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Book Czech Architecture and Its Austerity

Download or read book Czech Architecture and Its Austerity written by Rostislav Švácha and published by Prostor. This book was released on 2004 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Czech architecture evolved in a powerful cultural and historical environment that undoubtedly placed a greater emphasis on the conception of architectural forms than the various formal innovations that are seen around the world, innovations that all too frequently employ an approach akin to the design of car bodies while departing from the traditional notion of architecture. Certainly it does not strive to be exhibitionist. Contrary to that, in this country, architecture continues to be viewed as a traditional cultural discipline, and Czech austerity persists in expanding this cultural nature of architectural work rather than enthusiastically accepting as of yet insufficiently digested forms.

Book The Czech Reader

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jan Bažant
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2010-12-13
  • ISBN : 0822347946
  • Pages : 577 pages

Download or read book The Czech Reader written by Jan Bažant and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-13 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frances Starn is a writer living in Berkeley, California. --Book Jacket.

Book The Optimum Imperative  Czech Architecture for the Socialist Lifestyle  1938   1968

Download or read book The Optimum Imperative Czech Architecture for the Socialist Lifestyle 1938 1968 written by Ana Miljacki and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Optimum Imperative examines the multiple ways that architecture was entangled within the problem of Socialist lifestyle in Czechoslovakia.

Book Multiplicity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Justin Rosenberg
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2021-05-11
  • ISBN : 1000383822
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Multiplicity written by Justin Rosenberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume takes up the idea of ‘multiplicity’ as a new common ground for international theory, bringing together 10 scholars to reflect on the implications of societal multiplicity for areas as diverse as nationalism, ecology, architecture, monetary systems, cosmology and the history of political ideas. International relations (IR), it is often said, has contributed no big ideas to the interdisciplinary conversation of the social sciences and humanities. Yet this is an unnecessary silence, for IR uniquely addresses a fundamental fact about the human world: its division into a multiplicity of interacting social formations. This feature is full of consequences for the very nature of societies and for social phenomena of all kinds. And in recent years a research programme has emerged within IR to theorise these ‘consequences of multiplicity’ and to trace how the effects of the international dimension extend into other fields of social life. This book is a powerful indication of the contribution that IR may yet make to the human disciplines. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Globalizations.

Book Time Frames

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ugo Carughi
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2017-04-28
  • ISBN : 1351980351
  • Pages : 532 pages

Download or read book Time Frames written by Ugo Carughi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 11 Post- tradition in Japanese culture -- Heritage -- 12 Industrial architecture -- 13 Landscape architecture -- 14 Middle- class housing -- Memory -- 15 Cultural institutions -- 16 Architectural photography -- Conservation -- 17 Laws and regulations -- 18 Technology -- Economy -- 19 Economic analysis -- Index of places -- Index of names

Book Contemporary Czech Architecture

Download or read book Contemporary Czech Architecture written by Petr Kratochvíl and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Centropa

Download or read book Centropa written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New Europe

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  • Author : Valentina Croci
  • Publisher : Academy Press
  • Release : 2006-07-28
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 140 pages

Download or read book The New Europe written by Valentina Croci and published by Academy Press. This book was released on 2006-07-28 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Editorial (Helen Castle). Introduction: New Europe: Place(s) Without a Sense of Place? (Valentina Croci). Cyprus: Nicosia and its d-Visions (Christos Hadjichristos). Latvia: The Future in Riga's Past (Janis Lejnieks). Identity Game: Czech and Slovak Architecture Magazines as Travelogues (Maria Topolcanská). Hungary: The Organic and the Rational Traditions (Edwin Heathcote). Slovenia: An Architectural Heritage Moving Forward (Andrej Hrausky). Estonia: The Remarkable Afterlife of the Linnahall Concert Hall (Andres Kurg). Poland: Transforming Factories into Cultural and Educational Facilities (Hubert Trammer). Estonia: Expanding Suburbia - White Neomodernist Villas and Beyond (Andres Kurg). Lithuania: Assembling in Cities (Audrys Karalius). Malta: Housing and Real Estate, 1980-2005 (Lino Bianco). New Polish Architecture - Seeking to Establish Order? (Marta A Urbánska). Slovenia: A New Generation (Miha Desman). Berlin's Empty Heart (Howard Watson). Building Profile District Court of Justice, Katowice (Jeremy Melvin). Book Review Contemporary Architecture in China Compiled (Edward Denison and Guang Yu Ren). Interior Eye Top of the Rock Observatory (Jayne Merkel). Theatre Beyond Child's Play (Howard Watson). Home Run Nile Street: Mixed-Tenure Housing (Bruce Stewart). McLean's Nuggets (Will McLean).

Book Key Contemporary Buildings

Download or read book Key Contemporary Buildings written by Rob Gregory and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Third in the Key series, this book features 95 buildings of the early twenty-first century ... Each of the buildings is illustrated with one or two full-color photographs and accurate scale floor plans, elevations, and sections, as appropriate.

Book Terms of Appropriation

Download or read book Terms of Appropriation written by Amanda Reeser Lawrence and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection focuses on how architectural material is transformed, revised, swallowed whole, plagiarized, or in any other way appropriated. It charts new territory within this still unexplored yet highly topical area of study by establishing a shared vocabulary with which to discuss, or contest, the workings of appropriation as a vital and progressive aspect of architectural discourse. Written by a group of rising scholars in the field of architectural history and criticism, the chapters cover a range of architectural subjects that are linked in their investigations of how architects engage with their predecessors.

Book Modern Architecture in Czechoslovakia and Other Writings

Download or read book Modern Architecture in Czechoslovakia and Other Writings written by Karel Teige and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series offers a range of heretofore unavailable writings in English translation on the subjects of art, architecture, and aesthetics.Teige's principal work on modernism, now in English for the first time, is supplemented by a selection of his other writings on art and architecture.

Book Over the Wall after the Fall

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  • Author : Sibelan Elizabeth S. Forrester
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780253216960
  • Pages : 346 pages

Download or read book Over the Wall after the Fall written by Sibelan Elizabeth S. Forrester and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation A rich and appealing tour of post-communist cultures in Eastern Europe as seen from East and West.

Book DK Eyewitness Czech and Slovak Republics

Download or read book DK Eyewitness Czech and Slovak Republics written by DK Eyewitness and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the best of this region: from exploring Prague-visiting St. Vitus's Cathedral and the Charles Bridge-to hiking in stunning Šumava National Park. In the Slovak Republic, discover Bratislava before exploring the lowlands in the west or the Tatras mountains in the north. Inspiring photography and unique illustrations bring to life major attractions such as Prague's Old Town Hall, Špilberk in Brno, and St. Martin's Cathedral in Bratislava. With hotel and restaurant recommendations and insider tips, this guide will help you plan the perfect trip through the Czech and Slovak Republics, and their picturesque towns, such as Trnava and Banská Bystrica, magnificent scenery, diverse topography, and rich history. With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that illuminate every page, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Czech & Slovak Republics truly shows you this city as no one else can.

Book Czech   Slovak Republics

Download or read book Czech Slovak Republics written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Modernizmus Kezdetei K  z  p Eur  pa   p  t  szet  ben

Download or read book A Modernizmus Kezdetei K z p Eur pa p t szet ben written by Katalin Keserü and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Populism and the Crisis of Democracy

Download or read book Populism and the Crisis of Democracy written by Gregor Fitzi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions to this volume Migration, Gender and Religion bring together empirically grounded and theoretically sophisticated case studies of populist responses to what are perceived to be the threats to national survival and sovereignty from ‘uncontrolled’ immigration. The demographic context – declining fertility rates and ageing populations – promotes the belief that high Muslim fertility rates are material evidence of an Islamic threat to the West, to national cohesion and particularly to the safety and dignity of the women of the host community. Consequently, gender plays an important part in populist ideology, but populist attitudes to gender are often contradictory. Populist movements are often marked by misogyny and by policies that are typically anti-feminist in rejecting gender equality. The traditional family with a dominant father and submissive mother is promoted as the basis of national values and the remedy against social decline. The obsession with women in the public domain points to a crisis of masculinity associated with unemployment, the impact of austerity packages on social status, and the growth of pink collar employment. Inevitably, religion is drawn into these political debates about the future of Western societies, because religion in general has seen the family and mothers as essential for the reproduction of religion. Christendom has been identified by populists as providing the ultimate defence of the borders of European civilisation against Islam, despite the fact that church leaders have often defended and welcomed outsiders in terms of Christian charity. Once more Christian Europe is the Abendland standing in defiance of a threatening and subversive Morgenland. This volume will be an invaluable reference for students and scholars in the field of political theory, political sociology and European Studies.

Book The Nation and Athen  um

Download or read book The Nation and Athen um written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: