Constructing Shadows

Author : Peter Petschek
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3034610734
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructing Shadows written by Peter Petschek and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trees are ideal sources of shade; where they cannot be used, their function is taken over by tents, pergolas, and pavilions. In the context of global warming, shade-providing construction is becoming an increasingly important building task. In Part One of this book, specialists in the field present the typical forms of shade-providing construction as well as the design approach associated with each. Part Two presents easily consultable overviews of 140 plants that have proven to be effective givers of shade in temperate, subtropical, and tropical zones. Part Three presents thirty built projects by celebrated architects and landscape architects from five continents. These constructions illustrate a wide variety of functions and scales and cover various climatic zones and cultural contexts. All structures are constructionally and systematically analyzed with texts, true-to-scale drawings, and photographs from their foundations to their connections and the shadows they cast.

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Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry McGoodwin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architectural Shades and Shadows written by Henry McGoodwin and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Kentridge
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674504259
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Six Drawing Lessons written by William Kentridge and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last three decades, the visual artist William Kentridge has garnered international acclaim for his work across media including drawing, film, sculpture, printmaking, and theater. Rendered in stark contrasts of black and white, his images reflect his native South Africa and, like endlessly suggestive shadows, point to something more elemental as well. Based on the 2012 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, Six Drawing Lessons is the most comprehensive collection available of Kentridge’s thoughts on art, art-making, and the studio. Art, Kentridge says, is its own form of knowledge. It does not simply supplement the real world, and it cannot be purely understood in the rational terms of traditional academic disciplines. The studio is the crucial location for the creation of meaning: the place where linear thinking is abandoned and the material processes of the eye, the hand, the charcoal and paper become themselves the guides of creativity. Drawing has the potential to educate us about the most complex issues of our time. This is the real meaning of “drawing lessons.” Incorporating elements of graphic design and ranging freely from discussions of Plato’s cave to the Enlightenment’s role in colonial oppression to the depiction of animals in art, Six Drawing Lessons is an illustration in print of its own thesis of how art creates knowledge. Foregrounding the very processes by which we see, Kentridge makes us more aware of the mechanisms—and deceptions—through which we construct meaning in the world.

Author : Samuel Edward Warren
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book General Problems of Shades and Shadows written by Samuel Edward Warren and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roberto Casati
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375707115
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadows written by Roberto Casati and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2004-08-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original, wide-ranging, and endlessly thought-provoking work of popular nonfiction, a leading science writer uncovers the pervasive presence of shadows in our world. For Plato, shadows were the symbol of our limitations. For Galileo, they knocked the Earth from the center of the cosmos. They are a source of fear and a symbol of ignorance, and they loom large in art and design, mythology and folklore, physics and metaphysics, and architecture and urban planning. From shadows puppets and the psychology of shadows to the role of shadows in astronomy and the influence of shadows on the architectural profiles of our cities, Roberto Casati awakens our fascination in this tour-de-force of investigation and imagination.

Author : Berthe E. Spink
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Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advanced courses; (a) shadow projection written by Berthe E. Spink and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Martin Isler
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806133423
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sticks, Stones, and Shadows written by Martin Isler and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do the pyramids of Egypt really represent? What could have driven so many to so great, and often so dangerous, an effort? Was the motivation religious or practical? Illustrated with more than 300 photographs and drawings, this book presents an original approach to the subject of pyramid building. It reveals the connection between devices that served both a practical need for survival and a spiritual belief in gods and goddesses. It examines Egyptian technologies and techniques from the origins of pyramid development to the step-by-step details of how the ground was leveled, how the site was oriented, and how the stone was raised and placed to meet at a distant point in the sky. Here the author also asks and answers questions virtually ignored for the last century. He discloses, for example, the ancient use of shadows, now denigrated to the ornamental back-yard sundial, but once an important tool for telling the height of an object, geographical directions, the seasons of the year, and the time of day. He also reinterprets the ancient "stretching of the cord" ceremony, which once was thought to have only religious significance but here is shown as the means of establishing the sides of a pyramid.

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Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cyclopedia of Architecture, Carpentry, and Building written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 866 pages
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Download or read book The American Architect and Building News written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: