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When Greyfriars Graveyard opened in Edinburgh in the sixteenth
century, built on the site of a Franciscan monastery on the edge of
the Old Town below the castle, it became Edinburgh's most important
burial site. Over the centuries many of Edinburgh's leading figures
have been buried at Greyfriars, alongside many more ordinary folk,
and it is home to a spectacular collection of post-Reformation
monuments. In this book local historian Charlotte Golledge takes
the reader on a tour around Greyfriars Graveyard to reveal the
history of the cemetery, from when James I granted the land as a
monastery to the present day. She explores the huge variety of its
monuments and gravestones and explains the symbolism behind the
stones and carvings and how the styles changed over the years.
Through this she paints a remarkable picture of life and death in
Edinburgh over the centuries, which will appeal to both residents
and visitors to the Scottish capital.
An important part of the built heritage of the Northern Highlands
is Victorian and Edwardian. Andrew Maitland, two sons and a
grandson, architects based in Tain, made significant contributions
across the region - including farm buildings, churches, shooting
lodges, hotels, courthouses, town halls, commercial buildings,
villas and whisky distilleries, including Glenmorangie, where they
played a pivotal role. Tain itself became a place of rare charm and
beauty. Hamish Mackenzie has researched the people who commissioned
the Maitlands and why they did so. He brings to life a fascinating
variety of characters against a backdrop of social, religious,
political and technological change.
"The Delirious Museum" gives a new interpretation of the
relationship between the museum and the city in the twenty-first
century. It presents an original view of the idea of the museum,
proposing that it is, or should be, both a repository of the
artefacts of the past and a continuation of the city street in the
present. Storrie re-views our experience of the city and of the
museum taking a journey that begins in the Louvre and continues
through Paris, London, Los Angeles and Las Vegas, re-imagining the
possibilities for museums and their displays and re-examining the
blurred boundaries between museums and the cities around them. On
his quest for The Delirious Museum he visits the museum
architecture of Soane and Libeskind, the exhibitions of Lissitsky
and Kiesler and the work of such artists as Duchamp and Warhol,
taking readers on a stimulating journey through cities and museums
worldwide. Serious general readers interested in urban culture,
design and architecture, as well as professional architects,
cultural studies and museology academics will enjoy the book, which
is well illustrated in black and white.
Air-Conditioning in Modern American Architecture, 1890–1970,
documents how architects made environmental technologies into
resources that helped shape their spatial and formal aesthetic. In
doing so, it sheds important new light on the ways in which
mechanical engineering has been assimilated into the culture of
architecture as one facet of its broader modernist project. Tracing
the development and architectural integration of air-conditioning
from its origins in the late nineteenth century to the advent of
the environmental movement in the early 1970s, Joseph M. Siry shows
how the incorporation of mechanical systems into modernism’s
discourse of functionality profoundly shaped the work of some of
the movement’s leading architects, such as Dankmar Adler, Louis
Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Gordon
Bunshaft, and Louis Kahn. For them, the modernist ideal of
functionality was incompletely realized if it did not wholly
assimilate heating, cooling, ventilating, and artificial lighting.
Bridging the history of technology and the history of architecture,
Siry discusses air-conditioning’s technical and social history
and provides case studies of buildings by the master architects who
brought this technology into the conceptual and formal project of
modernism. A monumental work by a renowned expert in American
modernist architecture, this book asks us to see canonical
modernist buildings through a mechanical engineering–oriented
lens. It will be especially valuable to scholars and students of
architecture, modernism, the history of technology, and American
history.
Drawing on a range of disciplines from within the humanities and
social sciences, Multilingual Memories addresses questions of
remembering and forgetting from an explicitly multilingual
perspective. From a museum at Victoria Falls in Zambia to a
Japanese-American internment in Arkansas, this book probes how the
medium of the communication of memories affirms social orders
across the globe. Applying linguistic landscape approaches to a
wide variety of monuments and memorials from around the world, this
book identifies how multilingualism (and its absence) contributes
to the inevitable partiality of public memorials. Using a number of
different methods, including multimodal discourse analysis, code
preferences, interaction orders, and indexicality, the chapters
explore how memorials have the potential to erase linguistic
diversity as much as they can entextualize multilingualism. With
examples from Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, and North and
South America, this volume also examines the extent to which
multilingual memories legitimize not only specific discourses but
also individuals, particular communities, and ethno-linguistic
groups - often to the detriment of others.
The Empire State Building is the landmark book on one of the
world s most notable landmarks. Since its publication in 1995, John
Tauranac s book, focused on the inception and construction of the
building, has stood as the most comprehensive account of the
structure. Moreover, it is far more than a work in architectural
history; Tauranac tells a larger story of the politics of urban
development in and through the interwar years. In a new epilogue to
the Cornell edition, Tauranac highlights the continuing resonance
and influence of the Empire State Building in the rapidly changing
post-9/11 cityscape."
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Hotel Design, Planning and Development presents the most
significant hotels developed internationally in the last ten years
so that you can be well-informed of recent trends. The book
outlines essential planning and design considerations based on the
latest data, supported by technical information and illustrations,
including original plans, so you can really study what works. The
authors provide analysis and theory to support each of the major
trends they present, highlighting how the designer's work fits into
the industry's development as a whole. Extensive case studies
demonstrate how a successful new concept is developed. Hotel
Design, Planning and Development gives you a thorough overview of
this important and fast-growing sector of the hospitality industry.
*Please note that this title is not for sale via the Taylor &
Francis Group in America or the Philippines
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