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The Culture of Energy
The culture of the modern world involves a sizeable and continuous use of energy. The story of energy as a part of modernity begins in the early 19th Century with hard work, experiments and the establishment of local energy systems. The natural conditions made certain by the alternation between light and dark, between warmth and cold, was gradually suspended by the introduction of electric lighting and heating into the home. The welfare state has significantly hastened this development to the degree that notions such as wellness and individual well-being have become natural elements of our consumer culture and our daily life. In most parts of the world we have light whenever we desire it, an...
Concepts of Value in European Material Culture, 1500-1900
In contemporary society it would seem self-evident that people allow the market to determine the values of products and services. For everything from a loaf of bread to a work of art to a simple haircut, value is expressed in monetary terms and seen as determined primarily by the 'objective' interplay between supply and demand. Yet this 'price-mechanism' is itself embedded in conventions and frames of reference which differed according to time, place and product type. Moreover, the dominance of the conventions of utility maximising and calculative homo economicus is a relatively new phenomenon, and one which directly correlates to the steady advent of capitalism in early modern Europe. This ...
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Music, Dance and Franco-Italian Cultural Exchange, C.1700
This study stems from discoveries in a trove of documents belonging to Charles-Henri de Lorraine, prince de Vaudâemont, who served as governor of Milan under the Spanish crown from 1698 to 1706. These documents, together with a mass of other sources - letters, diaries, treatises, libretti, scores - offer a vivid new picture of musical life in Paris and Milan as well as exchanges between France and Italy. The book is both a patronage study and an examination of the contributions by - and the difficulties facing - musicians and dancers who worked across national and cultural boundaries. Music, Dance, and Franco-Italian Cultural Exchange, c.1700 follows the careers of the prince and the French...
The Ford Collection
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Giuseppe Pollack architetto di Casa Belgiojoso
Il libro descrive le composite matrici culturali che concorrono nel progetto a definire non solo un'architettura, ma un intero sistema produttivo a scala territoriale, che nel caso di Velate appare esemplare già agli occhi dei contemporanei quale modello di paesaggio in cui l'efficienza nell'uso delle risorse si traduce in una specifica qualità estetica. Questo intreccio, ricostruito ricorrendo a un contesto più esteso ed eterogeneo di fonti archivistiche, sottrae all'angustia della dimensione locale l'episodio di villa Belgiojoso e in parallelo contribuisce a restituire agli artefici di questa sperimentazione – il committente e il suo architetto – un profilo aggiornato alla conoscenz...
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Emergenza terremoto. Progettare col verde. Periferie: effimeri e rammendi. Restauro: Abbeceddario minimo.
Architettura e paesaggi della villeggiatura in Italia tra Otto e Novecento
Il volume offre articolati spunti di riflessione sulle trasformazioni urbane poste in essere in Italia per il consumo del loisir e sulle relative architetture nelle diverse tipologie: temi già indagati da altre “storie” o in altri paesi, ma solo di
