Climate-friendly construction is essential if we are to ensure that future generations can enjoy comfortable living spaces. Design and the choice of materials help to considerably reduce the climate impact of buildings. The techniques feat...Daugiau...
This volume focuses on socio-spatial practices of indigenous communities in India. It explores the interrelation between the built environments and lifeworlds, i.e. practices, patterns, and structures of everyday life. This volume...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Jul-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478028246)
Throughout Russian history, local craftsmen have shown remarkable skill in fashioning wood into items of daily use, from bridges and street paving to carts and boats to household utensils and combs. Russia has the largest forested zone on the planet...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Jul-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816555628)
The dramatic split of the Hopi community of Orayvi in 1906 had lasting consequences not only for the people of Third Mesa but also for the very buildings around which they centered their lives. This book examines architectural and other e...Daugiau...
For centuries, the traditional folk houses known as kominka have provided shelter and embodied the values of the agrarian, merchant and samurai society of pre-modern Japan. Their huge sturdy posts and powerful beams have w...Daugiau...
Contemporary vernacular architecture today - and what we can learn from temporary infrastructuresTemporary Tecture is a fundamental statement on the impact and significance of temporary infrastructures in the city: not only do they ens...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 28-Feb-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Tennessee Press, ISBN-13: 9781621909316)
In Exploring Gender in Vernacular Architecture, Jessica Ellen Sewell considers the gender of those who create and shape spaces, how gender ideology contributes to and manifests itself in built form, and what research methods make the observation of...Daugiau...
Design and the Vernacular explores the intersection between vernacular architecture, local cultures, and modernity and globalization. Focusing on the vast and diverse global region of Australasia and Oceania, it examines the relevance and role of ve...Daugiau...
This book explores the concept of fragile heritage as an architectural legacy and a territorial resource in rural China, emphasizing the significance in safeguarding its unique cultural trajectory, and laying the groundwork for future developments...Daugiau...
In this book, Clarkeson reads Palladios drawings as being carefully crafted, having integrity in their own right, with their own story to tell, and meant to be measured. Claiming Palladios rightful place in the history of metrology, Clarkeson repr...Daugiau...
Drawing on the authors extensive fieldwork in the Dong areas in southwest China, this book presents a detailed picture of the Dongs buildings and techniques, with new insights into the Dongs cosmology and rituals of everyday life meshed with th...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1990, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction, Vernacular Architecture: Paradigms of Environmental Response was n...Daugiau...
Climate-friendly construction is essential if we are to ensure that future generations can enjoy comfortable living spaces. Design and the choice of materials help to considerably reduce the climate impact of buildings. The techniques feat...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Oct-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469682174)
After centuries of colonial rule, the end of Angolas three-decade civil war in 2002 provided an irresistible opportunity for the government to reimagine the Luanda cityscape. Awash with petrodollars cultivated through strategic foreign relationships...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Oct-2024, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469682181)
After centuries of colonial rule, the end of Angolas three-decade civil war in 2002 provided an irresistible opportunity for the government to reimagine the Luanda cityscape. Awash with petrodollars cultivated through strategic foreign relationships...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 29-Oct-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262049108)
To what extent can a fish produce architecture? This book sets out to trace a socioecological history of North Atlantic architecture in relation to fisheries, thus shedding light on the connection that exists between the transformation of marine env...Daugiau...
The Built Environment through the Prism of the Colonial Periodical Press is a venture of the International Group for Studies of Colonial Periodical Press of the Portuguese Empire (IGSCP-PE), who are also interested in comparative studies and conce...Daugiau...
This book not only shows how architects can learn from traditional or vernacular dwellings in order to create habitations for the people of low-income groups in public housing scenarios, but also demonstrates how the architecture of the economically...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 21-Jun-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781032374840)
This volume focuses on socio-spatial practices of indigenous communities in India. It explores the interrelation between the built environments and lifeworlds, i.e. practices, patterns, and structures of everyday life. The chapters deal with differe...Daugiau...
This book offers a variety of analyses, methodologies, and reflections on the behaviour of vernacular architecture in the face of natural hazards, with an emphasis on the strategies that can be used to cope with them. It was originally published a...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 21-Jun-2024, Other book format, Leidėjas: Roli Books Pvt Ltd, ISBN-13: 9788196643546)
Everyday Indian Aesthetic is a unique documentation of India, depicted through aesthetics as seen in architecture, adornments, objects, colors, textures, patterns, and typography.Everyday Indian Aesthetic is a unique docu...Daugiau...
This book links the concepts of place, home, and tradition into an overarching argument: the meaning of home rests on the ideas of tradition, including identity, consanguinity, collectivity, social relations, land ownership, and rural lifestyle....Daugiau...
The 11th ISVS (International Seminar for Vernacular Settlements) that was hosted by the School of Environmental Design and Architecture, Navrachana University brought together some important ideas and concerns as related to questions of developmen...Daugiau...
A rare glimpse into Korean hanok, Inside the Korean House takes readers on an unprecedented tour through the modern interiors of twelve magnificent tradional homes.Amidst the glass-and-steel skyscrapers and luxury apartme...Daugiau...
Design and the Vernacular explores the intersection between vernacular architecture, local cultures, and modernity and globalization, focussing on the vast and diverse global region of Australasia and Oceania. The relevance and role of vern...Daugiau...
An essential collection of key readings and foundational sources in the study of the worlds vernacular and traditional building cultures. Vernacular Architecture: Critical and Primary Sources brings together for the first time a co...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 27-Jul-2023, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781803993713)
Delve into Londons architectural curiositites and discover the unexpected gems waiting around every corner.London is full of extraordinary, enigmatic and, above all, unexpected buildings: a pirate castle in Camden, an art gallery made of s...Daugiau...
Drawing on the authors extensive fieldwork in the Dong areas in southwest China, this book presents a detailed picture of the Dongs buildings and techniques, with new insights into the Dongs cosmology and rituals of everyday life meshed with th...Daugiau...
