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Day of the dead II : skulls and laughter
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 136

Day of the dead II : skulls and laughter

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The New Architecture of Mexico
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

The New Architecture of Mexico

This book explores the modern architecture the modern architecture of Mexico, with an emphasis from the early 1980s to the present day. It is particularly appropriate now, given a renewed interest in the recent modern architecture of Mexico, and as the w

Constructing Identity in Contemporary Architecture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 309

Constructing Identity in Contemporary Architecture

The global spread of uniform modes of production and cultural values has been accompanied by a dissemination of stereotypes of "modern" architecture styles almost everywhere around the globe. Paradoxically, the reverse process has also emerged: In some countries, the elites feel the necessity to counterbalance the "loss of identity" and defend their own cultures against the "intruding" forces of globalization. What started as a defensive notion has developed into a more progressive attempt to re-create what has allegedly been lost. This trend is being strongly expressed in discourses about architecture in countries of the South. Who are the actors feeling compelled to "construct" new identities? How are these new identities in architecture created in various parts of the world? And, which are the ingredients borrowed from various historical and ethnic traditions and other sources? These and other questions are discussed in five case studies from different parts of the world, written by renowned scholars from Brazil, Mexico, Egypt, India and Singapore.

The Architecture and Cities of Northern Mexico from Independence to the Present
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 856

The Architecture and Cities of Northern Mexico from Independence to the Present

The states of Northern Mexico—Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Durango, Sonora, Sinaloa, and Baja California Norte and Sur—have architecture, urbanism, and landscape design that offer numerous lessons in how to build well, but this constructed environment is largely undervalued or unknown. To make this architecture better known to a wide professional, academic, and public audience, this book presents the first comprehensive overview in either English or Spanish of the architecture, urban landscapes, and cities of Northern Mexico from the country’s emergence as a modern nation in 1821 to the present day. Profusely illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs, maps...

建築と都市
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 424

建築と都市

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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M
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 424

M

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Artes de México
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 402

Artes de México

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Y08
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

Y08

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Unknown

A quintessential Skira Architecture publication which presents Skira's point of view on world architecture.

Carl Nebel
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 120

Carl Nebel

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Interior Interruptions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 140

Interior Interruptions

Interior Interruptions examines the role of the ‘palimpsest’ and its relationship to narrative, sustainability, renovation and adaptive reuse. By exploring storytelling, palimpsestic characteristics and techniques, the book argues that these devices play a central role in the consideration of the designed interior. Narrative has a burgeoning relationship with the palimpsest and this approach embraces an aesthetic of incompleteness and imperfection as a site rich response. It recognises the ongoing ‘biography’ or heritage of a building as a form of transient architectural narrative that encourages reuse through the continual process of writing, rewriting, overwriting and unwriting. Th...