Originally published in 1993, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction, Housing: Design, Research and Education, demonstrated some of the diversity and richness of the research being undertaken in housing at time, which took as its starting point peoples' notion of home and the way in which a sense of home is captured distilled and expressed through various facets of design, and conversely the urgent need for architects and planners to take seriously the everyday scale and scope of peoples' home experience.
Originally published in 1993, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction and new preface, Environmental Psychology in Europe: From Architectural Psychology to Green Psychology sets out to explain the nature of environmental psychology, how it was born, how it developed, what were its dominant subjects, its principal actors and its present state in Europe at the time.
It is not without irony that in an age characterised by the dissolution of certainty a consequence of digital dematerialisation and the catastrophic destabilisation of our social institutions and natural world architecture, for so long the repository for our myths and the vessel for our intangible narratives and rituals, has been stripped bare.
Globalization has quickened the process of communication across the world, creating changes in material and non-material culture with the flow of ideas.
El volumen aquí presentado reúne unos materiales que serán sin duda alguna de gran ayuda para un debate sobre la ciudad contemporánea y su futuro, ayudando a profesionales y estudiantes a pensar nuevas formas de aproximación y lectura.
Comics, Activism, Feminisms explores from both historical and contemporary perspectives how comic art, activism, and feminisms are intertwined, and how comic art itself can be a form of activism.
The influence of technology on hobbies and leisure time is quickly becoming a regular part of daily life, but how much do we really understand about how or why we're using it, and its impact on our health?
Insubordinate Costume: Inspiring Performance presents a comprehensive study of historical and contemporary examples of scenographic costume - the type of costume that creates an almost complete stage environment by itself, simultaneously acting as costume, set and performance.
"Das Sabino-Kaninchen und seine Abenteuer" ist ein Kinderbuch, das die spannenden und lustigen Abenteuer von Sabino, einem neugierigen und abenteuerlustigen Kaninchen, erzählt.
This book examines issues of censorship, publicity and teenage fandom in 1950s Britain surrounding a series of controversial Hollywood films: The Wild One, Blackboard Jungle, Rebel Without a Cause, Rock Around the Clock and Jailhouse Rock.
The battle in architecture between the internationalist voices of modernism and the localized resistance, which favored traditional technologies and regional precedents, reflected in microcosm the violent and complex histories of twentieth-century Germany.
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).
The Times Do Not Permit is the first extended overview of the life, times, and music of Michael Mosoeu Moerane (1904-1980), a composer brought up in rural South Africa in the early twentieth century.
This remarkably unique book takes the conceit of the loneliness room to show how everyday artistic practice opens up loneliness to new definitions and new understandings.
The ABC of the projectariat contributes new thinking on and practical responses to the widespread problem of precarious labour in the field of contemporary art.
"Yo elegí Arquitectura" tiene un contenido temático que conduce a la reflexión, dirigido a todo público, especialmente a estudiantes y profesionales del ramo de la arquitectura.