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Book Graduate School of Arts and Architecture 2001

Download or read book Graduate School of Arts and Architecture 2001 written by Peterson's Guides Staff and published by Peterson Nelnet Company. This book was released on 2000-07 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on universities and colleges in the United States that offer graduate degrees in applied arts, design, architecture, art history, communication and media, film, and performing arts.

Book Graduate Programs in Arts and Architecture

Download or read book Graduate Programs in Arts and Architecture written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the Board of Regents

Download or read book Proceedings of the Board of Regents written by University of Michigan. Board of Regents and published by UM Libraries. This book was released on 1997 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Twentieth Century Architecture 5

Download or read book Twentieth Century Architecture 5 written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Subjects

Download or read book Subjects written by Gert Staal and published by 010 Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their Cow Chair consists of a complete, uncut hide of a cow; that is all that is needed to create a sturdy piece of furniture. A tea service is stained with golden tea splashes straight from the manufacturer. Iconic works like these have been catching the attention of museums, companies and the design press for the last ten years or so. Niels van Eijk & Miriam van der Lubbe's areas of interest sometimes seem perfectly at home in the agenda that has made Dutch Design so well known. But they are just as likely to tunnel their way out of that particular pigeonhole. With their fascination for the technical execution of experimental products, their liking for a measured touch of banality and the flexibility of their working methods, they prove adept not only in craft or industrial products but also in exhibition layouts and interiors. "Subjects" is a monograph that illustrates and discusses the huge scope of their work and places it in a wider context. Exhibition: Audax Textielmuseum, Tilburg, 27 June - 11 October 2009.

Book Architecture from the Outside

Download or read book Architecture from the Outside written by Elizabeth Grosz and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001-06-22 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays at the intersection of philosophy and architecture explore how we understand and inhabit space. To be outside allows one a fresh perspective on the inside. In these essays, philosopher Elizabeth Grosz explores the ways in which two disciplines that are fundamentally outside each another—architecture and philosophy—can meet in a third space to interact free of their internal constraints. "Outside" also refers to those whose voices are not usually heard in architectural discourse but who inhabit its space—the destitute, the homeless, the sick, and the dying, as well as women and minorities. Grosz asks how we can understand space differently in order to structure and inhabit our living arrangements accordingly. Two themes run throughout the book: temporal flow and sexual specificity. Grosz argues that time, change, and emergence, traditionally viewed as outside the concerns of space, must become more integral to the processes of design and construction. She also argues against architecture's historical indifference to sexual specificity, asking what the existence of (at least) two sexes has to do with how we understand and experience space. Drawing on the work of such philosophers as Henri Bergson, Roger Caillois, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Luce Irigaray, and Jacques Lacan, Grosz raises abstract but nonformalistic questions about space, inhabitation, and building. All of the essays propose philosophical experiments to render space and building more mobile and dynamic.

Book Segregation by Design

    Book Details:
  • Author : Catalina Freixas
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2018-10-24
  • ISBN : 331972956X
  • Pages : 668 pages

Download or read book Segregation by Design written by Catalina Freixas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses racial segregation in American cities. Using St. Louis as a point of departure, it examines the causes and consequences of residential segregation, and proposes potential mitigation strategies. While an introduction, timeline and historical overview frame the subject, nine topic-specific conversations – between invited academics, policy makers and urban professionals – provide the main structure. Each of these conversations is contextualized by a photograph, an editors’ note and an essay written by a respected current or former St. Louisan. The essayists respond to the conversations by speaking to the impacts of segregation and by suggesting innovative policy and design tactics from their professional or academic perspective. The purpose of the book, therefore, is not to provide original research on residential segregation, but rather to offer a unique collection of insightful, transdisciplinary reflections on the experience of segregation in America and how it might be addressed.

Book Why Art Cannot Be Taught

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  • Author : James Elkins
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2001-05-17
  • ISBN : 9780252069505
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Why Art Cannot Be Taught written by James Elkins and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001-05-17 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He also addresses the phenomenon of art critiques as a microcosm for teaching art as a whole and dissects real-life critiques, highlighting presuppositions and dynamics that make them confusing and suggesting ways to make them more helpful. Elkins's no-nonsense approach clears away the assumptions about art instruction that are not borne out by classroom practice. For example, he notes that despite much talk about instilling visual acuity and teaching technique, in practice neither teachers nor students behave as if those were their principal goals. He addresses the absurdity of pretending that sexual issues are absent from life-drawing classes and questions the practice of holding up great masters and masterpieces as models for students capable of producing only mediocre art. He also discusses types of art--including art that takes time to complete and art that isn't serious--that cannot be learned in studio art classes.

Book A Greene Country Towne

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  • Author : Alan C. Braddock
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2016-12-12
  • ISBN : 0271078928
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book A Greene Country Towne written by Alan C. Braddock and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unconventional history of Philadelphia that operates at the threshold of cultural and environmental studies, A Greene Country Towne expands the meaning of community beyond people to encompass nonhuman beings, things, and forces. By examining a diverse range of cultural acts and material objects created in Philadelphia—from Native American artifacts, early stoves, and literary works to public parks, photographs, and paintings—through the lens of new materialism, the essays in A Greene Country Towne ask us to consider an urban environmental history in which humans are not the only protagonists. This collection reimagines the city as a system of constantly evolving constituents and agencies that have interacted over time, a system powerfully captured by Philadelphia artists, writers, architects, and planners since the seventeenth century. In addition to the editors, contributors to this volume are Maria Farland, Nate Gabriel, Andrea L. M. Hansen, Scott Hicks, Michael Dean Mackintosh, Amy E. Menzer, Stephen Nepa, John Ott, Sue Ann Prince, and Mary I. Unger.

Book SCDA

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  • Author : Robert Powell
  • Publisher : Images Publishing
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9781920744205
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book SCDA written by Robert Powell and published by Images Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malaysian-born Soo Chan (Chan Soo Khian) is among the new breed of Southeast Asian architects whose architecture is not only modern and refreshing, but also reflects the spirit of Asia. Having studied and trained in the US, Soo Chan returned to Asia in t

Book Regents  Proceedings

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  • Author : University of Michigan. Board of Regents
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 476 pages

Download or read book Regents Proceedings written by University of Michigan. Board of Regents and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Preston Scott Cohen

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  • Author : Scott Cohen
  • Publisher : ORO Applied Research + Design
  • Release : 2017-03
  • ISBN : 9781939621580
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book Preston Scott Cohen written by Scott Cohen and published by ORO Applied Research + Design. This book was released on 2017-03 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents the creation of the Taiyuan Museum of Art: a geometric visual feast that seeks to redefine the structure of museums, galleries, and other public spaces. The architects behind this phenomenal project have described it as a building which 'produces the impression of a unified sequence of spaces while at the same time giving visitors the freedom either to follow a path that is clearly defined by the architecture or to skip from one gallery to another in a non-linear fashion'. This book embraces the ideas that generated the project through interviews with graduate students at the Knowlton School of Architecture, interviews with contemporary critics, and critical commentary from architects, designers, and colleagues of the architect. The design process is described in detail through drawings, diagrams and study models.

Book Beyond the Edge

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  • Author : Raymond Gastil
  • Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
  • Release : 2002-10-25
  • ISBN : 9781568983271
  • Pages : 222 pages

Download or read book Beyond the Edge written by Raymond Gastil and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2002-10-25 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an insightful look at projects from around the world and at the current design proposals for New York itself, the author paints a portrait of redevelopment that is both pragmatic and visionary, one that holds the promise of reconnecting New Yorkers to their waterfront as a vital place of work and of public life."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Designing the French Interior

Download or read book Designing the French Interior written by Anca I. Lasc and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designing the French Interior traces France's central role in the development of the modern domestic interior, from the pre-revolutionary period to the 1970s, and addresses the importance of various media, including drawings, prints, pattern books, illustrated magazines, department store catalogs, photographs, guidebooks, and films, in representing and promoting French interior design to a wider audience. Contributors to this original volume identify and historicize the singularity of the modern French domestic interior as a generator of reproducible images, a site for display of both highly crafted and mass-produced objects, and the direct result of widely-circulated imagery in its own right. This important volume enables an invaluable new understanding of the relationship between architecture, interior spaces, material cultures, mass media and modernity.

Book Kengo Kuma

    Book Details:
  • Author : Botond Bognar
  • Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
  • Release : 2005-04-07
  • ISBN : 9781568984681
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book Kengo Kuma written by Botond Bognar and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2005-04-07 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bognar describes in detail the work of Kengo Kuma whose designs have been attracting growing international attention. Kuma's work is characterized by simplicity and sensitivity to ecological issues taking account of the site and the materials used.

Book The New Pastoralism

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  • Author : Mark Titman
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2013-05-06
  • ISBN : 1118336984
  • Pages : 147 pages

Download or read book The New Pastoralism written by Mark Titman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-06 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Pastoralism demonstrates how small-scale additions or conversions using planting and wildlife can bring about engaging, delightful and efficient structures and spaces. The book’s numerous contributors each showcase a particular Nature device that they used to enhance their built proposals. Images are provided with text as annotation. The prominent featured architects will include: Michael Sorkin, Nicholas Grimshaw, Ken Yeang, Kathryn Findlay and Mos Architecture. The other contributors will show small or medium sized built projects they have worked on. All contributors will showcase a building, structure or surface as either drawn proposal or built construction.

Book Rafael Vi  oly

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  • Author : Rafael Viñoly
  • Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
  • Release : 2002-11-21
  • ISBN : 3764366168
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Rafael Vi oly written by Rafael Viñoly and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2002-11-21 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rafael Vinoly became famous as the architect of the stunning Tokyo International Forum (1989-1996). In Japan, where land is at a premium and public spaces are rare, the Forum with its 2.7 hectares and unusual design of public space, was widely admired. Originating in Uruguay, Vinoly heads an architectural office with an impressive list of projects in the areas of architecture, urban planning and interior design, including significant buildings such as the Philadelphia Regional Performing Arts Center which opened recently, Princeton University Stadium, the New Bronx Supreme Criminal Court Complex. In 1969 Vinoly founded his first office in Buenos Aires which was influenced by the Modern Movement but also by the ideas and concepts of the 1960s reflected in the work of Buckminster Fuller, Archigram and the Smithsons. Due to the political situation he emigrated and opened an office in New York in 1982. Despite the difficulties involved in starting over again in a new country where in the meantime post-modernism was prevalent, Vinoly stayed true to his style of architecture, feeling bound to the ethical considerations of modernism yet constantly questioning it, adapting it to changing conditions. With offices in New York and Tokyo, Rafael Vinoly Architects is now one of the most successful architectural offices worldwide. This book documents a large number of Vinoly's most significant buildings and projects. It also includes an essay by Joan Ockman, one of the best-known architecture theoreticians in the USA, and texts by Rafael Vinoly on his career which has been marked by the difficult political situation in Argentina and the cultural exchange between S. America, Europe and the USA.