Unnatural Horizons
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Unnatural Horizons
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Author : Allen S. Weiss
language : en
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Release Date : 1998
Unnatural Horizons written by Allen S. Weiss and has been published by Princeton Architectural Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Gardens categories.
Unnatural Horizons presents a selective history of the last five centuries of landscape architecture at the intersection of poetics and science, rhetoric and technology, and philosophy and politics. It investigates the relations between garden aesthetics and metaphysics, discussing issues similar to those raised by Weiss's critically acclaimed Mirrors of Infinity. The Western garden has always served as a setting for music, dance, theater, sculpture, and architecture, as well as the minor arts of meditative contemplation and erotic seduction. The history of landscape architecture is therefore inextricable from the histories of the other arts, and must be studied from an interdisciplinary and polycultural point of view. Some of the topics included in this book are the influence of neo-Platonic philosophy on the Italian Renaissance garden, erotic fantasies and the 18th-century libertine garden, the contrast between Thoreau's romantic notion of virgin nature and changes in perception due to increasing speed and mechanization, and the limits of landscape architecture as art form in 20th-century gardens.
The Artificial Horizon
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Author : Martin Edward Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Release Date : 2004
The Artificial Horizon written by Martin Edward Thomas and has been published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Martin Thomas takes the reader on a journey through a compelling study of culture, landscape and mythology. For both Aboriginal people and their colonisers, the rugged landscape of the Blue Mountains has stood as an intriguing riddle and a stimulus to the imagination. The author evokes this dramatic and bewildering landscape and leads his readers through the cultural history of the locality in order to probe the 'dreamwork of imperialism'.
Eating Architecture
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Author : Jamie Horwitz
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2004
Eating Architecture written by Jamie Horwitz and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Architecture categories.
A highly original collection of essays that explore the relationship between food and architecture - the preparation of meals and the production of space.
The Green Thread
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Author : Patrícia Vieira
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2015-12-24
The Green Thread written by Patrícia Vieira and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-24 with Literary Collections categories.
The Green Thread is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that takes the risk of departing from the long-standing human perception of plants— including autonomy, agency, and consciousness—to explore new territories where the re-conceptualization of vegetable beings as active agents in social and cultural environments becomes possible.
Wind And The Source The
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language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2006-06-01
Wind And The Source The written by and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-01 with Authorship categories.
The Dissolution Of Place
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Author : Shelton Waldrep
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-16
The Dissolution Of Place written by Shelton Waldrep and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-16 with Architecture categories.
Postmodern architecture - with its return to ornamentality, historical quotation, and low-culture kitsch - has long been seen as a critical and popular anodyne to the worst aspects of modernist architecture: glass boxes built in urban locales as so many interchangeable, generic anti-architectural cubes and slabs. This book extends this debate beyond the modernist/postmodernist rivalry to situate postmodernism as an already superseded concept that has been upended by deconstructionist and virtual architecture as well as the continued turn toward the use of theming in much new public and corporate space. It investigates architecture on the margins of postmodernism -- those places where both architecture and postmodernism begin to break down and to reveal new forms and new relationships. The book examines in detail not only a wide range of architectural phenomena such as theme parks, casinos, specific modernist and postmodernist buildings, but also interrogates architecture in relation to identity, specifically Native American and gay male identities, as they are reflected in new notions of the built environment. In dealing specifically with the intersection between postmodern architecture and virtual and filmic definitions of space, as well as with theming, and gender and racial identities, this book provides provides ground-breaking insights not only into postmodern architecture, but into spatial thinking in general.
High Culture
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Author : Anna Alexander
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
High Culture written by Anna Alexander and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Psychology categories.
Addresses the place of addiction in modern art, literature, philosophy, and psychology, including its effects on the works of such thinkers and writers as Heidegger, Nietzsche, DeQuincey, Breton, and Burroughs.
Theorizing Sound Writing
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Author : Deborah Kapchan
language : en
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Release Date : 2017-04-04
Theorizing Sound Writing written by Deborah Kapchan and has been published by Wesleyan University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-04 with Music categories.
The study of listening—aurality—and its relation to writing is the subject of this eclectic edited volume. Theorizing Sound Writing explores the relationship between sound, theory, language, and inscription. This volume contains an impressive lineup of scholars from anthropology, ethnomusicology, musicology, performance, and sound studies. The contributors write about sound in their ongoing work, while also making an intervention into the ethics of academic knowledge, one in which listening is the first step not only in translating sound into words but also in compassionate scholarship.
Breathless
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Author : Allen S. Weiss
language : en
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Release Date : 2002-11-15
Breathless written by Allen S. Weiss and has been published by Wesleyan University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Explores how early radio and sound recording influenced modernist literature.
Medici Gardens
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Author : Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2008-05-30
Medici Gardens written by Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-30 with Architecture categories.
Medici Gardens challenges the common assumption that such gardens as Trebbio, Cafaggiolo, Careggi, and Fiesole were the products of an established design practice whereby one client commissioned one architect or artist. The book suggests that in the case of the gardens in Florence garden making preceded its theoretical articulation.