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"In his too-short life, Aaron Swartz reshaped the Internet, questioned our assumptions about intellectual property, and touched all of us in ways that we may not even realize. His tragic suicide in 2013 at the age of twenty-six after being aggressively prosecuted for copyright infringement shocked the nation and the world. Here for the first time in print is revealed the quintessential Aaron Swartz: besides being a technical genius and a passionate...
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Nathan Glazer is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Education at Harvard University. He was Coeditor of the Public Interest. His books include Beyond the Melting Pot, We Are All Multiculturalists Now, and The Public Face of Architecture.
Modernism in architecture and urban design has failed the American city. This is the decisive conclusion that renowned public intellectual Nathan Glazer has drawn from two decades of writing and thinking about...
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Juan Chabás fue un articulista y ensayista de gran curiosidad intelectual. Se convirtió en un espectador privilegiado del periodo cultural más importante de la era contemporánea: la vanguardia artística. Su labor crítica, desde el artículo hasta la reseña literaria, está caracterizada por una prosa de gran belleza.
Testigo de excepción reúne una variada muestra de su producción crítica sobre la literatura española de vanguardia de los...
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Extrait : "L'architecture n'est point ignorée des animaux: le trou du ver, les galeries de la fourmi, la ruche de l'abeille, le nid de l'épinoche ou de l'oiseau, la tanière du loup, le terrier du renard et du lapin, le village du castor, la hutte du gorille, la maison, le donjon, le temple et le palais répondent au même besoin diversifié à l'infini..."
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Des chevaliers armés d'épées en mousse s'affrontent le dimanche sur les flancs du mont Royal. Game of Thrones et The Lord of the Rings séduisent les foules. Les jeux vidéo plongeant les joueurs dans le passé médiéval sont nombreux et populaires. On le voit : il y a un engouement pour le Moyen ge. Francis Gingras montre comment cette période historique est aussi un objet d'étude pour beaucoup de disciplines : littérature, histoire, histoire...
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Parce que pour connaître les peuples, il faut d'abord les comprendre
Au-delà des Chartrons
Leur seul nom symbolise Bordeaux, l'austère cité bourgeoise et commerçante sur les rives de la Garonne. Mais le quai des Chartrons, aujourd'hui, est baigné de lumière. L'une des opérations de rénovation urbaine les plus audacieuses de France a transformé la métropole bordelaise en une des destinations les plus appréciées de l'hexagone pour son...
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Extrait : "Les phares, si secourables à la marine moderne, n'ont point complétement manqué à la marine ancienne. Malheureusement, end s'écroulant du même coup que l'empire romain, les phares de l'antiquité n'ont pas laissé autant de ruines ; leurs contemporains ne nous ont légué sur ces édifices que de nombreuses dissertations ; trop de livres et pas assez de pierres."
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El presente Libro FRANCMASONERÍA, LOS MISTERIOS Velados y Alegóricos DE SUS SÍMBOLOS de nuestro Muy Q. H. Francisco, resulta ser una obra de permanente consulta desde que solo eran trabajos que compartía con sus hermanos dentro de los talleres logiales, y que a su vez tenían y tienen como finalidad contribuir a la formación de un auténtico conocimiento masónico entre nuestros HH. AAp. CC. y M.M. esto, a través de la rica simbología que nos...
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A celebrated New York architect and designer of the city's fabled Singer Building, Ernest Flagg (1857-1947) was most famous for his skyscrapers. But Flagg was also an ardent proponent of the well-designed single-family dwelling. As this classic treatise illustrates, he devised a variety of structural economies and ingenious innovations. Filled with 526 blueprints, photographs, and other illustrations, Flagg's Small Houses embraces modular designs,...
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Enric Miralles (1955-2000) remains one of the most prominent architects of his generation. The significance of his architectural design lies in his seamless integration of site and building and his use of space to serve the everyday conditions of life.
Practicing for less than twenty-five years Miralles designed over 150 projects, many are now built including: the Scottish Parliament Buildings, Santa Caterina Market, Vigo University, Diagonal Mar...
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Landscape as Territory is a cartographic book project that critically addresses the agency of architects in the so-called 'Urban Age,' understanding the notion of 'territory' as a field of design praxis through which Interconnected landscapes are produced.
Territory, understood as a 'political technology,' has the capacity to involve architects and designers into complex social, political, technical, legal, strategic and economic processes that are...
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Extrait: "J'ai déjà dit quelque part qu'en écrivant l'histoire de nos anciennes ville de Picardie, je n'avais point la prétention de faire une œuvre parfaite, mais seulement de rassembler dans un seul cadre les documents disséminés dans cent recueils divers. Le volume que je publie aujourd'hui ne doit être considéré que comme un premier jalon autour duquel viendront se grouper tous les faits qui ne sont points parvenus à ma connaissance"....
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Investigates how data production and consumption territorialize the physical landscape filtered through Ireland's role in global communications and, as told by the Irish Pavilion at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale, features an installation that focuses on the materiality of data infrastructure in space.
As our everyday lives become increasingly, entangled with data technologies, the book addresses the utopian fantasy that surrounds the Cloud,...
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Los simplistas, dentro de la vanguardia francesa, más que un grupo de artistas, eran una hermandad. Como parte de sus búsquedas para conocer los límites de lo humano, compartían la fascinación por la metafísica y el gusto por sustancias venenosas, tóxicas y alucinógenas. Roger Gilbert-Lecomte fue uno de sus líderes y este libro reúne artículos y cartas en los que deja constancia de esos intereses individuales y grupales. El naufragio, la...
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This dissertation is over 50 years old. Written painstakingly by hand at a time when there were no computers or the Internet, Carol Winteringham takes you through a thorough first-hand analysis of urban developments in north-western Leeds. She takes into consideration the housing, industry and shopping facilities, looking at their historical development from 1940 to 1961 as well as the future plans up to 1981.
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Essays on Thermodynamics, Architecture and Beauty, is a book that unfolds arguments and designs around the concept of "thermodynamic beauty". This new aesthetic category opens up new and unexpected directions to the architect's work, connecting architecture and thermodynamics without giving up the tectonic tradition. The compendium will be developed through the concepts of Somatisms, Monsters Assemblage, Verticalism and Thermodynamic Materialism,...
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Partez à la découverte de l'Anatolie avec ce Grand Article Universalis!
La région anatolienne, qu'occupe l'actuelle Turquie d'Asie, constitue une sorte de promontoire avancé de l'Asie occidentale que les historiens ont coutume de considérer comme un passage naturel entre ce continent et l'Europe...
Un ouvrage spécialement conçu pour le numérique afin d'en savoir plus sur l'Anatolie
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Part aphorism and part manifesto, this book by Canadian architect, Reza Aliabadi (RZLBD) references his ideas and thoughts about space.
He suggests 'the empty room' as the very essence of architecture, and 'the spatial experience' as its highest mandate. Reza revisits architecture, not as the walls that enclose the space, rather the space in-between the walls. What he calls an "anti-architecture" of invisible voids.
Today architecture has fallen...
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First published in 1892, this vintage book looks at religious, mystical, and mythological influences on architecture throughout history and from all over the world, exploring in detail similarities, design, purpose, and much more. Profusely illustrated throughout, "Architecture, Mysticism and Myth" will appeal to those with an interest in religious architecture and would make for a worthy addition to any collection.
Contents include: "The World Fabric",...
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