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Sustainable Dwelling
This book examines the social and spatial dimensions of dwelling from the perspective of sustainability. This publication avoids the traditional energy and technological dimensions of sustainability to position the notion of sustainable dwelling at the crossroads of spatial polyvalence and residents' empowerment. In the field of housing, this publication identifies the recurrent properties of 'sustainable space’ and the variety of the socio-cultural practices that can embody them. Its purpose is to comprehend how the concept of sustainability is reflected in housing spaces as well as to analyse how inhabitants put those spaces to the test.
Brussels Housing
Modern urban terraced houses or row houses emerged in Europe from the 17th century onwards. Usually two to three storeys high and with a garden at the back, they formed the traditional urban block. In Brussels, this bourgeois form of housing took on a particularly varied and inspiring form – including the well-known Art Nouveau residences – and forms the DNA of the city to this day. This publication analyses 100 selected examples illustrating the emergence of the terraced house and its further development in other forms of housing. The result is a broad panorama and a history of the architecture and development of the city of Brussels with its particularly heterogenous cityscape. This expanded edition comprises a new chapter by Kristiaan Borret, the city's former bouwmeester. 13 new case studies were added and the content was updated. A project index facilitates quick navigation. With a photo essay by the well-known Belgian photographer Maxime Delvaux All plans have been drawn in standard scales, especially for the publication An atlas of exemplary historical and contemporary housing typologies Substantially expanded edition of the successful typological manual
The Pirate Organization
In this book, Whole Foods Market cofounder John Mackey and professor and Conscious Capitalism, Inc. co-founder Raj Sisodia argue for the inherent good of both business and capitalism. Featuring some of today's best-known companies, they illustrate how these two forces can--and do--work most powerfully to create value for all stakeholders: including customers, employees, suppliers, investors, society, and the environment.
Penser à partir de l'architecture
Cet ouvrage interdisciplinaire s'ouvre sur une question philosophique: quels modes de réflexivité pour penser – ou repenser? – l’architecture, ce vaste et complexe domaine, tendu entre hier et demain. Les chapitres qui suivent abordent les rapports de l’architecture avec la poétique, la technique et enfin l’éthique. En effet, si l’architecture aujourd’hui n’a de sens qu’en partant des préoccupations des architectes eux-mêmes, les questions qu’elle soulève doivent faire l’objet d’un débat avec d’autres praticiens et théoriciens, dans le double but de garantir le recul critique et d’ouvrir l’imagination créatrice.
Devotional Portraiture and Spiritual Experience in Early Netherlandish Painting
In Devotional Portraiture and Spiritual Experience Ingrid Falque analyses the meditative functions of early Netherlandish paintings including devotional portraits, that is portraits of people kneeling in prayer. Such paintings have been mainly studied in the context of commemorative and social practices, but as Ingrid Falque shows, they also served as devotional instruments. By drawing parallels between the visual strategies of these paintings and texts of the major spiritual writers of the medieval Low Countries, she demonstrates that paintings with devotional portraits functioned as a visualisation of the spiritual process of the sitters. The book is accompanied by the first exhaustive catalogue of paintings with devotional portraits produced in the Low Countries between c. 1400 and 1550. This catalogue is available at no costs in e-format (HERE) and can also be purchased as a printed hardcover book (HERE).
State Succession to International Responsibility
The break-up of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia and the unification of Germany in the 1990s marked the dramatic return to center stage in international law of the issue of State succession. This book deals with one particularly controversial aspect of State succession that until now has not received much attention: the question of State succession to international responsibility. In State Succession to International Responsibility the international lawyer and scholar Patrick Dumberry addresses the question, critical for our times, whether or not a new State may be held responsible for wrongful acts committed before its independence by the predecessor State. He also considers ...
Brussel in een België met vier gewesten?
Bij eerdere staatshervormingen leken de scenario’s op afspraken van een scheidend echtpaar (Vlaanderen en Wallonië) dat het wel eens geraakt over de verdeling van hun gemeenschappelijke bezittingen, maar niet over Brussel. Hoewel het Brussels Gewest autonomie kreeg over de Gewestbevoegdheden, bleven de Brusselaars voor de Gemeenschapsbevoegdheden onder voogdij van de Gemeenschappen. Om de mening van de Brusselaars werd niet gevraagd. Het Brussels Studies Institute wil deze aanpak omdraaien en het institutionele debat benaderen vanuit het perspectief van Brussel, en van zijn inwoners. In dit boek buigen ruim vijfentwintig onderzoekers zich over de bevoegdheden die Brussel en de Brusselaars nodig hebben. Ze vertrekken hierbij vanuit het meest eenvoudige scenario: Brussel als autonoom gewest, zoals Vlaanderen en Wallonië, zonder onderscheid tussen gewest- en gemeenschapsbevoegdheden. Zou dit het leven van de Brusselaars verbeteren?
Bruxelles dans une Belgique à quatre régions ?
Lors des précédentes réformes de l'État, les propositions sur l’avenir de la Belgique ressemblaient à celles d’un couple en instance de divorce – la Flandre et la Wallonie –, statuant sur le partage de leurs biens... mais sans y parvenir pour le cas de Bruxelles. Face aux nombreuses divergences, les Bruxelloises et les Bruxellois (qui n'ont pas été consultés) sont finalement restés sous la tutelle des Communautés pour certaines matières. Le Brussels Studies Institute inverse cette approche et veut mener le débat institutionnel en partant du point de vue de Bruxelles. Dans cet ouvrage, plus de vingt-cinq chercheurs partent de cette question : et si Bruxelles devenait une R...
