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Attunement
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 300

Attunement

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-02-26
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

How architecture can move beyond the contemporary enthusiasms for the technically sustainable and the formally dazzling to enhance our human values and capacities. Architecture remains in crisis, its social relevance lost between the two poles of formal innovation and technical sustainability. In Attunement, Alberto Pérez-Gómez calls for an architecture that can enhance our human values and capacities, an architecture that is connected—attuned—to its location and its inhabitants. Architecture, Pérez-Gómez explains, operates as a communicative setting for societies; its beauty and its meaning lie in its connection to human health and self-understanding. Our physical places are of utmo...

Proceedings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 164

Proceedings

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Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science
  • Language: en

Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science

This important book, which won the 1984 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, traces the process by which the mystical and numerological grounds for the use of number and geometry in building gave way to the more functional and technical ones that prevail in architectural theory and practice today. Between the late Renaissance and the early nineteenth century, the ancient arts of architecture were being profoundly transformed by the scientific revolution. This important book, which won the 1984 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, traces the process by which the mystical and numerological grounds for the use of number and geometry in building gave way to the more functional and technical ones that prevail in...

Ordonnance for the Five Kinds of Columns after the Method of the Ancients
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 208

Ordonnance for the Five Kinds of Columns after the Method of the Ancients

Perrault argues that rules of architecture be determined by reason, not by ancient precedent.

Minerals Yearbook
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

Minerals Yearbook

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Architectural Representation and the Perspective Hinge
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 505

Architectural Representation and the Perspective Hinge

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000
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  • Publisher: Mit Press

The relationship between the architectural representation and its intended product - a building - has undergone a profound transformation over the centuries. Before the age of modern technology, the systematically predictive role of architectural drawing so taken for granted today was less dominant in the evolution from architectural idea to built work. The age of computer-aided design has brought with it a stricter standard of fidelity. However, contemporary architecture need not simply accept the inevitability of a technological imperative. This book demonstrates that representation is never a neutral tool or mere picture of a future building.

Microfluidic Technologies for Miniaturized Analysis Systems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 630

Microfluidic Technologies for Miniaturized Analysis Systems

This book addresses Lab-on-a-Chip devices. It focuses on microfluidic technologies that have emerged in the past decade. Coverage presents a comprehensive listing of the most promising microfluidic technologies in the Lab-on-a-Chip field. It also details technologies that can be viewed as toolboxes needed to set up complex Lab-on-a-Chip systems.

Springer Handbook of Experimental Fluid Mechanics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1570

Springer Handbook of Experimental Fluid Mechanics

Accompanying DVD-ROM contains ... "all chapters of the Springer Handbook."--Page 3 of cover.

Built upon Love
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

Built upon Love

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-02-15
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

A vision of architecture that transcends concerns of form and function and finds the connections between the architect's wish to design a beautiful world and architecture's imperative to provide a better place for society. The forced polarity between form and function in considerations of architecture—opposing art to social interests, ethics to poetic expression—obscures the deep connections between ethical and poetical values in architectural tradition. Architecture has been, and must continue to be, writes Alberto Pérez-Gómez, built upon love. Modernity has rightly rejected past architectural excesses, but, Pérez-Gómez argues, the materialistic and technological alternatives it pro...

Minerals Yearbook
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 348

Minerals Yearbook

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