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This book is a critical study of the role played by architecture
and texts in promoting political and religious ideologies in the
ancient world. It explains a palace as an element in royal
propaganda seeking to influence social concepts about kingship, and
a text about a temple as influencing social concepts about the
relationship between God and human beings. Applying the methods of
analysis developed in built environment studies, the author
interprets the palace and temple building programs of Sennacherib,
King of Assyria, and Solomon, King of Israel. The physical evidence
for the palace and the verbal evidence for the temple are explained
as presenting communicative icons intended to influence
contemporary political and religious concepts. The volume concludes
with innovative interpretations of the contributions of
architectural and verbal icons to religious and political reform.
Winner of the Publication Award for Popular Culture and
Entertainment for 2009 from the Metropolitan Chapter of the
Victorian Society in America Named to Pop Matters list of the Best
Books of 2009 (Non-fiction) From the lights that never go out on
Broadway to its 24-hour subway system, New York City isn't called
"the city that never sleeps" for nothing. Both native New Yorkers
and tourists have played hard in Gotham for centuries, lindy
hopping in 1930s Harlem, voguing in 1980s Chelsea, and refueling at
all-night diners and bars. The slim island at the mouth of the
Hudson River is packed with places of leisure and entertainment,
but Manhattan's infamously fast pace of change means that many of
these beautifully constructed and incredibly ornate buildings have
disappeared, and with them a rich and ribald history. Yet with
David Freeland as a guide, it's possible to uncover skeletons of
New York's lost monuments to its nightlife. With a keen eye for
architectural detail, Freeland opens doors, climbs onto rooftops,
and gazes down alleyways to reveal several of the remaining hidden
gems of Manhattan's nineteenth- and twentieth-century entertainment
industry. From the Atlantic Garden German beer hall in present-day
Chinatown to the city's first motion picture studio-Union Square's
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company-to the Lincoln Theater in
Harlem, Freeland situates each building within its historical and
social context, bringing to life an old New York that took its
diversions seriously. Freeland reminds us that the buildings that
serve as architectural guideposts to yesteryear's recreations
cannot be re-created-once destroyed they are gone forever. With
condominiums and big box stores spreading over city blocks like
wildfires, more and more of the Big Apple's legendary houses of
mirth are being lost. By excavating the city's cultural history,
this delightful book unearths some of the many mysteries that lurk
around the corner and lets readers see the city in a whole new
light.
STUDY GUIDE FOR THE CODES GUIDEBOOK FOR INTERIORS The comprehensive
study guide for understanding interior codes This revised and
updated eighth edition of the Study Guide for the Codes Guidebook
for Interiors is an essential companion to The Codes Guidebook for
Interiors, the industry's reference of choice. It offers complete
coverage of the major codes and standards that apply to interior
projects. This Study Guide includes lists of terms, practice
questions, practical application exercises, code tables, and
checklists. This companion study guide is a comprehensive measure
of a designer's understanding and application of codes for interior
projects. It can help design students learn and practitioners keep
their skills up to date and prepare for the NCIDQ and ARE exams. It
is vital that designers and architects have an up-to-date working
knowledge of the various codes involved with building interiors,
whether during renovation or new construction, and this study guide
offers the opportunity to: Study with many new questions, in both
the short answer and application sections Review the key terms of
the industry Use the practice questions and exercises to test
working knowledge of codes Utilize the code tables during the
design process Employ the numerous checklists on proposed and real
life projects to ensure complete compliance The revised Study Guide
is a useful companion to The Codes Guidebook for Interiors, the
essential reference for all interior professionals. For the
designer, architect, or student, the Study Guide for The Codes
Guidebook for Interiors is a must-have resource.
This book explores international practice in landscape
architecture, focusing on the provision of services from Australia
to China during China's contemporary urbanization and Australian
landscape architects' approaches to place. Landscape architectural
practice requires planners and designers to have a deep
understanding of local culture, site characteristics, craftsmanship
and even project procedures that are often intangible. How to
acquire the above local knowledge has become a major challenge for
international teams. Through the survey of the practice of
Australian landscape practices in China and the case study of Li
Lake planning and design project, this book reveals the process and
difficulties of landscape planning and design as a transnational
practice, as well as its special value as a way of cross-cultural
fertilization. This book is intended for students, practitioners
and researchers in the fields of landscape architecture,
architecture and urban planning.
Taking as its focus memorials of the First World War in Britain,
this book brings a fresh approach to the study of public symbols by
exploring how different motives for commemorating the dead were
reconciled through the processes of local politics to create a
widely valued form of collective expression. It examines how the
memorials were produced, what was said about them, how support for
them was mobilized and behaviour around them regulated. These
memorials were the sites of contested, multiple and ambiguous
meanings, yet out of them a united public observance was created.
The author argues that this was possible because the interpretation
of them as symbols was part of a creative process in which new
meanings for traditional forms of memorial were established and
circulated. The memorials not only symbolized emotional responses
to the war, but also ambitions for the post-war era. Contemporaries
adopted new ways of thinking about largely traditional forms of
memorial to fit the uncertain social and political climate of the
inter-war years.
This book represents a significant contribution to the study of
material culture and memory, as well as to the social and cultural
history of modern warfare.
Political meaning in architecture has been a subject of interest to
many critics and writers. The most notable of these include Charles
T. Goodsell and Kenneth Frampton. In Goodsell's (1988) statement
"Political places are not randomly or casually brought into
existence" (ibid, p. 8), the stipulation is that architecture has
been used very deliberately in the past to bolster connotations of
power and strength in cities representative of larger nations and
political movements. The question central to this book relates to
how this can be achieved. Goodsell argues that any study of the
interplay between political ideology, architecture, and identity,
demands a place imbued with political ideas opposed to "cold
concepts and lifeless abstractions" (Goodsell 1988, p. 1). As a
means through which to examine and evaluate the ways in which the
development of cities can be influenced by political and
ideological tendencies, this book focuses on Berlin, as a political
discourse, given its significant destruction and reorganisation to
reinstate its identity in the context of geopolitics and the advent
of globalisation.
Love in a marriage is often expected to bear only the sweet
fruits. Nevertheless, every married couple can testify that
disappointment is unavoidable and bitter. At this point, throwing
in the towel seems to be the only solution, but those who have
lived to witness victory can tell a different story. This book
takes us through a couple whose marriage had hit a hard rock.
However, one spouse's commitment to God through pain, temptations,
and despair won her husband back and restored their marriage. If
you care for your marriage, be daring enough to read this book.
Your marriage is not beyond repair, because God is here to turn
that bitter experience into something better
Examining the concept of 'Temple' throughout Scripture, HEAVEN ON
EARTH explores one of the most interesting, but least appreciated
themes in biblical theology. Far from being a building used simply
for religious activities, the Temple in biblical literature
embodies a rich variety of theological ideas. At the heart of these
is the interface provided between a holy God and sinful people. An
understanding of the role of the Temple (and its predecessor, the
Tabernacle) in biblical history provides a remarkable insight into
the redemptive purposes of God. From the Garden of Eden in Genesis
to the new creation in Revelation, biblical literature abounds with
references and allusions to the Temple, all of which underline its
significance as an institution and concept. HEAVEN ON EARTH brings
evangelical biblical scholars and theologians together to offer a
fresh approach to this often neglected area. The biblical essays
cover Old Testament, inter-testamental and New Testament material.
From Paternoster Press.
The book compares different approaches to urban development in
Singapore and Seoul over the past decades, by focusing on community
participation in the transformation of neighbourhoods and its
impact on the built environment and communal life. Singapore and
Seoul are known for their rapid economic growth and urbanisation
under a strong control of developmental state in the past. However,
these cities are at a critical crossroads of societal
transformation, where participatory and community-based urban
development is gaining importance. This new approach can be seen as
a result of a changing relationship between the state and civil
society, where an emerging partnership between both aims to
overcome the limitations of earlier urban development. The book
draws attention to the possibilities and challenges that these
cities face while moving towards a more inclusive and socially
sustainable post-developmental urbanisation. By applying a
comparative perspective to understand the evolving urban paradigms
in Singapore and Seoul, this unique and timely book offers insights
for scholars, professionals and students interested in contemporary
Asian urbanisation and its future trajectories.
State Oddities takes a different kind of look at the American
nation, spotlighting the fun foibles, peculiarities, and twists in
each of the 50 states that are (mostly) united under the Stars and
Stripes. State Oddities is a fascinating trip through the 50 states
for students studying America, teachers planning classroom
activities, and general readers who will enjoy an eye-opening
journey through the nation's fun side. It offers a compelling look
at the character of America through the individuality of 50 very
distinct states that together form the USA. This book paints a
picture of the broad sweep of the American story, offering a
gateway to the country as it developed into one nation filled with
individual states that can be remarkably different from each other,
yet unified under such national symbols as the American flag and
"The Star-Spangled Banner." The author of State Oddities has become
known as a master of "painless history," telling America's story in
a sparkling style along with the historian's eye for fascinating
detail. On the book's cross-country journey, the reader will find
that it differs from other works by taking a fresh look at stories
we think we know. Engaging, entertaining, readable, and informative
narratives for both students and adults Teacher-friendly entries on
each state form the building blocks for history, geography, and
social studies projects Lively sidebars add spice to the book
Helpful Fact Box overviews for each state Fascinating images in
every state entry Bibliographic references and suggestions for
further information
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
This book offers an extended consideration of the fairground
showfront. It combines archival material, contemporary examples of
fairs, and a sustained theoretical engagement with influential
philosophies of surface, including recent work by Avrum Stroll and
Andrew Benjamin, as well as the nineteenth century author Gottfried
Semper. Semper's work on the origin of architectural enclosure
-formed from woven mats and carpets- anticipates the surface and
material history of the showfront. Initial chapters introduce these
philosophies, the evolution of showfronts, and the ways in which
individual fairground rides and attractions are arranged to form an
enclosing boundary for the whole fair. Later chapters focus on
issues of spectacle and illusion, vast 'interior' spaces,
atmosphere, crowds and surface effects. Informed by a wide range of
work from other design and cultural studies, the book will be of
interest to readers in these areas, as well as architecture and
those curious about the fairground.
The tropical belt - where large areas of South East Asia, India,
Africa and parts of both North and South America are located -
forms the biggest landmass in the world and has one of the highest
numbers of rapidly developing cities. Coincidentally, architecture
in these regions shares common problems, the most easily
identifiable being the tropical conditions of climate and natural
environment. The context for architecture here is fraught with
conflicts between tradition and modernization, massive influx of
rural poor into urban areas, poorly managed rapid urban development
as well as the cultural and social strain of globalization. Many
local and overseas architects, planners and city fathers are
interested in the social and environmental dimensions of these
areas that contribute towards short terms solutions and long term
sustainable developments. This book, developed from the first
conference of the International Network for Tropical Architecture,
supplies a wealth of information from experts worldwide covering
the cultural, environmental and technical aspects of thinking,
researching and designing for the tropics.
For Christopher Day, architecture isn't just about the appearance
of buildings but how they're experienced as places to be in.
Occupants' experience can differ radically from designers'
intentions as their concerns and thinking differ. Additionally,
multi-sensory ambience, spatial sequential experience and embodied
spirit resonate in the human soul. Sustainable design means much
more than energy-efficiency: if sustainable buildings don't also
nourish the soul, occupant-building interaction will lack care and
eco-technologies won't be used efficiently. This major revision of
his classic text builds on more than forty years of experience
ecological design across a range of climates, cultures and budgets,
and 25 years hands-on building. Treating buildings as environments
intrinsic to their surroundings, the book explores consensus
design, economic and social sustainability, and how a listening
approach can grow architectural ideas organically from the
interacting, sometimes conflicting, requirements of place, people
and situation. This third edition, comprehensively revised to
incorporate new knowledge and address new issues, continues Day's
departure from orthodox contemporary architecture, offering
eye-opening insights and practical design applications. These
principles and guidelines will be of interest and value to
architects, builders, planners, developers and homeowners alike.
Reviews of the first edition ... one of the seminal architecture
books of recent times Professor Tom Wooley, Architects Journal The
'bible' of many architects and those interested in architecture.
Centre for Alternative Technology ... an inspiration to all those
who care about the influence of the environment on Man's health and
well-being. Barrie May, The Scientific and Medical Network At last
an architect has written a sensitive and caring book on the effects
of buildings on all our lives. Here's Health This gentle book
offers a route out of the nightmare of so much callous modern
construction. I was inspired. Colin Amery, The Financial Times
Buildings Across Time brilliantly explores the essential attributes
of architecture by uniquely combining both a detailed survey of
Western architecture, including Pre-Columbian America, and an
introduction to architecture from the Middle East, India, Russia,
China, and Japan. Authors have searched out the stories these
buildings have to tell, considered the intentions of the people who
built them, and examined the lives of those who used them. The text
contains extensive descriptive narrative leavened with focused
critical analysis, which both allows the book to stand alone and
invites lecturers to impose their studied interpretations on the
material without the danger of undue ambiguity or conflict. In a
world that grows smaller by the day, it presents a global
perspective, and in a discipline that concerns built objects that
are often beautiful as well as functional, it is copiously
illustrated, intelligently designed, and consistently usable.
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