Precedents in Architecture provides a vocabulary for architectural analysis that will help you understand the works of others, and aid you in creating your own designs. Here, you will examine the work of internationally known architects with the help of a unique diagrammatic tec…
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Presents an English translation of ""Husserliana XXIII"", the volume in the edition of Edmund Husserl's works. The lectures and sketches comprising ""Husserliana XXIII"" come from a period of enormous productivity and pivotal development in Husserl's philosophical life.
Do energy-efficient cars have to be boring? Are green buildings necessarily unsightly? Is sustainability incompatible with beauty? Lance Hosey's answer is a resounding "no," and in "The Shape of Green" he argues that for far too long sustainable design has neglected aesthetics. …
Wabi sabi, the quintessential Japanese design aesthetic, is quickly gaining popularity around the world, as evidenced by recent articles in Time, The Chicago Tribune and Kyoto Journal. Taken from the Japanese words wabi, which translates to less is more, and sabi, which means at…
The visual landscape of forests is an important source of information for the public in judging the sustainability of forest resource management, and there is an increasing recognition of the importance of the linkage between forest ecology and aesthetics among foresters and env…
The visual landscape of forests is an important source of information for the public in judging the sustainability of forest resource management, and there is an increasing recognition of the importance of the linkage between forest ecology and aesthetics among foresters and env…
In this book the author takes a fresh look at the sublime and shows why it endures as a meaningful concept in contemporary philosophy. In a reassessment of historical approaches, the first part of the book identifies the scope and value of the sublime in eighteenth-century philo…
Illuminates the social pretentions of the middle classes in the modern world, focusing on the tastes and preferences of the French bourgeoisie. This book argues that the social world functions simultaneously as a system of power relations and as a symbolic system in which minute…
In 'Distinction', Pierre Bourdieu brilliantly illuminates the social pretentions of the middle classes in the modern world. Focusing on the French bourgeoisie - its tastes and preferences - 'Distinction' is at once a vast ethnography of contemporary France and a dissection of th…
by Gray, Jeremy, Grafton, Anthony, Feingold, Mordechai, Principe, Lawrence, Renn, Jürgen, Newman, William, Shapiro, Alan, Hon, Giora, Goldstein, Bernard R., Roland, Alex, Buchwald, Jed Z., Bos, Henk, Franklin, Allan D., Gavroglu, Kostas, Kingsland, Sharon, Levere, Trevor, Lützen, Jesper, Siraisi, Nancy, Swerdlow, Noel
fromArchimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Sc…
