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Spirit and Place

Author : Christopher Day
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136365249
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Spirit and Place written by Christopher Day and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Built environment surrounds us for 90% of our lives but only now are we realising its influence on the environment, our health, and how we think, feel and behave both individually and socially. Spirit & Place shows how to work towards a sustainable environment through socially inclusive processes of placemaking, and how to create places that are nourishing psychologically and physically, to soul and spirit as well as body. This book's unique arguments identify important, but often unrecognised, principles and illustrate their applicability in a wide range of situations, price-ranges and climates. It shows how to reconcile the apparently incompatible demands of environmental, economic and social sustainability; how to moderate climate to make places of delight, and realign social pressures so places both support society and maximise economic viability. Thought provoking and easy to understand, Christopher Day uses everyday examples to relate his theories to practice and our experience.

The Spirit of the Place

Author : Samuel Shem
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101617020
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Spirit of the Place written by Samuel Shem and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of the The House of God comes an ambitious novel about the complicated relationships between mothers and sons, doctors and patients, the past and the present, and love and death... Settled into a relationship with an Italian yoga instructor and working in Europe, Dr. Orville Rose's peace is shaken by his mother's death. On his return to Columbia, a Hudson River town of quirky people and “plagued by breakage,” he learns that his mother has willed him a large sum of money, her 1981 Chrysler, and her Victorian house in the center of town. There's one odd catch: he must live in her house for one year and thirteen days. As he struggles with his decision—to stay and meet the terms of the will or return to his life in Italy—Orville reconnects with family, reunites with former friends, and comes to terms with old rivals and bitter memories. In the process he’ll discover his own history, as well as his mother’s, and finally learn what it really means to be a healer, and to be healed.

Spirit of Place

Author : Bill Noble
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1643260286
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Spirit of Place written by Bill Noble and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Delve into this beautiful book. You’ll come away sharing his passion for the beauty that gardens bring into our lives.” —Sigourney Weaver, environmentalist, actor, trustee of New York Botanical Garden How does an individual garden relate to the larger landscape? How does it connect to the natural and cultural environment? Does it evoke a sense of place? In Spirit of Place, Bill Noble—a lifelong gardener, and the former director of preservation for the Garden Conservancy—helps gardeners answer these questions by sharing how they influenced the creation of his garden in Vermont. Throughout, Noble reveals that a garden is never created in a vacuum but is rather the outcome of an individual’s personal vision combined with historical and cultural forces. Sumptuously illustrated, this thoughtful look at the process of garden-making shares insights gleaned over a long career that will inspire you to create a garden rich in context, personal vision, and spirit.

Spirit of Place

Author : Susan Owens
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500775591
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Spirit of Place written by Susan Owens and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Apollo Awards Book of the Year 2020 When we look at the landscape, what do we see? Do we experience the view over a valley or dappled sunlight on a path in the same way as those who were there before us? We have altered the countryside in innumerable ways over the last thousand years, and never more so than in the last hundred. How are these changes reflected in and affected by art and literature? English landscape painting is often said to be an 18th-century invention. But when we look for representations of the countryside in British art and literature, we find a story that begins with Old English poetry and treads a winding path up to the present day. Spirit of Place offers a panoramic view of the British landscape as seen through the eyes of writers and artists from Bede and the Gawain-poet to Gainsborough, Austen, Turner and Constable; from Paul Nash and Barbara Hepworth to Robert Macfarlane. Guided by these distinctive voices and imagery, and with a sharp eye for an anecdote, Susan Owens elucidates how the British landscape has been framed, reimagined and reshaped by generations. Each account, whether limned in a psalter, jotted down in a journal or constructed from sticks and stones, holds up a mirror to its maker and their world.

The Spirit of This Place

Author : Patrick Summers
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022609524X
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Spirit of This Place written by Patrick Summers and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artists today are at a crossroads. With funding for the arts and humanities endowments perpetually under attack, and school districts all over the United States scrapping their art curricula altogether, the place of the arts in our civic future is uncertain to say the least. At the same time, faced with the problems of the modern world—from water shortages and grave health concerns to global climate change and the now constant threat of terrorism—one might question the urgency of this waning support for the arts. In the politically fraught world we live in, is the “felt” experience even something worth fighting for? In this soul-searching collection of vignettes, Patrick Summers gives us an adamant, impassioned affirmative. Art, he argues, nurtures freedom of thought, and is more necessary now than ever before. As artistic director of the Houston Grand Opera, Summers is well positioned to take stock of the limitations of the professional arts world—a world where the conversation revolves almost entirely around financial questions and whose reputation tends toward elitism—and to remind us of art’s fundamental relationship to joy and meaning. Offering a vehement defense of long-form arts in a world with a short attention span, Summers argues that art is spiritual, and that music in particular has the ability to ask spiritual questions, to inspire cathartic pathos, and to express spiritual truths. Summers guides us through his personal encounters with art and music in disparate places, from Houston’s Rothko Chapel to a music classroom in rural China, and reflects on musical works he has conducted all over the world. Assessing the growing canon of new operas performed in American opera houses today, he calls for musical artists to be innovative and brave as opera continues to reinvent itself. This book is a moving credo elucidating Summers’s belief that the arts, especially music, help us to understand our own humanity as intellectual, aesthetic, and ultimately spiritual.

Maintaining the Spirit of Place

Author : Harry Launce Garnham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Maintaining the Spirit of Place written by Harry Launce Garnham and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Spirit of Place

Author : Chad Oppenheim
Publisher : Tra Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1732297827
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book Spirit of Place written by Chad Oppenheim and published by Tra Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spirit of Place is the first monograph on the work of Chad Oppenheim and his firm, Oppenheim Architects, and features seven of the award-winning firm’s projects, with a focus on how the architectural design honors the natural elements of each site. Oppenheim Architects’ first monograph, Spirit of Place, explores seven of the award-winning architectural firm’s acclaimed projects, located in beautiful settings across the globe. The book includes 120 stunning photographs and minimal text. The projects presented range in scale and location from homes in the Bahamas and Aspen to a resort in the Jordanian desert. The images, like the architecture, focus on and celebrate the natural world, illustrating Chad Oppenheim’s design philosophy that “form follows feeling.” Through passion and sensitivity towards man and nature, the firm designs monumental yet silent work that invokes a site’s inherent power. “For thousands of years, civilization has constructed its buildings on the land. We prefer to construct our buildings with the land, where architecture recedes and becomes a frame,” writes Chad Oppenheim. The projects are categorized by each site’s predominant natural element: dune, desert, stream, river, sea, canyon, and peninsula. The volume includes text by Chad Oppenheim, Val K. Warke, Antón García-Abril, and Mark Jarzombek. This book will appeal to readers interested in architecture, photography, nature, sustainability, and the environment.

Charleston Syllabus

Author : Chad Williams
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820349577
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Charleston Syllabus written by Chad Williams and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On June 17, 2015, a white supremacist entered Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, and sat with some of its parishioners during a Wednesday night Bible study session. An hour later, he began expressing his hatred for African Americans, and soon after, he shot nine church members dead, the church’s pastor and South Carolina state senator, Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney, among them. The ensuing manhunt for the shooter and investigation of his motives revealed his beliefs in white supremacy and reopened debates about racial conflict, southern identity,systemic racism, civil rights, and the African American church as an institution. In the aftermath of the massacre, Professors Chad Williams, Kidada Williams, and Keisha N. Blain sought a way to put the murder—and the subsequent debates about it in the media—in the context of America’s tumultuous history of race relations and racial violence on a global scale. They created the Charleston Syllabus on June 19, starting it as a hashtag on Twitter linking to scholarly works on the myriad of issues related to the murder. The syllabus’s popularity exploded and is already being used as a key resource in discussions of the event. Charleston Syllabus is a reader—a collection of new essays and columns published in the wake of the massacre, along with selected excerpts from key existing scholarly books and general-interest articles. The collection draws from a variety of disciplines—history, sociology, urban studies, law, critical race theory—and includes a selected and annotated bibliography for further reading, drawing from such texts as the Confederate constitution, South Carolina’s secession declaration, songs, poetry, slave narratives, and literacy texts. As timely as it is necessary, the book will be a valuable resource for understanding the roots of American systemic racism, white privilege, the uses and abuses of the Confederate flag and its ideals, the black church as a foundation for civil rights activity and state violence against such activity, and critical whiteness studies.

Zen Spirit, Christian Spirit

Author : Robert Kennedy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1635579910
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Zen Spirit, Christian Spirit written by Robert Kennedy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new revised edition of the classic title on Zen and Christian living. Zen Spirit, Christian Spirit is a study of the intersection between Zen Buddhism and Christianity. Robert Kennedy explores how Zen can help us to live deeper lives and how we can return from a study of Zen to a more profound understanding of Christian living and practice. "What I looked for in Zen," says the author, "was not a new faith, but a new way of being Catholic that grew out of my own lived experience and would not be blown away by authority or by changing theological fashion." Kennedy is unique in being competent in both Catholic and Zen practice and who responds to people who are drawn to this form of prayer and life. This is a refreshingly simple but also most beautiful book.

Spirit (The Puppy Place #50)

Author : Ellen Miles
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1338212664
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Spirit (The Puppy Place #50) written by Ellen Miles and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the Puppy Place -- where every puppy finds a home! While walking in a snowstorm, Lizzie sees two dark eyes and a little black nose. It's Spirit, a white German shepherd puppy! Spirit's owners found new homes for all of his brothers and sisters, but they still don't have a place for him. Can Lizzie find a forever home for this helpful little pup?

The Spirit of Place

Author : Loren Cruden
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN 13 : 9780892815111
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book The Spirit of Place written by Loren Cruden and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 1995-09 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of Earth’s life is interconnected and sacred. An awareness of that sacred relationship opens a direct path to spiritual understanding. These powerful techniques join mind, will, spirit, and intuition to the plants, animals, and minerals sharing our world, aligning the practitioner in a deeper relationship with life’s sacred matrix.

Rising Ground

Author : Philip Marsden
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 1847086292
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Rising Ground written by Philip Marsden and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Philip Marsden moved to a remote, creekside farmhouse in Cornwall, the intensity of his response took him aback. It led him to wonder why we react so strongly to certain places and set him off on a journey on foot westwards to Land's End through one of the most myth-rich regions of Europe. From the Neolithic ritual landscape of Bodmin Moor to the Arthurian traditions at Tintagel, from the mysterious china-clay region to the granite tors and tombs of the far south-west, Marsden assembles a chronology of Britain's attitude to place. In archives, he uncovers the life and work of other enthusiasts before him - medieval chroniclers and Tudor topographers, eighteenth-century antiquarians, post-industrial poets and abstract painters. Drawing also on his travels from further afield, Marsden reveals that the shape of the land lies not just at the heart of our own history but of man's perennial struggle to belong on this earth.

Spirit of Place

Author : Bob Krist
Publisher : Watson-Guptill Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780817458942
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (589 download)

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Download or read book Spirit of Place written by Bob Krist and published by Watson-Guptill Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The natural synergy between photography and travel is explored in these exquisite, lavishly illustrated, and instructive pages that demonstrate how artful camera use can record the true spirit of a place. On this thrilling worldwide tour, the author shows traveling nonprofessional photographers how to bring home memorable pictures of people, festivals, wildlife, architecture—even aerial and underwater shots. Directions are detailed for composing landscapes with a variety of lenses, working in both natural and artificial lilght. Valuable tips tell how to pack and carry photo equipment, deal with airport and hotel security, and prepare for various locations and weather conditions.

The Mythic Modern

Author : Travis Price
Publisher : Oro Editions
ISBN 13 : 9780982622681
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (226 download)

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Download or read book The Mythic Modern written by Travis Price and published by Oro Editions. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the summer of 1992, Travis proposed taking ten to fifiteen architecture students to the far reaches of our continent to design and build interventions within well-defined landscapes, sites that reflected equally a long history of working and reworking both the profane and sacred. Called "The Spirit of Place," these workshops in the field encompassed focused studies of a place and its inhabitants as well as exploring the deep belief systems, myths, and stories that defined them ... What unfolded was a twenty-year history of interventions in cultural settings often completel foreign to the quotidian exeriences of our predominantly East Coast undergraduates"--Page VIII.

Spirit of Place

Author : Lucy Maud Montgomery
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Spirit of Place written by Lucy Maud Montgomery and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1982 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The View from Federal Twist

Author : James Golden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781999734572
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book The View from Federal Twist written by James Golden and published by . This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Federal Twist is set on a ridge above the Delaware River in western New Jersey. It is a naturalistic garden that has loose boundaries and integrates closely with the natural world that surrounds it. It has no utilitarian or leisure uses (no play areas, swimming pools, or outdoor dining) and the site is not an obvious choice for a garden (heavy clay soil, poorly drained: quick death for any plants not ecologically suited to it). The physical garden, its plants and its features, is of course an appealing and pleasant place to be but Federal Twist's real charm and significance lie in its intangible aspects: its changing qualities and views, the moods and emotions it evokes, and its distinctive character and sense of place. This book charts the author's journey in making such a garden. How he made a conscious decision not to "improve the land", planted large, competitive plants into rough grass, experimented with seeding to develop sustainable plant communities. And how he worked with light to provoke certain moods and allowed the energy of the place, chance, and randomness to have its say. Part experimental horticulturist and part philosopher, James Golden has written an important book for naturalistic and ecological gardeners and anyone interested in exploring the relationship between gardens, nature, and ourselves.

Spirit of a Native Place

Author : Duane Blue Spruce
Publisher : National Geographic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Spirit of a Native Place written by Duane Blue Spruce and published by National Geographic. This book was released on 2004 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duane Blue Spruce, (Laguna Pueblo) an architect and member of the American Indian Council of Architects and Engineers, served as primary liaison between the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian and the design team that built the museum on the National Mall. Before joining the museum staff in 1993, Duane worked as an assistant project manager at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He lives near Washington, D.C., with his wife, Ida Marx Blue Spruce, and their children, Miles and Milena.