Architecture of social reform

Architecture of Social Reform

Explores how housing design came to occupy the center of the modernist project in Germany. -- .

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Proxemics and the Architecture of Social Interaction

Founded by anthropologist Edward T. Hall, proxemics developed amid cold war political tensions and social and civil unrest. Proxemics and the Architec

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Preservation and Social Inclusion

The field of historic preservation is becoming more socially and culturally inclusive, through more diversity in the profession and enhanced community

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Rudolf Steiner and Social Reform

Against a background of chronic discontent and social conflict around the globe, Richard Masters presents a comprehensive survey of Rudolf Steiner's w

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Designing Reform

Investigating the rich architecture of post-Mao China and its broad cultural impact

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Social (Re)Production of Architecture

A cutting-edge, critical text which rethinks both practice and theory in the light of recent crises, making it key reading for students, academics and

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Aeropolis – Queering Air in Toxicpolluted Worlds

Aeropolis proposes that air is thought of as a city, to center its social, cultural, political, ecological entanglements.

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Art after Liberalism

Art after Liberalism is an account of creative practice at a moment of converging social crises. It is also an inquiry into emergent ways of living, a

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Elizabethan Architecture

Discusses social structure and the way of life behind Elizabethan and Jacobean architecture, the ferment of excitement aroused in English patrons and

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The Architecture of Reciprocity

We should ask not only how architecture is, but primarily, what it causes. Such is the epigraph for the present work, discussion (not only) architecture in a way that addresses every one of us. The authors of the publication, who have spent much time investigating the mutual relations between human beings, their environment and architecture, demonstrate through concrete e...

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Mind in the Making - The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform

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Making of Mexican Modernist Architecture

This book presents the making of Mexican modernist architecture mainly through five power structures : academic, social status, economic/political, ge

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European Architecture 1750-1890

This comprehensive examination of 18th and 19th-century architecture explores its extreme diversity within the context of social, economic and politic

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Towards a Resilient Architecture

Explores the interconnected social, sustainable and spatial principles that underpin the design of more environmentally conscientious buildings, illus

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Eastern Medieval Architecture

The rich and diverse architectural traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean and adjacent regions are the subject of this book, including the social and

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Architecture after Modernism

An examination of the architectural world and its theories since the late 1960s in the context of social and political issues. It looks at a broad sur

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Reassembling Social Security

The reform of social security pensions and healthcare is a key issue for the modern world, and in many ways Latin America has acted as a social labora

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The Architecture of Reciprocity - Miroslav Cikán,Pavla Melková

Anotace: We should ask not only how architecture is, but primarily, what it causes. Such is the epigraph for the present work, discussion (not only) architecture in a way that addresses every one of us. The authors of the publication, who have spent much time investigating the mutual relations between human beings, their environment and architecture, demonstrate through ...

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Geologics. Geography Information Architecture - Vicente Guallart

A new era demands a new architecture: Vicente Guallart, pioneer and producer of new media on architecture, examines the technological, social and cultural changes inherent in our current information society.

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Geologics - Geography Information Architecture - Vicente Guallart

<p>A new era demands a new architecture: Vicente Guallart, pioneer and producer of new media on architecture, examines the technological, social and cultural changes inherent in our current information society. He proposes, by means of his architecture, projects and writings, fresh ways for building in five distinct urban areas: the city, the periphery, the outskirt...

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Poverty and Poor Law Reform in Nineteenth-Century Britain, 1834-1914

The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 is one of the most important pieces of social legislation ever enacted. Its principles and the workhouse system dom

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Architecture, Society, and Ritual in Viking Age Scandinavia

This book takes a fresh perspective on the Viking Age, offering a social archaeology of the Viking home. A highly charged architectural element - the

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(art) without borders - Medieval Art and Architecture in the Ore Mountains Region (1250-1550) - Aleš Mudra

<p>Kniha představuje vizuální kulturu v regionu Krušnohoří v pozdním středověku. Její zvláštní charakter a mimořádné bohatství byly určeny jak těžbou rud, tak intenzivní kulturní výměnou s centry v Českém vnitrozemí, Sasku a Frankách. Tato kniha shrnuje a rozvíjí výsledky výzkumu kulturního dědictví regionu, dlouhodobě prováděného týmem historiků umění. Kniha je str...

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A Simpler Life: a guide to greater serenity, case, and clarity - School of Life The

<p>Exploring ideas around minimalism, simplicity and how to live comfortably with less. The modern world can be a complicated, frenzied and noisy place, filled with too many options, products, ideas and opinions. That explains why what many of us long for is simplicity: a life that can be more pared down, peaceful and focused on the essentials. But finding simplic...

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Rage of the Assassin

London, 1817. A man is shot outside of Covent Garden Theatre. Was Sir Roger Mellanby MP, a spearhead for social reform, really the intended target of

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Country Houses of Shropshire

A gazetteer of the many fine Shropshire country houses, which covers the architecture, the owners' family history, and the social and economic circums

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Rasputin: The Memoirs of his Secretary

Available and annotated for the first time in English, Aron Simanovitch's memoirs offer an intimate view of Rasputin through the eyes of his dear friend and secretary. Simanovitch reveals Rasputin's progressive ideas for social and economic reform that out

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Amazing Grace

A biography of William Wilberforce and a depiction of an era of social reform that changed the world.

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G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century - Gage Beverly

Anotace: When he became director of the FBI in 1924, J. Edgar Hoover was a dazzling wunderkind buzzing with big ideas for reform. He transformed a failing law-enforcement backwater, riddled with scandal, into a modern machine. He believed in the power of the federal government to do great things for the nation and its citizens. He also believed that certain people - many...

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Votes from Seats

This book is for students of electoral and party systems, those interested in institutional reform, and those yearning for a more scientific social sc

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Modern Hospice Design

Rooted in the social history of the care of the elderly and terminally ill, Modern Hospice Design: The Architecture of Palliative and Social Care take

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Middlemarch

An analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 told through the lives of Doro

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Frontier Gandhi

Affectionately known as ‘Bacha’ Khan or ‘Badshah’ Khan amongst his people, Khan Abdul Ghaffar’s life was dedicated to the social reform of the Pu

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Go-Away Bird

Incisive social and political concerns are matched by her meticulous care with the shape of each poem and the architecture of this collection, where i

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Ugliness and Judgment

A novel interpretation of architecture, ugliness, and the social consequences of aesthetic judgmentWhen buildings are deemed ugly, what are the conseq

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Architectural Novel

Scholars in disciplines from architecture and the fine arts, to the various branches of history and social studies, will find this study timely given

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Geologics - Vicente Guallart

Anotace: A new era demands a new architecture: Vicente Guallart, pioneer and producer of new media on architecture, examines the technological, social and cultural changes inherent in our current information society. He proposes, by means of his architecture, projects and writings, fresh ways for building in five distinct urban areas: the city, the periphery, the outskir...

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Geologics

A new era demands a new architecture: Vicente Guallart, pioneer and producer of new media on architecture, examines the technological, social and cultural changes inherent in our current information society. He proposes, by means of his architecture, projects and writings, fresh ways for building in five distinct urban areas: the city, the periphery, the outskirts, the ru...

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Archigram

In the 1960s, the architects of Britain's Archigram group and Archigram magazine turned away from conventional architecture to propose cities that move and houses worn like suits of clothes. In drawings inspired by pop art and psychedelia, architecture floated away, tethered by wires, gantries, tubes, and trucks. In Archigram: Architecture without Architecture, Simon Sadl...

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Vital Art Nouveau 1900 - Lucie Vlčková,Radim Vondráček,kol.

Anotace: The publication is devoted to key works of the Czech and European Art Nouveau style from the collections of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague. It examines decorative art of the Art Nouveau period as part of the ground-breaking modernization and emancipation trends of the Fin de siecle that brought changes in interior and fashion design, introduced new form...

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Vital Art Nouveau 1900

The publication is devoted to key works of the Czech and European Art Nouveau style from the collections of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague. It examines decorative art of the Art Nouveau period as part of the ground-breaking modernization and emancipation trends of the Fin de siecle that brought changes in interior and fashion design, introduced new forms and styl...

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Vital Art Nouveau 1900 - autorů kolektiv

<p>The publication is devoted to key works of the Czech and European Art Nouveau style from the collections of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague. It examines decorative art of the Art Nouveau period as part of the ground-breaking modernization and emancipation trends of the Fin de siecle that brought changes in interior and fashion design, introduced new forms...

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New Russia

After years of rapprochement, the relationship between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has ever been in the past 25 years. Putin's motives, his reasons for seeking confrontation with the West, remain for many a mystery. Not for Mikhail Gorbachev. In this new work, Russia's elder statesman draws on his wealth of knowledge and experience to reveal the devel...

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Různí interpreti – Au revoir, Prague MP3

Vyšehrad - the ancient seat of the Princes of Bohemia, dating from the first half of the 10th century. The cemetery with "Slavín" where outstanding Czech artists and scientists are laid to rest. (Smetana "Vyšehrad"). Wenceslas Squere (Václavské náměstí) - the main Prague thoroughfare with St. Wenceslas Monument by Josef Václav Myslbek. The centre of business and social li...

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Různí interpreti – Au revoir, Prague FLAC

Vyšehrad - the ancient seat of the Princes of Bohemia, dating from the first half of the 10th century. The cemetery with "Slavín" where outstanding Czech artists and scientists are laid to rest. (Smetana "Vyšehrad"). Wenceslas Squere (Václavské náměstí) - the main Prague thoroughfare with St. Wenceslas Monument by Josef Václav Myslbek. The centre of business and social li...

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Gaudi. The Complete Works - 40th Anniversary Edition - Rainer Zerbst

<p>Antoni Gaudí merged Orientalism, natural forms, and new materials into a unique Modernista aesthetic that put Barcelona on the global architecture map. With brand-new photography, plans and drawings by Gaudí himself, as well as an extensive appendix of all his works including furniture and unfinished projects, this book takes us through the Catalonian’s fantastic...

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Au revoir, Prague

Audiokniha MP3 Jaromír Čermák,Karel Šašek, čte František Fröhlich Vyšehrad - the ancient seat of the Princes of Bohemia, dating from the first half of the 10th century. The cemetery with "Slavín" where outstanding Czech artists and scientists are laid to rest. (Smetana "Vyšehrad"). Wenceslas Squere (Václavské náměstí) - the main Prague thoroughfare with St. Wenceslas Mo...

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Adolf Portmann

This edited volume is the first specialized book in English about the Swiss zoologist and anthropologist Adolf Portmann (1897-1982). It provides a clarification and update of Portmann's theoretical approach to the phenomenon of life, characterized by terms such as "inwardness" and "self-presentation." Portmann's concepts of secondary altriciality and the social uterus hav...

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Detective Fiction

"Detective Fiction" is a clear and compelling look at some of the best known, yet least-understood, characters and texts of the modern day. Charles J. Rzepka traces the history of the genre from its modern beginnings in the early eighteenth century, with the criminal broadsheets and 'true' crime stories of "The Newgate Calendar", to its present state of diversity, innovat...

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Innovative Apartment Buildings

Current design of apartment buildings is facing challenges of philosophy and form. Past approaches no longer sustain new demands and require innovative thinking. The need for a new outlook is propelled by fundamental changes that touch upon environmental, economic, cultural and social aspects that led to the writing of this book. The depletion of non-renewable natural re...

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The Iconic British House - Dominic Bradbury

<p>A definitive survey of the finest examples of residential architecture in Britain from 1900 to the present, featuring the major architects of the 20th century and leading emerging talents. In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in the architectural history and heritage of Britain. This has been driven by many important political, cultural and so...

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(art) without borders - Aleš Mudra,Michaela Ottová

Anotace: Kniha představuje vizuální kulturu v regionu Krušnohoří v pozdním středověku. Její zvláštní charakter a mimořádné bohatství byly určeny jak těžbou rud, tak intenzivní kulturní výměnou s centry v Českém vnitrozemí, Sasku a Frankách. Tato kniha shrnuje a rozvíjí výsledky výzkumu kulturního dědictví regionu, dlouhodobě prováděného týmem historiků umění. Kniha je st...

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Frostpunk: Last Atumn (PC) Klíč Steam

Tento obsah vyžaduje ke hraní vlastnictví základní hry Frostpunk (verze pro Steam). Learn about the tragic turn of events that lead to the grim world of Frostpunk in the prequel expansion, The Last Autumn. Vastly expanding upon the Frostpunk universe by introducing a brand new scenario, the expansion content also introduces game-changing new me...

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Emotional Intelligence &amp; Working with EI - Daniel Goleman

Emotional Intelligence Does IQ define our destiny? Daniel Goleman argues that our view of human intelligence is far too narrow, and that our emotions play a major role in thought, decision making and individual success. Self-awareness, impulse control, persistence, motivation, empathy and social deftness are all qualities that mark people who excel: whose relationships fl...

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Rustic Baroque

Culture, history, language, and indeed the living memory of a nation fuse in Jiří Hájíček’s Rustic Baroque and in the additional stories included in this unique volume.Winner of the Magnesia Litera prize as the best Czech novel of 2005, Rustic Baroque is set in South Bohemia about a decade after the Velvet Revolution. The story recalls the tumult in the countryside during...

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Frostpunk: Last Atumn (PC) Klíč Steam (PC)

Tento obsah vyžaduje ke hran&iacute; vlastnictv&iacute; z&aacute;kladn&iacute; hry Frostpunk (verze pro Steam).Learn about the tragic turn of events that lead to the grim world of Frostpunk in the prequel expansion, The Last Autumn. Vastly expanding upon the Frostpunk universe by introducing a brand new scenario, the expansion content also introduces game-...

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Rustic Baroque - Jiří Hájíček

<p>Culture, history, language, and indeed the living memory of a nation fuse in Jiří Hájíček’s Rustic Baroque and in the additional stories included in this unique volume.</p><p>Winner of the Magnesia Litera prize as the best Czech novel of 2005, Rustic Baroque is set in South Bohemia about a decade after the Velvet Revolution. The story recalls the tumu...

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