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This book introduces the concepts of theater planning, and provides
a detailed guide to the process and the technical requirements
particular to theater buildings. Part I is a guide to the concepts
and practices of architecture and construction, as applied to
performing arts buildings. Part II is a guide to the design of
performing arts buildings, with detailed descriptions of the unique
requirements of these buildings. Each concept is illustrated with
line drawings and examples from the author's extensive professional
practice. This book is written for students in Theatre Planning
courses, along with working practitioners.
When Antje Freiesleben and Johannes Modersohn opened their own
Berlin-based firm Modersohn & Freiesleben Architekten in 1994,
the city, which had been divided until 1989, needed to be repaired
and re-united. The Potsdamer Platz train station and the office
block in the Beisheim Centre in Ebertstrasse, close to this central
and now revitalised location, are two significant projects that
were designed by the firm in the prevalent spirit of urban renewal
of those years. After the millennium, the architects further honed
their approach: whether in the city or the countryside, Modersohn
& Freiesleben consistently develop the character of their
projects in terms of the site, the materials, the construction, and
the lives of their clients. Their deliberate engagement with the
given environment while simultaneously aiming at an inventive
individuality has created an architecture that ensures their houses
are functional objects that combine sustainability with aesthetics.
This new monograph features 12 built houses alongside other
projects from the last two decades. They are located in Berlin,
Brandenburg, Sweden, and Canada. Text in English and German.
Teatru Manoel is a historical monument of global importance and a
living temple of the performing arts. Built in 1731 by order of
Grand Master Antonio Manoel de Vilhena, whose name it still bears,
it remains today one of the finest examples of theatre architecture
in Europe. Named as one of the 15 most beautiful theatres by CNN in
May 2014, the Manoel is also one of the oldest `working' theatres
in the world and is Malta's national theatre. As incumbent
custodians of this priceless gem, it is our responsibility not only
to preserve and enhance it but also to sustain its relevance for
the present and above all, the future. This book aims to present
the many other facets that make up the institution that is the
Manoel. First and foremost there is the theatre's role in the
cultural environment of Malta as well as Europe. Secondly, there is
the rich and chequered history of this 283-year-old building which
has survived plagues, invasions, blockades, stiff competition, wars
and economic downturns with a detailed account of the changes it
has undergone both to its architecture and internal decor. Thirdly,
and of no less importance, are the thousands of artistic
productions that have involved great, renowned and not-so-renowned
artists from every performing arts genre that have, over the
centuries, graced its stage. Furthermore, this book, which covers
the history, the architectural changes, the performers and
performances over so many decades to date, ensures that this
theatre's unparalleled contribution to Malta's cultural scene is
acknowledged, appreciated and documented.
Black Plaques are not to be found proudly mounted on a wall - and
for good reason. What with their commemoration of a brutal
execution outside Westminster Abbey, the selling of sex toys in St
James's Park and an intruder at Buckingham Palace with Royal
undergarments stuffed down his trousers, this is not sort of
historical subject matter that authorities choose to grace a
building's facade or depict on a visitor information board. In
fact, many might hope that such indecorous and inconvenient
episodes remain quietly overlooked. But this book jogs such artful
lapses of memory and at more than one hundred locations across
London, Black Plaques lift the carefully placed rug to discover an
unsightly, but strangely beckoning, stain.
Designing Schools explores the close connections between the design
of school buildings and educational practices throughout the
twentieth century to today. Through international cases studies
that span the Americas, Europe, Africa and Australia, this volume
examines historical innovations in school architecture and situates
these within changing pedagogical ideas about the 'best' ways to
educate children. It also investigates the challenges posed by new
technologies and the digital age to the design and use of school
places. Set around three interlinked themes - school buildings,
school spaces and school cultures - this book argues that education
is mediated or framed by the spaces in which it takes place, and
that those spaces are in turn influenced by cultural, political and
social concerns about teaching, learning and the child.
Tower Bridge, close to the Tower of London, is one of the
best-known and most recognizable bridges in the world. Opened on 30
June 1894, this combined suspension and bascule bridge was designed
by architect Sir Horace Jones and engineer Sir John Wolfe Barry.
This new book, published to mark the 125th anniversary of its
opening, will explore the history of the bridge, set it into the
context of the River Thames and its crossings, and will, above all,
focus on its design and construction. Highly illustrated with old
and new images, from material held in the London Metropolitan
Archives to specially commissioned photographs, Tower Bridge:
History * Engineering * Design is a major new illustrated study of
a remarkable piece of architecture and engineering.
This book provides a timely review of the contemporary
interpretation of the 'comprehensive health centre', a building
type that was originally advocated by health reformers in the UK in
the first half of the twentieth century. The book discusses the
development of this idea, the failure under the NHS to apply the
idea in practice in the second half of the century and the recent
emergence, in all four regions of the UK, of comprehensive health
centres providing a wide range of health and social services, often
linked to other community facilities. A review of the latest
developments in comprehensive health centre design forms the core
of the book in the form of detailed case studies of ten exemplary
recent projects. Generously illustrated in full colour the case
studies include plans, diagrams, photographs and analytical text,
providing the reader with detailed information about a range of
design approaches. Following devolution, NHS health policies in
England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales have begun to diverge
and the role of the comprehensive health centre in the current
health service of each country is assessed. Aimed at professionals,
healthcare facilities providers and policy makers, the book also
considers the opportunities for and obstacles facing the further
development of the comprehensive health centre as an integral part
of the infrastructure of the NHS in the future.
When Eero Saarinen's Flight Centre for Trans World Airlines (TWA)
opened at New York's JFK International Airport in 1962 it was a
sensation. It represented a significant change in architectural
thinking, allowing TWA to polish its image by means of a building,
clearly distinguishing it from other airlines. Saarinen's striking
design got much publicity throughout its operational life until
closure in 2001. It was regarded an emblem of the jet-age, yet it
never really suited its operational requirements. When the new B747
Jumbo Jet arrived in 1970, it already proved outdated and
inefficient for the number of passengers using it. Designing TWA
for the first time tells the entire story of TWA terminal at JFK.
It documents its architecture in area of conflict between flight
operations, design and public relations. It also investigates how
the building remained an icon of jet-propelled aviation while never
properly serving its purpose for just that industry. The new book
features a wealth of images showing the TWA Flight Center in all
its beauty, alongside many documents and plans. The concise text
offers much detail, reaching far beyond previous publications on
one of the world's best-known buildings.
A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, USA TODAY, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
BESTSELLER "[A] diverse and enlightening book . . . The 99%
Invisible City is altogether fresh and imaginative when it comes to
thinking about urban spaces." --The New York Times Book Review
"Here is a field guide, a boon, a bible, for the urban curious.
Your city's secret anatomy laid bare--a hundred things you look at
but don't see, see but don't know. Each entry is a compact,
surprising story, a thought piece, an invitation to marvel.
Together, they are almost transformative. To know why things are as
they are adds a satisfying richness to daily existence. This book
is terrific, just terrific." --Mary Roach, New York Times
bestselling author of Stiff, Grunt, and Gulp "The 99% Invisible
City brings into view the fascinating but often unnoticed worlds we
walk and drive through every day, and to read it is to feel newly
alive and aware of your place in the world. This book made me
laugh, and it made me cry, and it reminded me to always read the
plaque." --John Green, New York Times bestselling author of The
Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All The Way Down A beautifully
designed guidebook to the unnoticed yet essential elements of our
cities, from the creators of the wildly popular 99% Invisible
podcast Have you ever wondered what those bright, squiggly graffiti
marks on the sidewalk mean? Or stopped to consider why you don't
see metal fire escapes on new buildings? Or pondered the story
behind those dancing inflatable figures in car dealerships? 99%
Invisible is a big-ideas podcast about small-seeming things,
revealing stories baked into the buildings we inhabit, the streets
we drive, and the sidewalks we traverse. The show celebrates design
and architecture in all of its functional glory and accidental
absurdity, with intriguing tales of both designers and the people
impacted by their designs. Now, in The 99% Invisible City: A Field
Guide to Hidden World of Everyday Design, host Roman Mars and
coauthor Kurt Kohlstedt zoom in on the various elements that make
our cities work, exploring the origins and other fascinating
stories behind everything from power grids and fire escapes to
drinking fountains and street signs. With deeply researched entries
and beautiful line drawings throughout, The 99% Invisible City will
captivate devoted fans of the show and anyone curious about design,
urban environments, and the unsung marvels of the world around
them.
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The book combines photography and written text to analyse the role
of memorials and commemoration sites in the construction of
antagonistic nationalism. Taking Cypriot memorializations as a case
study, the book shows how these memorials often support, but
sometimes also undermine, the discursive-material assemblage of
nationalism.
A beautiful, illustrated exploration of European burial sites and
memorials from the First and Second World Wars The wealth of
splendid photography in this singular publication features military
cemeteries and memorials, conveying their grace, solemn beauty, and
deep emotional resonance. Hundreds of cemeteries and memorials from
the First and Second World Wars are featured-locations throughout
Europe with particular emphasis on sites in England, France,
Belgium, and Germany. The book's essays delve into the landscape
and architectural history of these hallowed spaces, which were
designed by architects such as Charles Henry Holden, Edwin Luytens,
John Russell Pope, and Robert Tischler, among others. These
landscapes, each a campaign for remembrance and peace, take on new
significance alongside comparative images of more recent memorials,
including the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC, and the
National September 11 Memorial in New York. Distributed for
Mercatorfonds
The opening of celebrated British architect David Chipperfield's
extension building of Kunsthaus Zurich in the fall of 2021 will
make this renowned institution Switzerland's largest art museum. In
the run-up to this milestone in the museum's development, this new
book looks back at its architectural history. It tells a lively
story that starts in 1847 with the Zurich Artists' Society's
initial gallery building and had its first culmination in 1910,
when distinguished Swiss architect Karl Moser's Kunsthaus was
opened. Over the past century, three major additions were carried
out in 1925, 1959, and 1976, and many attempts for a visionary
large-scale extension were made. Illustrated with historic images,
reproductions of plans and drawings as well as newly drawn floor
and site plans, the book documents all stages of constructing
Kunsthaus Zurich.
"A lucid, well-organized survey of the almost infinite variety of
production spaces of western theatre. . . . Carlson's survey must
be admired for its wealth of carefully researched and elegantly
articulated information concerning the relation of urban planning,
architecture, and interior and exterior theatre embellishment to
the social, political, economic and occasionally even aesthetic
purposes of those responsible for these 'signifiers.'" Theatre
Journal In this generously illustrated volume, Marvin Carlson uses
models from architectural and urban semiotics to show how a theatre
building and its location within a city reflect society's attitudes
and concerns."
With more than 250 full-color photos, Stores of the Year No. 15
shows you how top professionals in the fields of design,
architecture, lighting and fixtures, turn spaces into marketplaces.
Famous designers and newcomers alike reveal new solutions to the
complex problems of retail design and visual merchandising.
Illustrated are the elements of good store design: architecture,
fixturing, lighting and merchandise presentation. The stores
selected show how top professionals in the field of store design
turn spaces into marketplaces that sell the goods.
The streets and public spaces of London are rich with statues and
monuments commemorating the city's great figures and events - from
Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square and Sir Christopher Wren's
Great Fire Monument to the charming Peter Pan statue in Kensington
Gardens. Executed in stone, bronze and a range of other materials,
London's statues and monuments include work by some of the world's
greatest sculptors, such as Edwin Lutyens and Sir Christopher Wren.
This newly revised book takes account of the many new statues
erected between 2012 and 2017, including those of Mary Seacole at
St Thomas' Hospital and Amy Winehouse in Camden, and is a fully
illustrated guide to the works and their stories: sometimes
surprising and occasionally controversial, but always fascinating.
The seminal and pioneering London Underground is more than a mass
transportation network - it is a style icon, its history involving
some of the most important architects and artists of their time.
Exploring Frank Pick's vision through the development of Metroland
to Holden's innovative designs, David Long expertly weaves the
story of the Underground - its abundance of characters (some good,
some not so good), design firsts and brand identity - with Jane
Magarigal's atmospheric photography. From suburban expansion to
Blitz bombings and Soviet adulation, this book celebrates what
remains a magnificent engineering and aesthetic achievement while
providing an affectionate if slightly elegiac portrait of a London
which is now gone for good.
The beautifully illustrated pocket edition is an editorial tribute
to the history of the Comunale Theatre in Bologna, a city
institution of international fame. With previously unpublished and
richly detailed images and complementary texts by Professor Piero
Mioli, this publication celebrates the theatre's great and unique
story. Also included is a rich photographic array from the
theatre's historical archives featuring posters, stage photos,
sketches, drawings and figurine plates, which have been hidden from
public view, until now. Text in English and Italian.
A history of U.S. Civil War monuments that shows how they distort
history and perpetuate white supremacy The United States began as a
slave society, holding millions of Africans and their descendants
in bondage, and remained so until a civil war took the lives of a
half million soldiers, some once slaves themselves. Standing
Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves explores how the history of slavery and
its violent end was told in public spaces-specifically in the
sculptural monuments that came to dominate streets, parks, and town
squares in nineteenth-century America. Looking at monuments built
and unbuilt, Kirk Savage shows how the greatest era of monument
building in American history took place amid struggles over race,
gender, and collective memory. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves
probes a host of fascinating questions and remains the only
sustained investigation of post-Civil War monument building as a
process of national and racial definition. Featuring a new preface
by the author that reflects on recent events surrounding the
meaning of these monuments, and new photography and illustrations
throughout, this new and expanded edition reveals how monuments
exposed the myth of a "united" people, and have only become more
controversial with the passage of time.
The Bauhaus Building in Dessau, designed by Walter Gropius in 1926,
represents a "built manifesto of Bauhaus ideas" and is one of
modernism's most important buildings. Together with the associated
Masters' Houses (Meisterhauser), the Houses with Balcony Access
(Laubenganghauser) in Dessau, and Bauhaus buildings in Weimar and
Bernau, it is included in UNESCO's World Heritage List. The book
focuses on strategies for preserving the Bauhaus Building. It
presents the building-and its eventful history-from its
construction to its destruction, rebuilding, and restoration. Using
texts, photographs, and numerous blueprints, the book provides a
detailed exploration of specific aspects of the architecture-such
as the building's outer shell, materials, construction, color
scheme, and surfaces-and the long-term preservation concept for the
site. In doing so, it proposes structural measures aimed at
adapting the building to today's challenges and at conserving the
building with its historic and artistic characteristics.
Archaeology of Modernism. Preservation Bauhaus Dessau is the
revised and expanded edition of Archaeology of Modernism.
Renovation Bauhaus Dessau, which was published by JOVIS as Volume
23 of the EDITION BAUHAUS series in 2006. This new edition is
presented as Volume 58.
Las Vegas Then and Now pairs vintage shots from 100 years of the
city's history with the same view today. ‘Las Vegas Then and
Now’ captures the city's evolution from a desert railroad outpost
into the gambling and entertainment capital of the world. Pairing
historical photographs of the town with specially commissioned
views of the same scene today, this book provides the reader with
an intriguing look into the history of a city that has become a
cultural icon. Historic Fremont Street, which has recently
undergone a multi-million dollar renewal programme, presents the
most vivid contrast between the dusty desert town of the 1920s and
the pulsating entertainment city we know today. Las Vegas is ever
changing – the popular Mermaids and Vegas Vicky on Fremont are
gone, but further down the Strip, the High-Roller has arrived, one
of the world’s tallest observation wheels befitting this
thrill-seeking town. Casinos on the Strip have changed too. The
Sahara closed in 2011, re-opened as SLS which also closed, and has
now re-opened as The Sahara! Experienced ‘Then and Now’
photographer Karl Mondon takes to the skies of Vegas to get some
inspiring comparison shots, while author Su Kim Chung once again
points out the changes to a city she has written about for the last
twenty years. ‘Las Vegas Then and Now’ truly captures the buzz
of a city where the only constant is change. Sites include:
Allegiant Stadium, Circa, Arts District, Fremont Street, Railroad
Depot, Union Pacific Station, Arizona Club, Golden Nugget, El
Portal Theatre, Nevada Hotel, Sal Sagev Hotel, El Cortez, Vegas
Vic, The Mint Hotel, Las Vegas Post Office/Mob Museum, El Rancho
Vegas, Last Frontier, New Frontier, Little Church of the West,
Flamingo, Thunderbird Hotel, Desert Inn, Sahara Hotel, Sands Hotel,
Stardust, Riviera, La Concha Motel, Dunes Hotel, Caesars Palace,
Hacienda, Tropicana, MGM Grand, Aladdin, Boardwalk, International,
Landmark Hotel, Las Vegas Convention Center, Moulin Rouge and much
more.
Essential information for architects, designers, engineers,
equipment suppliers, and other professionals who are working in or
entering the biopharmaceutical manufacturing field Biomanufacturing
facilities that are designed and built today are radically
different than in the past. The vital information and knowledge
needed to design and construct these increasingly sophisticated
biopharmaceutical manufacturing facilities is difficult to find in
published literature--and it's rarely taught in architecture or
design schools. This is the first book for architects and designers
that fills this void. Process Architecture in Biomanufacturing
Facility Design provides information on design principles of
biopharmaceutical manufacturing facilities that support emerging
innovative processes and technologies, use state-of-the-art
equipment, are energy efficient and sustainable, and meet
regulatory requirements. Relying on their many years of hands-on
design and operations experience, the authors emphasize concepts
and practical approaches toward design, construction, and operation
of biomanufacturing facilities, including product-process-facility
relationships, closed systems and single use equipment, aseptic
manufacturing considerations, design of biocontainment facility and
process based laboratory, and sustainability considerations, as
well as an outlook on the facility of the future. Provides
guidelines for meeting licensing and regulatory requirements for
biomanufacturing facilities in the U.S.A and WHO--especially in
emerging global markets in India, China, Latin America, and the
Asia/Pacific regions Focuses on innovative design and equipment, to
speed construction and time to market, increase energy efficiency,
and reduce footprint, construction and operational costs, as well
as the financial risks associated with construction of a new
facility prior to the approval of the manufactured products by
regulatory agencies Includes many diagrams that clarify the design
approach Process Architecture in Biomanufacturing Facility Design
is an ideal text for professionals involved in the design of
facilities for manufacturing of biopharmaceuticals and vaccines,
biotechnology, and life-science industry, including architects and
designers of industrial facilities, construction, equipment
vendors, and mechanical engineers. It is also recommended for
university instructors, advanced undergraduates, and graduate
students in architecture, industrial engineering, mechanical
engineering, industrial design, and industrial interior design.
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