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Book Percival Goodman

    Book Details:
  • Author : Percival Goodman
  • Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9781884919091
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Percival Goodman written by Percival Goodman and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned as one of the most prolific synagogue architects in the United States.

Book Communitas

    Book Details:
  • Author : Percival Goodman
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN : 9780231072984
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book Communitas written by Percival Goodman and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- Lewis Mumford

Book The Double E

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  • Author : Percival Goodman
  • Publisher : Anchor Books
  • Release : 1977
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book The Double E written by Percival Goodman and published by Anchor Books. This book was released on 1977 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Economies of Collaboration in Performance

Download or read book Economies of Collaboration in Performance written by Karen Savage and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-25 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about collaboration in the arts, which explores how working together seems to achieve more than the sum of the parts. It introduces ideas from economics to conceptualize notions of externalities, complementarity, and emergence, and playfully explores collaborative structures such as the swarm, the crowd, the flock, and the network. It uses up-to-date thinking about Wikinomics, Postcapitalism, and Biopolitics, underpinned by ideas from Foucault, Bourriaud, and Hardt and Negri. In a series of thought-provoking case studies, the authors consider creative practices in theatre, music and film. They explore work by artists such as Gob Squad, Eric Whitacre, Dries Verhoeven, Pete Wyer, and Tino Seghal, and encounter both live and online collaborative possibilities in fascinating discussions of Craigslist and crowdfunding at the Edinburgh Festival. What is revealed is that the introduction of Web 2.0 has enabled a new paradigm of artistic practice to emerge, in which participatory encounters, collaboration, and online dialogue become key creative drivers. Written itself as a collaborative project between Karen Savage and Dominic Symonds, this is a strikingly original take on the economics of working together.

Book Index of Patents Issued from the United States Patent Office

Download or read book Index of Patents Issued from the United States Patent Office written by United States. Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 1298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Universitas Project

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  • Author : Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
  • Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780870700705
  • Pages : 518 pages

Download or read book The Universitas Project written by Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by The Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 2006 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume publishes in their entirety the various components of a conference hosted by MoMA in 1972, 'The Universitas Project'. The distinguished participants, drawn from a wide range of scholarly and artistic disciplines, engaged in a multidisciplinary debate on the future of design and design institutions in the postindustrial era. Addressing issues and ideas still relevant today, this book makes a particularly fertile chapter in the intellectual history of the Museum available for the first time to scholars, the architecture and design community, and the general public.

Book Metropolitan Jews

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lila Corwin Berman
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2015-05-06
  • ISBN : 022624783X
  • Pages : 333 pages

Download or read book Metropolitan Jews written by Lila Corwin Berman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-05-06 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative urban history, Lila Corwin Berman considers the role that Detroit s Jews have played in the city s well-known narratives of migration and decline. Like other Detroiters in the 1960s and 1970s, Jews left the city for the suburbs in large numbers. But Berman makes the case that they nevertheless constituted themselves as urban people, and she shows how complex spatial and political relationships existed within the greater metropolitan region. By insisting on the existence and influence of a metropolitan consciousness, Berman reveals the complexity and contingency of what did and didn t change as regions expanded in the postwar era."

Book Intellectuals in Action

Download or read book Intellectuals in Action written by Kevin Mattson and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2007-08-09 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1966‚ a generation removed from the counterculture‚ Kevin Mattson came of political age in the conservative Reagan era. In an effort to understand contemporary political ambivalence and the plight of radicalism today‚ Mattson looks back to the ideas that informed the protest‚ social movements‚ and activism of the 1960s. To accomplish its historical reconstruction‚ the book combines traditional intellectual biography—including thorough archival research—with social history to examine a group of intellectuals whose thinking was crucial in the formulation of New Left political theory. These include C. Wright Mills‚ the popular radical sociologist; Paul Goodman‚ a practicing Gestalt therapist and anarcho-pacifist; William Appleman Williams‚ the historian and famed critic of "American empire"; Arnold Kaufman‚ a "radical liberal" who deeply influenced the thinking of the SDS. The book discusses not only their ideas‚ but also their practices‚ from writing pamphlets and arranging television debates to forming left-leaning think tanks and organizing teach-ins protesting the Vietnam War. Mattson argues that it is this political engagement balanced with a commitment to truth-telling that is lacking in our own age of postmodern acquiescence. Challenging the standard interpretation of the New Left as inherently in conflict with liberalis‚ Mattson depicts their relationship as more complicated‚ pointing to possibilities for a radical liberalism today. Intellectual and social historians‚ as well as general readers either fascinated by the 1960s protest movements or actively seeking an alternative to our contemporary political malais‚ will embrace Mattson’s book and its promise to shed new light on a time period known for both its intriguing conflicts and its enduring consequences.

Book Louis Kahn s Situated Modernism

Download or read book Louis Kahn s Situated Modernism written by Sarah Williams Goldhagen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She demonstrates instead that Kahn's architecture is grounded in his deeply held modernist political, social, and artistic ideals, which guided him as he sought to rework modernism into a socially transformative architecture appropriate for the postwar world.".

Book Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

Download or read book Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals written by Avery Library and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1977 to present. Citations to articles from more than 1,000 periodicals in all Western languages, including all major architectural journals published in the U.S. and Great Britain, as well as most South American, European and Japanese architecture-related periodicals.

Book Urban Fortunes

Download or read book Urban Fortunes written by John R. Logan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Twenty years after publication, Urban Fortunes remains the best book on urban sociology around. Starting from a political economy analysis, Logan and Molotch develop a picture of the formative processes creating the contemporary American city while managing to avoid the pitfalls of determinism."—Susan Fainstein, Harvard University

Book Synagogue Architecture in America

Download or read book Synagogue Architecture in America written by Henry Stolzman and published by Images Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This full colour publication explores the rich and diverse response to the quest to sustain the Hebrew heritage that has resulted in prominent designs.

Book Jewish Dimensions in Modern Visual Culture

Download or read book Jewish Dimensions in Modern Visual Culture written by Rose-Carol Washton Long and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2010 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating look at key aspects of visual culture in modern Jewish history

Book Building a new New World

Download or read book Building a new New World written by Jean-Louis Cohen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential exploration of how Russian ideas about the United States shaped architecture and urban design from the czarist era to the fall of the U.S.S.R. Idealized representations of America, as both an aspiration and a menace, played an important role in shaping Russian architecture and urban design from the American Revolution until the fall of the Soviet Union. Jean-Louis Cohen traces the powerful concept of “Amerikanizm” and its impact on Russia’s built environment from early czarist interest in Revolutionary America, through the spectacular World’s Fairs of the 19th century, to department stores, skyscrapers, and factories built in Russia using American methods during the 20th century. Visions of America also captivated the Russian avant-garde, from El Lissitzky to Moisei Ginzburg, and Cohen explores the ongoing artistic dialogue maintained between the two countries at the mid-century and in the late Soviet era, following a period of strategic competition. This first major study of Amerikanizm in the architecture of Russia makes a timely contribution to our understanding of modern architecture and its broader geopolitics.

Book Jewish Religious Architecture

Download or read book Jewish Religious Architecture written by Steven Fine and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish Religious Architecture explores ways that Jews have expressed their tradition in brick and mortar and wood, in stone and word and spirit, from the biblical Tabernacle to contemporary Judaism. Social historians, cultural historians, art historians and philologists have come together in this volume to explore this extraordinary architectural tradition.

Book Reminiscences of Percival Goodman

Download or read book Reminiscences of Percival Goodman written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Louis I  Kahn s Jewish Architecture

Download or read book Louis I Kahn s Jewish Architecture written by Susan G. Solomon and published by Brandeis University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1961, famed architect Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974) received a commission to design a new synagogue. His client was one of the oldest Sephardic Orthodox congregations in the United States: Philadelphia's Mikveh Israel. Due to the loss of financial backing, Kahn's plans were never realized. Nevertheless, the haunting and imaginative schemes for Mikveh Israel remain among Kahn's most revered designs. Susan G. Solomon uses Kahn's designs for Mikveh Israel as a lens through which to examine the transformation of the American synagogue from 1955 to 1970. She shows how Kahn wrestled with issues that challenged postwar Jewish institutions and evaluates his creative attempts to bridge modernism and Judaism. She argues that Kahn provided a fresh paradigm for synagogues, one that offered innovations in planning, decoration, and the incorporation of light and nature into building design.