Architecture: public and commercial Books
Monacelli Press Fifth Avenue: From Washington Square to Marcus
Book Synopsis'Richly illustrated with vivid photographs, vintage illustrations, and maps, this book about strolling and looking, about observing and wondering serves as a winning homage to its famous subject. Architecture and history buffs will be enthralled.' - Publishers Weekly Fifth Avenue: From Washington Square to Marcus Garvey Park presents an in-depth exploration of architecture along one of the world’s most iconic streets: New York City’s fabled Fifth Avenue. Through six fact-filled walking tours, this accessible illustrated guide takes readers along the entire length of Fifth Avenue, studying its architecture block by block, building by building, offering the chance to discover exceptional and unusual structures across Greenwich Village, Midtown, the Upper East Side, and Harlem. Heavily illustrated with more than 300 images and practical graphic maps that mark the stops along each route, Fifth Avenue spotlights hundreds of buildings, from familiar tourist destinations to lesser-known gems. Featured are, of course, major monuments including the Empire State Building, New York Public Library, Rockefeller Center, and Saint Patrick’s Cathedral; luxurious shops such as Tiffany’s, Cartier, and Bulgari; elegant hotels like the St. Regis and the Plaza; and the art treasures of Museum Mile on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim, the Jewish Museum, and the Museum of the City of New York. Each of the walks offers a fascinating glimpse into the evolution of architectural styles, from the Beaux-Arts mansions of the turn of the twentieth century to the striking contemporary structures such as the glass flagship stores of Nike, Armani, and the towering One Vanderbilt. Highlights also include works by distinguished architects such as Richard Morris Hunt, Stanford White, and Frank Lloyd Wright and contemporary leaders like Rem Koolhaas and Bjarke Ingels. Written as both a fireside and curbside read, this new book is essential for the curious architecture lover touring the New York streets, as well as anyone looking to gain a comprehensive understanding of the historic, social, and economic forces that shaped Fifth Avenue’s growth and character.Trade Review'Richly illustrated with vivid photographs, vintage illustrations, and maps, this book about strolling and looking, about observing and wondering serves as a winning homage to its famous subject. Architecture and history buffs will be enthralled.' - Publishers Weekly '[Features the] most stunning architectural gems on New York’s Fifth Avenue . . . these buildings make an impression on New Yorkers and tourists alike.' - Architectural Digest '[A]n homage to Fifth Avenue . . . [features] six richly detailed walking tours that together take us all the way from Greenwich Village in the south to Harlem in the north.' - Interior Design 'This guide provides a perfect adventure for urban explorers with good walking shoes. Lovely maps and loads of photographs guide you through the avenue’s most interesting landmarks — from bohemian treasures and early townhouses around Washington Square Park to the jewels of Harlem.' - Bowery Boys
£21.21
Arcadia Publishing (SC) Atlantas Historic Westview Cemetery
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Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd The Villa Wolkonsky in Rome: History of a Hidden
Book SynopsisThe Villa Wolkonsky, Rome, is the incongruously named official residence of the British ambassador to Italy. Nestled within the city’s Aurelian Wall, the site’s history dates back to antiquity, its gardens dominated by the remains of a first-century imperial Roman aqueduct. In the 19th century a remarkable Russian princess, Zenaïde Wolkonsky, turned it into a country home and salon d’art with such illustrious visitors as Gogol, Turgenev and Fanny Mendelssohn. Following generations excavated Roman tombs, collected antiquities and built a new grand mansion, before selling the Villa to the German government in 1922. It remained the German embassy, being much enlarged, until the Liberation of Rome in 1944. After the war the UK bought it, first as embassy offices and residence and, since 1971, as the residence for the ambassador and other staff. In this handsomely illustrated volume, Sir John Shepherd, former ambassador, has undertaken new research to debunk long-held myths and present, for the first time, a comprehensive history of this hidden Roman treasure.
£21.25
Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd Theatre Royal Drury Lane: A Star Reborn
Book SynopsisThe world’s oldest theatre site in continuous use, the Theatre Royal Drury Lane has been at the heart of Covent Garden for more than 350 years. Audiences have flocked to the Lane to see the greatest stars of the day in spectacular productions ranging from Shakespeare to pantomime, from thrilling dramas to ground-breaking musicals. The present theatre was built in 1811, after a devastating fire destroyed the previous incarnation, and the Lane has now been restored to its original Georgian glory by Andrew and Madeleine Lloyd Webber. The world-class theatrical and performance space is today an entertainment and cultural destination alive throughout the day. This souvenir guide tells the story of the Lane from its bawdy beginnings in Restoration London to its newly restored elegance, unearthing the secrets of a theatre that has survived tragedy and fire, royal scandals, ghosts and even murder, while keeping audiences enthralled for centuries.Table of ContentsA Star Reborn: Foreword by Andrew Lloyd Webber Timeline Killigrew’s Theatre: Charles II and the first Theatre Royal Shakespeare at Drury Lane Garrick’s Theatre: An acting revolution A Royal Theatre Sheridan’s Theatre: ‘A wilderness of a place’ Backstage Theatrics A Working Theatre Superstitions and Traditions Whitbread’s Theatre: Georgian elegance, Victorian spectacle The Home of Pantomime Show-Stopping Musicals My Fair Lady Lloyd Webber’s Theatre: A theatre transformed Craft at the Lane A Theatre for the 21st Century
£11.66
Historic England The Buildings of the Malting Industry: The
Book SynopsisThe Buildings of the Malting Industry is a fascinating book on the buildings that have helped make our much loved beer over the centuries. Malt is one of the main ingredients of beer, yet the buildings in which it was and is now produced have received very little attention, although most towns and many villages had their own malthouse and kiln. This is the first book to address the paucity of detail on maltings which historically were to be found in all English counties. Today evidence for a malthouse may just be a name on a building or street. However, where they survive the pyramidal roofs clearly demonstrate the presence of a malthouse as do other less recognisable features. This book gives details of early malt kilns and shows how they changed over the centuries. Early buildings were essentially vernacular ones but by the mid-19th century some firms were using specialist architects. Then in the 20th century there was more engineering input to new maltings, in particular with the development of the pneumatic process. This once widespread industry is now mainly confined to the eastern side of the country. Elsewhere surviving maltings have been converted to other uses and examples of these are given. There are illustrations of the exteriors and interiors of malthouses and kilns which show some of the developments and how some buildings have been reused.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Introduction Chapter 1 The early evidence for maltings Chapter 2 The development of malthouses and malt kilns to the end of the 17th century Chapter 3 The 18th century and the survival of recognisable kilns Chapter 4 The 19th Century to 1870 Chapter 5 The 19th Century from 1870 Chapter 6 The Twentieth Century up to 1960 Chapter 7 The Twentieth Century from the 1960s and Modern Malting Chapter 8 The Reusing of Maltings – throughout their History Postscript Glossary Weights and Measures Appendix 1 The Malting Process Appendix 1A Malthouse Layouts Appendix 2 Patents, Architects and Engineers Bibliography Notes
£55.00
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC London's Statues and Monuments: Revised Edition
Book SynopsisThe streets and public spaces of London are rich with statues and monuments commemorating the city’s great figures and events – from Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square and Sir Christopher Wren’s Great Fire Monument to the charming Peter Pan statue in Kensington Gardens. Executed in stone, bronze and a range of other materials, London’s statues and monuments include work by some of the world’s greatest sculptors. This newly revised book takes account of the many statues erected between 2012 and 2017, including those of Mary Seacole at St Thomas’ Hospital and Amy Winehouse in Camden. London’s Statues and Monuments is a fully illustrated guide to these artworks and their stories: sometimes surprising and occasionally controversial, but always fascinatingTable of ContentsIntroduction Trafalgar Square Whitehall and Horse Guards Parliament Square and Victoria Tower Gardens Victoria Embankment Strand, Aldwych and Holborn The City: West The City: Central The City: East Soho Mayfair and Park Lane St James’s The Mall to Victoria Street Hyde Park Corner Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park Belgravia and Pimlico Kensington Chelsea Paddington and Bayswater Marylebone Bloomsbury, Euston and St Pancras South Bank Southwark Greenwich and Woolwich North London West London South London East London Further Reading Index
£16.65
Die Gestalten Verlag Building for Change: The Architecture of Creative
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Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd Memory Bank: A Biography of Blythe House
Book SynopsisBlythe House in London, originally built in 1903 for the Post Office Savings Bank, has for more than 40 years been the store for three national museums, the Science Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the British Museum, holding millions of historical objects. The collections have now been moved to purpose-built sites, and Blythe House’s closure has been marked by specially commissioned photographs of its architecture, collections and occupants, along with personal testimonies. Memory Bank takes you behind the scenes to reveal one building’s hidden history and its unique place in British cultural and social life.Table of ContentsA Brief History of Blythe House First Encounters The Building Collecting and Sorting People Danger Atmosphere Leaving Blythe People of Blythe Contributors' Biographies Notes on Sources Captions Acknowledgments
£21.25
Phaidon Press Ltd In Memory Of: Designing Contemporary Memorials
Book Synopsis"A fascinating and insightful meditation on the act of memory as a built reality. " – Daniel Libeskind, architectAn extraordinary book that explores the art, architecture, and design of memorials around the world from the late twentieth century to today – an important book for our timeMemorials hold a special position in the cultural memory of communities, and collective consciousness of communities, cities, and countries. In Memory Of presents an extraordinary and moving collection of more than 60 exceptional structures commemorating some of the most destructive events of the 20th and 21st centuries, including war, genocide, terrorism, famine, and slavery from around the world.This important book highlights memorials built since 1982, featuring works from Berlin to Washington, D.C., from Montgomery, Alabama to Santiago, Chile, each urging us never to forget.In Memory Of features memorials designed by some of today's leading architects, including David Adjaye, Tadao Ando, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Peter Eisenman, Daniel Libeskind, Maya Lin, Snøhetta, and Peter Zumthor. It also features memorials designed by artists like Elmgreen & Dragset, Isamu Noguchi, Taryn Simon, and Rachel Whiteread. The book includes well-known structures like Maya Lin's iconic Vietnam War Memorial, completed in 1982 in Washington, D.C. and more recent ones like the poignant National Memorial for Peace and Justice, completed by MASS Design Group in Montgomery, Alabama in 2018.With thoughtful essays on the subjects of hope, strength, grief, loss, and fear, and a moving foreword by Sir David Adjaye, In Memory Of helps to contextualize the projects and addresses the emotional aspects of memorialization. Beautifully designed with a minimal, reflective cover, and illustrated with 200 photographs, this book calls out to be experienced, felt, looked at, interpreted, and read in a variety of ways. Trade Review"In a year filled with so much grief and mourning, it might seem odd to read a book about the architecture of memorials—but how and where we grieve together is an important part of our civic identity and helps define our public spaces... [a] poignant collection." – Town & Country "In this beautifully written and stunningly illustrated book, Spencer Bailey explores the forms and meanings of the most architecturally and artistically significant memorials since the early 1980s, and shows how, through a combination of abstraction, tangible materials, light, and shadow, memorials can give form to unspeakable sorrow and loss." – Bessel A. van der Kolk, M.D., author of The Body Keeps the Score "A fascinating and insightful meditation on the act of memory as a built reality. Especially today when memory is under attack and has become a political issue, this book demonstrates how memorials can bring people together in a meaningful and inspired way." – Daniel Libeskind, architect "In a moving and highly personal quest Spencer Bailey collects memories arrested in time and space that act like beacons of hope and places of redemption. An essential book reflecting on the architecture of appeasement." – Lidewij Edelkoort, trend forecaster and design curator "Memorials and sites of memory are finally, necessarily at the forefront of our contemporary discussions around a purposeful and honest design of our public realm. They exist at the intersection of the hope for a shared common civic identity, and a deep individual loss amongst intractable personal grief. No other built space bridges these gaps so profoundly so empathically, so urgently than the memorial. Or at least this is what I learned from Spencer Bailey's profund and prescient new compendium, which we should all have a copy of."—Michael Murphy, founding principal and CEO, MASS Design Group "Throughout history, memory has been the powerful impetus for the most breathtaking architectures--monuments whose role is to bring the world to a stop, even if just for a few minutes. Likewise, from its cover to the choice of images, this moving book pays respect to rites of life by asking the reader to put it on pause, to absorb and reflect."—Paola Antonelli, senior curator, architecture and design, The Museum of Modern Art "Memorials have never been more controversial. Here's a way forward.”—Bloomberg
£42.46
New Amsterdam Books Roman Mornings
Book SynopsisThe author writes in his introduction that evening is the magical moment to wander about Rome: "That is the moment to see the city of conflicting moods as it always has been and still is, hateful and holy, wicked and wise, pagan and papal, sometimes so beautiful that it is scarcely to be endured, and always quite inscrutable. That is the supreme moment to rhapsodize and pay homage, to make the final assault upon the hidden secret of Rome's eternal decay, and to be deliciously deceived… The early morning on the other hand is more to our purpose, for it is not at all romantic." The early morning serves to light for Lees-Milne the eight Roman buildings–from the somber Pantheon first built by Marcus Agrippa in 27 B.C. to the Trevi fountain, whose waters were brought to Rome via aqueduct by the same Agrippa, but whose completion had to await the eighteenth century–that are in the author's opinion the chef architectural monuments of the city. All of them, he says, are powerful archetypes, and two among them, the Pantheon and the Tempietto, have individual features that are reflected in practically every town in Europe, the British Commonwealth, and America.Trade ReviewA brief, lyrical introduction. -- Michael Webb * L.A. Architect *Less-Milne offers not scholarship but, rather, entertainment of the most elegant and eye-opening kind. -- Deborah Howard * Architecture *
£15.60
The University of Alabama Press Triumph of the Dead
Book SynopsisExplores the relationship between art, architecture, war memory, and Franco-American relations. Kate Clarke Lemay addresses the many functions, both original and more recent, that the American war cemeteries have performed, such as war memorials, diplomatic gestures, Cold War political statements, prompts for debate about Franco-American relations, and the nature of French identity itself.Trade ReviewTriumph of the Dead provides much needed information on post-WWII American military cemeteries in Europe, as well as the US agenda in postwar Europe in general." — Erika Doss, author of Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America
£39.91
Edinburgh University Press Emotion Mission Architecture
Book SynopsisAn innovative history of medical mission from the perspective of the history of emotionsTrade Review"A subtly argued and innovative book. Honarmand Ebrahimi brings scholarly attention for the first time to a significant medical building programme in Iran and India. Working across missionary studies, history of emotions, medical humanities and architectural history, she interprets what might seem to be merely practical buildings as richly complex artefacts." -Leslie Topp, Birkbeck, University of London
£80.75
Braun Publishing AG Yoga and Spiritual Retreats: Relaxing Spaces to
Book SynopsisModern life is marred by hectic pace, stress and negative environmental influences. Places to get away from the routine, where body and soul can find harmony again, to breathe deeply and feel good with oneself are sought out more and more. Beautifully designed retreats are turning up across the globe – usually in special locations in the midst of breathtaking, pristine nature. This volume presents buildings and spaces devoted specifically to contemplation, meditation, regeneration and the enjoyment of quietude. The designs are guided by lighting and color schemes, natural materials and views into nature, providing energy on the way to complete relaxation, self-awareness and inner illumination. Archi - tecture creates the connection between the human being, space and nature.
£29.75
V&R unipress Politischer Bildungsbau
Book SynopsisBildungsbauarchitektur als Spiegel zeitgenÃssischer Bildungsideale und -konzepte
£20.89
DOM Publishers Mastblich Op schaal True to Scale
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CRC Press The Immersive Worlds Handbook
Book SynopsisScott Lukas, famed industry expert on designing themed spaces, brings you a book that focuses on the imaginative world of themed, immersive and consumer spaces. Whether or not you are involved in designing a theme park, cultural museum, shop, or other entertainment space, you will benefit from the insider tips, experiences, and techniques highlighted in this practical guide. Make your themed spaces come to life and become true, immersive worlds. The book features informative sidebars addressing possible design issues and current trends; case studies and interviews with real-world designers, and further reading suggestions. The book also includes a companion website, as well as exercises that accompany each chapter, lavish photos, illustrations, and tables.Table of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1: The Nature of Themed and Immersive Spaces Chapter 2: Designing Effective, Immersive, and Creative SpacesChapter 3: Atmosphere, Mood, and Effective SpacesChapter 4: Authenticity, Believability, RealismChapter 5: The Guest, Experience, and ImmersionResearch BreakChapter 6: The Brand and the SensesChapter 7: Material Culture, Technology, and InteractivityChapter 8: Loyalty, Tradition, Change, and the FutureFurther ReadingKey Terms
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Architecture and Leadership
Book SynopsisFrom cathedrals to cubicles, people go to great lengths and expense to design their living and working environments. They want their spaces to be places where they enjoy being, reflecting who they are and what they care about. The resultant environments in turn become loud, albeit unvocal, leaders for people occupying those corresponding spaces. The design and use of work and living spaces typifies and thematizes expectations for the group. Essentially, the architecture of rooms, buildings and cities creates cultures by conveying explicit and implicit messages. This is evident when people approach and walk into St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow, the Forbidden City in Beijing, the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia, the Jewish Museum in Berlin, or the Rothko Chapel in Houston, to name some examples. While leaders oftentimes lack the resources to have their spaces mirror the greatest architectural achievements of the world, they are in a position to use the art and science oTable of ContentsChapter 1 Architecture and Leadership Connections Chapter 2 Built Environment as a Place of Identity, Meaning, and Purpose Chapter 3 Defining Architecture as “Good” Chapter 4 Critical Components of Architecture: Building Elements and Design Principles Chapter 5 Three Categories of Specific Design Principles Chapter 6 Leadership and Use Strategies Chapter 7 Architecture and Leadership in Action
£62.58
Taylor & Francis Ltd Design for Education
Book SynopsisThis book charts the impact of design on education, specifically focusing on how design can shape the spaces and tools for learning.This edited collection brings together the work of designers, architects, engineers, professionals, educators, and researchers, and presents a series of case studies and research developed from across Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Australia, and Asia. The book provides the tools to develop innovative approaches to design for education, and illustrates the conversation and action required to foster socially responsible design for education. As the contributions show, we must look at education as an input and output of a complex system, and we need to adopt an interdisciplinary multiple stakeholder approach, bringing together experts from a range of different fields and backgrounds as a cohesive strategy to improve future learning and teaching environments.Providing guidance and a theoretical framework for designing spaces an
£35.99
Actar Publishers Variable Geometry: Archea Associatti
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£70.20
MP-MEL Melbourne University Places of Reconciliation Commemorating
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£38.62
Louisiana State University Press The Cemeteries of New Orleans
Book SynopsisReveals the origins and evolution of the Crescent City’s world-famous necropolises, exploring both their distinctive architecture and their cultural impact. Peter Dedek takes readers from muddy fields of crude burial markers to extravagantly designed cities of the dead, illuminating a vital and vulnerable piece of New Orleans’s identity.Trade ReviewHistorians have given surprisingly scant attention to New Orleans's cemeteries, leaving the topic to popular accounts, tourism guidebooks, and coffee-table pictorials. Peter Dedek finally fills this void with an impressively researched and copiously illustrated study that sets the cemeteries into their historical and geographical contexts. . . . The wide-ranging discussion of architectural traits forms the strength of this study. Dedek skillfully critiques the architecture of the tombs [and his] close reading of tombs rediscovers overlooked communities from the city's past. . . . A must-read for scholars and general readers interested in New Orleans and the Gulf South." - Louisiana History"Anthropologists and historians have long recognized that the form and function of cemeteries reveal cultural values and practices. Historian and preservationist Peter Dedek's The Cemeteries of New Orleans: A Cultural History is an engaging contribution that sheds light on these topics. . . . Dedek's careful study of tomb designs and his tomb typology appendix provide an opportunity for future research into a comparison between mortuary architecture and the built environment of the surrounding cityscape." - Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum
£24.65
John Wiley & Sons The New Cathedrals
Book SynopsisStadium construction has altered the physical landscape of many major metropolitan areas throughout North America. This work examines the political institutions, commercial entities, civic leadership, and media organizations that influenced new stadium construction.
£26.06
Rizzoli ArchitectureArt Museum of Fine Arts Lausanne
Book SynopsisA celebration of the opening of the new Museum of Fine Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland, exploring the creation of one of Europe's foremost art centers.October 2019 marks a milestone for the Museum of Fine Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland, with its long-awaited reopening in a new site: a striking contemporary building from the award-winning Italian and Catalan architects Barozzi Veiga. An art center within the heart of one of Switzerland's most beautiful cities, this space will house the museum's prestigious collection of over 11,000 works, from eighteenth-century pieces to contemporary art.Edited and authored by the well-known architecture expert Philip Jodidio, this book is dedicated to the ambitious project of rehousing a collection that was begun in 1841. With 150 photographs and drawings that illuminate an enormous undertaking, this volume provides a detailed insight into the different phases of design and construction, and the creation of an art complex that will lat
£36.12
University of Pennsylvania Press First Modern
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£31.50
History Press New York City Monuments of Black Americans
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£18.61
University Press of New England Porches of North America
Book SynopsisA complete architectural guide to this well-loved building feature
£34.20
University of Massachusetts Press Lost Wonderland: The Brief and Brilliant Life of
Book SynopsisIf you take Boston's Blue Line to its northern end, you'll reach the Wonderland stop. Few realize that a twenty-three-acre amusement park once sat nearby -- the largest in New England, and grander than any of the Coney Island parks that inspired it. Opened in Revere on Memorial Day in 1906 to great fanfare, Wonderland offered hundreds of thousands of visitors recreation by the sea, just a short distance from downtown Boston. The story of the park's creation and wild, but brief, success is full of larger-than-life characters who hoped to thrill attendees and rake in profits. Stephen R. Wilk describes the planning and history of the park, which featured early roller coasters, a scenic railway, a central lagoon in which a Shoot-the-Chutes boat plunged, an aerial swing, a funhouse, and more. Performances ran throughout the day, including a daring Fires and Flames show; a Wild West show; a children's theater; and numerous circus acts. While nothing remains of what was once called "Boston's Regal Home of Pleasure" and the park would close in 1910, this book resurrects Wonderland by transporting readers through its magical gates.Trade Review"This fascinating account of Revere’s Wonderland Amusement Park in the early years of the twentieth century celebrates the industrial achievements of the era—mechanization and the electricity—that brought entertainment to the bourgeoning American middle class."—Maria Olia, author of Discovering Vintage Boston: A Guide to the City’s Timeless Shops, Bars, Restaurants & More
£18.95
Historic England The Conservation, Repair and Management of War
Book SynopsisThis guidance is intended for anyone interested in or responsible for the care of war memorials. This might include parish, local and district councils, conservation professionals, contractors, statutory bodies, volunteer groups or private owners. Although the guidance covers the setting of war memorials, more detailed information on landscape issues can be found in the publication The Conservation and Management of War Memorial Landscapes. When it refers to `custodians’, the document is addressing anyone who has taken on formal responsibility for a war memorial, whether or not they are its legal owner. The guidance describes current best practice on the understanding, assessment, planning and implementation of conservation work to memorials as well as their ongoing maintenance and protection. It also outlines the legal frameworks and statutory duties that relate to their ownership and care. War memorials have always had a deep emotional resonance with the people of this country. Whether on a national, civic or local level, they act as constant reminders of the ultimate price of war – collective monuments to the many lives lost as well as a means of remembering the names of the individual servicemen and women who paid that price. The majority of war memorials date from the 20th century, and most of those from the years after the First World War. National and city memorials were generally monumental in concept and size but in towns and villages they tended to be more modest in style. Whatever their appearance, they continue to act as focal points for the commemoration of those killed and affected by war and as places for reflection on the effects of their loss on a community and society as a whole. In addition to their continuing commemorative role, many war memorials are of significant architectural, historic or artistic quality and have become key parts of the historic environment; it is therefore important that their physical condition should be safeguarded for the benefit of future generations as well as our own. Table of Contents1. Definition 2. Best practice 3. History and development of war memorials 4. Legislation 5. The setting of war memorials 6. Principal materials used in war memorials 7. Inscriptions and types of lettering 8. Decay, deterioration and damage to war memorials 9. Assessing and recording condition of war memorials 10. Practical conservation treatment - introduction 11. Practical conservation treatment - repair 12. Practical conservation treatment - cleaning 13. Commissioning and undertaking conservation work 14. Management and maintenance of war memorials 15. Funding for war memorials 16. Where to get advice 17. References and further reading
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Reaktion Books Theme Park
Book SynopsisTheme parks are a uniquely interactive and enduring form of entertainment that have influenced architecture, technology and culture in surprising ways for more than a century, as Scott Lukas now reveals in his compelling book. "Theme Park" takes the primitive amusements of pleasure gardens as its starting point and launches from there into a rich, in-depth investigation of the evolution of the theme park over the twentieth century. Lukas examines theme parks in countries around the world including the United States, UK, Europe, Japan, China, South Africa and Australia and how themed fairs and parks developed through diverse means and in a variety of settings. The book examines world-famous and lesser-known parks, including the early parks of Coney Island, a series of World Fairs and their luxurious exhibition halls, Six Flags parks and virtual theme parks today, and, of course, Disneyland and Walt Disney World. Lukas analyses the theme park as a living entity that unexpectedly shapes people, their relationships and the world around them. Ultimately, "Theme Park" reveals, the wider influence of theme parks can be found in the shopping malls, branded stores and casinos that employ the techniques of amusement parks to dominate our current entertainment world. Packed with captivating illustrations, "Theme Park" takes us on a historical roller-coaster ride that both reanimates the places that shaped our childhoods and anticipates the future of escapism and fantasy fun.Trade Review'An intriguing and beautifully styled book ... the examples presented of modern theme-park practice make for compelling reading. Theme parks enable international travel without the worry of jet lag; pilgrims can journey to the Holy Land Experience in Orlando, where the visitor is greeted with a welcoming "Shalom" instead of checkpoints for potential suicide bombers.' - Times Higher Education 'This book is both a sophisticated social scientific review of the history, development and transformation of theme parks and an entertaining and extremely well-written journey through the world's vacation venues ... Lukas provides a variety of perspectives and insights into this interesting aspect of an alternative social experience ... fun and informative ... a memorable ride.' - Studies in Popular Culture 'Written from an anthropological and sociological perspective, Lukas puts forward an intriguing and fresh view on the definition and relevance of theme parks to our everyday lives. Indeed, he believes that they have achieved a wider significance by becoming complex representations of the human mind itself ... this beautifully illustrated and enthralling book convinces the reader to sympathize with Lukas ' view that the world is rapidly becoming a reflection of the theme park.' - Journal of Design History 'provides a comprehensive and sometimes compelling intellectual journey through the history of pleasure gardens, world fairs, amusement parks, theme parks, megamalls, and virtual spaces like Second Life. By charting the history of the present of the modern theme park form, and the ways that these sites might shape future possibilities, Lukas provides an insightful text for scholars in cultural geography, cultural studies, and tourism studies.' - Journal of Cultural Geography 'provide[s] insightful and worthwhile views into recent and contemporary travel experiences.' - Tourism Geographies
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Ad Ilissum The Reredos of All Souls College Oxford
Book SynopsisPevsner calls it ‘marvellous’. Yet the reredos of the fifteenth-century chapel of All Souls College, Oxford, with its combination of medieval niches and statuary by George Gilbert Scott, has remained one of the unsung glories of both medieval perpendicular architecture and Victorian restoration. Informed by recent scientifi c investigation of its stonework and its surviving medieval polychromy, this volume traces for the fi rst time the entire history of the reredos in its architectural and religious context – from the phases of its medieval and early Tudor construction, through its covering up with a succession of baroque and neoclassical decorative schemes, to its uncovering andrestoration in the 1870s.The book provides a novel and revealing vantage point on the artistic, cultural and ecclesiological history of Britain across four centuries.Trade ReviewA real revelation and a genuine pleasure to read. The editor has assembled an expert cast of contributors who, between them, brilliantly tell the story of how changing tastes in art, education, and religion played out at All Souls, superbly illustrated in a slew of colour pictures ... It is, all told, a triumph. * Church Times *
£76.00
Quart Verlag Luzern The House That Kahn Built
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Baustatik: Teil 1: Grundlagen
Book SynopsisModeme Baukonstruktionen erfordern ein sorgfältiges Planen, Konstruieren und Ausfüh ren. Dazu sind solide Kenntnisse der Baustatik nötig. Dies gilt nicht nur für den Konstrukteur und Statiker, sondern auch für den Planenden im Architekturbüro und den Bauleiter auf der Baustelle. Bei der Planung, Konstruktion und Ausführung eines Bauwerkes ist nicht nur seine Funk tion ausschlaggebend. Um Bauschäden zu vermeiden, müssen die Baustoffe entsprechend ihren Eigenschaften eingesetzt werden; die Bauteile sind unter Beachtung ihrer statischen Bedeutung zu konstruieren und die jeweils neuesten Erkenntnisse der Bauphysik zu berücksichtigen. Das vorliegende zweiteilige Werk vermittelt die wichtigen einfachen statischen Gesetze und deren Anwendung im Rahmen einer technischen Allgemeinbildung; es dient nicht der Ausbildung spezialisierter Statiker. Manche Probleme werden daher bewußt vereinfacht und dem Zweck des Buches entsprechend besonders praxisnah dargestellt. Viele durchgerechne te Beispiele erläutern und vertiefen die Darstellung; eine sehr große Zahl von Übungsaufga ben, deren Lösungen am Bandende gebracht werden, soll zur sicheren Handhabung und breiten Anwendung des Stoffes befähigen. Die beiden Bände werden daher vielen in der Bautechnik Tätigen eine Hilfe bei der Lösung üblicher statischer Probleme sein; sie sind zum Selbststudium geeignet. Teil 1 "Grundlagen" geht auf die wichtigsten Probleme der einfachen Statik ein. Ohne komplizierte theoretische Ableitungen werden die Formeln entWickelt und dargestellt, die zur Bestimmung der äußeren und inneren Kräfte in den Bauteilen erforderlich sind. Besondere mathematische Kenntnisse werden nicht vorausgesetzt. Teil 2 "Festigkeitslehre" erklärt die Beanspruchung der Bauteile und die Bemessung von Konstruktionsteilen aus Holz, Mauerwerk, Beton und Stahl sowie die Bodenpressung.Table of Contents1 Einführung.- 2 Wirkung der Kräfte.- 3 Bestimmung von Schwerpunkten.- 4 Belastung der Bauwerke.- 5 Standsicherheit der Bauwerke.- 6 Berechnung statisch bestimmter Tragwerke.- 7 Berechnung statisch unbestimmter Tragwerke.- Lösungen zu den Übungsbeispielen.- Formelzeichen und ihre Bedeutung.- Formelsammlung.- Schrifttum.- DIN-Normen zur Baustatik.- Sachweiser.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Wohnungsbau und Wohnungswirtschaft in Russland:
Book SynopsisDieses Buch gibt einen Überblick zum aktuellen Wohnraumimmobilienmarkt in Russland. Untersucht werden die wichtigsten Marktteilnehmer und es erfolgt eine vergleichende Betrachtungen mit Deutschland zu Baukosten, Bauplanung, Bauqualität, Wohnraumfinanzierung und Wohnimmobilienpreise. Diese Untersuchung dient als Grundlage für das Verständnis des russischen Wohnraumimmobilienmarktes und liefert somit ein Basiswissen für ein allgemeines Marktverständnis und etwaige Investitionsvorhaben.Table of ContentsWohnraummärkte.- Wohnraumfinanzierungsmöglichkeiten.- Bauwirtschaft und Bauqualität.- Baukostenermittlung für Wohnungsbauvorhaben.- Investitionsstrategien zur Verbesserung der Wohnraumsituation in Russland.
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Hirmer Verlag The Humboldt Forum in the Berliner Schloss:
Book SynopsisThe Humboldt Forum, embodying the cosmopolitan world view of the brothers Humboldt, is to be housed in the historic, reconstructed Berlin Palace on Berlin’s Museum Island. It will be a unique space for art, culture, education and science. This publication provides a glimpse behind the scenes of this great construction project, developed by Italian architect Franco Stella.
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Hirmer Verlag The Library An Open Book Arabic Edition
Book SynopsisCelebrating Herzog & de Meuron's iconic new National Library of Israel, this book takes the reader on a journey that transcends stone and mortar to explore the importance of libraries in our fastpaced Digital Age. The book features original short stories, paintings, photographs and comics by some of the world's leading authors and artists. This volume celebrates the culmination of a visionary 30 year project to renew the National Library of Israel led by Yad Hanadiv the Rothschild Foundation: Herzog & de Meuron's architectural icon in the heart of Jerusalem. It invites readers to think of the library as a public space, as an object, a concept and a spiritual entity. The book includes original stories by leading authors from Israel and abroad, artwork by Zoya Cherkassky, photographs by three outstanding Israeli photographers and a graphic novella by Rutu Modan. Published in conjunction with: the opening of the National Library of Israel, designed by Herzog & de Meuron
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Hirmer Verlag The Library An Open Book Hebrew Edition
Book SynopsisCelebrating Herzog & de Meuron's iconic new National Library of Israel, this book takes the reader on a journey that transcends stone and mortar to explore the importance of libraries in our fastpaced Digital Age. The book features original short stories, paintings, photographs and comics by some of the world's leading authors and artists. This volume celebrates the culmination of a visionary 30 year project to renew the National Library of Israel led by Yad Hanadiv the Rothschild Foundation: Herzog & de Meuron's architectural icon in the heart of Jerusalem. It invites readers to think of the library as a public space, as an object, a concept and a spiritual entity. The book includes original stories by leading authors from Israel and abroad, artwork by Zoya Cherkassky, photographs by three outstanding Israeli photographers and a graphic novella by Rutu Modan. Published in conjunction with: the opening of the National Library of Israel, designed by Herzog & de Meuron
£39.00
River Books Bangkok Modern
Book SynopsisA lavishly illustrated and visually stunning study of the buildings that changed Bangkok from 1950-1970.
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University of the West Indies Press Falmouth, Jamaica: Architecture as History
Book SynopsisFounded in 1769 as a new port town on Jamaica’s north coast, Falmouth expanded dramatically in the decades around 1800 as it supported the rapidly expanding sugar production of Trelawney and neighboring parishes. Many of the surviving buildings in Falmouth are the townhouses and shops of the planters and merchants who benefitted from the wealth of sugar. That same community also built a major Anglican church and a courthouse, both of which still survive and remain in use. In those same years, the town hosted a growing free-black population and this community also left its mark on the historic town. In 1894, Falmouth received an extraordinary gift from the British crown in the form of the Albert George Market, at once a symbol of persistent colonialism, a shelter for the ancient Sunday markets, and a symbol of modernism in the form of its vast cast iron design. Monuments in the city from the twentieth century include an extraordinary round Catholic church and an impressively Modernist school wing. With little investment through the twentieth century, the town was entirely re-conceptualized in the opening years of the twenty-first century with the construction of a vast cruise ship terminal. Spanning from the foundation of the town in 1769 to the opening of the cruise ship terminal in 2008, this book explores the wide range of architecture built by Jamaicans and others in the making of this extraordinary town.
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NUS Press Culture City. Culture Scape.
Book SynopsisA much-needed resource on the practice of public art commissions and community engagement through the arts in urban Asia. Distributed for the NTU Centre for Co ntemporary Art Public art integrates landscape architecture, urban planning, and cultural management to create a sense of place. This book, dstributed for the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, documents a major public art commission in Singapore, featuring works by artists Dan Graham, Zul Mahmod, TomÁs Saraceno, and Yinka Shonibare, and represents a unique collaboration between Nanyang Technology University Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore and Mapletree Investments—a Singaporean state-owned property developer with global operations. Essays and interviews with the artists tell the story of the regional histories, urban politics, and collaboration that went into the successful creation of a public space. Culture City. Culture Scape. is a much-needed resource on the role that art can play in public education and social corporate investment in urban Asia.Trade Review"The book offers insights on lesser-known topics through the discussion of public artworks at Mapletree Business City II.... All in all, Culture City. Culture Scape is a welcomed reference book on the discourse of public art in Singapore. With a critical, interdisciplinary approach, it successfully marries cultural and corporate interests to provide public education." * Art and Market *Table of Contents Greetings Joseph Liow Edmund Cheng Culture City. Culture Scape. Notes from the Curators Ute Meta Bauer and Khim Ong In the Public Sphere: Art and Education at Mapletree Business City Edmund Cheng with Ute Meta Bauer About the Artworks and Artists Yinka Shonibare CBE (RA): Wind Sculpture I Zul Mahmod: Sonic Pathway Tom?ís Saraceno: Stillness in Motion ÔÇö 3 Airborne Self-Assemblies Dan Graham: Elliptical Pavilion In Conversation Yinka Shonibare CBE (RA) with Sophie Goltz Zul Mahmod with Khim Ong Tom?ís Saraceno with Ute Meta Bauer Dan Graham with Ute Meta Bauer Permanent Public Artworks Yinka Shonibare CBE (RA) Zul Mahmod Tom?ís Saraceno Dan Graham Public Art Education: Situated in Singapore Sophie Goltz Mapletree-NTU CCA Singapore Public Art Education Programme Image Credits Acknowledgements Colophon
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SendPoints Fashion Salon Interiors
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SendPoints New Commercial Architecture
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Roman Aqueducts and Water Supply Duckworth
Book SynopsisA. Trevor Hodge is Distinguished Research Professor of Classics at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.Trade Review'... brings together a vast quantity of information in a lively and highly readable form, with extensive notes and illustrations and a comprehensive bibliography. The index is particularly well done. Anyone seriously interested in the working of Roman aqueducts (and even the casually curious) will be using this valuable survey again and again.' Harry B. Evans, American Journal of Archaeology; 'Hodge triumphantly combines deep scholarship and lucid interpretation, while guiding non-technical readers considerately and painlessly through the inevitable quagmire of hydraulic principles.... the book is thorough, utterly practical and highly readable - at times even funny - and it will be a long time before it is superseded' M.J.T. Lewis, Nature
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Louisiana State University Press The Architecture of LSU
Book SynopsisAuthor, professor, and architect J. Michael Desmond traces LSU's development from its pre-Civil War origins in Pineville, Louisiana, through its two downtown Baton Rouge locations, to its move to the Williams “Gartness” Plantation south of the city in the 1920s.
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Reaktion Books Last Landscapes: the Architecture of the Cemetery
Book SynopsisLast Landscapes is an exploration of the cult and celebration of death, loss and memory. It traces the history and design of burial places throughout Europe and the USA, ranging from the picturesque tradition of the village churchyard to tightly packed cities of the dead', such as the Jewish Cemetery in Prague and Pere Lachaise in Paris. Other landscapes that feature in this book include the war cemeteries of northern France, Viking burial islands in central Sweden, Etruscan tombs and early Christian catacombs in Italy, the 17th-century Portuguese Jewish cemetery 'Beth Haim' at Ouderkerk in the Netherlands, Forest Lawns in California, Derek Jarman's garden in Kent and the Stockholm Woodland Cemetery. It is a fact that architecture began with the tomb', yet, as Ken Worpole shows us in Last Landscapes, many historic cemeteries have been demolished or abandoned in recent times (notably the case with Jewish cemeteries in Eastern Europe), and there has been an increasing loss of inscription and memorialization in the modern urban cemetery. Too often cemeteries today are both poorly designed and physically and culturally marginalized. Worse, cremation denies a full architectural response to the mystery and solemnity of death. The author explores how modes of disposal burial, cremation, inhumation in mausoleums and wall tombs vary across Europe and North America, according to religious and other cultural influences. And Last Landscapes raises profound questions as to how, in an age of mass cremation, architects and landscape designers might create meaningful structures and settings in the absence of a body, since for most of history the human body itself has provided the fundamental structural scale. This evocative book also contemplates other forms of memorialization within modern societies, from sculptures to parks, most notably the extraordinary Duisberg Park, set in a former giant steelworks in Germany's Ruhr Valley.Trade Review'One of the most thought-provoking books of the year.' - The Independent 'A richly humane and engrossing book ... a work that is warm, compassionate, intelligent and thought-provoking.' - Building Design 'A remarkably beautiful book ... As a long-time professor of worship, I spent many years talking with seminarians and pastors about theological and liturgical aspects of rites related to death. Last Landscapes shows that such conversations would be enriched if they were to address topics that Worpole discusses with such sensitivity and insight.' - Anglican Theological Review 'Reading this book is a pleasure. The book is beautifully illustrated with photography by Larraine Worpole ... It spends time with architectural and landscape history, makes tracks through sociology and economics, ponders theological and philosophical positions, and lingers before some remarkable aesthetic achievements.' - The Twentieth Century Society Journal
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Scheidegger & Spiess Other Voices Other Rooms
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Hochhäuser in Deutschland: Zukunft oder Ruin der
Book SynopsisIn fast allen deutschen Großstädten flammt in der Öffentlichkeit immer wieder die kontrovers geführte Diskussion um den Bau von Hochhäusern auf. Die Befürworter verweisen dabei auf die Förderung des Stadtimages mit Hochhäusern als Symbolen der wirtschaftlichen Dynamik. Die Gegner sehen durch den Hochhausbau den europäischen Stadtmaßstab gesprengt und zerstört. Die Autoren dieses Bandes aus Planungspraxis und Wissenschaft zeigen, dass jede Stadt ihren eigenen Umgang mit dem Problem der potentiellen Hochhausinvestoren entwickelt hat. Erstmals werden hier die Bürohochhauspläne deutscher Großstädte vergleichend analysiert, die unterschiedlichen Planungskulturen offengelegt und die sich daraus ergebenden Perspektiven erörtert.Table of ContentsHochhäuser in deutschen Städten — Zukunft für die einen, Ruin für die anderen?.- Von der „Hochhausseuche“ zur „Skyline als Markenzeichen“ — die steile Karriere der Hochhäuser in Frankfurt am Main.- Aspekte der Bodenverwertung am Finanzplatz Frankfurt am Main.- Maßstabssprünge der Planung — Städtische Planungshoheit und Investoreninteressen zwischen 1990 und 2000.- Ökologische Aspekte von Hochhäusern.- Simulation von Prosperität: Hochhausprojekte in Berlin.- Zwischen planerischem Willen und Investorenwünschen Hochhausentwicklung in Düsseldorf.- Bleibt der Dom der Kölner Hochhauskomplex par excellence?.- Prototyp und Sonderfall Über Hochhäuser in Leipzig.- München: Hochhausdebatten im Banne der Kirchtürme.- Stuttgart: Kessel, Klima, kleine Türme — vom Einzelfall zur Hochhauspolitik.- Hochhäuser in Hamburg — (noch) kein Thema? Geschichte, Gegenwart und Zukunft eines ambivalenten Verhältnisses.- La Tour sans Fin oder Basis—Schaft—Kapitell Versuch einer Typologie des Hochhauses.- Die gesellschaftliche Konstruktion von Hochhäusern.- Verzeichnis der Autorinnen und Autoren.- Abbildungsnachweis.
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Arquine Plan Selva
Book SynopsisEnsuring equality and accessibility for students in schools within Peru's Amazon regionPlan Selva is an initiative of the Ministry of Education of Peru that aims to ensure essential habitability conditions in schools in the Amazon. Illustrated with maps, schemes, drawings, plans and photos, this book explains the educational context of the Amazon and the relations between teaching and architecture.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Designing Schools
Book SynopsisDesigning Schools explores the close connections between the design of school buildings and educational practices throughout the twentieth century to today. Through international cases studies that span the Americas, Europe, Africa and Australia, this volume examines historical innovations in school architecture and situates these within changing pedagogical ideas about the best' ways to educate children. It also investigates the challenges posed by new technologies and the digital age to the design and use of school places. Set around three interlinked themes school buildings, school spaces and school cultures this book argues that education is mediated or framed by the spaces in which it takes place, and that those spaces are in turn influenced by cultural, political and social concerns about teaching, learning and the child.Trade Review'An excellent contribution to the school design literature, the book is especially suited to readers interested in the history of open-plan schools and in different methodological approaches. Since many of the essays address the open-plan school, readers can explore how these schools embodied Cold War values of individualism and freedom, how teaching conventions challenged their success, and how national contexts produced variations in the rise and fall of this model.' - Rachel Remmel, History of Education Quarterly, University of Rochester'Discerning and indispensible, Designing Schools: Space, Place and Pedagogy takes us to Australia, Europe, the United States, Africa, and Latin America to learn about school buildings in the twentieth century. This thematically organized and generously illustrated book, written by experts in the field, tracks changes in architectural design, pedagogy, childhood, space, place, technology, and nationality. Designing Schools also introduces the teachers, architects, and other adults who wanted to build better schools for an astonishing array of boys and girls--rich and poor, rural and urban, white, Aboriginal, African American, and African children— although the outcomes were not always praiseworthy. A welcome addition to the new and exciting field of children, space, and schools.' - Marta Gutman, PhD, Professor of Architecture (History & Theory), The City College of New York/CUNY and The Graduate Center/CUNY'The wealth of evidence and argument in Designing Schools for the cultural significance of school architecture is overwhelming. This book puts the materiality of schooling back into the centre of our efforts to understand how teaching and learning have changed over the last century. Relationships between modernism in school design and efforts to develop progressive pedagogies are only part of the argument. The chapters in this book explore new dimensions of old questions such as the significance of the school in the making of populations conceived in racial, gender and class terms. Designing Schools challenges its readers to imagine schools as spaces as much as places, and the meanings they develop within a variety of geographical, cultural and temporal settings that include urban, suburban and rural—national, colonial and post colonial. Designing Schools is significant enough to change the ways we think about schooling.' - Craig Campbell, Editor, History of Education Review, University of SydneyTable of Contents1. Architecture and the School in the Twentieth Century Julie Willis Part 1: Lessons from History 2. From Looking to Seeing, or This Was the Future ... Ian Grosvenor 3. Building Ruins: Abandoned Ideas of the School Martin Lawn 4. Postwar Schools: A Personal History Elain Harwood Part 2: School Buildings 5. The Classroom is Another Place? Ernest J. Kump’s ‘Ideal’ Learning Environments for Californian Schools, 1937–1962 Philip Goad 6. Educational Facilities Laboratories: Debating and Designing the Postwar American Schoolhouse Amy F. Ogata 7. Creating Friendly School Environments: ‘Casual’ High Schools, Progressive Education and Child-Centred Culture in Postwar America Dale Allen Gyure 8. Open Shut Them: Open Classrooms in Australian Schools, 1967–1983 Cameron Logan 9. The Balance between Intimacy and Interchange: Swiss Schools During the 1960s Marco di Nallo Part 3: School Cultures 10. Making Schools and Thinking through Materialities: Denmark, 1890–1960 Ning de Coninck-Smith 11. Domestic Spaces and School Places: Vocational Education and Gender in Modern Australia Kate Darian-Smith 12. ‘We Make No Discrimination’: Aboriginal Education and the Socio-spatial Arrangements of the Australian Classroom Julie McLeod and Sianan Healy 13. Model Schools for Model Cities: Educational Facilities as Monuments to Planning Reform Amber Wiley 14. The Nigerian ‘Unity Schools’: The UNESCO-IDA School Building Programme in Africa Ola Uduku Part 4: School Spaces 15. Quiet Stories of Educational Design Catherine Burke 16. Hans Coper and Paul Ritter: Tactile Environments for Children in Postwar Britain and Australia Geraint Franklin and David Nichols 17. Bristling with Opportunity: Audio-visual Technology in Australian Schools from the 1930s to the 1980s David Nichols and Hannah Lewi 18. Digital Classrooms and the New Economies of Attention: Reflections on the End of Schooling as Confinement Inés Dussel Index
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