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A city cannot be a work of art learning economics and social theory from jane…
This open access book connects Jane Jacobs's celebrated urban analysis to her ideas on economics and social theory. While Jacobs is a legend in the field of urbanism and famous for challenging and profoundly influencing urban planning and design, her theoretical contributions – although central to her criticisms of and proposals for public policy – are frequently overlooked even by her most…
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- 9789819953622
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- XXV, 400 p
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- 720.94
Disordering the establishment :participatory art and institutional critique i…
In the decades following World War II, France experienced both a period of affluence and a wave of political, artistic, and philosophical discontent that culminated in the countrywide protests of 1968. In Disordering the Establishment Lily Woodruff examines the development of artistic strategies of political resistance in France in this era. Drawing on interviews with artists, curators, and cul…
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- 9781478012085
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- xi, 336p.; ill.
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- 709.05015 DIS w
Disordering the establishment :participatory art and institutional critique i…
In the decades following World War II, France experienced both a period of affluence and a wave of political, artistic, and philosophical discontent that culminated in the countrywide protests of 1968. In Disordering the Establishment Lily Woodruff examines the development of artistic strategies of political resistance in France in this era. Drawing on interviews with artists, curators, and cul…
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- 9781478012085
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- xi, 336p.; ill.
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- 709.05015 DIS w
Ethnographic experiments with artists, designers and boundary objects :exhibi…
Ethnographic Experiments with Artists, Designers and Boundary Objects is a lively investigation into anthropological practice. Richly illustrated, it invites the reader to reflect on the skills of collaboration and experimentation in fieldwork and in gallery curation, thereby expanding our modes of knowledge production. At the heart of this study are the possibilities for transdisciplinary coll…
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- 9781800081086
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- xiii, 201 p. ill;
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- 708 ETH F
Things that travelled :Mediterranean glass in the first millennium CE
Recent research has demonstrated that, in the Roman, Late Antique, Early Islamic and Medieval worlds, glass was traded over long distances, from the Eastern Mediterranean, mainly Egypt and Israel, to Northern Africa, the Western Mediterranean and Northern Europe. Things that Travelled, a collaboration between the UCL Early Glass Technology Research Network, the Association for the History of Gl…
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- 9781787351172
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- xviii, 362 p. ill;
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- 748.20937 THI D
The vienna genesis :material analysis and conservation of a Late antique illu…
The Vienna Genesis (Austrian National Library, Codex Theologicus graecus 31) is a fragmentary Greek manuscript of the Book of Genesis written on purple dyed parchment with silver ink. It is assumed that the book was created in the first half of the 6th century in the Near East. 24 folios with 48 miniatures have survived and have been stored at the Austrian National Library since 1664. The Vienn…
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- 9783205210580
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- 745.67487. THE c
The saburo hasegawa reader
Published on the occasion of the 2019 exhibition “Changing and Unchanging Things: Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan,” The Saburo Hasegawa Reader encompasses a selection of writings by the Japanese artist, theorist, essayist, teacher, and curator Saburo Hasegawa (1908–1957), translated into English for the first time. Credited with introducing abstract art to Japan in the 1930s, Hasega…
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- 9780520970922
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- xxv. :ill. ;166 p.
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- 709.2. THE j
Architecture and development :Israeli construction in Sub-Saharan Africa and …
comPosing these notes during the coviD- 19 pandemic deepens my appreciation of the intellectual community that sustains prolonged efforts such as writing a book—and renders them worthwhile. From its beginning as a seminar paper, Architecture and Development has owed its formation at every step to an always converging and diverging circle of friends and family, mentors and colle…
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- 9781478091820
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- ix, 337p.; ill.
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- 720.95694 ARC l
New Islamic urbanism :the architecture of public and private space in Jeddah,…
Since the dawn of the oil era, cities in Saudi Arabia have witnessed rapid growth and profound societal changes. As a response to foreign architectural solutions and the increasing popularity of Western lifestyles, a distinct style of architecture and urban planning has emerged. Characterised by an emphasis on privacy, expressed through high enclosures, gates, blinds, and tinted windows, ‘New…
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- 9781787356429
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- xvii, 239 p. ill;
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- 720.9538 NEW S
Kathleen collins :the black essai film
A philosopher-filmmaker, Kathleen Collins decisively redefined the parameters of African American film with Losing Ground (1982). This book uses detailed analyses of Collins’s films to contextualise her work in the African American, feminist and world film traditions, and it highlights her contribution to each of these canons.
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- 9781474440707
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- vii. ;ill. ;164 p.
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- 791.430233092. KAT g
The covert life of hospital architecture
The Covert Life of Hospital Architecture addresses hospital architecture as a set of interlocked, overlapping spatial and social conditions. It identifies ways that planned-for and latent functions of hospital spaces work jointly to produce desired outcomes such as greater patient safety, increased scope for care provider communication and more intelligible corridors. By advancing space synt…
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- 9781800080881
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- xxi, 187 p. ill;
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- 725.51 COV J
The Florida room
Alexandra T. Vazquez listens to the music and history of Miami to explore the city’s sonic cultures and its material and social realities.
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- 9781478092704
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- xiii, 259p.; ill.
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- 780.9759381 FLO v
Botticelli past and present
The recent exhibitions dedicated to Botticelli around the world show, more than ever, the significant and continued debate about the artist. Botticelli Past and Present engages with this debate. The book comprises four thematic parts, spanning four centuries of Botticelli’s artistic fame and reception from the fifteenth century. Each part comprises a number of essays and includes a short intr…
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- 9781787354593
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- xix, 307 p. ill;
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- 759.5 BOT A
Interpreting art
How do people make sense of works of art? And how do they write to make others see the same way? There are many guides to looking at art, histories of art history and art criticism, and accounts of various ‘theories’ and ‘methods’, but this book offers something very unlike the normal search for difference and division: it examines the general and largely unspoken norms shared by interp…
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- 9781800081772
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- xi, 136 p. ill;
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- 701.18 INT E
The modernist bestiary :translating animals and the arts through Guillaume Ap…
The Modernist Bestiary centres on Le Bestiaire ou Cortège d’Orphée (1911), a multimedia collaborative work by French-Polish poet Guillaume Apollinaire and French artist Raoul Dufy, and its homonym, The Bestiary or Procession of Orpheus (1979), by British artist Graham Sutherland. Rather than reconstructing the lineage of these two compositions, the book uncovers the aesthetic and intellectu…
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- 9781787351516
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- xiii, 186p.; ill.
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- 704.9432 MOD d
Developing a sense of place :the role of the arts in regenerating communities
How do cultural planners and policymakers work through the arts to create communities? What do artists need to build a sense of place in their community? To discuss these issues, Developing a Sense of Place brings together new models and case studies, each drawn from a specific geographical or socio-cultural context. Selected for their lasting effect in their local community, the case studie…
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- 9781787357655
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- xxi, 325p.
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- 700.103 DEV a
Experiments with body agent architecture. The 586-year-old Spiritello in Il R…
Experiments with Body Agent Architecture puts forward the notion of body agents: non-ideal, animate and highly specific figures integrated with design to enact particular notions of embodied subjectivity in architecture. Body agents present opportunities for architects to increase imaginative and empathic qualities in their designs, particularly amidst a posthuman condition. Beginning with n…
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- 9781800081703
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- xxix, 262 p. ill;
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- 720.103 EXP A
Architecture and fire :a psychoanalytic approach to conservation
Architecture and Fire develops a conceptual reassessment of architectural conservation through the study of the intimate relationship between architecture and fire. Stamatis Zografos expands on the general agreement among many theorists that the primitive hut was erected around fire – locating fire as the first memory of architecture, at the very beginning of architectural evolution. Follo…
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- 9781787353701
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- xiv, 210p.; ill.
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- 720.288 ARC z
Resisting postmodern architecture :critical regionalism before globalisation
Since its first appearance in 1981, critical regionalism has enjoyed a celebrated worldwide reception. The 1990s increased its pertinence as an architectural theory that defends the cultural identity of a place resisting the homogenising onslaught of globalisation. Today, its main principles (such as acknowledging the climate, history, materials, culture and topography of a specific place) are …
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- 9781800081338
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- xxiii, 394 p. ill;
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Architecture as a way of seeing and learning :the built environment as an add…
At the beginning of 2020, 66 long-term refugee camps existed along the East African Rift. Millions of young children have been born at the camps and have grown up there, yet it is unknown how their surrounding built environments affect their learning and development. Architecture as a Way of Seeing and Learning presents an architect’s take on questions many academics and humanitarians ask.…
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- 9781800080119
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- xvii, 189 p. ill;
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