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Michelle L Elmore Ya Heard Me (Hardcover): Michelle Elmore Michelle L Elmore Ya Heard Me (Hardcover)
Michelle Elmore
R1,083 Discovery Miles 10 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

I started visiting New Orleans barbershops on Friday afternoons. Many of the subjects in my monograph "Ya Heard Me" were Gangsta' Rap artists. I began documenting their day-to-day lifestyles in the neighborhoods they were from. In the two years leading up to Hurricane Katrina, I shot thousands of photographs of these young people. I realized the moniker "soldiers" by which they refer to themselves was not an affectation. The average life expectancy in this demographic is 25 years. They speak, live and interact with an urgency that I would imagine exists on battlefields. I have personally witnessed over 50 shootings. One day, one of my subjects was shot through the chest. The bullet passed through his body, missing both his heart and spine by fractions of an inch. Apparently, the slug was so hot that it cauterized the wound on the way through and it didn't bleed. He went home to lie down for a few hours and was back on the street the next day.

Reimagining Alternative Technology for Design in the 21st Century (Hardcover): Brook S. Kennedy Reimagining Alternative Technology for Design in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
Brook S. Kennedy
R3,747 Discovery Miles 37 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

- Provides designers and non-designers with new ideas and tools for creating useful, energy-and-resource-efficient product designs and systems - Offers a critical perspective on the impact of new technologies and product designs - Includes historic and contemporary examples, such as thermostats, electric lighting, air quality sensors, domestic maintenance, and methods of transportation - Written in an engaging, accessible tone for professionals and students.

Sparking Creativity - How Play and Humor Fuel Innovation and Design (Hardcover): Barry Kudrowitz Sparking Creativity - How Play and Humor Fuel Innovation and Design (Hardcover)
Barry Kudrowitz
R3,767 Discovery Miles 37 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

- Written in a humorous and accessible style by an experienced designer and educator - Features over 100 colourful and engaging illustrations to demonstrate concepts - Encourages professionals and students to find creative and playful solutions to complex global issues.

Contemporary Perspectives on Architectural Organicism - The Limits of Self-Generation (Hardcover): Skender Luarasi, Gary Huafan... Contemporary Perspectives on Architectural Organicism - The Limits of Self-Generation (Hardcover)
Skender Luarasi, Gary Huafan He
R4,053 Discovery Miles 40 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This project is born out of similar questions and discussions on the topic of organicism emergent from two critical strands regarding the discourse of organic self-generation: one dealing with the problem of stopping in the design processes in history, and the other with the organic legacy of style in the nineteenth-century as a preeminent form of aesthetic ideology. The epistemologies of self-generation outlined by enlightenment and critical philosophy provided the model for the discursive formations of modern urban planning and architecture. The form of the organism was thought to calibrate modernism's infinite extension. The architectural organicism of today does not take on the language of the biological sciences, as they did in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but rather the image of complex systems, be they computational/informational, geo/ecological, even ontological/aesthetic 'networks'. What is retained from the modernity of yesterday is the ideology of endless self-generation. Revisiting such a topic feels relevant now, in a time when the idea of endless generation is rendered more suspect than ever, amid an ever increasing speed and complexity of AI networks. The essays collected in this book offer a variety of critiques of the modernist idea of endless growth in the fields of architecture, literature, philosophy, and the history of science. They range in scope from theoretical and speculative to analytic and critical; from studies of the history of modernity to reflections of our contemporary world. Far from advocating a return to the romantic forms of nineteenth century naturphilosophie, this project focuses in probing organicism for new forms of critique and emergent subjectivities in a contemporary, 'post' pandemic constellation of neo-naturalism in design, climate change, complex systems and information networks. This book will be of interest to a broad range of researchers and professionals in architecture and art history, historians of science, visual artists, and scholars in the humanities more generally.

Medieval and Renaissance Famagusta - Studies in Architecture, Art and History (Paperback): Michael J.K. Walsh, Peter W. Edbury,... Medieval and Renaissance Famagusta - Studies in Architecture, Art and History (Paperback)
Michael J.K. Walsh, Peter W. Edbury, Nicholas S. H. Coureas
R1,525 Discovery Miles 15 250 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

There was a time seven centuries ago when Famagusta's wealth and renown could be compared to that of Venice or Constantinople. The Cathedral of St Nicholas in the main square of Famagusta, serving as the coronation place for the Crusader Kings of Jerusalem after the fall of Acre in 1291, symbolised both the sophistication and permanence of the French society that built it. From the port radiated impressive commercial activity with the major Mediterranean trade centres, generating legendary wealth, cosmopolitanism, and hedonism, unsurpassed in the Levant. These halcyon days were not to last, however, and a 15th century observer noted that, following the Genoese occupation of the city, 'a malignant devil has become jealous of Famagusta'. When Venice inherited the city, it reconstructed the defences and had some success in revitalising the city's economy. But the end for Venetian Famagusta came in dramatic fashion in 1571, following a year long siege by the Ottomans. Three centuries of neglect followed which, combined with earthquakes, plague and flooding, left the city in ruins. The essays collected in this book represent a major contribution to the study of Medieval and Renaissance Famagusta and its surviving art and architecture and also propose a series of strategies for preserving the city's heritage in the future. They will be of particular interest to students and scholars of Gothic, Byzantine and Renaissance art and architecture, and to those of the Crusades and the Latin East, as well as the Military Orders. After an introductory chapter surveying the history of Famagusta and its position in the cultural mosaic that is the Eastern Mediterranean, the opening section provides a series of insights into the history and historiography of the city. There follow chapters on the churches and their decoration, as well as the military architecture, while the final section looks at the history of conservation efforts and assesses the work that now needs to be done.

architect, verb. - The New Language of Building (Hardcover): Reinier De Graaf architect, verb. - The New Language of Building (Hardcover)
Reinier De Graaf 1
R516 R467 Discovery Miles 4 670 Save R49 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Leading architect Reinier de Graaf punctures the myths behind the debates on what contemporary architecture is, with wit and devastating honesty. Architecture, it seems, has become too important to leave to architects. No longer does it suffice to judge a building solely by its appearance, it must be measured, and certified. When architects talk about Excellence', 'Sustainability', 'Well-being', 'Liveability', 'Placemaking', 'Creativity', 'Beauty' and 'Innovation' what do they actually mean? In Architect, Verb, de Graff dryly skewers the doublespeak and hot air of an industry in search of an identity in the 21st century. Who determines how to measure a 'green building'? Why is Vancouver more 'liveable' than Vienna? How do developers get away with advertising their buildings as promoting 'well-being'? Why did Silicon Valley become so obsessed with devising 'creative' spaces or developing code that replaces architects? How much revenue can be attributed to the design of public space? Who gets to decide what these measurements should be, and what do they actually mean? And what does it mean for the future of our homes, cities, planet? He also includes a biting, satirical dictionary of 'profspeak': the corporate language of consultants, developers and planners from 'Active listening' to 'Zoom Readiness"

Post-Digital Letterpress Printing - Research, Education and Practice (Hardcover): Pedro Amado, Ana Catarina Silva, Vitor Quelhas Post-Digital Letterpress Printing - Research, Education and Practice (Hardcover)
Pedro Amado, Ana Catarina Silva, Vitor Quelhas
R1,584 Discovery Miles 15 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book presents an overview of the convergence of traditional letterpress with contemporary digital design and fabrication practices. Reflecting on the role of letterpress within the emergent hybrid post-digital design process, contributors present historical and contemporary analysis, grounded in case studies and current practice. The main themes covered include the research on letterpress as a technology and medium; a reflection on the contribution of letterpress to arts and design education; and current artistic and communication design practice merging past, present and future digital fabrication processes. This will be of interest to scholars working in graphic design, communication design, book design, typography, typeface design, design history, printing, and production technologies.

Art of Transition - The Field of Art in Post-Soviet Russia (Hardcover): Elise Herrala Art of Transition - The Field of Art in Post-Soviet Russia (Hardcover)
Elise Herrala
R4,049 Discovery Miles 40 490 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A highly accessible text grounded in social theory and in new the recent politics of transition. Explains the history of Soviet art and how post-Soviet art has been shaped artistically and socially. Highlights the challenges globalization poses for the broader recognition of art in Russia The study of transitional politics makes for a poignant classroom supplement in courses on art and society, social aspects of art, the politics of art, Russian Studies, and many other courses.

Wayfinding, Consumption, and Air Terminal Design (Paperback): Menno Hubregtse Wayfinding, Consumption, and Air Terminal Design (Paperback)
Menno Hubregtse
R1,233 Discovery Miles 12 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book investigates how international air terminals organize passenger movement and generate spending. It offers a new understanding of how their architecture and artworks operate visually to guide people through the space and affect their behaviour. Menno Hubregtse's research draws upon numerous airport visits and interviews with architects and planners, as well as documents and articles that address these terminals' development, construction, and renovations. The book establishes the main concerns of architects with respect to wayfinding strategies and analyzes how air terminal architecture, artworks, and interior design contribute to the airport's operations. The book will be of interest to art historians, architectural historians, practising architects, urban planners, airport specialists, and geographers.

Ian McHarg and the Search for Ideal Order (Paperback): Kathleen John-Alder Ian McHarg and the Search for Ideal Order (Paperback)
Kathleen John-Alder
R1,250 Discovery Miles 12 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Ian McHarg and the Search for Ideal Order looks at the well-known and studied landscape architect, Ian McHarg, in a new light. The author explores McHarg's formative years, and investigates how his ideas developed in both their complexity and scale. As a precursor to McHarg's approach in his influential book Design with Nature, this book offers new interpretations into his search for environmental order and outlines how his struggle to understand humanity's relationship to the environment in an era of rapid social and technological change reflects an ongoing challenge that landscape design has yet to fully resolve. This book will be of great interest to academics and researchers in landscape architectural history.

Music and Visual Culture in Renaissance Italy (Hardcover): Chriscinda Henry, Tim Shephard Music and Visual Culture in Renaissance Italy (Hardcover)
Chriscinda Henry, Tim Shephard
R3,765 Discovery Miles 37 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The essays in this volume explore the relationship between music and art in the Italian Renaissance across the long sixteenth century, considering an era when music-making was both a subject of Italian painting and a central metaphor in treatises on the arts. Beginning in the fifteenth century, transformations emerge in the depiction of music within visual arts, the conceptualization of music in ethics and poetics, and in the practice of musical harmony. This book brings together contributors from across music and art history to consider the trajectories of these changes and the connections between them, both in theory and in the practices of everyday life. In sixteen chapters, the contributors blend iconographic analysis with a wider range of approaches, investigate the discourse surrounding the arts, and draw on both social art history and the material turn in Renaissance studies. They address not only paintings and sculpture, but a wide range of visual media and domestic objects, from instruments to tableware, to reveal a rich, varied, and sometimes tumultuous exchange among musical and visual arts and ideas. Enriching our understanding of the subtle intersections between visual, material, and musical arts across the long Renaissance, this book offers new insights for scholars of music, art, and cultural history.

Digital Signifiers in an Architecture of Information - From Big Data, Simulation to Artificial Intelligence (Hardcover): Pablo ... Digital Signifiers in an Architecture of Information - From Big Data, Simulation to Artificial Intelligence (Hardcover)
Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa
R4,054 Discovery Miles 40 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book proposes a new critical relationship between computation and architecture, developing a history and theory of representation in architecture to understand and unleash potential means to open up creativity in the field. Historically, architecture has led spatial representation. Today, computation has established new representational paradigms that can be compared to spatial representations, such as the revolution of perspective in the Renaissance. Architects now use software, robotics, and fabrication tools with very little understanding and participation in how these tools influence, revolutionize, and determine both architecture and its construction today. Why does the discipline of architecture not have a higher degree of authorship in the conception and development of computational technologies that define spatial representation? This book critically explores the relationship between history, theory and cultural criticism. Lorenzo-Eiroa positions new understandings through parallel historical sections and theories of many revolutionary representational architecture canons displaced by conventional spatial projection. He identifies the architects, artists, mathematicians, and philosophers that were able to revolutionise their disciplines through the development of new technologies, new systems of representation, and new lenses to understand reality. This book frames the discussion by addressing new means to understand and expand architecture authorship in relation to survey, information, representation, higher dimensional space, Big Data, and Artificial Intelligence - in the pursuit of activating an architecture of information. This will be important reading for upper-level students and researchers of architecture and architectural theory, especially those with a keen interest in computational design and robotic fabrication.

Arabesque without End - Across Music and the Arts, from Faust to Shahrazad (Hardcover): Anne Leonard Arabesque without End - Across Music and the Arts, from Faust to Shahrazad (Hardcover)
Anne Leonard
R3,920 Discovery Miles 39 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Featuring multidisciplinary research by an international team of leading scholars, this volume addresses the contested aspects of arabesque while exploring its penchant for crossing artistic and cultural boundaries to create new forms. Enthusiastically imported from its Near Eastern sources by European artists, the freely flowing line known as arabesque is a recognizable motif across the arts of painting, music, dance, and literature. From the German Romantics to the Art Nouveau artists, and from Debussy's compositions to the serpentine choreographies of Loie Fuller, the chapters in this volume bring together cross-disciplinary perspectives to understand the arabesque across both art historical and musicological discourses.

Wyndham Lewis - An Anthology of His Prose (Hardcover): E.W.F. Tomlin Wyndham Lewis - An Anthology of His Prose (Hardcover)
E.W.F. Tomlin
R2,623 Discovery Miles 26 230 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1969, this project had Wyndham Lewis' personal approval and is a comprehensive anthology of his prose writings, especially those which are difficult to access. There are extracts from some of Wyndham Lewis' remarkable books such as Paleface, The Art of Being Ruled and Men Without Art. Lesser known works such as Filibusters in Barbary, The Diabolical Principle and The Dithyrambic Spectator, Blasting and Bombardiering, and Rude Assignment, are freely drawn upon and there is a section devoted to writings on the USA, a country which Lewis knew well.

Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Predicaments of Theory (Hardcover): Amir H Ameri Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Predicaments of Theory (Hardcover)
Amir H Ameri
R4,054 Discovery Miles 40 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Predicaments of Theory offers a critical analysis of the methodological constants and shared critical strategies in the history of theoretical discourse on Western architecture. Central to these constants is the persistent role of aesthetics as a critical tool for the delimitation of architecture. This book analyzes the unceasing critical role aesthetics is given to play in the discourse of architecture. The book offers a close and critical reading of three seminal texts from three different periods in the history of theoretical discourse on Western architecture-the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and 19th-century Romanticism. The first text is Leone Battista Alberti's Ten Books on Architecture of 1452, the next Marc-Antoine Laugier's An Essay on Architecture of 1753, and last, John Ruskin's The Seven Lamps of Architecture of 1849. Additional influential texts from, among others, the 20th and 21st centuries are engaged with along the way to locate and contextualize the arguments within the broader discursive tradition of Western architecture. The book will interest scholars and students of architecture, architectural history and theory, as well as scholars and students of cultural studies, aesthetic philosophy, art history, literary criticism, and related disciplines.

Rogues' Gallery - A History of Art and its Dealers (Paperback): Philip Hook Rogues' Gallery - A History of Art and its Dealers (Paperback)
Philip Hook 1
R317 Discovery Miles 3 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Philip Hook takes the lid off the world of art dealing to reveal the brilliance, cunning, greed and daring of its practitioners. In a richly anecdotal narrative he describes the rise and occasional fall of the extraordinary men and women who over the centuries have made it their business to sell art to kings, merchants, nobles, entrepreneurs and museums.

From its beginnings in Antwerp, where paintings were sometimes sold by weight, to the rich hauteur of the contemporary gallery in London, Paris and New York, art dealing has been about identifying what is intangible but infinitely desirable, and then finding clients for whom it is irresistible. Those who have purveyed art for a living range from tailors, spies and the occasional anarchist to scholars, aristocrats, merchants and connoisseurs, each variously motivated by greed, belief in their own vision of art and its history, or simply the will to win.

The cast of characters includes Paul Durand-Ruel, the Impressionists' champion; Herwath Walden, who first brought Modernism into the limelight; Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, high priest of Cubism; Leo Castelli, dealer-midwife to Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art; and Peter Wilson, the charismatic Sotheby's chairman who made the auction room theatre.

Philip Hook's history is one of human folly, greed and duplicity, interspersed with ingenuity, inspiration and acts of heroism. Rogues' Gallery is learned, witty and irresistibly readable.

Herefordshire (Hardcover, Revised): Alan Brooks, Nikolaus Pevsner Herefordshire (Hardcover, Revised)
Alan Brooks, Nikolaus Pevsner
R1,763 Discovery Miles 17 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Rich in new discoveries and fresh interpretation, this fully revised survey is the perfect companion and guide to one of England's most beguiling counties. A profusion of black-and-white timber-framed houses testifies to the prosperity of earlier centuries, as do the many and varied parish churches. Highlights among these include the extraordinary Norman carvings at Kilpeck, the exquisitely spare Cistercian architecture of Abbey Dore, the seductive Georgian Gothick of Shobdon, and Lethaby's Arts and Crafts masterpiece at Brockhampton. The city of Hereford is freshly presented in detail, from its splendid medieval cathedral to the architectural adventures of the Georgians and Victorians. Country houses are plentiful and diverse, including much that is well in step with national fashions. The characteristic landscape of hills and woods lends a special pleasure to architectural exploration, while market towns such as Ledbury, Leominster, and Ross-on-Wye can match any in England for visual and architectural appeal.

General History of Chinese Film I - 1896-1949 (Hardcover): Ding Yaping General History of Chinese Film I - 1896-1949 (Hardcover)
Ding Yaping; Translated by Jin Haina
R4,375 Discovery Miles 43 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The early years of the history of Chinese film have lately been the subject of resurgent interest and a growing body of scholarship has come to recognise and identify an extraordinarily diverse and complex period. This volume explores the development of Chinese film from 1896 to 1949. The volume covers the screening of foreign films in Shanghai, Hong Kong and other coastal cities in China, the technological and industrial development of Chinese national cinema, key filmmakers and actors of early Chinese cinema, changing modes of representation and narration, as well as the social and cultural contexts within which early Chinese films were produced and circulated. The relationship between the War of Resistance against Japan and the Chinese civil war and Chinese film is also explored. The book will be essential reading for scholars and students in film studies, Chinese studies, cultural studies and media studies, helping readers develop a comprehensive understanding of Chinese film.

General History of Chinese Film II - 1949-1976 (Hardcover): Ding Yaping General History of Chinese Film II - 1949-1976 (Hardcover)
Ding Yaping; Translated by Jin Haina
R4,360 Discovery Miles 43 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

i) It is the first book on the general history of Chinese film spanning from the end of the 19th century to the present day. ii) It collects the most significant and latest studies both in China and abroad. iii) It analyses the most important Chinese films and filmmakers and is backed by most solid historical materials and documents. iv) It shows the functions of film in different historical phases of China and unveils the discourse mechanism and development patterns of Chinese films. v) It revisits and reinterprets important events in the development of Chinese cinema and aims to display the complexity and modernity of Chinese film history.

Puerto Rico's Henry Klumb - A Modern Architect's Sense of Place (Paperback): Cesar Cruz Puerto Rico's Henry Klumb - A Modern Architect's Sense of Place (Paperback)
Cesar Cruz
R1,263 Discovery Miles 12 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book follows Henry Klumb's life in architecture from Cologne, Germany to Puerto Rico. Arriving on the island, Klumb was a one-time German immigrant, a moderately successful designer, and previously a senior draftsman with Frank Lloyd Wright. Over the next forty years Klumb would emerge as Puerto Rico's most prolific, locally well-known, and celebrated modern architect. In addition to becoming a leading figure in Latin American modern architecture, Klumb also became one of Frank Lloyd Wright's most accomplished proteges, and an architect with a highly attuned social and environmental consciousness. Cruz explores his life, works, and legacy through the lens of a sense of place, defined as the beliefs that people adopt, actions undertaken, and feelings developed towards specific locations and spaces. He argues that the architect's sense of place was a defining quality of his life and work, most evident in the houses he designed and built in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico's Henry Klumb offers a historical narrative, culminating in a series of architectural analyses focusing on four key design strategies employed in Klumb's work: vernacular architecture, the grid and the landscape, dense urban spaces, and open air rooms. This book is aimed at researchers, academics, and postgraduate students interested in Latin American architecture, modernism, and architectural history.

Architecture and Affect - Precarious Spaces (Hardcover): Lilian Chee Architecture and Affect - Precarious Spaces (Hardcover)
Lilian Chee
R3,766 Discovery Miles 37 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is motivated by two questions: Why do dismissed affective evidence persist as troubling experience or imaginaries? What would it mean for architecture to assemble such discrepant evidence into its discourse? Arguing that the persistent refrains of lived affect dwell in architecture, this book traces such refrains to a concept of architecture wedged in the middle ground-jammed amidst life, things and events. Rather than being apart from its surrounds, architecture-in-the-midst challenges an autonomous epistemology. Beyond accounting for the vivid but excluded, this book develops a frame and a disposition for thinking critically about, speculatively through, and being grounded by, encounter. Examining affect through a constellation of spaces in contemporary Singapore, it details architecture's uneasy but inextricable relationship with key subjects relegated to the incommensurate, the peripheral, the scenic and the decorative. The outcome is a politicised architectural discourse simultaneously grounded and speculative: bridging depth and intuition, thinking and feeling.

Movements of Modernity - The Case of Glasgow and Art Nouveau (Hardcover): William Eadie Movements of Modernity - The Case of Glasgow and Art Nouveau (Hardcover)
William Eadie
R3,489 Discovery Miles 34 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1990, acknowledges the social as well as the artistic significance of the Glasgow Art Nouveau movement by examining the history of it from its inception through to its demise. By considering the contributions of social theorists like Peter Burger, Theodor Adorno, and Walter Benjamin, the author illustrates how Art nouveau can be located within an avant-garde. The book also reveals to what extent the contract which the Glasgow group had with the Secessionists in Vienna was significant for the development of their work.

Protecting the Dharma through Calligraphy in Tang China - A Study of the Ji Wang shengjiao xu       The Preface to the Buddhist... Protecting the Dharma through Calligraphy in Tang China - A Study of the Ji Wang shengjiao xu The Preface to the Buddhist Scriptures Engraved on Stone in Wang Xizhi's Collated Characters (Hardcover)
Pietro De Laurentis; Contributions by Zbigniew Wesolowski
R4,540 Discovery Miles 45 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is a study of the earliest and finest collated inscription in the history of Chinese calligraphy, the Ji Wang shengjiao xu (Preface to the Sacred Teaching Scriptures Translated by Xuanzang in Wang Xizhi's Collated Characters), which was erected on January 1, 673. The stele records the two texts written by the Tang emperors Taizong (599-649) and Gaozong (628-683) in honor of the monk Xuanzang (d. 664) and the Buddhist scripture Xin jing (Heart Sutra), collated in the semi-cursive characters of the great master of Chinese calligraphy, Wang Xizhi (303-361). It is thus a Buddhist inscription that combines Buddhist authority, political power, and artistic charm in one single monument. The present book reconstructs the multifaceted context in which the stele was devised, aiming at highlighting the specific role calligraphy played in the propagation and protection of Buddhism in medieval China.

Husserl and Spatiality - A Phenomenological Ethnography of Space (Hardcover): Tao Dufour Husserl and Spatiality - A Phenomenological Ethnography of Space (Hardcover)
Tao Dufour
R4,069 Discovery Miles 40 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Husserl and Spatiality is an exploration of the phenomenology of space and embodiment, based on the work of Edmund Husserl. Little known in architecture, Husserl's phenomenology of embodied spatiality established the foundations for the works of later phenomenologists, including Maurice Merleau-Ponty's well-known phenomenology of perception. Through a detailed study of his posthumously published and unpublished manuscripts on space, DuFour examines the depth and scope of Husserl's phenomenology of space. The book investigates his analyses of corporeity and the "lived body," extending to questions of intersubjective, intergenerational, and geo-historical spatial experience, what DuFour terms the "environmentality" of space. Combining in-depth architectural philosophical investigations of spatiality with a rich and intimate ethnography, Husserl and Spatiality speaks to themes in social and cultural anthropology, from a theoretical perspective that addresses spatial practice and experience. Drawing on fieldwork in Brazil, DuFour develops his analyses of Husserl's phenomenology through spatial accounts of ritual in the Afro-Brazilian religion of Candomble. The result is a methodological innovation and unique mode of spatial description that DuFour terms a "phenomenological ethnography of space." The book's profoundly interdisciplinary approach makes an incisive contribution relevant to academics and students of architecture and architectural theory, anthropology and material culture, and philosophy and environmental aesthetics.

The Sack of Bath (Paperback): Adam Fergusson The Sack of Bath (Paperback)
Adam Fergusson
R488 Discovery Miles 4 880 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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