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Author : Maristella Casciato
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Chandigarh 1956 written by Maristella Casciato and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique document of architectural photography and the concepts of visual communication of architecture and urban planning.
Author : Jeffrey Petts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350213055
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Aesthetics and Design written by Jeffrey Petts and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What designers do and how we all, as users of designed things, live with their products raises fundamental philosophical questions about how we should live, and how the nature of design work and good design relates to our lives. Jeffrey Petts presents a holistic and pragmatist approach to the philosophy of design. Acknowledging the importance of function in design without downplaying the aesthetic dimension, Petts relates the manner of evaluating design to the designing process itself as demonstrated in the work of, for example, William Morris, Walter Gropius and Bauhaus, Charles and Ray Eames, and Dieter Rams. This metacritical and everyday approach to the philosophy of design expresses a commitment to real aesthetics, connecting concrete issues in both practice and experience to philosophical ideas, and reveals the role aesthetics plays in considerations about the good life.
Author : Leland M. Roth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042997521X
Total Pages : 1193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Understanding Architecture written by Leland M. Roth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 1193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This widely acclaimed, beautifully illustrated survey of Western architecture is now fully revised throughout, including essays on non-Western traditions. The expanded book vividly examines the structure, function, history, and meaning of architecture in ways that are both accessible and engaging.
Author : Iain Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131704486X
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Architecture of Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew written by Iain Jackson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew were pioneers of Modern Architecture in Britain and its former colonies from the late 1920s through to the early 1970s. As a barometer of twentieth century architecture, their work traces the major cultural developments of that century from the development of modernism, its spread into the late-colonial arena and finally, to its re-evaluation that resulted in a more expressive, formalist approach in the post-war era. This book thoroughly examines Fry and Drew's highly influential 'Tropical Architecture' in West Africa and India, whilst also discussing their British work, such as their post World War II projects for the Festival of Britain, Harlow New Town, Pilkington Brothers’ Headquarters and Coychurch Crematorium. It highlights the collaborative nature of Fry and Drew's work, including schemes undertaken with Elizabeth Denby, Walter Gropius, Denys Lasdun, Pierre Jeanneret and Le Corbusier. Positioning their architecture, writing and educational endeavours within a wider context, this book illustrates the significant artistic and cultural contributions made by Fry and Drew throughout their lengthy careers.
Author : Peter Gatrell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199674167
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book The Making of the Modern Refugee written by Peter Gatrell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Making of the Modern Refugee proposes a new approach to a fundamental aspect of twentieth-century history by bringing the causes, consequences and meanings of global population displacement within a single frame. Its broad chronological and geographical coverage, extending from Europe and the Middle East to South Asia, South-East Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, makes it possible to compare crises and how they were addressed. Wars, revolutions and state formation are invoked as the main causal explanations of displacement, and are considered alongside the emergence of a twentieth-century refugee regime linking governmental practices, professional expertise and humanitarian relief efforts. How and for whom did refugees become a "problem" for organizations such as the League of Nations and UNHCR and for non-governmental organizations (NGOs)? What solutions were entertained and implemented, and why? What were the implications for refugees? These questions invite us to consider how refugees engaged with the myriad ramifications of enforced migration, and thus the significance that they attached to the places they left behind, to their journeys and destinations--in short, how refugees helped interpreted and fashioned their own history. The Making of the Modern Refugee rests upon scholarship from several disciplines and draws upon oral testimony, eye-witness accounts and cultural production, as well as extensive unpublished source material.
Author : Sigfried Giedion
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674254058
Total Pages : 956 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Space, Time and Architecture written by Sigfried Giedion and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-28 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A milestone in modern thought, Space, Time and Architecture has been reissued many times since its first publication in 1941 and translated into half a dozen languages. In this revised edition of Sigfried Giedion’s classic work, major sections have been added and there are 81 new illustrations. The chapters on leading contemporary architects have been greatly expanded. There is new material on the later development of Frank Lloyd Wright and the more recent buildings of Walter Gropius, particularly his American Embassy in Athens. In his discussion of Le Corbusier, Mr. Giedion provides detailed analyses of the Carpenter Center at Harvard University, Le Corbusier’s only building in the United States, and his Priory of La Tourette near Lyons. There is a section on his relations with his clients and an assessment of his influence on contemporary architecture, including a description of the Le Corbusier Center in Zurich (designed just before his death), which houses his works of art. The chapters on Mies van der Rohe and Alvar Aalto have been brought up to date with examples of their buildings in the sixties. There is an entirely new chapter on the Danish architect Jørn Utzon, whose work, as exemplified in his design for the Sydney Opera House, Mr. Giedion considers representative of post–World War II architectural concepts. A new essay, “Changing Notions of the City,” traces the evolution of the structure of the city throughout history and examines current attempts to deal with urban growth, as shown in the work of such architects as José Luis Sert, Kenzo Tange, and Fumihiko Maki. Mr. Sert’s Peabody Terrace is discussed as an example of the interlocking of the collective and individual spheres. Finally, the conclusion has been enlarged to include a survey of the limits of the organic in architecture.
Author : Vikramaditya Prakash
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000471632
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Rethinking Global Modernism written by Vikramaditya Prakash and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology collects developing scholarship that outlines a new decentred history of global modernism in architecture using postcolonial and other related theoretical frameworks. By both revisiting the canons of modernism and seeking to decolonize and globalize those canons, the volume explores what a genuinely "global" history of architectural modernism might begin to look like. Its chapters explore the historiography and weaknesses of modernism's normative interpretations and propose alternatives to them. The collection offers essays that interrogate transnationalism in new ways, reconsiders the agency of the subaltern and the roles played by infrastructures, materials, and global institutions in propagating a diversity of modernisms internationally. Issues such as colonial modernism, architectural pedagogy, cultural imperialism, and spirituality are engaged. With essays from both established scholars and up-and-coming researchers, this is an important reference for a new understanding of this crucial and developing topic.
Author : United States. Department of State. Library Division
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Accessions List written by United States. Department of State. Library Division and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Prabhat K. Singh
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9788176252362
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (523 download)
Download or read book A Passage to Shiv K. Kumar written by Prabhat K. Singh and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2001 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Is The First Comprehensive, Critical Survey That Covers The Entire Range Of Shiv K. Kumar`S Creative Writing--His Poetry, Translation, Play, Novels And Stories.
Author : Patwant Singh
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0720615240
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Empire of the Sikhs written by Patwant Singh and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of Ranjit Singh, contemporary of Napoleon and one of the most powerful and charismatic Indian rulers of his ageRanjit Singh has been largely written out of accounts of the subcontinent's past by recent Western historians, yet he had an impact that lasts to this day. He unified the warring chiefdoms of the Punjab into an extraordinary northern Empire of the Sikhs, built up a formidable modern army, kept the British in check to the south of his realm, and closed the Khyber Pass through which plunderers had for centuries poured into India. Unique among empire builders, he was humane and just, gave employment to defeated foes, honored religious faiths other than his own, and included Hindus and Muslims among his ministers. In person he was a colorful character whose his court was renowned for its splendor; he had 20 wives, kept a regiment of "Amazons," and possessed a stable of thousands of horses. The authors make use of a variety of eyewitness accounts from Indian and European sources, from reports of Maratha spies at the Lahore Durbar to British parliamentary papers and travel accounts. The story includes the range of the maharaja's military achievements and ends with an account of the controversial period of the Anglo-Sikh Wars following his death, which saw the fall of his empire while in the hands of his successors.
Author : Robin Evans
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262550383
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Projective Cast written by Robin Evans and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2000-08-25 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robin Evans recasts the idea of the relationship between geometry and architecture, drawing on mathematics, engineering, art history, and aesthetics to uncover processes in the imagining and realizing of architectural form. Anyone reviewing the history of architectural theory, Robin Evans observes, would have to conclude that architects do not produce geometry, but rather consume it. In this long-awaited book, completed shortly before its author's death, Evans recasts the idea of the relationship between geometry and architecture, drawing on mathematics, engineering, art history, and aesthetics to uncover processes in the imagining and realizing of architectural form. He shows that geometry does not always play a stolid and dormant role but, in fact, may be an active agent in the links between thinking and imagination, imagination and drawing, drawing and building. He suggests a theory of architecture that is based on the many transactions between architecture and geometry as evidenced in individual buildings, largely in Europe, from the fifteenth to the twentieth century. From the Henry VII chapel at Westminster Abbey to Le Corbusier's Ronchamp, from Raphael's S. Eligio and the work of Piero della Francesca and Philibert Delorme to Guarino Guarini and the painters of cubism, Evans explores the geometries involved, asking whether they are in fact the stable underpinnings of the creative, intuitive, or rhetorical aspects of architecture. In particular he concentrates on the history of architectural projection, the geometry of vision that has become an internalized and pervasive pictorial method of construction and that, until now, has played only a small part in the development of architectural theory. Evans describes the ambivalent role that pictures play in architecture and urges resistance to the idea that pictures provide all that architects need, suggesting that there is much more within the scope of the architect's vision of a project than what can be drawn. He defines the different fields of projective transmission that concern architecture, and investigates the ambiguities of projection and the interaction of imagination with projection and its metaphors.
Author : Surat Singh
Publisher : Mittal Publications
ISBN 13 : 9788170998082
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Problems and Prospects of Panchayat Finances written by Surat Singh and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Disha Experts
Publisher : Disha Publications
ISBN 13 : 9390711274
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Download or read book Guide to ESIC (Employees’ State Insurance Corporation) Upper Division Clerk (UDC) & Stenographer Exam 2021 Phase I & II written by Disha Experts and published by Disha Publications. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Éléonore Muhidine
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839467160
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Indian Architecture in Postcards written by Éléonore Muhidine and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on a private collection of 60 postcards of modern architecture in Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Agra, the contributors to this volume explore the many dimensions of modern architecture in India from the 1890s to the 1970s and share their own perspective on these objects. Experts on architectural history and visual studies, as well as postcard collectors provide new insights into a territory and its architectural heritage which is still largely unknown in Europe, and reflect on the postcard as a medium for historical research.
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Publisher : Disha Publications
ISBN 13 : 9390511909
Total Pages : 621 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (95 download)
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Author : Disha Experts
Publisher : Disha Publications
ISBN 13 : 9388373316
Total Pages : 492 pages
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Download or read book Ultimate Guide to SSC Stenographer Grade C & D Exam written by Disha Experts and published by Disha Publications. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ultimate Guide to SSC Stenographer Grade C & D Exam provides the exact study material for the preparation of Stenographer Exam. The book includes the past paper of 2017. The Salient Features of the Book are: 1. Comprehensive Sections on: General Intelligence & Reasoning, English Language & Comprehension and General Awareness; 2. Detailed theory along with solved examples . 3. Exhaustive question bank at the end of each chapter in the form of Exercise. Solutions to the Exercise have been provided at the end of each chapter. 4. An exclusive coverage of the topics asked in the examination. 5. The book provides thoroughly updated General Awareness section with Current Affairs till date.
Author : Tom Avermaete
Publisher : Park Publishing (WI)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Casablanca Chandigarh written by Tom Avermaete and published by Park Publishing (WI). This book was released on 2014 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated volume invites us to think afresh about urban life and the modern city by offering images and analyses of two very different but complementary contemporary cities: the planned Indian city of Chandigarh and the ancient metropolis of Casablanca--the ancient North African harbor town developed into a modern metropolis by Michel Ecochard and a team of young French and Moroccan architects after World War II. Countering the dominant view of modern urbanism that values avant-garde ideas originating in the West over developments in non-Western regions, the book offers a more nuanced approach to the history of the modern city, and to the relationship between local knowledge and imported ideas in the rapid globalization that followed World War II. Ultimately, by focusing on the design and inhabitation of the cities' public spaces and housing, the book locates the essence of the modern city in its ordinary fabric and everyday life--which shifts our understanding of architecture and planning, enabling us to see it as a collective work that is necessarily the result of negotiation among a variety of actors. Chandigarh Casablanca is published to coincide with an exhibition at the Canadian Center for Architecture in Montreal.
