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Author : Annmarie Adams
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 34,56 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780870499838
"Drawn from two conferences of the Vernacular Architecture Forum--one held in Charleston in 1994, and the other in Ottawa in 1995"--Back cover.
Author : Paul Groth
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 33,19 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300072037
How does knowledge of everyday environments foster deeper understanding of both past and present cultural life? Traditional studies in this field have been of rural life. Here, contributors explore aspects of the emergent field of urban cultural landscape studies--with the challenging issues of class, race, ethnicity, and subculture--to demonstrate the value of investigating the many meanings of ordinary settings. 67 illustrations.
Author : John Brinckerhoff Jackson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 25,75 MB
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300035810
A pioneer in landscape studies takes us on a tour of landscapes past and present to show how our surroundings reflect our culture. "No one who cares deeply about landscape issues can overlook the scores of brilliant insights and challenges to the mind, eye and conscience contained in Discovering the Vernacular Landscape. It is a book to be deeply cherished and to be read and pondered many times."--Wilbur Zelinsky, Landscape "While it is fashionable to speak of man as alienated from his environment, Mr. Jackson shows us all the ties that bind us to it, consciously or unconsciously. He teaches us to speak intelligently--rather than polemically or wistfully--of the sense of place."--Anatole Broyard, New York Times "This book is a vital and seminal text: do beg, borrow or buy it."--Robert Holden, Landscape Design (London) "Incisive and overpoweringly influential. It will probably tell you something about how you live that you've never thought about."--Thomas Hine, The Philadelphia Inquirer "No one can come close to Jackson in his unique combination of historical scholarship and field experience, in his deep knowledge of European high culture as well as of American trailer parks, in his archivist's nose for the unusual fact and his philosopher's mind for the trenchant, surprising question."--Yi-Fu Tuan
Author : Gabrielle M. Lanier
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 1278 pages
File Size : 18,8 MB
Release : 1997-07-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780801853258
Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic gives proof to the insights architecture offers into who we are culturally as a community, a region, and a nation.
Author : Camilla Casonato
Publisher : LetteraVentidue Edizioni
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 25,11 MB
Release : 2022-10-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 8862427948
Heritage and landscape education is crucial to training young people in active and responsible citizenship, protection of the public assets, appreciation of the cultural diversity and intergenerational dialogue. Therefore, it cannot be limited to sporadic experiences and on outstanding heritage and contexts but must be transdisciplinary, inclusive and practicable everywhere. This book relates the research and action project “Scuola Attiva Risorse” (ScAR), winner of the Polisocial Award that recognizes research for social purposes at the Politecnico di Milano. The text describes an experimental and innovative action delivered within the fragile context of the urban peripheries. This participatory process involved schools, universities, cultural institutions, administrations and private actors in interpreting and enhancing the “hidden” cultural heritage in Milan’s fringe neighbourhoods.
Author : Alex Stewart
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 22,13 MB
Release : 2014-04-19
Category :
ISBN : 9781366300225
Everyday Landscapes is a piece of work exploring the beauty of every day life, the things we see on a day to day basis. The more we become accustomed to our environment, the more we take for granted what is actually around us. With influences ranging from The New Topographics to Joel Meyorwitz and William Eggleston, Everyday Landscapes examines the relationship between the industrial town environment and the ever presence of nature. The book shows a journey through the town in which I have lived the last three years of my life, showing the areas that are walked by without a second glance on a daily basis, it is just stopping, and taking in the beauty of what is around us.
Author : R. A. Preece
Publisher : *Belhaven Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 37,90 MB
Release : 1993-11-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780471947523
Explores the principles of landscape design, combining the theory of landscape aesthetics with the practice of good architectural design. Considers why certain environments may be valued; analyzes historical designs focusing on their relevance to contemporary design of the principles discussed. Outlines the philosophical problems of dealing with subjectivity and the difficulties of evaluating incremental change. Recognizes that visual and cultural aspects are intimately related to technical and functional matters and accordingly sets out to treat these as parts of the whole. Most chapters include brief case studies based on everyday surroundings.
Author : Annemaree Lloyd
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 24,62 MB
Release : 2010-02-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1780630298
Drawing upon the author’s on going research into information literacy, Information Literacy Landscapes explores the nature of the phenomenon from a socio-cultural perspective, which offers a more holistic approach to understanding information literacy as a catalyst for learning. This perspective emphasizes the dynamic relationship between learner and environment in the construction of knowledge. The approach underlines the importance of contextuality, through which social, cultural and embodied factors influence formal and informal learning. This book contributes to the understanding of information literacy and its role in formal and informal contexts. Explores the shape of information literacy within education and workplace contexts Introduces a holistic definition of information literacy which has been drawn from empirical studies in the workplace Introduces a range of sensitizing concepts for researchers and practitioners
Author : Jane Hutton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 36,14 MB
Release : 2019-09-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1317569059
How are the far-away, invisible landscapes where materials come from related to the highly visible, urban landscapes where those same materials are installed? Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements traces five everyday landscape construction materials – fertilizer, stone, steel, trees, and wood – from seminal public landscapes in New York City, back to where they came from. Drawing from archival documents, photographs, and field trips, the author brings these two separate landscapes – the material’s source and the urban site where the material ended up – together, exploring themes of unequal ecological exchange, labor, and material flows. Each chapter follows a single material’s movement: guano from Peru that landed in Central Park in the 1860s, granite from Maine that paved Broadway in the 1890s, structural steel from Pittsburgh that restructured Riverside Park in the 1930s, London plane street trees grown on Rikers Island by incarcerated workers that were planted on Seventh Avenue north of Central Park in the 1950s, and the popular tropical hardwood, ipe, from northern Brazil installed in the High Line in the 2000s. Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements considers the social, political, and ecological entanglements of material practice, challenging readers to think of materials not as inert products but as continuous with land and the people that shape them, and to reimagine forms of construction in solidarity with people, other species, and landscapes elsewhere.
Author : Lisa Morrow
Publisher :
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 27,84 MB
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781497560765
The first time Lisa Morrow went to Turkey she was just one of many young people on the great pilgrimage to Europe and beyond. The colourful sights, sounds and smells of foreign countries appeal to their need for adventure and excitement. When the enterprise becomes too trying, there is always the safety of a return ticket to fall back on. After a given period of time they're expected to return, a little older and a lot wiser. While some go for a year, others never make it back. At first Lisa only travelled across the vast expanses of Turkey as a visitor, but then she began to stay for longer and longer periods of time. Her initial glimpses of a culture less western than eastern were replaced by an awareness that Turkey is at times both and yet something more. These experiences became a metaphor for an inner journey from the known to the unknown and back. The uncompromising nature of Turkish culture and society meant she had to accept what she saw without changing it. In so doing she started to question who she was and look for an alternative way of being. Exploring Turkish Landscapes builds on Lisa Morrow's first collection of stories, Inside Out In Istanbul. This latest collection offers a much more personal insight into Turkish traditions and beliefs, and also takes us on an emotional journey as one woman rediscovers herself.