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Vajra Books Traditional Newar Architecture of the Kathmandu
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Ratna Pustak Bhandar,Nepal The Traditional Newar Architecture of the
Book SynopsisThe Traditional Newar Architecture of the Kathmandu Valley: The Stupas and The Chaityas by Wolfgang Korn explores Buddhist stupas and chaityas in the Kathmandu Valley through detailed line drawings, building on his previous works on the region's traditional architecture.
£32.85
Vajra Books Man and his House in the Himalayas: Ecology of
Book SynopsisThis book was first published in French in 1981 by CNRS, National Centre for Scientific Research (France), under the title L''Homme et la maison en Himalaya. It was subsequently published in English in 1991 by Sterling Publishers, in New Delhi. It seems to us--the author and the publisher--that the earthquakes that struck Nepal in April and May 2015 might be an appropriate opportunity, for obvious reasons, to republish it. These massive seismic events, along with the ineluctable effect of modernity and globalization, will no doubt sound the death knell for a large part of Nepalese vernacular architecture in the affected areas. In fact, this vernacular regional architecture, mostly farmhouses constructed by local builders with locally available materials, without using the services of a professional architect, is likely to gradually disappear.
£46.08
Kite Group Ltd Sanctuaries of the Soul
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£38.25
Kite Group Ltd Contemporary Architecture in Malta
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£66.30
Nova Science Publishers, Inc. The Paradigm and Paradox of Place Threshold
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£113.59
Nova Science Publishers, Inc. Sustainable Construction Management Processes
£138.39
Oxford University Press When Brains Meet Buildings
Book SynopsisAfter decades of research on minds and brains and a decade of conversations with architects, Michael Arbib presents When Brains Meet Buildings as an invitation to the science behind architecture, richly illustrated with buildings both famous and domestic. As he converses with the reader, he presents action-oriented perception, memory, and imagination as well as atmosphere, aesthetics, and emotion as keys to analyzing the experience and design of architecture. He also explores what it might mean for buildings to have brains and illuminates all this with an appreciation of the biological and cultural evolution that supports the diverse modes of human living that we know today. These conversations will not only raise the level of interaction between architecture and neuroscience but, by explaining the world of each group to the other, will also engage all readers who share a fascination with both the brains within them and the buildings around them. Michael Arbib is a pioneer in the interTrade ReviewArbib covers brains and the environment, perspective on space, learning and memory, emotion, wayfinding, the architecture-ready brain, buildings with brains, and experience and design. * L. B. Allsopp, CHOICE *For couple of decades there has been an attraction between neuroscience and architecture. However, the real interactions between the two disciplines have rarely been presented or discussed. Due to the internal complexities of architecture and its dialogical relation with life, the largely preconscious and embodied intuitions of the creative mind tend to escape scientific definition. Michael Arbib's exceptionally wide scientific background, combined with his deep interest in the arts and architecture, makes him well equipped to cross this gap. His current book is a devoted study of the neural basis of architecture and the applicability of this knowledge in the design of buildings, especially intelligent buildings, which are deliberately conceived as extensions of our neural capacities." - Juhani Pallasmaa, Architect HonSAFA, HonFAIA, IntFRIBA, Academician, International Academy of Architecture, Professor emeritus (Aalto University, Helsinki)This book is one of the most valuable contributions, from a neuroscientific perspective, of the interplay between the architectural environment and human beings."- Davide Ruzzon, architect, Director and Founder of Neuroscience Applied to Architectural Design, NAAD Postgraduate Course, at the University Iuav Venice and POLI Design MilanTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Brains in Bodies in the - Social, Built and Natural - Environment 1.1. Linking Physical and Mental and Construction 1.2. Framing the AN Conversation 1.3. How Brains Meet Buildings 1.4 The Many Levels of the Brain 1.5. A Key Debate: Is Neuroscience Relevant to Architecture? Chapter 2. An Action-Oriented Perspective on Space and Affordances 2.1. In an Art Gallery: From Wayfinding to Contemplation 2.2. Affordances and Effectivities 2.3. The Thinking Hand 2.4. The Thinking Hand and Its Schemas 2.5. Schemas: Up to Society; Down to Neurons 2.6. The Thinking Hand and Its Brain 2.7. Design in Architecture and in Brain Modeling Chapter 3. A Look at Vision, and a Touch More 3.1. Engineering and Architectural Aesthetics 3.2. Neural Circuits for Vision 3.3. Learning and Memory 3.4. VISIONS: Scene Perception as a Form of Construction 3.5. Aesthetic Judgement of Visual Form 3.6. Schemas Within and Beyond Vision Chapter 4. Atmosphere, Affordances, and Emotion 4.1. Atmosphere Exemplified 4.2. Motivation, Emotion, and Brains 4.3. Atmosphere as a Non-Gibsonian Affordance 4.4. The Evocation of Atmosphere in Paintings 4.5. Seeking Neural Correlates of Environments Inducing Contemplative States 4.6. Experiences of Ultimacy Chapter 5. From Empathy to Mirror Neurons and Back to Aesthetics 5.1. Empathy and Einfühlung in Life, Architecture and Art 5.2. Mirror Neurons and Their Larger Setting 5.3. How Neural Nets Enable Us to Learn and Remember 5.4. Modeling How Mirror Neurons Learn and Function 5.5. Empathy and the Brain 5.6. Einfühlung and the Motor Component of Contemplation 5.7. Neuroaesthetics Revisited, and More Chapter 6. From Libraries to Wayfinding, Waylosing, and Symbolism 6.1. Libraries 6.2. A Cognitive Account of Wayfinding 6.3. It Takes More Than a Hippocampus to Build a Cognitive Map 6.4. Symbolism and Symbols Chapter 7. When Buildings Have "Brains" 7.1. Machines for Living In, Revisited 7.2. Can Architecture Be Smart, Can Intelligence Be Artificial? 7.3. The Interactive Space Ada 7.4. Neuromorphic Architecture: Neural and Physical Spaces for Buildings 7.5. Community & Biophilia 7.6. Where Might Neuromorphic Architecture Lead Us? Chapter 8. Evolving the Architecture-Ready Brain 8.1. Introducing the X-Ready Brain 8.2. From Mirror Systems to Complex Imitation, Pantomime and Pedagogy 8.3. From Pantomime to Protolanguages and On to Languages 8.4. The Language-Ready Brain is Also Construction-Ready and Drawing-Ready 8.5. The Neuropsychology of Drawing 8.6. Is Architecture a Language for the Architecture-Ready Brain? Chapter 9. Experience and Design: Case Studies 9.1. Imagination and Design: Our Initial Framework 9.2. Jørn Utzon's Experience and Design: The Sydney Opera House 9.3. Sketching and Model-Making: Frank Gehry's Bilbao Guggenheim Chapter 10. Experience and Design: Bringing in the Brain 10.1. Towards IBSEN: Modeling Imagination in Brain Systems for Episodes and Navigation 10.2. Multi-Modal Perception Within the Action-Perception Cycle 10.3. Linking Memory and Imagination: The Hippocampus and More 10.4. From Scripts to Cognitive Maps to Buildings 10.5. And So We Come to the End Which is a Beginning About the Author
£34.39
Oxford University Press Theology in Stone
Book SynopsisThinking about church architecture has come to an impasse. Reformers and traditionalists are talking past each other. In Theology in Stone, Richard Kieckhefer seeks to help both sides move beyond the standoff toward a fruitful conversation about houses of worship. Drawing on a wide range of historical examples with an eye to their contemporary relevance, he offers refreshing new ideas about the meanings and uses of church architecture.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: The First Factor: Spatial Dynamics 2: The Second Factor: Centering Focus 3: The Third Factor: Aesthetic Impact 4: The Fourth Factor: Symbolic Resonance 5: Late Medieval Beverley: Traditional Churches in a Traditional Culture 6: Chicago: Traditional Churches in a Modern Culture 7: Rudolph Schwartz: Modern Churches in a Modern Culture 8: Issues in Church Architecture Notes Index
£29.92
Oxford University Press, USA The Greek Theatre and Festivals Documentary Studies Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents
Book SynopsisA collection of essays, by leading international scholars, on the history of the Greek theatre, and on the wider context of festival culture in which theatrical activity took place in the Greek world. The emphasis is on a fresh interpretation of the documentary material - inscriptions, archaeological remains, and monuments.Trade ReviewThis collection, edited by Peter Wilson and developed from an Oxford colloquium held in 2003, takes a fresh look at the documentary evidence for the Greek theatre... Wilson and his contributors succeed in offering this detailed, thoughtful, and illuminating book, which should be essential reading for anyone seriously interested in studying the Greek theatre. * Peter Meineck, Classical World *...impressively rich... * Sheila Murnaghan, The Classical ReviewPaul Cartledge, The Anglo-Hellenic Review *There is much of interest here for scholars in the world of Greek performance * Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: From the ground up ; I. FESTIVALS AND PERFORMERS: SOME NEW PERSPECTIVES ; 1. Deconstructing festivals ; 2. Theatre rituals ; 3. Artists' participation and the organization of music contests in the Hellenistic period: an attempt at classification ; II. FESTIVALS OF ATHENS AND ATTICA ; 4. The men who built the theatres: theatropolai, theatronai, and arkhitektones ; 5. Choregic monuments and the Athenian democracy ; 6. Performance in the Pythion: the Athenian Thargelia ; III. BEYOND ATHENS ; 7. Dithyramb, Tragedy - and Cyrene ; 8. A Horse from Teos: epigraphical notes on the Ionian-Hellespontine Association of Dionysiac Artists ; 9. Kraton, son of Zotichos: artists' associations and monarchic power in the Hellenistic period ; 10. Theoria and theatre at Samothrace: the Dardanos by Dumas of Iasos ; 11. The Dionysia at Iasos: its artists, patrons, and audience ; 12. An opisthographic lead tablet from Sicily with a financial document and a curse concerning choregoi ; 13. Sicilian choruses
£225.00
Palgrave MacMillan UK Memory Culture and the Contemporary City Building Sites
Book SynopsisThese essays by leading figures from academia, architecture and the arts consider how cultures of memory are constructed for and in contemporary cities. They take Berlin as a key case of a historically burdened metropolis, but also extend to other global cities: Jerusalem, Buenos Aires, Cape Town and New York.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction PART I Monument and Melancholia; V.Burgin Sonnen-Insulaner : On a Berlin Island of Memory; T.Elsaesser Arrivals and Departures: Travelling to the Airports of Berlin; H.Reeh Global Building Sites – Between Past and Future; D.Libeskind PART II Spectral Ground in New Cities: Memorial Cartographies in Cape Town and Berlin; K.E.Till & J.Jonker Designing the Biblical Present in Jerusalem's 'City of David'; W.Pullan& M.Gwiazda Historical Tourism: Reading Berlin's Doubly Dictatorial Past; M.Fulbrook Sacralized Spaces and the Urban Remembrance of War; J.Ward Paradise for Provocation: Plotting Berlin's Political Underground; C.Scribner PART III Architecture as Scenography, the Building Site as Stage; S.Bürkle Buenos Aires 2010: Memory Machines and Cybercities in Two Argentine Science Fiction Films; G.Kantaris Perpetuated Transitions: Forms of Nightlife and the Buildings of Berlin in the Work of Isa Genzken and Wolfgang Tilmans; P.Ekardt On the Road with mnemonic nonstop ; L.Ruprecht with M.Nachbar& J.Roller Notes Index
£44.99
MIT Press Adversarial Design
£30.17
Penguin Random House LLC Privacy and Publicity
£56.30
MIT Press Ltd LabOratory
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£51.79
Penguin Random House LLC The New Architecture and The Bauhaus
Book SynopsisOne of the most important books on the modernist movement in architecture, written by a founder of the Bauhaus school.One of the most important books on the modern movement in architecture, The New Architecture and The Bauhaus poses some of the fundamental problems presented by the relations of art and industry and considers their possible, practical solution. Gropius traces the rise of the New Architecture and the work of the now famous Bauhaus and, with splendid clarity, calls for a new artist and architect educated to new materials and techniques and directly confronting the requirements of the age.
£25.59
Penguin Random House LLC The Grand Domestic Revolution
£47.53
MIT Press Information Design The MIT Press
Book SynopsisThe contributors to this book are both cautionary and hopeful as they offer visions of how information design can be practiced diligently and ethically, for the benefit of information consumers as well as producers.Information design is the newest of the design disciplines. As a sign of our times, when the crafting of messages and meaning is so central to our lives, information design is not only important—it is essential. Contemporary information designers seek to edify more than to persuade, to exchange more than to foist upon. With ever more powerful technologies of communication, we have learned that the issuer of designed information is as likely as the intended recipient to be changed by it, for better or worse.The contributors to this book are both cautionary and hopeful as they offer visions of how information design can be practiced diligently and ethically, for the benefit of information consumers as well as producers. They present various methods that
£49.46
Penguin Random House LLC Architecture as Metaphor
£38.78
MIT Press Good City Form
Book SynopsisA summation and extension of Lynch''s vision for the exploration of city form.With the publication of The Image of the City in 1959, Kevin Lynch embarked upon the process of exploring city form. Good City Form is both a summation and an extension of his vision, a high point from which he views cities past and possible. First published in hardcover under the title A Theory of Good City Form.
£58.60
Penguin Random House LLC Form Follows Libido
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MIT Press City of Bits Space Place the Infobahn
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MIT Press The Organizational Complex Architecture Media and Corporate Space
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£38.00
MIT Press Design on the Edge The Making of a High Performance Building
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Penguin Random House LLC Road that Is Not a Road and the Open City Ritoque Chile Graham Foundation MIT Press Series in Contemporary Architectural Discourse
£38.78
Penguin Random House LLC Design Thinking
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Penguin Random House LLC Artists Magazines An Alternative Space for Art
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Penguin Random House LLC As I Was Saying Volume 2 Cornelliana The MIT Press
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Penguin Random House LLC Architecture and Utopia
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MIT Press Ltd Classical Architecture
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Penguin Random House LLC The Architectural Uncanny Essays in the Modern Unhomely The MIT Press
Book SynopsisAnthony Vidler interprets contemporary buildings and projects in light of the resurgent interest in the uncanny as a metaphor for a fundamentally unhomely modern condition.The Architectural Uncanny presents an engaging and original series of meditations on issues and figures that are at the heart of the most pressing debates surrounding architecture today. Anthony Vidler interprets contemporary buildings and projects in light of the resurgent interest in the uncanny as a metaphor for a fundamentally unhomely modern condition. The essays are at once historical—serving to situate contemporary discourse in its own intellectual tradition and theoretical—opening up the complex and difficult relationships between politics, social thought, and architectural design in an era when the reality of homelessness and the idealism of the neo-avant-garde have never seemed so far apart.Vidler, one of the deftest and surest critics of the contemporary scene, explores aspects of architecture through notions of the uncanny as they have been developed in literature, philosophy, and psychology from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. He interprets the unsettling qualities of today''s architecture—its fragmented neo-constructivist forms reminiscent of dismembered bodies, its seeing walls replicating the passive gaze of domestic cyborgs, its historical monuments indistinguishable from glossy reproductions - in the light of modern reflection on questions of social and individual estrangement, alienation, exile, and homelessness.Focusing on the work of architects such as Bernard Tschumi, Rem Koolhaas, Peter Eisenman, Coop Himmelblau, John Hejduk, Elizabeth Diller, and Ricardo Scofidio, as well as theorists of the urban condition, Vidler delineates the problems and paradoxes associated with the subject of domesticity.
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Penguin Random House LLC White Walls Designer Dresses The Fashioning of Modern Architecture The MIT Press
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MIT Press Biopolis
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Yale University Press Medieval Architecture Medieval Learning Builders Masters in the Age of Romanesque Gothic Paper
Book SynopsisOffers fresh perspectives on changes in architecture and learning at three moments in time. The authors trace the professional contexts and activities of builders from the creation of the Romanesque to the Gothic and in the process establish a new criteria for defining each.Table of ContentsIntroduction - art history as intellectual history. Part 1 The 11th century: beginnings; masters; builders. Part 2 Four crucial decades: transformations - Abelard and Saint-Denis. Part 3 The later 12th century: an age of experiment; learning and the schools in the late 12th century; the first half-century of Gothic.
£32.67
Yale University Press Sebastiano Serlio on Architecture Volume 1
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Springer Building Evaluation
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W. W. Norton & Company Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism
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WW Norton & Co Poetry Property and Place 01 Stefan
Book SynopsisStudies the collaborative process between architects and developers. This title documents the work of a studio of professional and student architects and developers made possible by the Edward P Bass Fellowship of the Yale School of Architecture as they planned to transform a neglected site in central Milan into a vital urban place.
£999.99
W. W. Norton & Co. Future Proofing V 2
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WW Norton & Co The Human City Kings Cross
Book SynopsisDocuments the third collaborative developer/architect studio at the Yale School of Architecture. This book explores projects such as the redevelopment of King's Cross in London to create a human space.
£999.99
WW Norton & Co Layered Urbanisms
Book SynopsisPresents critical discussions and illustrations of urban research and design analysis as carried out in advanced studios. This title investigates ways to design urban spaces.
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WW Norton & Co Urban IntegrationBishopsgate Goods Yard Johnson
Book SynopsisRecords the collaboration of Nick Johnson with Sean Griffiths, Charles Holland and Sam Jacob, working with Yale students.
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WW Norton & Co Negotiated Terrains
Book SynopsisFeaturing the work of the Louis I Kahn Visiting Assistant Professors, this book includes the studios of Jeanne Gang, Sunil Bald and Mark Tsurumaki.
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W. W. Norton & Co. Composites Surfaces and Software High Performance Architecture Greg Lynn at the Yale School of Architecture
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WW Norton & Co Learning in Las Vegas Chuck Atwood David M.
Book SynopsisDeveloper Charles Atwood and architect David M. Schwarz with Yale students designed pedestrian-friendly urban design projects in Las Vegas. In context with the original 1968 Yale Las Vegas Studio, Atwood and Schwarz asked students to learn from other cities how to combat Las Vegas's lack of street-oriented urbanism.
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WW Norton & Co Turbulence
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WW Norton & Co Architecture Inserted Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang
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WW Norton & Co Urban Intersections Sao Paulo
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