A Place Of Placelessness Hekeng People S Heritage
DOWNLOAD
Download A Place Of Placelessness Hekeng People S Heritage PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get A Place Of Placelessness Hekeng People S Heritage book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
A Place Of Placelessness Hekeng People S Heritage
DOWNLOAD
Author : Renyu Wang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
A Place Of Placelessness Hekeng People S Heritage written by Renyu Wang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with categories.
A Place Of Placelessness
DOWNLOAD
Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
A Place Of Placelessness written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with categories.
Sustainability Risks And Resilience Of Vernacular Heritage
DOWNLOAD
Author : Fernando Vegas
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-06-21
Sustainability Risks And Resilience Of Vernacular Heritage written by Fernando Vegas and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-21 with Architecture categories.
This book offers a variety of analyses, methodologies, and reflections on the behaviour of vernacular architecture in the face of natural hazards, with an emphasis on the strategies that can be used to cope with them. The different examples of vernacular architecture studied in this book highlight the cultural wealth of this type of heritage, which has not only adapted to locally available resources and the needs of individual populations but has also successfully responded to the natural risks it encountered. As regards the types of risks analysed, the chapters focus on the impact of natural events on this type of heritage, proposing different methodologies for the analysis of vulnerability and any possible damage caused. In general, the contributions included offer an interesting analysis of the behaviour of vernacular architecture in the face of natural hazards and the different scales or approaches that can be employed to cope with them. This book will be of particular interest to specialists and those interested in the fields of architecture, history, structures and risk management. It was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Architectural Heritage.
Aesthetics Of Gentrification
DOWNLOAD
Author : Gerard F. Sandoval
language : en
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Release Date : 2021-02-19
Aesthetics Of Gentrification written by Gerard F. Sandoval and has been published by Amsterdam University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-19 with Architecture categories.
Gentrification is reshaping cities worldwide, resulting in seductive spaces and exclusive communities that aspire to innovation, creativity, sustainability, and technological sophistication. Gentrification is also contributing to growing social-spatial division and urban inequality and precarity. In a time of escalating housing crisis, unaffordable cities, and racial tension, scholars speak of eco-gentrification, techno-gentrification, super-gentrification, and planetary-gentrification to describe the different forms and scales of involuntary displacement occurring in vulnerable communities in response to current patterns of development and the hype-driven discourses of the creative city, smart city, millennial city, and sustainable city. In this context, how do contemporary creative practices in art, architecture, and related fields help to produce or resist gentrification? What does gentrification look and feel like in specific sites and communities around the globe, and how is that appearance or feeling implicated in promoting stylized renewal to a privileged public? In what ways do the aesthetics of gentrification express contested conditions of migration and mobility? Addressing these questions, this book examines the relationship between aesthetics and gentrification in contemporary cities from multiple, comparative, global, and transnational perspectives.
Construction As Depicted In Western Art
DOWNLOAD
Author : Michael Tutton
language : en
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Release Date : 2021-01-30
Construction As Depicted In Western Art written by Michael Tutton and has been published by Amsterdam University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-30 with Art categories.
The Art of Building has captured the interest of artists from the Roman period to today. The process of construction appears in western art in all its details, trades, and operations. Michael Tutton investigates the representation of building processes and materials through an examination of paintings, illuminated manuscripts, watercolours, prints, drawings and sculpture. Technical terms are explained and detailed interpretations of each work are provided, with insights into the artists' inspiration and themes. Even paintings not wholly or principally devoted to construction sites may give tantalising glimpses of building activity. How do these images convey meaning? How much is imagined; how much is authentic? Fully referenced endnotes, bibliography, and glossary complement the text and captions, informing not only the architectural and construction historian, but also those simply interested in art.
Struggles For Home
DOWNLOAD
Author : Stef Jansen
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2009
Struggles For Home written by Stef Jansen and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with House & Home categories.
"Based on anthropological studies across the globe, this book explores the experiences and contested meanings of home for people whose lives are characterized by migration related to varying forms of violence. Taking seriously the political implications and exploitation of discourses of home in the transnational processes that connect, yet differently affect, the movement of people and capital, it challenges the sedentarist assumption that territoriality and nation are necessarily the primary determinants of identification. However, it does not replace this sedentarism with a free floating, placeless approach. Instead, through the detailed ethnography of actual experiences of displacement and emplacement, it investigates the power sedentarist discourses may have to provide or prohibit hope. In Struggles for Home the focus is turned onto hope, aspiration and a sense of worth as necessary building blocks in the reconstruction of the social, amidst the violence of political and economic transformation. Research conducted in Sri Lanka, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Zambia, Cyprus, the Palestinian West Bank, Guatemala, and amongst Romanians and Moroccans in Spain articulates a novel theoretical framework for the development of a critical political anthropology of one of the most controversial and fascinating issues of our time - the remaking of home in migration."--Jacket.
Fujian S Tulou
DOWNLOAD
Author : Hanmin Huang
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2019-08-23
Fujian S Tulou written by Hanmin Huang and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-23 with Architecture categories.
This book analyzes a large number of typical tulou buildings and compact communities in detail, and painstakingly studies the way of life practiced in these communities, their defense systems, building techniques, spatial features, antithetical couplets culture, and historical origins. As such, it offers readers access to a unique treasure of traditional civilian residence, while also representing a valuable asset for architects and researchers in architectural history, cultural relics and fine arts.
The Architectonic Of Philosophy
DOWNLOAD
Author : Leslie Jaye Kavanaugh
language : en
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Release Date : 2007
The Architectonic Of Philosophy written by Leslie Jaye Kavanaugh and has been published by Amsterdam University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Philosophy categories.
"Whereas the history of philosophy defines metaphysics as asking the question 'What is Being?'; here is asked 'Where is Being?' What is to be analyzed is indeed part of the tradition of metaphysics to inquire about Being qua being, but here the inquiry is into its structure, its position within the ontological whole. The concept of the 'architectonic' is borrowed from Kant ... In this work, three philosophical structures are chosen for a more extensive examination: the three 'architectonics' are that of Plato's Chora, Aristoteles' continuum, and finally Leibniz's labyrinth"--Back cover.
Mapping The Digital Divide In Africa
DOWNLOAD
Author : Bruce Mutsvairo
language : en
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Release Date : 2019-05-09
Mapping The Digital Divide In Africa written by Bruce Mutsvairo and has been published by Amsterdam University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-09 with Social Science categories.
Despite issues associated with the digital divide, mobile telephony is growing on the continent and the rise of smartphones has given citizens easy access to social networking sites. But the digital divide, which mostly reflects on one's race, gender, socioeconomic status or geographical location, stands in the way of digital progress. What opportunities are available to tame digital disparities? How are different societies in Africa handling digital problems? What innovative methods are being used to provide citizens with access to critical information that can help improve their lives? Experiences from various locations in several sub-Saharan African countries have been carefully selected in this collection with the aim of providing an updated account on the digital divide and its impact in Africa.
Religious Architecture
DOWNLOAD
Author : Oskar Verkaaik
language : en
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Release Date : 2014-02-19
Religious Architecture written by Oskar Verkaaik and has been published by Amsterdam University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-19 with Architecture categories.
This essential study develops new anthropological perspectives on religious architecture, including mosques, churches, temples and synagogues. Borrowing from a range of theoretical perspectives on space-making and material religion, the authors consider how religious buildings take their place in opposition to the secular surroundings and the neoliberal city; how they, as evocations of the sublime, help believers move beyond the boundaries of modern subjectivity; and how international heritage status may conflict with their function as community centres. The volume includes contributions from a wide range of disciplines and regions, anthropologists, social historians, and architects working in Brazil, India, Italy, Mali, the Netherlands, Russia, Spain, and the UK.