Durante las últimas décadas han tenido lugar numerosas iniciativas artísticas en Bogotá, que han logrado cierta visibilidad y significación, gracias a su capacidad de incidir en la producción de espacios públicos, por su papel en la visibilización de sectores marginados de la ciudad, por la participación de sus agentes en las pugnas por la garantía de los derechos culturales de amplias franjas poblacionales, por la profundización de procesos democráticos, por impulsar la ampliación de las políticas culturales, entre otras particularidades.
This book is the first comprehensive monograph on Polish modern architect Jerzy Soltan's work including his designs, theory, and teachings in Poland and America based on extensive archival research and oral history interviews with former students.
This book is the first comprehensive monograph on Polish modern architect Jerzy Soltan's work including his designs, theory, and teachings in Poland and America based on extensive archival research and oral history interviews with former students.
This volume of primary source materials documents the nineteenth-century search for a representative style, and the alternating fashions for interiors that demonstrated the consumerism of the period.
This volume of primary source materials documents the nineteenth-century search for a representative style, and the alternating fashions for interiors that demonstrated the consumerism of the period.
This volume of primary source materials documents the spatial layouts of the nineteenth century home as they often became more precisely planned with rooms for specific purposes being developed.
This volume of primary source materials documents the spatial layouts of the nineteenth century home as they often became more precisely planned with rooms for specific purposes being developed.
The conference presented a multidisciplinary interactive forum to researchers, students, academicians, industry professionals, policymakers and scientists focusing on three key tracks, namely, Architecture and Built Environment, Planning and Practices, and Design and Society.
Virtual Reality (VR) is a rapidly maturing technology that offers new and unique solutions to otherwise intractable problems in the study of cognition, behavior and neuroscience.
This book brings together the insights from professional associations who involved in developing relevant national standards in China, domestic and international scholars who are dedicated to research in related fields, and industry practitioners who have the most hands-on experience.
This book offers theoretical and practical insights into land use, transport, and national policies in one of world's well-known urban concrete jungle, none other than the Singapore city.
This book states that the proceedings gathers selected papers from 2022 5th International Conference on Civil Engineering and Architecture (ICCEA 2022), which was held in Hanoi, Vietnam on December 16-18, 2022.
This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of information technology in civil and building engineering, presented at the 19th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE), held in Cape Town, South Africa on October 26-28, 2022.
This edited volume delves into the intricate challenges that cities face in the midst of evolving socio-political, economic, and environmental landscapes.
An ambitious history of Britain told through the stories of twenty-five notable structures, from the Iron Age fortification of Maiden Castle in Dorset to the Gherkin.
A completely revised and updated new edition of this successful book focused on urban policy innovations that promote the application of blue-green infrastructure in managing water resources sustainably.
A detailed look at the expansion and renewal taking place on the three U of I campuses The University of Illinois System's universities have undergone a dramatic transformation.
In recent years, resilient districts have become territorial contexts for projects designed to respond to the needs of local communities, through the exploitation of landscape peculiarities to overcome the economic crisis.
Kent has an impressive collection of castles, over sixty including the scanty ruins and earthwork remains of now vanished ones, as well as the more celebrated castles, such as Leeds, Rochester and Dover.
'There are prizes, normally named after PG Wodehouse, given to literary comic novels and non-fiction, and these books will have blurbs saying "e;hilarious"e; on them.
Dialogues between Psychoanalysis and Architecture explores the multisensory space of therapy, real or virtual, and how important it is in providing the container for the therapeutic relationship and process.
Through the work of the Italian architect, theorist and historian Paolo Portoghesi (1931-2023), this book offers a new perspective on postmodern architecture, showing the agency of other spheres of knowledge history, politics and media in the making of postmodern architectural discourse.
A Cultural History of Plants in the Post-Classical Era covers the period from 500 to 1400, ranging across northern and central Europe to the Mediterranean, and from the Byzantine and Arabic Empires to the Persian World, India, and China.
Dialogues between Psychoanalysis and Architecture explores the multisensory space of therapy, real or virtual, and how important it is in providing the container for the therapeutic relationship and process.
This book brings together the insights from professional associations who involved in developing relevant national standards in China, domestic and international scholars who are dedicated to research in related fields, and industry practitioners who have the most hands-on experience.
This book offers theoretical and practical insights into land use, transport, and national policies in one of world's well-known urban concrete jungle, none other than the Singapore city.
This book states that the proceedings gathers selected papers from 2022 5th International Conference on Civil Engineering and Architecture (ICCEA 2022), which was held in Hanoi, Vietnam on December 16-18, 2022.
Economic development is intended to benefit everyone in a community; however, in many cases, increased public and private investment can result in the pricing out and displacement of existing residents and businesses.
Economic development is intended to benefit everyone in a community; however, in many cases, increased public and private investment can result in the pricing out and displacement of existing residents and businesses.
"e;Patterns"e; of Threshold Spaces in the Historical City of Jeddah explores the meaning of threshold spaces and investigates the relationship between the public spaces and residential units in the historical city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, while at the same time revisiting Christopher Alexander's theory in his canonical 1977 book, A Pattern Language.
