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Time Matter(s): Invention and Re-Imagination in Built Conservation - The Unfinished Drawing and Building of St. Peter's,... Time Matter(s): Invention and Re-Imagination in Built Conservation - The Unfinished Drawing and Building of St. Peter's, the Vatican (Paperback)
Federica Goffi
R1,626 Discovery Miles 16 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Even though the idea of altering an existing building is presently a well established practice within the context of adaptive reuse, when the building in question is a 'mnemonic building', of recognized heritage value, alterations are viewed with suspicion, even when change is a recognized necessity. This book fills in a blind spot in current architectural theory and practice, looking into a notion of conservation as a form of invention and imagination, offering the reader a counter-viewpoint to a predominant western understanding that preservation should be a 'still shot' from the past. Through a micro-historical study of a Renaissance concept of restoration, a theoretical framework to question the issue of conservation as a creative endeavor arises. It focuses on Tiberio Alfarano's 1571 ichnography of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, into which a complex body of religious, political, architectural and cultural elements is woven. By merging past and present temple's plans, he created a track-drawing questioning the design pursued after Michelangelo's death (1564), opening the gaze towards other possible future imaginings. This book uncovers how the drawing was acted on by Carlo Maderno (1556-1629), who literally used it as physical substratum to for new design proposals, completing the renewal of the temple in 1626. Proposing a hybrid architectural-conservation approach, this study shows how these two practices can be merged in contemporary renovation. By creating hybrid drawings, the retrospective and prospective gaze of built conservation forms a continuous and contiguous reality, where a pre-existent condition engages with future design rejoining multiple temporalities within continuity of identity. This study might provide a paradigmatic and timely model to retune contemporary architectural sensibility when dealing with the dilemma between design and preservation when transforming a building of recognized significance.

Running Buildings on Natural Energy - Design Thinking for a Different Future (Paperback): Sue Roaf, Fergus Nicol Running Buildings on Natural Energy - Design Thinking for a Different Future (Paperback)
Sue Roaf, Fergus Nicol
R1,240 Discovery Miles 12 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

New thinking is essential if we are to design and occupy buildings that can keep us safe with unpredictable economies, climates, energy systems and resource challenges. For too long designers have relied on mechanical solutions for heating, cooling and ventilating buildings. The 21st century dream has to be of a better architecture that enables buildings to be run for as much of a day or year as possible on local, clean, reliable, affordable natural energy. Examples are included from different climates where the fundamental building design is right, its orientation, opening sizes, mass and its natural ventilation systems and pathways. Many modern buildings are poorly designed for climate as manifested by growing incidences of overheating experienced indoor, explored here. The inability of many rating systems to record and improve the climatic design of buildings raises questions about how they deal with issues of basic building performance. This books points the way towards how we can understand such problems, and move forward from over-mechanised poorly designed buildings to a new generation of adaptable buildings designed and refurbished to run largely on natural energy and capable of evolving over time to keep their occupants safe and comfortable, even in a warming world. The chapters were originally published in Architectural Science Review.

Thinking Design Through Literature (Paperback): Susan Yelavich Thinking Design Through Literature (Paperback)
Susan Yelavich
R1,253 Discovery Miles 12 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book deploys literature to explore the social lives of objects and places. The first book of its kind, it embraces things as diverse as escalators, coins, skyscrapers, pottery, radios, and robots, and encompasses places as various as home, country, cities, streets, and parks. Here, fiction, poetry, and literary non-fiction are mined for stories of design, which are paired with images of contemporary architecture and design. Through the work of authors such as Cesar Aires, Nicholson Baker, Lydia Davis, Orhan Pamuk, and Virginia Woolf, this book shows the enormous influence that places and things exert in the world.

Louis H. Sullivan and a 19th-Century Poetics of Naturalized Architecture (Paperback): Lauren S. Weingarden Louis H. Sullivan and a 19th-Century Poetics of Naturalized Architecture (Paperback)
Lauren S. Weingarden
R1,562 Discovery Miles 15 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For most of the twentieth century, modernist viewers dismissed the architectural ornament of Louis H. Sullivan (1856-1924) and the majority of his theoretical writings as emotional outbursts of an outmoded romanticism. In this study, Lauren Weingarden reveals Sullivan's eloquent articulation of nineteenth-century romantic practices - literary, linguistic, aesthetic, spiritual, and nationalistic - and thus rescues Sullivan and his legacy from the narrow role imposed on him as a pioneer of twentieth-century modernism. Using three interpretive models, discourse theory, poststructural semiotic analysis, and a pragmatic concept of sign-functions, she restores the integrity of Sullivan's artistic choices and his historical position as a culminating figure within nineteenth-century romanticism. By giving equal weight to Louis Sullivan's writings and designs, Weingarden shows how he translated both Ruskin's tenets of Gothic naturalism and Whitman's poetry of the American landscape into elemental structural forms and organic ornamentation. Viewed as a site where various romantic discourses converged, Sullivan's oeuvre demands a cross-disciplinary exploration of each discursive practice, and its "rules of accumulation, exclusion, reactivation." The overarching theme of this study is the interrogation and restitution of those Foucauldian rules that enabled Sullivan to articulate architecture as a pictorial mode of landscape art, which he considered co-equal with the spiritual and didactic functions of landscape poetry.

Industry 4.0 Solutions for Building Design and Construction - A Paradigm of New Opportunities (Hardcover): Farzad Pour... Industry 4.0 Solutions for Building Design and Construction - A Paradigm of New Opportunities (Hardcover)
Farzad Pour Rahimian, Jack Steven Goulding, Sepehr Abrishami, Saleh Seyedzadeh, Faris Elghaish
R4,523 Discovery Miles 45 230 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Provides in-depth tangible results from actual work undertaken in these innovative fields, in prolonged collaboration with the industry partners Includes real projects and case studies developed by the authors

Contemporary Perspectives on Jane Jacobs - Reassessing the Impacts of an Urban Visionary (Paperback): Dirk Schubert Contemporary Perspectives on Jane Jacobs - Reassessing the Impacts of an Urban Visionary (Paperback)
Dirk Schubert
R1,421 Discovery Miles 14 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Jane Jacobs's famous book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) has challenged the discipline of urban planning and led to a paradigm shift. Controversial in the 1960s, most of her ideas became generally accepted within a decade or so after publication, not only in North America but worldwide, as the articles in this volume demonstrate. Based on cross-disciplinary and transnational approaches, this book offers new insights into her complex and often contrarian way of thinking as well as analyses of her impact on urban planning theory and the consequences for planning practice. Now, more than 50 years after the initial publication, in a period of rapid globalisation and deregulated approaches in planning, new challenges arise. The contributions in this book argue that it is not possible simply to follow Jane Jacobs's ideas to the letter, but instead it is necessary to contextualize them, to look for relevant lessons for cities and planners, and critically to re-evaluate why and how some of her ideas might be updated. Bringing together an international team of scholars and writers, this volume develops conclusions based on new research as to how her work can be re-interpreted under different circumstances and utilized in the current debate about the proclaimed 'millennium of the city', the 21st century.

Industrial Archaeology - An Introduction (Paperback): Kenneth Hudson Industrial Archaeology - An Introduction (Paperback)
Kenneth Hudson
R1,532 Discovery Miles 15 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Industrial archaeology is the study of early industrial buildings and machinery, particularly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. When this book was originally published in 1963, this was becoming a topic of lively interest and controversy among archaeologists, historians, architects and engineers. This book discusses the aims and methods of the science, giving examples of the contribution which different kinds of specialists can make. This shows a fascinating slice of the history of the discipline of archaeology as well as offering insights into industrial archaeology when the term was first being used. As the first text on the subject, this book also lead to the start of the industrial archaeology movement in the USA.

Architects, Angels, Activists and the City of Bath, 1765-1965 - Engaging with Women's Spatial Interventions in Buildings... Architects, Angels, Activists and the City of Bath, 1765-1965 - Engaging with Women's Spatial Interventions in Buildings and Landscape (Paperback)
Cynthia Imogen Hammond
R1,532 Discovery Miles 15 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A unique contribution to the architectural and social history of Bath, Architects, Angels, Activists and the City of Bath, 1765-1965: Engaging with Women's Spatial Interventions in Buildings and Landscape approaches the past with the methods of the architectural historian and the site-specific interventions of the contemporary artist. Looking beyond and behind Bath's strategic marshalling of its past, Cynthia Imogen Hammond presents the ways in which women across classes shaped the built environment and designed landscapes of one of England's most architecturally significant cities. This study argues that Bath's efforts to preserve itself as an idealized Georgian town reveal an aesthetics of exclusion. Jane Austen may be well known, but the role of historic women in the creation of this city has had minimal treatment within the city's collective, public memory. This book is an intervention into this memory; the author uses site-specific works of public art as strategic counterparts to her historical readings. Through them, she aims to transform as well as critique the urban image of Bath. At once a performative literature, an extensively researched history, and an alternative guide to the city, Architects, Angels, Activists engages with current struggles over urban signification in Bath and beyond.

Who Needs Experts? - Counter-mapping Cultural Heritage (Paperback): John Schofield Who Needs Experts? - Counter-mapping Cultural Heritage (Paperback)
John Schofield
R1,625 Discovery Miles 16 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Taking the significant Faro Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society (Council of Europe 2005) as its starting point, this book presents pragmatic views on the rise of the local and the everyday within cultural heritage discourse. Bringing together a range of case studies within a broad geographic context, it examines ways in which authorised or 'expert' views of heritage can be challenged, and recognises how everyone has expertise in familiarity with their local environment. The book concludes that local agenda and everyday places matter, and examines how a realignment of heritage practice to accommodate such things could usefully contribute to more inclusive and socially relevant cultural agenda.

Narrative Environments and Experience Design - Space as a Medium of Communication (Paperback): Tricia Austin Narrative Environments and Experience Design - Space as a Medium of Communication (Paperback)
Tricia Austin
R1,269 Discovery Miles 12 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book argues narrative, people and place are inseparable and pursues the consequences of this insight through the design of narrative environments. This is a new and distinct area of practice that weaves together and extends narrative theory, spatial theory and design theory. Examples of narrative spaces, such as exhibitions, brand experiences, urban design and socially engaged participatory interventions in the public realm, are explored to show how space acts as a medium of communication through a synthesis of materials, structures and technologies, and how particular social behaviours are reproduced or critiqued through spatial narratives. This book will be of interest to scholars in design studies, urban studies, architecture, new materialism and design practitioners in the creative industries.

Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Photographs - Essays on Reading a Collection (Paperback): Micheline Nilsen Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Photographs - Essays on Reading a Collection (Paperback)
Micheline Nilsen
R1,621 Discovery Miles 16 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Revealing that nineteenth-century photography goes beyond the functional to reflect the aesthetic, intellectual, and cultural concerns of the time, this study proposes that each photographic image of architecture be studied both as a primary visual document and an object of aesthetic inquiry. This multi-faceted approach drives Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Photographs: Essays on Reading a Collection. Despite three decades of post-colonial, post-structuralist and gender-conscious criticism, the study of architectural photography continues to privilege technical virtuosity. This volume offers a thematic exploration of the material, and a socio-historical examination that allows consideration of questions that have not been addressed comprehensively before in a single publication. Themes include exoticism and "armchair tourism"; the absence of women from architectural photography; the role of photographs as commodities; vernacular architecture and the picturesque; and historic preservation, urban renewal, and nationalism. Micheline Nilsen analyzes photographs from France and England"the two countries where photography was invented"and from around the world, representing a corpus of over 10,000 photographs from the Janos Scholz Collection of Nineteenth-Century Photographs of the Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame.

Self-Assembly Lab - Experiments in Programming Matter (Paperback): Skylar Tibbits Self-Assembly Lab - Experiments in Programming Matter (Paperback)
Skylar Tibbits
R1,455 Discovery Miles 14 550 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

What if structures could build themselves or adapt to fluctuating environments? Skylar Tibbits, Director of the Self-Assembly Lab in the Department of Architecture at MIT, Cambridge, MA, crosses the boundaries between architecture, biology, materials science and the arts, to envision a world where material components can self-assemble to provide adapting structures and optimized fabrication solutions. The book examines the three main ingredients for self-assembly, includes interviews with practitioners involved in the work and presents research projects related to these topics to provide a complete first look at exciting future technologies in construction and self-transforming material products.

Cambridgeshire (Hardcover): Simon Bradley, Nikolaus Pevsner Cambridgeshire (Hardcover)
Simon Bradley, Nikolaus Pevsner
R1,789 R1,633 Discovery Miles 16 330 Save R156 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This is the essential companion to the architecture of Cambridgeshire, fully revised for the first time in sixty years and featuring superb new photography. Half of the book is devoted to the famous university city, with its astonishingly rich and varied inheritance of college buildings including striking post-war additions. A combination of boldness and innovation may be found at Ely Cathedral, one of the greatest achievements of English medieval design. By comparison, the rest of the county remains surprisingly little known. Its largely unspoiled landscapes vary from the northern flat fen country to the rolling chalk uplands of the south and east; its architecture encompasses rewarding village churches, distinctive vernacular building in timber, stone, and brick, the former monastic sites at Denny and Anglesey, and the magnificent aristocratic seat of Wimpole Hall.

Secondary Research Methods in the Built Environment (Hardcover): Emmanuel Manu, Julius Akotia Secondary Research Methods in the Built Environment (Hardcover)
Emmanuel Manu, Julius Akotia
R3,624 Discovery Miles 36 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The use of secondary data for research can offer benefits, particularly when limited resources are available for conducting research using primary methods. Researchers and students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including their academic instructors, are increasingly recognising the immense opportunities in applying secondary research methods in built environment research. Advances in technology has also led to vast amounts of existing datasets that can be utilized for secondary research. This textbook provides a systematic guide on how to apply secondary research methods in the built environment, including their various underpinning methodologies. It provides guidance on the secondary research process, benefits, and drawbacks of applying secondary research methods, how to source for secondary data, ethical considerations, and the various secondary research methods that can be applied in built environment research. The book incorporates chapters dealing with qualitative secondary analysis, systematic literature reviews, legal analysis, bibliometric and scientometric analysis, literature-based discovery, and meta-analysis. Secondary Research Methods in the Built Environment is an ideal research book for undergraduate and postgraduate students in construction management, construction project management, quantity surveying, construction law and dispute resolution, real estate and property management, building services engineering, architecture, and civil engineering.

Contemporary Problems of Architecture and Construction - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Contemporary... Contemporary Problems of Architecture and Construction - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Contemporary Problems of Architecture and Construction (ICCPAC 2020), 25-26 November 2020, Saint Petersburg, Russia (Hardcover)
Evgeny Rybnov, Pavel Akimov, Merab Khalvashi, Eghiazar Vardanyan
R5,118 Discovery Miles 51 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Contemporary Problems of Architecture and Construction 2020 includes contributions on various complex issues and aspects of engineering and construction of buildings and structures, protection, reconstruction and restoration of architecture, as well as intellectualization of energy and safety systems functioning urban development. The contributions were presented at the eponymous conference (ICCPAC 2020, St Petersburg, Russia, November 25-26, 2020), and cover a wide range of topics: Urban development: problems of urban construction and architecture Engineering, construction and operation of buildings and structures Implementation of building information modeling (BIM) and geo-information systems (GIS) technologies in the construction industry Energy efficiency of buildings and maintenance systems Engineering technologies of sustainable nature management and environmental protection Intellectualization and algorithmization of large cities road safety systems functioning Economics and management in construction and public utility services. Contemporary Problems of Architecture and Construction 2020 will be of interest to academics and professionals involved in the urban development, engineering technologies, architecture and construction, economics and management in construction industry.

The Technology of Building Defects (Hardcover): John Hinks, Geoff Cook The Technology of Building Defects (Hardcover)
John Hinks, Geoff Cook
R3,939 Discovery Miles 39 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Technology of Building Defects has been developed to provide a unique review of the subject. Defects are considered as part of the whole building rather than in isolation. General educational objectives are set out which offer the reader the opportunity of self-assessment. Each section is generously illustrated with photographs and diagrams, forming an accessible self contained review covering the following: objectives; core information; exercises; revision notes; further reading. Taken together these sections build up to offer the reader an understanding of a range of technical topics concerned with building defects. This core text can be used for direct lecture material, seminar and tutorial information, assignment work and revision notes. It is a convenient one stop resource which dispenses with the need to consult a mass of different information sources.

Drafting Fundamentals for the Entertainment Classroom - A Process-Based Introduction Integrating Hand Drafting, Vectorworks,... Drafting Fundamentals for the Entertainment Classroom - A Process-Based Introduction Integrating Hand Drafting, Vectorworks, and SketchUp (Hardcover)
Eric Appleton
R4,118 Discovery Miles 41 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

-Step-by-step exercises and tutorials thoroughly explain hand-drafting and drafting with the visualization programs Vectorworks and Sketchup. -Written to complement a regular 14-or15-week semester course. -The primary focus of the book is how to construct a drawing, providing in-depth coverage fundamentals for hand drafting and visualization software.

Environment and Children (Hardcover): Christopher Day, Anita Midbjer Environment and Children (Hardcover)
Christopher Day, Anita Midbjer
R3,930 Discovery Miles 39 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How does the built environment affect children - their health, their behaviour, education and development? To support them, what do we need to consider and what do we need to do? Can our surroundings foster environmental and social awareness and responsibility? Based on Christopher Day's experiences designing schools and early childhood centres in the United States and Britain, this groundbreaking book sets out to answer these questions and to offer solutions. Children all too often find themselves living in alien surroundings designed with the needs of adults in mind, cut off not just from the natural environment but also childhood itself. Society's reaction - to cocoon children from the outside world or to resort to drugs to control behaviour - fails to address the fundamental causes of problems which lie in the environment not the children themselves. One of the world's leading thinkers on the impact of buildings on people, Christopher Day's insights offer new light on one of the most important issues for today's society.

Koolhaas/Obrist. Project Japan. Metabolism Talks (Paperback): Rem Koolhaas, Hans Ulrich Obrist Koolhaas/Obrist. Project Japan. Metabolism Talks (Paperback)
Rem Koolhaas, Hans Ulrich Obrist
R1,551 R1,215 Discovery Miles 12 150 Save R336 (22%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

"Once there was a nation that went to war, but after they conquered a continent their own country was destroyed by atom bombs... then the victors imposed democracy on the vanquished. For a group of apprentice architects, artists, and designers, led by a visionary, the dire situation of their country was not an obstacle but an inspiration to plan and think... although they were very different characters, the architects worked closely together to realize their dreams, staunchly supported by a super-creative bureaucracy and an activist state... after 15 years of incubation, they surprised the world with a new architecture-Metabolism-that proposed a radical makeover of the entire land... Then newspapers, magazines, and TV turned the architects into heroes: thinkers and doers, thoroughly modern men... Through sheer hard work, discipline, and the integration of all forms of creativity, their country, Japan, became a shining example... when the oil crisis initiated the end of the West, the architects of Japan spread out over the world to define the contours of a post-Western aesthetic...." -Rem Koolhaas / Hans Ulrich Obrist Between 2005 and 2011, architect Rem Koolhaas and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist interviewed the surviving members of Metabolism-the first non-Western avant-garde, launched in Tokyo in 1960, in the midst of Japan's postwar miracle. Project Japan features hundreds of never-before-seen images-master plans from Manchuria to Tokyo, intimate snapshots of the Metabolists at work and play, architectural models, magazine excerpts, and astonishing sci-fi urban visions-telling the 20th-century history of Japan through its architecture. From the tabula rasa of a colonized Manchuria in the 1930s, a devastated Japan after the war, and the establishment of Metabolism at the 1960 World Design Conference in Tokyo to the rise of Kisho Kurokawa as the first celebrity architect, the apotheosis of Metabolism at Expo '70 in Osaka, and its expansion into the Middle East and Africa in the 1970s: The result is a vivid documentary of the last moment when architecture was a public rather than a private affair. Oral history by Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist Extensive interviews with Arata Isozaki, Toshiko Kato, Kiyonori Kikutake, Noboru Kawazoe, Fumihiko Maki, Kisho Kurokawa, Kenji Ekuan, Atsushi Shimokobe, and Takako and Noritaka Tange Hundreds of never-before-seen images, architectural models, and magazine excerpts Layout by award-winning Dutch designer Irma Boom Further reading

The Ten Most Influential Buildings in History - Architecture's Archetypes (Paperback): Simon Unwin The Ten Most Influential Buildings in History - Architecture's Archetypes (Paperback)
Simon Unwin
R1,166 Discovery Miles 11 660 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Even the most inventive and revolutionary architects of today owe debts to the past, often to the distant past when architecture really was being invented for the first time. Architects depend on their own imaginations for personal insights and originality but their ideas may be stimulated (consciously or subliminally) by particularly powerful buildings from history. The Ten Most Influential Buildings in History: Architecture's Archetypes identifies ten architectural archetypes that have been sources of inspiration for architects through the centuries. Each archetype is analysed through distinctive examples, following the methodology established by the author in his previous books. The variety of 'lines of enquiry' each archetype has provoked in latter-day architects are then explored by analysing their work to reveal ideas inspired by those earlier buildings. Archetypes have a timeless relevance. In adopting this approach, The Ten Most Influential Buildings in History is as pertinent to contemporary practice as it is to understanding buildings from antiquity, and offers insights into the bridges of influence that can operate between the two.

Crown Hall Dean's Dialogues 2012-2017 (Hardcover): Kazuyo Sejima, Stefano Boeri, Peter Eisenman, Pezo Von Ellrichshausen,... Crown Hall Dean's Dialogues 2012-2017 (Hardcover)
Kazuyo Sejima, Stefano Boeri, Peter Eisenman, Pezo Von Ellrichshausen, Wiel Arets
R923 R758 Discovery Miles 7 580 Save R165 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Buckinghamshire (Hardcover, 2 Rev Ed): Elizabeth Williamson, Nikolaus Pevsner Buckinghamshire (Hardcover, 2 Rev Ed)
Elizabeth Williamson, Nikolaus Pevsner
R1,799 R1,644 Discovery Miles 16 440 Save R155 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This completely new edition reveals a county of contrasts. The semi-rural suburbia of outer-Outer London, with its important early Modern Movement houses, is counterbalanced by magnificent mansions and parks, like idyllic Stowe and the Rothschilds' extravaganza at Waddesdon. The Saxon Church at Wing, the exquisite seventeenth-century Winslow Hall, and Slough's twentieth-century factories all contribute to Buckinghamshire's rich inheritance. In this new edition, the unspoilt centres of small towns, like Amersham and Buckingham, are revisited and Milton Keynes, Britain's last and most ambitious New Town, is explained and explored. The rich diversity of rural buildings, built of stone, brick, timber, and even earth, is investigated with scholarship and discrimination. This accessible and comprehensive guide is prefaced by an illuminating introduction and has many excellent illustrations, plans and maps.

Cracks in the Dome: Fractured Histories of Empire in the Zanzibar Museum, 1897-1964 (Hardcover, New Ed): Sarah Longair Cracks in the Dome: Fractured Histories of Empire in the Zanzibar Museum, 1897-1964 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Sarah Longair
R3,940 Discovery Miles 39 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

As one of the most monumental and recognisable landmarks from Zanzibar's years as a British Protectorate, the distinctive domed building of the Zanzibar Museum (also known as the Beit al-Amani or Peace Memorial Museum) is widely known and familiar to Zanzibaris and visitors alike. Yet the complicated and compelling history behind its construction and collection has been overlooked by historians until now. Drawing on a rich and wide range of hitherto unexplored archival, photographic, architectural and material evidence, this book is the first serious investigation of this remarkable institution. Although the museum was not opened until 1925, this book traces the longer history of colonial display which culminated in the establishment of the Zanzibar Museum. It reveals the complexity of colonial knowledge production in the changing political context of the twentieth century British Empire and explores the broad spectrum of people from diverse communities who shaped its existence as staff, informants, collectors and teachers. Through vivid narratives involving people, objects and exhibits, this book exposes the fractures, contradictions and tensions in creating and maintaining a colonial museum, and casts light on the conflicted character of the 'colonial mission' in eastern Africa.

Karl Langer - Modern Architect and Migrant in the Australian Tropics (Paperback): Deborah van der Plaat, John MacArthur Karl Langer - Modern Architect and Migrant in the Australian Tropics (Paperback)
Deborah van der Plaat, John MacArthur
R1,011 Discovery Miles 10 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Fleeing Europe in 1939 for the Australian state of Queensland, the architect Karl Langer (1903-1969) found himself positioned at the very edge of both European and Australian modernism. Confronted by tropical heat and glare, the economics of affordable housing, fiercely proud regional architectural practices, and a suspicion of the foreign, Langer moulded the European language of international modernism to the unique climatic and social conditions of tropical Australia. Published as part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture series, which brings to light the work of significant yet overlooked modernist architects, this book is both an examination of Langer's work and international legacy, and also a case study in tropical modernism and the trans-global dissemination of design ideas - revealing how Langer sought to reconcile his training in international modernism with a fascination for the formal and visual languages of a regional culture, context, and climate.

Stille Strasse 10 + Assemble (Paperback): Jesko Fezer, Nikolaus Hirsch, Wilfried Kuehn, Hila Peleg Stille Strasse 10 + Assemble (Paperback)
Jesko Fezer, Nikolaus Hirsch, Wilfried Kuehn, Hila Peleg; Text written by Wilma Renford
R372 Discovery Miles 3 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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