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This book explores how the concept of ‘region’ has evolved over time and shaped architectural culture and practice. It questions what the words ‘region’ and ‘regional’ mean for architecture, cities and landscapes past and present, and speculates on the forms they might take in the future. Region is explored in many thematic guises: as a real geographical site of evolving socio-economic activity; as a mythical locus of enduring value; as a gatekeeper of indigenous crafts and vernacular techniques; as a site of architectural and artistic imagination; as a repository of contested, conflicted and mobile identities. The contributing chapters take these themes from the theoretical and ...
Essays on Thermodynamics, Architecture and Beauty, is a book that unfolds arguments and designs around the concept of "thermodynamic beauty". This new aesthetic category opens up new and unexpected directions to the architect's work, connecting architecture and thermodynamics without giving up the tectonic tradition. The compendium will be developed through the concepts of Somatisms, Monsters Assemblage, Verticalism and Thermodynamic Materialism, summarizing design strategies, and opening new territories at the scales of building, public space and landscape.
On architectural ornament and its contradictions This edition of the Catalan architecture magazine Quaderns considers architectural ornament at three scales: the architectural detail, the architectural structure and the urban.
Como é a sua família? Com quem você mora? Com seu pai e com sua mãe? Apenas com sua mãe? Apenas com seu pai? Com seus avós? Com seus irmãos? Com seus tios? Sozinho? Segundoo censo realizado pelo IBGE em 1980, 75% das residências eram compostas por pai, mãe e filhos e os dados de 2010 apontam que apenas 49,9% possuem essa configuração, pois, hoje, existem hoje 19 tipos de lares diferentes. É fato que a estrutura básica da sociedade, a família, está passando por profundas e rápidas mudanças, o que torna extremamente necessário uma análise crítica das repercussões que tais mudanças estão causando ou possam causar na própria estrutura familiar em si bem como em toda a soc...
La presente selección de viviendas es un buen testigo de esto. La elección obedece a un criterio común: todas ellas construyen una idea contemporánea de paisaje, fruto de una mirada actual respetuosa con la identidad territorial y la memoria. Abordan, desde distintas perspectivas, el reto de la inserción en el paisaje basada en el diálogo. Se trata de respuestas que no obvian la potencia y singularidad de lo existente pero que se sitúan a su altura, sin renunciar a su capacidad transformadora y a la construcción de lo contemporáneo.
The pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation in tourism and there has been a surge in new, innovative digital initiatives to help tourism businesses. This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the nature of tourism, events and practices in the digital context. The book looks at how technology has transformed tourism in destination branding, marketing, content marketing, sustainable tourism development and tourism events. It examines the impact of digital transformation on emotions, experiences, information technology tools and marketing techniques. The book will be a useful reference to those researching on tourism, culture, hospitality and marketing and as well as destination planners, managers of tourism destination marketing organizations, regulators, standards and certification bodies, local tourism board authorities and policy makers.
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This pioneering research brings into focus the Islamic contribution and influence in the development of the modern law of the sea.