Cadernos de arquitetura e urbanismo
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Page : 574 pages
File Size : 41,59 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
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Author :
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Page : 574 pages
File Size : 41,59 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
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Author : Gaia Piccarolo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,23 MB
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1317179161
Architecture as Civil Commitment analyses the many ways in which Lucio Costa shaped the discourse of Brazilian modern architecture, tracing the roots, developments, and counter-marches of a singular form of engagement that programmatically chose to act by cultural means rather than by political ones. Split into five chapters, the book addresses specific case-studies of Costa’s professional activity, pointing towards his multiple roles in the Brazilian federal government and focusing on passages of his work that are much less known outside of Brazil, such as his role inside Estado Novo bureaucracy, his leadership at SPHAN, and his participation in UNESCO’s headquarters project, all the way to the design of Brasilia. Digging deep into the original documents, the book crafts a powerful historical reconstruction that gives the international readership a detailed picture of one of the most fascinating architects of the 20th century, in all his contradictory geniality. It is an ideal read for those interested in Brazilian modernism, students and scholars of architectural and urban planning history, socio-cultural and political history, and visual arts.
Author : Maria do Rosário Monteiro
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 17,60 MB
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429680724
The texts presented in Proportion Harmonies and Identities (PHI) - MODERNITY, FRONTIERS AND REVOLUTIONS were compiled with the intent to establish a multidisciplinary platform for the presentation, interaction and dissemination of research. It also aims to foster awareness of and discussion on the topics of Harmony and Proportion with a focus on different visions relevant to Architecture, Arts and Humanities, Design, Engineering, Social and Natural Sciences, and their importance and benefits for the sense of both individual and community identity. The idea of modernity has been a significant driver of development since the Western Early Modern Age. Its theoretical and practical foundations have become the working tools of scientists, philosophers, and artists, who seek strategies and policies to accelerate the development process in different contexts.
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Page : 1048 pages
File Size : 17,61 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Periodicals
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A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.
Author : João M.P.Q. Delgado
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 18,86 MB
Release : 2020-12-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3030628299
This book presents recent research in the area of hygrothermal building performance, acoustic and natural lighting performance in buildings, phase change materials (PCM) and energy storage. Discussing the state of the art in the field, and covering topics relevant to variety of engineering disciplines, such as civil, materials and mechanical engineering, it will appeal to scientists, students, practitioners, lecturers and other stakeholders.
Author : Aseem Inam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 17,69 MB
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1135006385
While designers possess the creative capabilities of shaping cities, their often-singular obsession with form and aesthetics actually reduces their effectiveness as they are at the mercy of more powerful generators of urban form. In response to this paradox, Designing Urban Transformation addresses the incredible potential of urban practice to radically change cities for the better. The book focuses on a powerful question, "What can urbanism be?" by arguing that the most significant transformations occur by fundamentally rethinking concepts, practices, and outcomes. Drawing inspiration from the philosophical movement known as Pragmatism, the book proposes three conceptual shifts for transformative urban practice: (a) beyond material objects: city as flux, (b) beyond intentions: consequences of design, and (c) beyond practice: urbanism as creative political act. Pragmatism encourages us to consider how we can make deeper and more systemic changes and how urbanism itself can be a design strategy for such transformations. To illuminate how these conceptual shifts operate in vastly different contexts through analysis of transformative urban initiatives and projects in Belo Horizonte, Boston, Cairo, Karachi, Los Angeles, New Delhi, and Paris. The book is a rare integration of theory and practice that proposes essential ways of rethinking city-design-and-building processes, while drawing critical lessons from actual examples of such processes.
Author : Pamela F. Howard-Reguindin
Publisher : Salalm Secretariat
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 29,64 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Reference
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Author : Fernando Luiz Lara
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,12 MB
Release : 2024-11-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 082299156X
To study the built environment of the Americas is to wrestle with an inherent contradiction. While the disciplines of architecture, urban design, landscape, and planning share the fundamental belief that space and place matter, the overwhelming majority of canonical knowledge and the vernacular used to describe these disciplines comes from another, very different, continent. With this book, Fernando Luiz Lara discusses several theories of space—drawing on cartography, geography, anthropology, and mostly architecture—and proposes counterweights to five centuries of Eurocentrism. The first part of Spatial Theories for the Americas offers a critique of Eurocentrism in the discipline of architecture, problematizing its theoretical foundation in relation to the inseparability of modernization and colonization. The second part makes explicit the insufficiencies of a hegemonic Western tradition at the core of spatial theories by discussing a long list of authors who have thought about the Americas. To overcome centuries of Eurocentrism, Lara concludes, will require a tremendous effort, but, nonetheless, we have the responsibility of looking at the built environment of the Americas through our own lenses. Spatial Theories for the Americas proposes a fundamental step in that direction.
Author : Otavio Leonidio
Publisher : Romano Guerra Editora
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 36,38 MB
Release : 2016-12-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 8588585669
The third book of the collection "Latin America: Thoughts" brings together texts written by Otavio Leonidio since 2005. Dispersed until now, the texts address three main themes: the thought and action of the great ideologist of Brazilian modern architecture – Lúcio Costa; the presence of Brazilian modern architecture in the contemporary production (here represented by the works of Angelo Bucci, Christian de Portzamparc, Álvaro Siza and Lelé); and, finally, the complex relation between contemporary art and architecture.
Author : Maria Paula Diogo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 13,36 MB
Release : 2019-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1351170236
This volume discusses gardens as designed landscapes of mediation between nature and culture, embodying different levels of human control over wilderness, defining specific rules for this confrontation and staging different forms of human dominance. The contributing authors focus on ways of rethinking the garden and its role in contemporary society, using it as a crossover platform between nature, science and technology. Drawing upon their diverse fields of research, including History of Science and Technology, Environmental Studies, Gardens and Landscape Studies, Urban Studies, and Visual and Artistic Studies, the authors unveil various entanglements woven in the past between nature and culture, and probe the potential of alternative epistemologies to escape the predicament of fatalistic dystopias that often revolve around the Anthropocene debate. This book will be of great interest to those studying environmental and landscape history, the history of science and technology, historical geography, and the environmental humanities.