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Museum Buildings
Museums are architectural trend-setters. Culture sponsoring and their increasing role as tourist attractions are guarantees for an ongoing boom in museum construction. A tradition and typology developed over the centuries, the experience gained in recent decades and cutting-edge technology all contribute to the practice of modern day museum building. History and form, site development, floor plan, air-conditioning and climate technology are just some examples of the subjects treated systematically in the first section of this design manual. Some 70 international museum case-studies exemplify solutions and emphasize specific museum design issues such as spatial organisation and arrangement, and lighting. Paul von Naredi-Rainer is an expert on the subject of museum construction and author of the widely read "Architektur und Harmonie" (Architecture and Harmony). Herbert Pfeiffer, Helmut F.O. MÃ1⁄4ller and Hans JÃ1⁄4rgen Schmitz teach at Dortmund University, Oliver Hilger and Gerhard Kahlert at RWTH Aachen.
New Essays on the Psychology of Art
Thousands of readers who have profited from engagement with the lively mind of Rudolf Arnheim over the decades will receive news of this new collection of essays expectantly. In the essays collected here, as in his earlier work on a large variety of art forms, Arnheim explores concrete poetry and the metaphors of Dante, photography and the meaning of music. There are essays on color composition, forgeries, and the problems of perspective, on art in education and therapy, on the style of artists' late works, and the reading of maps. Also, in a triplet of essays on pioneers in the psychology of art (Max Wertheimer, Gustav Theodor Fechner, and Wilhelm Worringer) Arnheim goes back to the roots of modern thinking about the mechanisms of artistic perception.
Tracing the Jerusalem Code
With the aim to write the history of Christianity in Scandinavia with Jerusalem as a lens, this book investigates the image – or rather the imagination – of Jerusalem in the religious, political, and artistic cultures of Scandinavia through most of the second millennium. Jerusalem is conceived as a code, in this volume focussing on Jerusalem's impact on Protestantism and Christianity in Early Modern Scandinavia. Tracing the Jerusalem Code in three volumes Volume 1: The Holy City Christian Cultures in Medieval Scandinavia (ca. 1100–1536) Volume 2: The Chosen People Christian Cultures in Early Modern Scandinavia (1536–ca. 1750) Volume 3: The Promised Land Christian Cultures in Modern Scandinavia (ca. 1750–ca. 1920)
The Architect, the Cook and Good Taste
Since time immemorial, cooking and building have been among humanity’s most basic occupations. Both of them are rooted in necessity, but both of them also possess a cultural as well as a sensory, aesthetic dimension. And while it is true that cooking is a transitory art form, it gives expression to the periods of human cultural history just as architecture does. Moreover, both arts accord a central role to the materials employed. Both involve measuring and proportioning, shaping and designing, assembling and composing. This book pursues the astonishing parallels and deeply rooted connections between the art of building and that of cooking. A variety of essays takes up questions of materiality and proportioning. Attention will also be given to food cultivation and architecture, to the places where meals are prepared as well as a range of different culinary spaces. With articles by Annette Gigon, Stanislaus von Moos, Claudio Silvestrin, Ian Ritchie, and others.
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Der Ingenieur und seine Designer
Design und Konstruktion entscheiden über den wirtschaftlichen Erfolg neuer technischer Produkte. Nicht allein die "Aufmerksamkeitsökonomie" ist dafür ausschlaggebend; der Wert langlebiger Güter wird von den technischen Eigenschaften ebenso bestimmt wie die richtige Preisgestaltung von den Herstellkosten. Der Diskurs zum Thema "Ingenieur und Designer" zeigt Möglichkeiten, wie das ambivalente Verhältnis zwischen den Partnern im Entwicklungsprozess effizienter und damit reibungsloser zu gestalten ist. Im geschichtlichen Rückblick und mit dem Beschreiben der heutigen Situation erhält der Leser Einblicke zur Positionsbestimmung von Design und Konstruktion, von Designer und Ingenieur. Die verschiedenen Wahrnehmungsweisen des gestalterischen Prozesses von der Idee zum Produkt führen besonders dann zu Reibungen, wenn es um ästhetische Fragen geht. Die unterschiedlichen Bildwelten von Ingenieuren und Designern erschweren die Verständigung und führen zu ungenauen oder falschen Ergebnissen. Die Fähigkeiten des Erkennens wesentlicher ästhetischer Prozesse und Strategien im kulturellen Kontext und historischem Hintergrund erleichtern die Verständigung.
