernism

Download or read book Lessons from Modernism written by Kevin Bone and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This valuable reference for today’s green building movement examines twentieth-century modern architecture, including buildings by Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer, through the lens of sustainability. The hottest topics in contemporary architectural design and architectural history—the focus on sustainability and the evaluation of the modern movement—meet in Lessons from Modernism, a partnership with The Cooper Union that explores the ways in which the straightforward functional approach of modernist design creates environmentally sensitive solutions. Lessons from Modernism provides new insights into 25 buildings by a diverse selection of architects, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Paul Rudolph, Jean Prouvé, and Arne Jacobsen, and demonstrates how these architects integrated environmental concerns into their designs. Buildings are located across the United States, Central and South America, Cuba, Japan and more—and include houses, art centers, commercial buildings, and civic buildings. Lessons from Modernism is an affordable reference work for all interested in how architecture intersects with the green movement, pairing full descriptions of all buildings with analytical essays, featuring charts of climate zones and solar movement, and concluding with a comprehensive chronology that details how environmental consciousness evolved throughout the twentieth century.

Book A Dictionary of the English Language  By Samuel Johnson  LL D   and John Walker  With the pronuntiation simplified     and the addition of several thousand words  By R  S  Jameson  Second edition  revised and corrected

Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language By Samuel Johnson LL D and John Walker With the pronuntiation simplified and the addition of several thousand words By R S Jameson Second edition revised and corrected written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Imperial Dictionary

Download or read book The Imperial Dictionary written by John Ogilvie and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 1352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: