Studies in Architecture and Culture – serie
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Culture of Silence
Architecture's Fifth Dimension
Av Malcolm William Quantrill, Bruce C. Webb
Inbunden, 1998
581 kr
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German playwright Berthold Brecht once observed that ""the Finns are silent in two languages."" To those familiar with Finnish society and conversation, Brecht's remark aptly summarizes the difficulty of exchanging pleasantries, let alone ideas, with Finns. Those who have come up against these …
Latin American Architecture
Six Voices
Inbunden, 2000
696 kr
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The countries of Latin America exist within a framework of individuality supported by a unity based on the similar factors of urban population, rural morale, and ethnic conformation. The area is isolated even as it is centrally located in geographical terms, almost in a time warp of culture that …
Space and Place in the Mexican Landscape
The Evolution of a Colonial City
Av Fernando Núñez, Carlos Arvizu m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
467 kr
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Metaphysical conceptions have always influenced how human societies create the built environment. Mexico - with its rich culture, full of symbol and myth, its beautiful cities, and its evocative ruins - is an excellent place to study the interplay of influences on space and place. In this volume, …
Urban Forms, Suburban Dreams
Inbunden, 1994
581 kr
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One of the primary tasks for architecture in today's world is to create a sense of place, for the contemporary community—meshing urban density with suburban growth and change—is ""neither here nor there."" Both urb (city) and suburb in our society challenge architects to conceive through social …
Architectural Project
Av Alfonso Corona-Martínez, Malcolm William Quantrill
Inbunden, 2003
467 kr
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The Architectural Project considers the practice of architectural design as it has developed during the last two centuries. In this challenging interpretation of design education and its effect on design process and products, Argentinean scholar Alfonso Corona-Martonez emphasizes the distinction …
Chilean Modern Architecture Since 1950
Av Fernando Pérez Oyarzun, Rodrigo Pérez de Arce m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
524 kr
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Chilean architecture—along with that of São Paolo and Mexico City—sets a benchmark for the intersection of modernism with vernacular influences in Latin America. Culture, landscape, and the geology of this earthquake-prone region have all served as important filters for the practice of post-1950s …
