Walkscapes

Author : Francesco Careri
Publisher : Culicidae Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781683150084
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Walkscapes written by Francesco Careri and published by Culicidae Architectural Press. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walkscapes deals with strolling as an architecture of landscape. Walking as an autonomous form of art, a primary act in the symbolic transformation of the territory, an aesthetic instrument of knowledge and a physical transformation of the 'negotiated' space, which is converted into an urban intervention. From primitive nomadism to Dada and Surrealism, from the Lettrist to the Situationist International, and from Minimalism to Land Art, this book narrates the perception of landscape through a history of the traversed city.

Author : Francesco Careri
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1683150139
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Walkscapes written by Francesco Careri and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-01-21 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walkscapes deals with strolling as an architecture of landscape. Walking as an autonomous form of art, a primary act in the symbolic transformation of the territory, an aesthetic instrument of knowledge and a physical transformation of the 'negotiated' space, which is converted into an urban intervention. From primitive nomadism to Dada and Surrealism, from the Lettrist to the Situationist International, and from Minimalism to Land Art, this book narrates the perception of landscape through a history of the traversed city.

Author : Karen O'Rourke
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262528959
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Walking and Mapping written by Karen O'Rourke and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of walking and mapping as both form and content in art projects using old and new technologies, shoe leather and GPS. From Guy Debord in the early 1950s to Richard Long, Janet Cardiff, and Esther Polak more recently, contemporary artists have returned again and again to the walking motif. Today, the convergence of global networks, online databases, and new tools for mobile mapping coincides with a resurgence of interest in walking as an art form. In Walking and Mapping, Karen O'Rourke explores a series of walking/mapping projects by contemporary artists. She offers close readings of these projects—many of which she was able to experience firsthand—and situates them in relation to landmark works from the past half-century. Together, they form a new entity, a dynamic whole greater than the sum of its parts. By alternating close study of selected projects with a broader view of their place in a bigger picture, Walking and Mapping itself maps a complex phenomenon.

Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101199555
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Wanderlust written by Rebecca Solnit and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-06-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passionate, thought-provoking exploration of walking as a political and cultural activity, from the author of Orwell's Roses Drawing together many histories--of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores--Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities presented by walking. Arguing that the history of walking includes walking for pleasure as well as for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit focuses on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture, from philosophers to poets to mountaineers. She profiles some of the most significant walkers in history and fiction--from Wordsworth to Gary Snyder, from Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet to Andre Breton's Nadja--finding a profound relationship between walking and thinking and walking and culture. Solnit argues for the necessity of preserving the time and space in which to walk in our ever more car-dependent and accelerated world.

Author : Ernesto Pujol
Publisher : Triarchy Press
ISBN 13 : 1911193376
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Walking Art Practice written by Ernesto Pujol and published by Triarchy Press. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: a collection of intimate reflections by artist Ernesto Pujol, which bring together his experiences as a former monk, performance artist, social choreographer and educator.

Author : Kathryn Babayan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319728652
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book An Armenian Mediterranean written by Kathryn Babayan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book rethinks the Armenian people as significant actors in the context of Mediterranean and global history. Spanning a millennium of cross-cultural interaction and exchange across the Mediterranean world, essays move between connected histories, frontier studies, comparative literature, and discussions of trauma, memory, diaspora, and visual culture. Contributors dismantle narrow, national ways of understanding Armenian literature; propose new frameworks for mapping the post-Ottoman Mediterranean world; and navigate the challenges of writing national history in a globalized age. A century after the Armenian genocide, this book reimagines the borders of the “Armenian,” pointing to a fresh vision for the field of Armenian studies that is omnivorously comparative, deeply interconnected, and rich with possibility.

Author : Benjamin Lowy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780822395003
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Iraq-- Perspectives written by Benjamin Lowy and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brian Delford Andrews
Publisher : Culicidae Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781683150169
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Rationalism and Poetry written by Brian Delford Andrews and published by Culicidae Architectural Press. This book was released on 2019-10-11 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Introduction Como's Asilo D'Infanzia Sant'Elia occupies a unique position in the oeuvre of Giuseppe Terragni. Executed between his two most celebrated works, the Casa del Fascio of 1932, and the Casa Giuliani Frigerio of 1939, Terragni was possibly at the apex of his architectural prowess, via imagination and creativity, at its execution. The building itself is a physical manifestation encompassing Terrangni's seminal ideas and theories on architecture and urbanism. [...] The Asilo, a public nursery school, was a relatively modest project, situated in a working class quarter of Como, just south of the city walls. Its humble location alone rendered the project a departure from the conspicuously public site of the Casa del Fascio, located directly behind the Duomo in the center of town. [...] It is one of the few projects that utilize all of Terragni's architectural canons. It remains the only built project that is neither a casa del fascio, nor a tomb or residential project. The Asilo remains a building largely ignored by both the academy and the architecture profession. However, this humble yet monumental building holds within it a culmination of the lessons and ideas of one of the modern architectural masters of the twentieth century. Careful analysis of this building reveals moments where architecture and meaning come together with both subtlety and consequence. [...] This building represents an unadulterated intellectual exercise where construction, technique, and art are held in careful balance. Marcello Piacentini, the most powerful and influential of all the Italian Fascist architects, known best for the Palazzo di Giustizia in Milan and La Sapienza University of Rome, proposed dividing the built environment into one of two types. The first type is clothed in 'underwear', referring to its need for rationalism and structure, and the other clothed in 'evening dress', based on primarily the use of sumptuous materiality. Terragni's Asilo maintains its own category, clothed in a simple white pinafore, a child's smock, similar to those once worn by the very students who have occupied its halls. This nursery school still appears as decidedly modern and relevant as the day it was completed. What Others Say About the Book: In Rationalism and Poetry we finally get an update to the voluminous Schumacher works [from the early 1990s] and, this time, rendered from an architect's perspective. Where Schumacher conducted a historian's reconstruction, Andrews draws for us an architect's analysis. He minutely examines, and often diagrams, the corpus of each building-not in relationship to history but relative to the bodies of other buildings both historic and contemporary. In this concise volume, each chapter becomes a frame for considering one aspect of Terragni's enigmatic design. Robert Miller, Tucson As pointed out by Igor Stravinsky, in the first page of his book Poetics of Music, "poetic" is a word related to the concept of "making", of "doing". Brian Andrews [...] uses the tool of drawing to dissect the Asilo Sant'Elia, unveiling the compositional principles, the design strategies and the hidden geometries, recognizing the parts and elements, exposing the mechanisms of this particular "machine for teaching and learning". At the same time the author's reflections on the urban issues [...], Terragni's proximity to the world of art (Radice, of course, and the other members of the "Astrattismo Comasco" movement, with a fertile cross-pollination between painting and architecture), the reference to the Italian architectural tradition (Michelangelo, the reinterpretation of classical architectural themes), complete Andrews' lively and affectionate portrait of Terragni, an architect who preferred to make architecture (with a strong and personal poetic), instead of being a theoretician. Patrizio M. Martinelli, Oxford, Ohio

Author : Michael Easter
Publisher : Rodale Books
ISBN 13 : 0593138775
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Comfort Crisis written by Michael Easter and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “If you’ve been looking for something different to level up your health, fitness, and personal growth, this is it.”—Melissa Urban, Whole30 CEO and New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Boundaries “Michael Easter’s genius is that he puts data around the edges of what we intuitively believe. His work has inspired many to change their lives for the better.”—Dr. Peter Attia, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Outlive Discover the evolutionary mind and body benefits of living at the edges of your comfort zone and reconnecting with the wild—from the author of Scarcity Brain, coming in September! In many ways, we’re more comfortable than ever before. But could our sheltered, temperature-controlled, overfed, underchallenged lives actually be the leading cause of many our most urgent physical and mental health issues? In this gripping investigation, award-winning journalist Michael Easter seeks out off-the-grid visionaries, disruptive genius researchers, and mind-body conditioning trailblazers who are unlocking the life-enhancing secrets of a counterintuitive solution: discomfort. Easter’s journey to understand our evolutionary need to be challenged takes him to meet the NBA’s top exercise scientist, who uses an ancient Japanese practice to build championship athletes; to the mystical country of Bhutan, where an Oxford economist and Buddhist leader are showing the world what death can teach us about happiness; to the outdoor lab of a young neuroscientist who’s found that nature tests our physical and mental endurance in ways that expand creativity while taming burnout and anxiety; to the remote Alaskan backcountry on a demanding thirty-three-day hunting expedition to experience the rewilding secrets of one of the last rugged places on Earth; and more. Along the way, Easter uncovers a blueprint for leveraging the power of discomfort that will dramatically improve our health and happiness, and perhaps even help us understand what it means to be human. The Comfort Crisis is a bold call to break out of your comfort zone and explore the wild within yourself.

Author : James Rojas
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1642831492
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Dream Play Build written by James Rojas and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The room is dim, the chairs are in perfectly lined rows. The city planner puts up a color-coded diagram of the street improvement project, dreading the inevitable angry responses. Jana loves her community and is glad to be able to attend the evening meeting, and she has a lot of ideas for community change. But she has a hard time hearing, and can’t see the diagrams clearly. She leaves early. It’s time to imagine a different type of community engagement – one that inspires connection, creativity, and fun. People love their communities and want them to become safer, healthier, more prosperous places. But the standard approach to public meetings somehow makes everyone miserable. Conversations that should be inspiring can become shouting matches. So what would it look like to facilitate truly meaningful discussions between citizens and planners? What if they could be fun? For twenty years, James Rojas and John Kamp have been looking to art, creative expression, and storytelling to shake up the classic community meeting. In Dream Play Build, they share their insights into building common ground and inviting active participation among diverse groups. Their approach, “Place It!,” draws on three methods: the interactive model-building workshop, the pop-up, and site exploration using our senses. Using our hands to build and create is central to what makes us human, helping spark ideas without relying on words to communicate. Deceptively playful, this method is remarkably effective at teasing out community dreams and desires from hands-on activities. Dream Play Build offers wisdom distilled from workshops held around the world, and a deep dive into the transformational approach and results from the South Colton community in southern California. While much of the process was developed through in-person meetings, the book also translates the experience to online engagement--how to make people remember their connections beyond the computer screen. Inspirational and fun, Dream Play Build celebrates the value of engaging with the dreams we have for our communities. Readers will find themselves weaving these artful, playful lessons and methods into their own efforts for making change within the landscape around them.