Entre los resultados del espejismo del progreso, sobresalen el carácter cada día más arduo de la "lucha por la supervivencia", la generalización del sentimiento de fracaso y frustración en el espíritu reflexivo, la formación de grupos transnacionales de poder más fuertes que el Estado, la convicción de que el presente es extremadamente frágil y transitorio y que está sujeto a fuerzas capaces de destruirlo, igual que a la vida misma.
In der gegenwärtigen philosophischen und theologischen Diskussion wird die Möglichkeit schlüssiger Argumente für die Existenz Gottes in der Regel mit Verweis auf Hume oder Kant zurückgewiesen.
Decolonising the Built Environment: Process, Product, and Pedagogy provides an important and much-needed comprehensive overview of how decolonisation is shaping the built environment in theory, in practice, and as a process/project today.
Wellness is a contemporary concept with deep ancient roots promoting preventative and holistic activities, lifestyle choices, and salient architecture and urban design practices.
This books traces the rise to prominence in the twentieth-century of a sub-genre of gothic fiction that is, emphatically, a horror of enlightenment rationality rather than gothic darkness, examining post-modern revisions of Modernist "e;Promethean"e; tropes in an eclectic range of gothic, fantasy and SF writing.
In this enthralling book, Ben Alderson-Day explores one of the most curious experiences known to humankind: the universal, disturbing sense that someone or something is there when we are alone - the feeling of an unseen presence.
A pesar de los avances de la neurociencia y de las ciencias cognitivas en los últimos cincuenta años, el estudio de la percepción abarca un campo en el que todavía no se dispone de una teoría unificada desde la cual se pueda dar cuenta de todos los fenómenos y procesos involucrados.
Desde las primeras muestras de Arquitectura, ya en la Prehistoria, la luz siempre ha sido la piedra angular en torno a la cual todo lo construido se ha articulado.
The Garden Retreat in Asia and Europe explores the meaning of gardens and designed landscapes as places of retreat and refuge in times of need or emergency.
Modern Architecture: The Basics examines technological, stylistic, socio-political, and cultural changes that have transformed the history of architecture since the late 18th century.
A NEW MANIFOLD, the inaugural issue of SAC JOURNAL, addres- ses the increased specialisation and possible fragmentation of ex- pertise within architecture.
This book offers a vision of the London Underground written in the form of a ficto-historical narrative, which combines history and fiction in the creation of a set of theoretical propositions for London's subterranean transportation network.
GARDEN STATE - Cinematic Space and Choreographic Timeis the third issue of the SAC JOURNAL and explores the garden as a utopia wherein time and space may be thought of in archi- tectural terms yet not easily deciphered against architecture's traditions and practices.
An illuminating look at the adaptive nature of our memoriesand how their flexibility and fallibility help us survive and thriveWe tend to think of our memories as impressions of the past that remain fully intact, preserved somewhere inside our brains.
This comprehensive companion surveys intelligent design thinking in architecture and urbanism, investigates multiple facets of "e;smart"e; approaches to design thinking that augment the potentials of user experiences as well as his/her physical and mental interactions with the built environment.
Islands have a long history of appealing to the architectural imagination and have served as sites for architectural expressions of cultural specificity, cultural conquest, and cultural hybridisation over millennia.
Finishing in Architecture: Polishing, Completing, Ending explores the topic of finishing and the fascinating physical and metaphysical implications of its various conceptions in architecture.
This anthology presents a range of interdisciplinary explorations into the urban environment, through film, photography, digital imagery, maps and signage.
Die gotische Architektur fasziniert seit Jahrhunderten mit ihren majestätischen Kathedralen, filigranen Gewölben und den spektakulären Glasfenstern, durch die das Licht in faszinierenden Farben spielt.
This book offers a vision of the London Underground written in the form of a ficto-historical narrative, which combines history and fiction in the creation of a set of theoretical propositions for London's subterranean transportation network.
The Supercrit series revisits some of the most influential architectural projects of the recent past and examines their impact on the way we think and design today.
This book investigates the spaces where architecture and computer science share a common set of assumptions and goals, using methods and objectives from architecture, ethnography, and human-computer interaction (HCI).
Decolonising the Built Environment: Process, Product, and Pedagogy provides an important and much-needed comprehensive overview of how decolonisation is shaping the built environment in theory, in practice, and as a process/project today.
This is the first book to critically and visually explore the spatial practices of refuge in response to conditions of war, violence, and displacement experienced in Iraq from 2003 to 2023.
Este libro presenta la construcción de la arquitectura moderna me- xicana mediante un enfoque basado en cinco estructuras de poder: la académica, la económica y política, la de estatus social, la de género y la poscolonial.
This book presents an original study of the work of Pritzker Prize-winning Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza from the perspective of architecture as an interpretation of human life.
This anthology presents a range of interdisciplinary explorations into the urban environment, through film, photography, digital imagery, maps and signage.
