Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Multimedia, Internet, neue Technologien, Note: 2,0, Fachhochschule Koln, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Internet hat sich zu einem etablierten Medium entwickelt, das auch pri-vat einen immer grosseren Stellenwert erreicht. Mittlerweile nutzen weltweit rund 1,5 Milliarden Menschen das Internet (o.Verf. 2008b)]. Neben dem Bezug von Informationen ermoglichen Chats, Newsgroups oder Soziale Netzwerke die computervermittelte Kommunikation von Personen untereinander. Das Internet eroffnet neue Moglichkeiten zur Identitatsbildung, die ich im Rahmen dieser Arbeit erlautern werde. Im Netz sind virtuelle Identitaten weit verbreitet, denn hier stehen die Anonymitat sowie die Textbasiertheit des Mediums im Vordergrund und die Preisgabe von personlichen Daten ist jedem selbst uberlassen. Da der Begriff der Identitat in vielen Disziplinen der Wissenschaft eine wi-derspruchliche Verwendung findet, werde ich in dieser Hausarbeit nur auf die sozialen sowie psycho-sozialen Identitatskonzepte eingehen und die Entstehung von Identitat im virtuellen Raum erlautern. Es ist zu klaren, ob und in wie weit virtuelle Identitaten Auswirkungen auf reale Beziehungen haben und welche Chancen und Risiken sich dahinter verbergen. Wirkt die virtuelle Identitat auf die reale zuruck? Wenn ja, mit welchen Konsequenzen? Werden reale Beziehungen durch virtuelle Freundschaften ersetzt? Es ist notig, den Begriff der Identitat zunachst zu erlautern und zu definie-ren, bevor Antworten auf die gestellten Fragen gefunden werden konnen. Des Weiteren ist zu klaren, was die User dazu bewegt eine Scheinidentitat anzunehmen und in welchem Zusammenhang von einem Flow-Effekt ge-sprochen werden kann. Besteht die Gefahr von Online-Abhangigkeit und halten virtuelle Romanzen dem Wechsel ins reale Leben stand

Widely regarded as one of the most significant prophets of modern architecture, Adolf Loos was a star in his own time. His work was emblematic of the turn-of-the-century generation that was torn between the traditional culture of the nineteenth century and the innovative modernism of the twentieth. His essay 'Ornament and Crime' equated superfluous ornament and 'decorative arts' with underclass tattooing in an attempt to tell modern Europeans that they should know better. But the negation of ornament was supposed to reveal, not negate, good style; and an incorrigible ironist has been taken too literally in denying architecture as a fine art. Without normalizing his edgy radicality, Masheck argues that Loos's masterful "astylistic architecture" was an appreciation of tradition and utility and not, as most architectural historians have argued, a mere repudiation of the florid style of the Vienna Secession. Masheck has reads Loos as a witty, ironic rhetorician who has all too often been taken at face value. Far from being the anti-architect of the modern era, Masheck's Loos is 'an unruly yet integrally canonical artist-architect'. He believed in culture, comfort, intimacy and privacy and advocated the evolution of artful architecture. This is a brilliantly written revisionist reading of a perennially popular architect.

Shivdatt Sharma (b. 1931) is one of the most prolific Indian modernist architects. Starting out as an architect in the Chandigarh Capital Project Team led by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, Sharma subsequently became Chief Architect of the Indian Space Research Organisation. He then went into private practice. Sharmas architecture is a distinct blend of the core principles of Modernism, interpreted through the lens of contemporary Indian realities. Modernism was adopted as both symbol and instrument of nation-building in Nehruvian India. Working alongside designers and artists, architects went to work building innumerable small townships, universities, public institutions, housing estates and infrastructural projects across the country. Progressive businesses also patronized Modernism as full participants in the project of nation-building. The Modernism in India Series documents the extensive heritage of Modernism and modern architecture in India. Bringing to light the work of a forgotten generation, this series documents work that is currently under threat by the forces of globalization. This well-illustrated book documents Sharmas work from the early days, when it was a part of the experimental and innovative ethos of Chandigarh, to the present. He has designed for a range of public and private clients across the world. Along with a portfolio of selected works, this book includes critical essays, interviews and a chronology of projects.

UIRA e o projeto arquitetonico para uma Vila Olimpica orbital, a primeira do mundo, criada pelo arquiteto brasileiro Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta. Em 2011 Pimenta lancou o projeto de arquitetura Kairos - para um edificio em orbita da Terra, considerado o primeiro projeto de arquitetura para um edificio no espaco sideral. Ainda em 2011, Emanuel Pimenta criou e dirigiu o primeiro curso de arquitetura espacial do Brasil, e o segundo do mundo, na Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de Sao Paulo. No inicio dos anos 1980, Emanuel Pimenta cunhou o conceito de arquitetura virtual, e iniciando em 1980 ele projetou o primeiro planeta virtual do mundo - Woiksed - antecipando o Second Life em mais de vinte anos. O livro UIRA contem os primeiros estudos do projeto, cerca de sessenta ilustracoes e uma introducao escrita pelo arquiteto Bruno Padovano, da Universidade de Sao Paulo.

Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta (1957) comecou a trabalhar com projetos de arquitetura e urbanismo - muitos deles experimentais - ainda no inicio dos anos 1980, quando cunhou o conceito de "arquitetura virtual," como metodo de projeto, e lancou Woiksed: o primeiro planeta virtual do mundo, antecipando o Second Life em cerca de vinte anos. Entre 1980 e 2011, Emanuel Pimenta lancou varios projetos revolucionarios, como uma ilha flutuante para a cidade de Lisboa, um museu do tempo ao lado de um castelo medieval na Peninsula Iberica e, em 2011, lancou Kairos - o primeiro projeto de arquitetura para o espaco sideral, num edificio orbital. O livro "30 anos de arquitetura" apresenta sessenta dos seus projetos atraves de dezenas de ilustracoes e um texto sobre "arquitetura virtual." Premiado internacionalmente, Emanuel Pimenta revela nas suas obras uma intensa relacao com o pensamento de Richard Buckminster Fuller, Paolo Soleri entre outros.

Kairos e a historia do primeiro projeto de arquitetura - no seu sentido mais elevado - para um projeto espacial. Entre 2008 e 2011, o arquiteto e urbanista Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta projetou um edificio para estar permanentemente em orbita da Terra. Para alem de um projeto de arquitetura, e ainda uma reflexao sobre a condicao humana, sobre a possibilidade do fim das guerras, do salto da Humanidade para o Universo e sobre uma metamorfose civilizacional. Mas tambem e um questionamento tecnico e tecnologico, e uma obra de arte. Com textos adicionais dos arquitetos Carlos Zibel e Bruno Padovano, do astrofisico Amancio Friaca, e um poema do artista hipermedia Artur Matuck - todos da USP Universidade de Sao Paulo, o livro de Emanuel Pimenta tambem conta a historia do desenho das estacoes espaciais, do seculo XIX aos dias de hoje, numa fabulosa viagem com o leitor.

As the designer of tourist attraction ""Hearst Castle"" on the California coast, Julia Morgan was widely known as an outstanding architect. Though women architects were unusual, she was not alone. Many other women practiced architecture in the late 19th and early 20th century in California, though their work was often overshadowed by the work of male architects. This book presents the lives, careers, and work of fifty of these largely unknown pioneers. It chronicles the triumphs and challenges these path-breaking women faced in their pursuit of entering and claiming space in the male-dominated field of architecture. Included are photographs of buildings, portraits of the architects, and some blueprints. Each biography includes vital data, a description of the career, a list of known buildings and work, and a bibliography. Four appendices address female students at the University of California, Berkeley, women certified by California to practice architecture, members of women's architectural societies, and female members of the American Institute of Architects.

Features eight contemporary urban infill housing projects from the Montreal design-build firm of Atelier.

Thomas Jefferson's design for the University of Virginia is widely hailed as a masterpiece. It is his greatest architectural accomplishment, the summation of his quest for intellectual freedom. The story of the University encompasses the political and architectural worlds, as Jeffeson struggled against great opposition to establish a new type of educational institution. "Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village "offers a comprehensive look at Jefferson's design for the University, at how it came into being, at the different perecptions of its successes and failures, and at the alterations that have taken place down through the years.

The revised edition incorporates research that has been ongoing since the book first appeared in 1993, and includes a preface by Richard Guy Wilson, essays on architecture and education and the Lawn, additional architectural drawings and historic photographs, a foreword by President John T. Casteen III, and numerous color illustrations.