E-book From Vernacular to World Heritage

The ‘universal value’ of vernacular architectural heritage in the prestigious UNESCO World Heritage List, although more or less recognised and considered in the holistic dimension of their integration in-to exceptional cultural contexts, which are themselves listed, is still very limited as shown by the 11211properties inscribed on this list to date, in 2020. The tangible and intangible val…

E-book Architecture: A Very Short Introduction

This highly original and sophisticated look at architecture helps us to understand the cultural significance of the buildings that surround us. It avoids the traditional style-spotting approach and instead gives us an idea of what it is about buildings that moves us, and what it is that makes them important artistically and culturally. The book begins by looking at how architecture acquires mea…

E-book Fonthill Recovered : A Cultural History

Fonthill, in Wiltshire, is usually associated with the writer and collector William Beckford, who built his Gothic fantasy house Fonthill Abbey at the end of the eight-eenth century. The collapse of the Abbey’s tower in 1825 transformed the name Fonthill into a symbol for over- arching ambition and folly, a sublime ruin. Fonthill is, however, much more than the story …

E-book Reversible Computation: Extending Horizons of Computing : Selected Res…

Wireless communication systems come in different shapes and sizes: from radiofrequency (RF) systems we use in everyday life, to underwater acoustic communi-cations (UAC) used where RF attenuation prevents use of radio communications.These two examples are of interest to this case study, as we explored the poten-tial role of reversible computation in improving modern wireless communicationsin th…

Karmavibhanga: An Analysis of Deeds and Their Results | Telaah Perbuatan dan …

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E-book Borobudur Bersemburat: Peninggalan Leluhur, Kini Warisan Dunia

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E-book Java: Guide to The Temples of Borobudur & Prambanan

Java is home to two of the most impressive temples in all of southeast Asia: Buddhist Borobudur and Hindu Prambanan. Borobudur (built 760-830) rises gradually in a series of majestic tiers, a testament to its stupa-mound inspiration; while Prambanan (built 850-856) soars vertically, drawing on south Indian temple prototypes. Both inspire with their innovative architectural designs, world-class …

E-book Canada in the Frame : Copyright, Collections and the Image of Canada, …

Geography as a concept and as a discipline has provided a number of ways into the analysis of this collection. In this and subsequent chapters, the ideas of historical and cultural geographers are deployed as tools to generate new perspectives on the collection, with particular regard to relationships between colonial settlement and image-making, the visual economies of colonial expans…

E-book Case Files

From a flat in Brooklyn, I uploaded bundles of text and images to a website, hoping that—like messages in a bottle, or like the golden record mounted on the Voyager spacecraft—they may reach someone on the other side of the planet, or in other planets altogether. And in a manner of speaking, they did. Shortly thereafter, Organs Everywhere had …

E-book Upon Entropy : Architectonics of the Image in the Age of Information

In computerized societies, Lyotard w rites, knowledge ceases to have an end in itself and starts to be produced in order to be sold and consumed. Exchange becomes its ultimate goal: the introduc-tion of the computer and information technology defines not only a society but a condition at large and a stage of progress in which knowledge turns into a commodity. According to Lyotard, such a con…

E-book The Digital, a Continent? : Nature and Poetics

Contingent observations like this can be traced to the beginnings of Greek speculative thought—dating back to the Milesian school—where some of “those [philosophers] who discoursed on nature” discovered them in a geometric relation. Similarly, architecture, building from its cosmic foundations and position relative to the sun, also participates in such climatic affairs. As the light of …

E-book The Sustainable Tall Building: A Design Primer

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E-book Shaking Heritage : Museum Collections between Seismic Vulnerability an…

Any moment the earth can shake, but we do not know when or where.As beautiful as fragile, Italy is continuously chasing urgent situations and fixing damages pro-voked by earthquakes and other natural and human disasters. As the news cyclically reports, the tremors compromise the integrity of artworks and museum objects, emphasizing the vulnerability of both movable and immovable heritage. Even …

E-book Monospace and Multiverse : Exploring Space with Actor-Network-Theory

In contrast to buildings divided by walls, monospace buildings are determined far less by its shell than by a reciprocal relationship between space and practices, objects, materials, and human bodies. Using the example of such one-room-architectures, this book explores the potential of an actor-network-theory (ANT) approach to space in the field of architecture. Sabine Hansmann focuses on the S…

E-book Design Thinking and Storytelling in Architecture

This book offers a systematic account of the process of designing in architecture. Design thinking can be regarded as a fundamentally different way of knowing the world and a particular form of addressing creative problems. In this publication, the authors undertake to explore multiple and often controversial theoretical stances on the topic. Underlying principles of inquiry are present in all …

E-book Jail Design Guide

The opening statement of the preface to this guide identifies its purpose as one of helping to create “better” and “more effective” jails. Because such terms can mean different things to different people, they should be defined. The findings of the original small jails research indicated that better, more effective jails are fundamentally those that satisfy the basic needs of their occu…

E-book The Garden as Architechture : Form and Spirit in the Gardens of Japan,…

Mount Miwa in Yamato (present-day Nara Prefecture) is a sacred mountain, thought to be manifested spirit according to the indigenous animistic religious beliefs of Shinto. Pre-Nata-period Shinto (pre-645) focused on nature worship in sacred sites-roped-off clearings surrounding unusually-shaped mountains, trees, rocks, waterfalls and other natural phenomena. The present Omiwa Shrine at the base…

E-book The European Garden

As with all written histories of the garden, this one begins with the most ancient civilizations and thus dedicates much attention to the Roman Empire. is way, the ordinary has little that is ritual or can be foreseen and one can witness the true origins of gardens which arrived from western culture. ese origins were not lost in the centuries which passed by each other, but were a constant so…

E-book Nest Boxes : Your Essential Guide

The loss of hedgerow trees, changes to woodland management and increasing urbanisation have all contributed to a decline in the availability of natural sites for cavity-nesting species like Blue Tit and Starling. Species that nest alongside people, such as House Sparrow and Swift, have lost out to changing building regulations, which have reduced the opportunities for birds to nest under roof t…

E-book Small House (SH) Model Design Guide

A small house is an intentional community of 10, 12 or 14 residents and a staff of highly trained workers who live and work in a well-designed environment organized and operated around the guiding principles of autonomy and dignity. When successfully implemented, the Small House (SH) Model provides exceptional rehabilitative and hospice care and chronic disease management, with sufficient staff…

E-book Residental Structural Design Guide

In post-and-beam framing, structural columns support horizontal members. Post-and-beam framing is typified by the use of large timber members. Traditional balloon framing consists of closely spaced light vertical structural members that extend from the foundation sill to the roof plates. Platform framing is the modern adaptation of balloon framing, whereby vertical members extend from the floo…

E-book Our Home Designs : Let Us Build Your Dream

Our philosophy is simple. We provide you with unprecedented quality designs and specifications that are tailored to your budget. It is our commitment to bring you on the home building journey every step of the way by identifying opportunities, planning, marketing and delivering premium quality projects of the highest calibre, situated in some of Adelaide’s most sought after locations. In a ve…

E-book Basic Computer Architecture Version 2.2

In this chapter, we shall present an overview of computer architecture from an academic standpoint, and explain the major principles behind today’s computers. We shall observe that there are two perspectives in computer architecture. We can look at computer architecture from the point of view of software applications. This point of view is sometimes referred to as architecture in literature. …

E-Book Animals in Stone: Indian Mammals Sculptured Through Time

The art history of South Asia covers a time span of roughly four and a half thousand years. During this period, a vast number of animal stone sculptures has been produced, ranging from the pre-historic period till today and covering a great variety of motifs and imagery in different regions and religious traditions. Even so, the number of studies devoted to these animal sculptures has remained …

E-Book Ancient Egypt, New Technology: The Present and Future of Computer Visu…

This volume of collected studies takes stock of most recent developments in Egyptology and the Digital Humanities, considering future directions for the application of new technologies in Egyptology. The book presents the results of an international conference held in 2019 at Indiana University – Bloomington, in which Egyptologists and digital humanists with interest in Egyptology gathered in…

E-Book Connectivity and Creativity in Times of Conflict

This book contains academic papers and posters of the Cumulus Antwerp conference, held in Antwerp on 12-15 April 2023. The Cumulus community, designers, artists, and educators were invited to submit contributions on how culture and creative industry can offer resilience, consolation, and innovation models on human scale, in line with the conference theme ‘Connectivity and Creativity in times …

London : The Book that Transforms into a Cityspace

London is by turns cutting edge and ancient, refined and gritty, and the streets of this city of contrasts are lined with idiosyncratic and beautiful architechture. This book describes over 50 key structures in authoritive and compelling style. The accompanying illustrations press out of the page, transforming your book into a cityspace to treasure and display.

E-book City, Climate, and Architecture : A Theory of Collective Practice

Historically, the notion of man-made climate has been the decisive theo-retical interface along which the mutual appropriation of modern urban climatology and modern architecture and urban planning has taken place. Berlin and Vienna in particular were laboratories and intellectual centers of urban climatology in the 1920s and 30s, which can be ex-plained not least by the political conditions in…

E-book Time and Space

The texts presented in Proportion Harmonies and Identities (PHI) Time and Space were compiled to establish a multidisciplinary platform for presenting, interacting, and disseminating research. It also aims to foster awareness and discussion on Time and Space, focusing on different visions relevant to Architecture, Arts and Humanities, Design and Social Sciences, and its importance and benefits …

E-book Bluefield Housing as Alternative Infill for the Suburbs

As apartments, manor houses, accessory dwelling units, laneway housing, and secondary suites continue to play their part in increasing suburban housing supply, they do so entwined in the debate around neighbourhood fit. Meanwhile, many low-rise neighbourhoods remain exempt from densification increases on the assumption that the detached single-family home should rema…

E-book Architecture and Fire : A Psychoanalytic Approach to Conservation

This is a book about architectural conservation. Today conservation receives unprecedented attention as a direct reflection of a more general interest in memory that has been apparent during the last few decades. During this period, we have witnessed an increasing desire for the per-petuation of memories from the past, a desire that applies to every aspect of our culture. There i…

E-book Play Among Books : A Symposium on Architecture and Information Spelt i…

undance and connectivity are one way of looking at digital phenomena. Umberto Eco in his book The Infinity of Lists poses a challenge from the other side, by asking questions of meaning and hierarchy. As Eco points out, on the one hand, the elements are connected and information is wealthy and omnipotent but, on the other hand, information loses its meaning, and its hierarchies are unsettled in…

E-book The Hegemony of Heritage

What do we see when we look at a monument, and how do we come to see what we do? Far from the innocent ravages of time, the calculated aesthetics of the Indian temple today result from the confluence of religious performance, the politics of identity formation, the tension between neoliberal and socialist preservation mod-els, and the display, erasure, and fragmentation of the visual and materi…

E-book Resisting Postmodern Architecture : Critical regionalism before global…

I am writing these lines in 2021, exactly forty years after the first coupling of the words ‘critical’ and ‘regionalism’ appeared on a printed page to discuss the work of Greek architects Suzana and Dimitris Antonakakis in Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre’s article ‘The Grid and the Pathway’ of 1981.1 Introduced by them then, the architectural theory of cr…

E-book New Libraries in Old Buildings : Creative Reuse

Formerly seen as a menial architectural task, adaptive reuse has come into its own. It is no longer a secret, and certainly no longer a novel idea, that the archi-tecture of adaptive reuse is, in terms of architectural creativity, beauty and impor-tance, in no way inferior to designing and building a brand-new building (Hauke and Werner 2011).Architecture incorporating existing …

E-book Fundamental Concepts of Architecture : The Vocabulary of Spatial Situa…

Streets and routes, corridors and staircases are not only systems of access but also keys to the communal lives of occupants. Because they provide information concerning the distribution of spaces and the patterns of movement that connect them, access systems and the gestalts of access spaces condition and express social structures. The structure and development of urban districts and entire ci…

E-book Interior Design as a Tool for Dementia Care

In normal ageing, bodies and brains slow down, though intelligence remains stable. Aging leads people to take more time to process information and learn new knowledge, and people appear to be physically and mentally less flexible. Memory changes occur as well, and elderly and older have greater difficulty remembering names and places, and complex notions. Compared to normal ag…