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Author : Terry E. Smith
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Page : 272 pages
File Size : 27,54 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
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Author : Anthony Alofsin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 28,51 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0226015076
The canonical inventors of International Style have long dominated studies of modern European architecture. But in this text, Anthony Alofsin broadens this scope by exploring the rich yet overlooked architecture of the late Austro-Hungarian Empire and its successor states.
Author : Blair Kamin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 36,12 MB
Release : 2011-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0226423123
Collects the best of Kamin's writings for the Chicago Tribune from the past decade.
Author : Anoma Pieris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 28,92 MB
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 131651918X
An innovative account of prisoners of war and internment camps around the Pacific basin during the Second World War. In this comparative and global study, Anoma Pieris and Lynne Horiuchi offer an architectural and urban understanding of the Pacific War approached through spatial, physical and material analyses of incarceration camp environments.
Author : Rachel Cusk
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 11,47 MB
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1466820187
In 2003, Rachel Cusk published A Life's Work, a provocative and often startlingly funny memoir about the cataclysm of motherhood. Widely acclaimed, the book started hundreds of arguments that continue to this day. Now, in her most personal and relevant book to date, Cusk explores divorce's tremendous impact on the lives of women. An unflinching chronicle of Cusk's own recent separation and the upheaval that followed—"a jigsaw dismantled"—it is also a vivid study of divorce's complex place in our society. "Aftermath" originally signified a second harvest, and in this book, unlike any other written on the subject, Cusk discovers opportunity as well as pain. With candor as fearless as it is affecting, Rachel Cusk maps a transformative chapter of her life with an acuity and wit that will help us understand our own.
Author : Manuel Castells
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 15,72 MB
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199658412
The consequences of the financial crisis may be uncertain, but are sure to reach deep into the body politic, civil society, welfare systems, and reform. This collection of essays by leading international sociologists and social scientists explores the likely outcomes and consequences
Author : Michael Hutt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 25,51 MB
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1108834051
Analyses the impact of the 2015 Nepal earthquakes and the need to understand disasters in their cultural and political context.
Author : Gwendolyn Wright
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 10,75 MB
Release : 2008-02-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781861893444
Gwendolyn Wright’s USA is an engaging account the evolution of American architecture, from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first.
Author : Terry E. Smith
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,90 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture and society
ISBN : 9780226764696
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Author : James Stevens Curl
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 37,33 MB
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0191068160
In Making Dystopia, distinguished architectural historian James Stevens Curl tells the story of the advent of architectural Modernism in the aftermath of the First World War, its protagonists, and its astonishing, almost global acceptance after 1945. He argues forcefully that the triumph of architectural Modernism in the second half of the twentieth century led to massive destruction, the creation of alien urban landscapes, and a huge waste of resources. Moreover, the coming of Modernism was not an inevitable, seamless evolution, as many have insisted, but a massive, unparalled disruption that demanded a clean slate and the elimination of all ornament, decoration, and choice. Tracing the effects of the Modernist revolution in architecture to the present, Stevens Curl argues that, with each passing year, so-called 'iconic' architecture by supposed 'star' architects has become more and more bizarre, unsettling, and expensive, ignoring established contexts and proving to be stratospherically remote from the aspirations and needs of humanity. In the elite world of contemporary architecture, form increasingly follows finance, and in a society in which the 'haves' have more and more, and the 'have-nots' are ever more marginalized, he warns that contemporary architecture continues to stack up huge potential problems for the future, as housing costs spiral out of control, resources are squandered on architectural bling, and society fractures. This courageous, passionate, deeply researched, and profoundly argued book should be read by everyone concerned with what is around us. Its combative critique of the entire Modernist architectural project and its apologists will be highly controversial to many. But it contains salutary warnings that we ignore at our peril. And it asks awkward questions to which answers are long overdue.