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Revealing Architectural Design
  • Language: en

Revealing Architectural Design

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Revealing Architectural Design introduces the reader to architecture from the point of view of domains and syntax, techniques of creative and analytic thinking, and issues of relevance.

Making Architecture Through Being Human
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 261

Making Architecture Through Being Human

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-11-26
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Architecture can seem complicated, mysterious or even ill-defined, especially to a student being introduced to architectural ideas for the first time. One way to approach architecture is simply as the design of human environments. When we consider architecture in this way, there is a good place to start – ourselves. Our engagement in our environment has shaped the way we think which we, in turn, use to then shape that environment. It is from this foundation that we produce meaning, make sense of our surroundings, structure relationships and even frame more complex and abstract ideas. This is the start of architectural design. Making Architecture Through Being Human is a reference book that...

Olivier
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 538

Olivier

A finalist for the Sheridan Morley Prize that has been called "probably the best Olivier book for general readers" (Kirkus Reviews), Philip Ziegler's Olivier provides an incredibly accessible and comprehensive portrait of this Hollywood superstar, Oscar-winning director, and one who is considered the greatest stage actor of the twentieth century. The era abounded in great actors--Gielgud, Richardson, Guinness, Burton, O'Toole--but none could challenge Laurence Olivier's range and power. By the 1940s he had achieved international stardom. His affair with Vivien Leigh led to a marriage as glamorous and as tragic as any in Hollywood history. He was as accomplished a director as he was a leading...

Visual Communication Design
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 209

Visual Communication Design

Where do design principles come from? Are they abstract "rules" established by professionals or do they have roots in human experience? And if we encounter these visual phenomena in our everyday lives, how do designers use them to attract our attention, orient our behavior, and create compelling and memorable communication that stands out among the thousands of messages we confront each day? Today's work in visual communication design shifts emphasis from simply designing objects to designing experiences; to crafting form that acknowledges cognitive and cultural influences on interpretation. In response, Meredith Davis and Jamer Hunt provide a new slant on design basics from the perspective ...

Urban Design Made by Humans
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

Urban Design Made by Humans

The design of urban environments is complex and involves diverse needs, organisations, professions, authorities, and communities. It requires relationships to be constructed and sustained between infrastructure, resources, and populations across multiple scales. This can be quite daunting. However, at the core of urban design is a simple idea—our urban spaces are designed to allow people and communities to thrive. For that reason, a good starting point for urban designers is to focus on the way people think when engaging our built environment. This thinking is embodied, developed through the interactions between our mind, body, and the environment around us. These embodied concepts are cen...

This Thing Called Theory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 385

This Thing Called Theory

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-11-10
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  • Publisher: Routledge

In the age of post-digital architecture and digital materiality, This Thing Called Theory explores current practices of architectural theory, their critical and productive role. The book is organized in sections which explore theory as an open issue in architecture, as it relates to and borrows from other disciplines, thus opening up architecture itself and showing how architecture is inextricably connected to other social and theoretical practices. The sections move gradually from the specifics of architectural thought – its history, theory, and criticism – and their ongoing relation with philosophy, to the critical positions formulated through architecture’s specific forms of expression, and onto more recent forms of architecture’s engagement and self-definition. The book’s thematic sessions are concluded by and interspersed with a series of shorter critical position texts, which, together, propose a new vision of the contemporary role of theory in architecture. What emerges, overall, is a critical and productive role for theory in architecture today: theory as a proposition, theory as task and as a ‘risk’ of architecture.

Architecture and Embodiment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 265

Architecture and Embodiment

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  • Published: 2013-06-26
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  • Publisher: Routledge

In recent years we have seen a number of dramatic discoveries within the biological and related sciences. Traditional arguments such as "nature versus nurture" are rapidly disappearing because of the realization that just as we are affecting our environments, so too do these altered environments restructure our cognitive abilities and outlooks. If the biological and technological breakthroughs are promising benefits such as extended life expectancies, these same discoveries also have the potential to improve in significant ways the quality of our built environments. This poses a compelling challenge to conventional architectural theory... This is the first book to consider these new scientif...

Olivier
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 660

Olivier

Written with uncensored access to Olivier's personal papers, love letters and diaries, a landmark biography of the greatest actor of the twentieth century

Systems, Structures, Strategies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

Systems, Structures, Strategies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Epigraphy, Philology, and the Hebrew Bible
  • Language: en

Epigraphy, Philology, and the Hebrew Bible

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Colleagues and former students honor Professor Jo Ann Hackett in this collection of essays focused on her interests in Northwest Semitic languages and epigraphy, and Southern Levantine religions of the Iron Age. Each of the three sections begins with concise methodological chapters followed by subject-specific application chapters. Each contributor illuminates the unifying theme of the collection: the continuing value and necessity of philological and comparative study of the Hebrew Bible.