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101 Rules of Thumb for Low-Energy Architecture
By Huw Heywood. 2021
Buildings and construction are a major contributor to the climate and biodiversity emergency. They account for nearly 40% of energy-related…
carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. It is more important than ever for architects to design responsibly and create low-carbon, low-energy buildings for a sustainable future. 101 Rules of Thumb sets out the essential elements of low-energy architecture in a fresh, intuitive way. Where ever-changing technology and complex legislation can cloud the designer’s thought-process, this book equips you with the fundamentals you need to minimise CO2 emissions, design for low-energy use and work with, not against, the forces of nature. With reliable, simple rules of thumb, each page focuses on a single piece of guidance along with a clear hand-drawn illustration. The emphasis is on passive low-energy principles, and the rules of thumb cover all the design fundamentals from site and location to orientation and form, peppered with ideas to help the designer think outside the box, drawing inspiration from traditional methods, photoperiodic plants, and the black-tailed prairie dog. An extended, fully updated narrative bibliography explores the sources in detail and provides a valuable springboard for further study. Applicable throughout the world in any climate region, 101 Rules of Thumb is a global primer to be dipped into at any time as a quick means of re-focusing on what’s important when designing a new or retrofitted low-energy building. The rules cover: Site and location Orientation and form The low-energy building envelope Carbon free heating, cooling and lighting Passive low-energy principles.Lives in Architecture: Peter Cook
By Peter Cook. 2021
Peter Cook has been a pivotal figure within the architecture world for over half a century. He first came to…
international renown in the 1960s as a founder of the radical, experimental group Archigram, winners of the 2002 RIBA Royal Gold Medal. He is also former Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, and Emeritus Professor and former Chair of the Bartlett School of Architecture (University College London). Suffused with Peter’s infectious energy, enthusiasm and charm, this intriguing memoir explores major themes in architecture through the lens of his life and work. Taking the reader on a journey through his colourful and wide-ranging career, it touches on his early years and architectural education, his relationships with key figures within the architecture community and his work teaching and lecturing internationally. It also provides an inside account of his leadership of the Bartlett, for which he is frequently credited as a central figure in rescuing the reputation of a once-ailing, now world-famous, school of architecture. Featuring full-colour images of his most famous drawings, including Archigram’s ‘Plug-in City’, and built works, such as the Kunsthaus Graz in Austria and the Vienna Economics and Business University’s Department of Law and Central Administration Buildings, this book is a window into the life of one of architecture’s most celebrated rebels.Está todo dicho: La historia del rock argentino contada por sus protagonistas
By Daniel García Moreno, Majo García Moreno. 2021
La historia oral y coral definitiva del rock argentino: a través del testimonio de sus grandes protagonistas -de Charly, Fito…
y Spinetta a Cerati, Prodan, Vicentico, Ciro, Pity, Litto Nebbia, Lebón, Javier Martínez y 70 figuras más-, registrado a lo largo de numerosos programas producidos para la televisión de los años 80 por Daniel y Josi García Moreno, toma forma un relato extraordinario. Pocas personas han hecho tanto por documentar el origen y el devenir del rock rioplatense -una historia que abarca ya más de cinco décadas- como los hermanos Dany y Josi García Moreno. A través de numerosos programas televisivos (Rocanrol, La Cueva, Quizás porqué), y documentales como 30 años de rock nacional, fueron creando un registro audiovisual extraordinario. En las voces de decenas de artistas entrevistados para esas producciones y transcriptas en este libro, hoy toma forma una mirada múltiple y diversa sobre el movimiento y las circunstancias que debió atravesar en un mundo de inestabilidad institucional, prejuicios y grosera censura. Una versión posible de qué es el rock argentino. El relato coral de una historia única. «A lo largo de décadas, Dany y Josi García Moreno y Eduardo Berti grabaron a todos, desde los pioneros hasta las nuevas generaciones. Realizaron reportajes memorables de enorme valor histórico y confesiones increíbles. Si alguien se tomara el trabajo de desgrabar, ordenar y dar forma a ese material, sería un libro formidable. Por suerte, Dany y su sobrina Majo (productora y periodista) se animaron a encararlo. Y este es el resultado».Marcelo Fernández Bitar «Hay algo fascinante en este collage: cada una de las voces habla desde un lugar diferente y desde un tiempo distinto. No solamente este libro no se hizo desde hoy, sino que se hizo desde múltiples pasados, lo que depara una suerte de caleidoscopio móvil (...), una banda sonora documental sobre la banda sonora musical de más de una generación. Una apasionante carambola a dos bandas».Eduardo Berti «Cuando apareció el rock en castellano fue un impacto extraordinario: ¿Cómo? ¿Se puede cantar rock en español?».Javier Martínez «Para nosotros naufragar era quedarnos de bohemia hasta las 8 o 9 de la mañana. Aparecía la gente que se iba a trabajar, que recién se levantaba, y nosotros que no nos habíamos acostado siquiera, éramos los sobrevivientes del naufragio».Litto Nebbia «Esa época, los años 70, era peligrosa y linda. Yo escuchaba la sirena y ya me ponía contra la pared porque pensaba que siempre era para mí. (Pero) nosotros éramos imparables, teníamos una misión».David Lebón «Yo creo en las cosas que transforman y creo que, de alguna manera, con mi música he transformado algunas pautas».Spinetta «Creo que los fans de Los Redondos no tienen la más puta idea de qué hablan las letras. Y así y todo, las cantan y se emocionan. Es el poder del arte».Lito Vitale «(En la música de Charly García) escuchás que la alegría no es solo brasilera por primera vez en la historia argentina. Porque parece que el único pulso vital que ha tenido Argentina ha sido el de la guerra, la sangre, las peleas estéticas y la tragedia. Y en Charly eso aparece como una cosa novedosa... la alegría. Es la idea más importante que veo en Charly y posiblemente en el rock».Fito PáezLa mujer pintada
By Teresa Arijón. 2021
¿Cómo sería la Historia del Arte si la contaran sus verdaderas protagonistas? Reinas, amantes, lolitas, prostitutas, actrices, trapecistas, bailarinas... hasta…
no hace mucho en la Historia del Arte las mujeres solo podían ser modelos. Profesionales como Kikí de Montparnasse en las fotografías de Man Ray o musas por azar como Victorine Meurant, la Olympia de Manet, que luego competiría con él. Íconos de las vanguardias como la alocada Henrietta Moraes, que inspiró a Bacon y Lucian Freud o la surrealista Claude Cahun, quien en 1930 proclamó: "Neutro es el único género que me viene bien". De la sonrisa de la Gioconda al color de la piel de Cleopatra, la cabellera de la Venus de Botticelli o el vello púbico de la vagina que pintó Courbet a pedido de un erotómano turco ?y que Lacan escondería en un doble muro de su estudio?, el misterio de sus identidades y aspectos obsesionó a ladrones, moralistas y académicos. Sus rostros y sus cuerpos pautan hasta hoy un ideal de belleza. Modelo durante décadas, Teresa Arijón da vuelta esa Historia del Arte en este libro excepcional e inclasificable. Erudito y caprichoso, es a la vez novela, ensayo, retrato y una crónica que va de la charla con una desenmascarada Guerrilla Girl en Nueva York, a las noches de bares porteños donde se encontraban las poetas, de la irrupción de Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis en Santiago a seguir por Río el rastro evanescente de Maria Bethânia. Entre la inmovilidad de la pose y los inevitables cambios físicos, La mujer pintada es también un registro sensible y sensual del paso del tiempo que permite que la autora invierta los roles y sea la modelo la que retrata a su artista. La crítica ha dicho... «Había que esperar a la pluma inigualable de Teresa Arijón para que la Historia del Arte encarnara, por fin, en sus verdaderas musas. Las modelos. Con sensibilidad inusual y coraje, Arijón ilumina el cuadro completo y trae no ya a las que posaron, sino a la legión venusina de las que fueron, las que son.»Julián López «Diga lo que diga, pensar en ella no me traiciona: la naturaleza de su mundo resulta de una mezcla de inteligencia y necesidad: un trabajo sensible, una sensibilidad tan seria como sus exhaustivas investigaciones, incluso las más serenas como este libro. ¿Qué le dice la belleza que todavía es su secreto?»Arturo Carrera «En La mujer pintada el mundo se vuelve materia desnuda. A la mujer mirada, mientras posa, se le revelan con toda naturalidad el refucilo de la belleza, la piel y el filo de los colores, el sol y las sombras de la historia de la pintura, el relámpago del deseo, la risa de la erudición. ¡Ay, la gracia! La alquimia verbal con la que Teresa Arijón se sienta frente al caballete y hace memoria. Y aquí nos deja con algo que deseábamos, pero desconocíamos, un fulgor, un libro en el cuerpo, una nueva felicidad.»Mercedes Araujo «París era una fiesta a la sombra de las guillotinas ornadas con flores de lis. Heme aquí, el rico argentino, azul zafiro de la cabeza a los pies. En traje de noche, imantado, con los guantes en la mano y una gardenia en el ojal. Proust à la Blanche, impávido, melancólico. Me arreglo el moño con desgano (debe quedar algo desprolijo, fortuito, vano). Enciendo la pipa de la dicha y contemplo a La mujer pintada.»Alfredo PriorCodex Metallum: The secret art of metal decoded
By Alt236, Maxwell. 2009
***Decode the secret language of metal.Metal music has a rich and powerful visual language like no other genre. From death…
and the devil to mythology and the occult, the artworks of its greatest albums carry a complex hidden code of deeper meanings.Codex Metallum is your unique guide to these visual themes. Featuring the covers of 250 iconic albums from Black Sabbath to Slipknot and Motörhead to Pantera, as well as bespoke illustrations by Rammstein collaborators Førtifem, this one-of-a-kind book decodes the imagery of metal and unlocks the secrets hidden within.Packaged in an embossed, leather-effect case with metallic foil finishes, Codex Metallum is a stunning collector's item and essential reading for any metalhead.The Psychology of the Selfie: What the Research Says
By Barrie Gunter. 2022
The Psychology of the Selfie provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of research on the significance of selfies, offering insights…
into the topic from a psychological perspective and examining important issues such as body image, self-objectification, mental health and psychological benefits. Selfies are a worldwide phenomenon. Although dismissed by critics as a sign of self-absorbed narcissism, they are also a social currency that maintains and reinforces friendships, a feedback loop for self-identity affirmation, a promotional tool for gaining social influence, and a method for preserving memories of life events. In this book, Barrie Gunter expertly explores the psychological underpinnings of the contemporary global phenomenon of "selfies", from the historical roots and meteoric rise due to technical advancements, to the different personality types of selfie-takers, to social relationships, to group and personal identity. Looking at both the psychological nature and impact of selfies, this book reviews different psychological outcomes for selfie-takers, both positive and negative, and the growth in psychological and physical problems that can sometimes arise. Presenting a comprehensive analysis specifically of selfie behaviour, this book is an essential reference for students and researchers in communications and media, journalism, information studies, psychology and sociology, as well as anyone with a general interest in the phenomenon.Performance Metrics for Sustainable Cities (Advances in Urban Sustainability)
By SylvieManish Albert Pandey. 2022
Performance Metrics for Sustainable Cities provides an overview of measurement systems and tools to enable communities to self-assess and benchmark…
their progress along a continuum of smart, intelligent, and sustainable development. It begins by explaining the importance of measurement and evaluation for cities and smaller communities, as well as future factors that will need to be considered and embedded into planning processes. Across 14 chapters, the book describes existing evaluation mechanisms that are being used for government funding decisions, awards of recognition, and new measurement systems to assess what makes a city smarter and more sustainable, such as broader sustainable goal targets (UN SDGs), green cities, fabrication cities, and compassionate cities. It presents examples of metrics used for important sustainability and liveability concepts for cities such as how to measure trust, engagement, compassion, circular economy, and so forth. The book ends with reflections on the feasibility of a holistic system of measurement and the implications of its implementation. This volume will be of great interest to students, researchers, and professionals of urban sustainability, planning, smart cities, and sustainable communities.Jana Sanskriti (Routledge Performance Practitioners #24)
By Ralph Yarrow. 2021
Regarded by Augusto Boal as the international icon of his vision, Jana Sanskriti are the leading practitioners of Theatre of…
the Oppressed and Forum Theatre in India and the East. The group has worked continuously with rural communities in West Bengal since its beginnings in 1985 to reconfigure social and political relationships through theatre, achieving both a solid regional presence and an international reputation. This book combines: a biography of the group, charting their history, methodology and modes of operation an examination of Jana Sanskriti through the writings of their founder, Sanjoy Ganguly a detailed analysis of their performance events and practices, including the plays collected in Ganguly's Where We Stand (2009) practical exercises and games, taken from Jana Sanskriti's workshops and festivals. As a first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners offer unbeatable value for today’s student.Codex Metallum: The secret art of metal decoded
By Alt236, Maxwell. 2009
***Decode the secret language of metal.Metal music has a rich and powerful visual language like no other genre. From death…
and the devil to mythology and the occult, the artworks of its greatest albums carry a complex hidden code of deeper meanings.Codex Metallum is your unique guide to these visual themes. Featuring the covers of 250 iconic albums from Black Sabbath to Slipknot and Motörhead to Pantera, as well as bespoke illustrations by Rammstein collaborators Førtifem, this one-of-a-kind book decodes the imagery of metal and unlocks the secrets hidden within.Packaged in an embossed, leather-effect case with metallic foil finishes, Codex Metallum is a stunning collector's item and essential reading for any metalhead.The Colour Bible: The definitive guide to colour in art and design
By Laura Perryman. 2021
An essential source for graphic designers, artists, interior designers, fashion designers, illustrators and creatives of any kind who work with…
colour.Colour is intrinsic to the human experience; it guides us with subconscious visual cues throughout our lives. Get it right in your design or art and you can enhance mood and atmosphere, and create a desired psychological or even physiological effect. The Colour Bible is a contemporary handbook for navigating this fascinating world of colour. It dives into 100 profiles of significant colours and tracks them through their genesis, historical usage in art and design, and contemporary connotations and uses. - A potted history of each colour- Key colour associations from around the world- Contemporary connotations and brand design- Practical advice on how to use and combine colours in your workA Companion to Impressionism (Blackwell Companions to Art History)
By Dana Arnold. 2021
A Companion to Impressionism Presenting an expansive view of the study of Impressionism, this pioneering volume breaks new thematic ground…
while also reconsidering questions concerning the definition, chronology, and membership of the impressionist movement. In 34 original essays from established and emerging scholars, this collection offers a diverse range of developing topics and new critical approaches to the interpretation of impressionist art. Focusing on the 1860s to 1890s, A Companion to Impressionism explores artists who are well-represented in impressionist studies, including Monet, Renoir, Degas, and Cassatt, as well as Morisot, Caillebotte, Bazille, and other significant yet lesser-known artists. The essays cover a wide variety of methodologies in addressing such topics as Impressionism’s global predominance at the turn of the 20th century, the relationship between Impressionism and the emergence of new media, the materials and techniques of the Impressionists, as well as the movement’s exhibition and reception history. This innovative volume also includes new discussions of modern identity in Impressionism in the contexts of race, nationality, gender, and sexuality and through its explorations of the international reach and influence of Impressionism. Part of the acclaimed Wiley Blackwell Companions to Art History series, this important addition to scholarship in this field stands as the 21st century’s first major and large-scale academic reassessment of Impressionism. Featuring essays by academics, curators, and conservators from around the world, including those from France, Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Turkey, and Argentina, this is an invaluable text for students and scholars studying Impressionism and late 19th-century European art, Post-Impressionism, modern art, and modern French cultural history.Forever Young: A Memoir
By Hayley Mills. 2021
What happens when a girl tries to grow up in a world where everyone wants her to remain a child?Hayley…
Mills' teenage decade in Hollywood produced some of the era's greatest coming-of-age family movies: classics like Pollyanna, The Parent Trap and In Search of the Castaways, and in Britain the acclaimed Whistle Down the Wind. These films made Hayley a genuine teen idol and a household name. Now and for the first time, Hayley reveals the truth of her own coming-of-age story, in her own words - a story of incredible twists of fate and fortune, but also mismanagement, bankruptcy, family crisis and dislocation.Told with characteristic warmth, honesty and humour, Hayley takes us back in time to a bygone era, charting a journey from her carefree childhood innocence in post-war Britain, growing up in the shadow of her famous theatrical family, to being propelled into the Technicolor boomtown of 1960s Hollywood, where she is mentored to stardom by Walt Disney himself.The Art of Modern China
By Julia F. Andrews, Kuiyi Shen. 2012
In the early twenty-first century, China occupies a place on center stage in the international art world. But what does…
it mean to be a Chinese artist in the modern age? This first comprehensive study of modern Chinese art history traces its evolution chronologically and thematically from the Age of Imperialism to the present day. Julia Andrews and Kuiyi Shen pay particular attention to the dynamic tension between modernity and tradition, as well as the interplay of global cosmopolitanism and cultural nationalism. This lively, accessible, and beautifully illustrated text will serve and enlighten scholars, students, collectors, and anyone with an interest in Asian art and artists.Nature's Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean
By Andil Gosine. 2021
In Nature's Wild, Andil Gosine engages with questions of humanism, queer theory, and animality to examine and revise understandings of…
queer desire in the Caribbean. Surveying colonial law, visual art practices, and contemporary activism, Gosine shows how the very concept of homosexuality in the Caribbean (and in the Americas more broadly) has been overdetermined by a colonially influenced human/animal divide. Gosine refutes this presupposed binary and embraces animality through a series of case studies: a homoerotic game called puhngah, the institution of gender-based dress codes in Guyana, and efforts toward the decriminalization of sodomy in Trinidad and Tobago—including the work of famed activist Colin Robinson, paintings of human animality by Guadeloupean artist Kelly Sinnapah Mary, and Gosine's own artistic practice. In so doing, he troubles the ways in which individual and collective anxieties about “wild natures” have shaped the existence of Caribbean people while calling for a reassessment of what political liberation might look like.Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipientPerforming Arts and Digital Humanities: From Traces to Data
By Clarisse Bardiot. 2021
Digital traces, whether digitized (programs, notebooks, drawings, etc.) or born digital (emails, websites, video recordings, etc.), constitute a major challenge…
for the memory of the ephemeral performing arts.Digital technology transforms traces into data and, in doing so, opens them up to manipulation. This paradigm shift calls for a renewal of methodologies for writing the history of theater today, analyzing works and their creative process, and preserving performances. At the crossroads of performing arts studies, the history, digital humanities, conservation and archiving, these methodologies allow us to take into account what is generally dismissed, namely, digital traces that are considered too complex, too numerous, too fragile, of dubious authenticity, etc.With the analysis of Merce Cunningham’s digital traces as a guideline, and through many other examples, this book is intended for researchers and archivists, as well as artists and cultural institutions.Translating Samuel Beckett around the World (New Interpretations of Beckett in the Twenty-First Century)
By José Francisco Fernández, Pascale Sardin. 2021
The global reception of Samuel Beckett raises numerous questions: in which areas of the world was Beckett first translated? Why…
were Beckett texts sometimes slow to penetrate certain cultures? How were national literatures impacted by Beckett's oeuvre? Translating Samuel Beckett around the World brings together leading researchers in Beckett studies to discuss these questions and explore the fate of Beckett in their own societies and national languages. The current text provides ample coverage of the presence of Beckett in geographical contexts normally ignored by literary criticism, and reveals unknown aspects of the 1969 Nobel Prize winner interacting with translators of his work in a number of different countries.60 Years of Coronation Street: The Incredible Story Of Britain's Favourite Continuing Drama
By Itv Ventures Limited, Abigail Kemp. 2020
Everything you need to know about Britain's longest-running and most popular soap is found here in this impressive book. Celebrating…
60 years since the show's creation, this book is an exhaustive, compelling and entertaining history packed full of features and long forgotten imagery. It takes you through every year in a unique timeline that highlights key plot lines, significant production events, together with an impressive amount of photography. You'll discover features on characters, famous actors, royal visits, births, deaths, marriages and murders, together with interviews with key actors, producers and production staff.A special section on the show's creator Tony Warren, shows how the programme evolved from page to screen and is illustrated with rare imagery and artefacts from his own archive. There are even special gatefold pages that open out showing how the set has developed over the years and family trees of the major characters so you can see the complex web of relations for the likes of the Barlows and the Platts.60 Years of Coronation Street will be the ultimate celebration of a show that's shaped British television and prove to be the 'must-have' gift for every Corrie fan.Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography Through Essays
By Claire Messud. 2020
'An uplifting work: complex, precise and bracing' Susie Boyt, Financial Times'A profound book about the intrication of literature and life,…
about the modest, miraculous ways art helps us to live' Garth GreenwellIn twenty-nine intimate, brilliant and funny essays, Claire Messud reflects on a childhood move from her Connecticut home to Australia; the complex relationship between her modern Canadian mother and a fiercely single French Catholic aunt; and a trip to Beirut, where her pied-noir father had once lived, while he was dying. She meditates on contemporary classics from Kazuo Ishiguro, Teju Cole, Rachel Cusk and Valeria Luiselli; examines three facets of Albert Camus and The Stranger; and tours her favorite paintings at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. Crafting a vivid portrait of a life in celebration of the power of literature, Messud proves once again 'an absolute master storyteller' (Rebecca Carroll, Los Angeles Times).'I can think of few writers capable of such thrilling seriousness expressed with so lavish a gift' Rachel Cusk, Evening StandardLoving You From Here: Stories of Grief, Hope and Growth When a Baby Dies
By Susan Clark. 2020
Few experiences can compare to the trauma and pain of losing a baby; and the wall of silence that often…
surrounds that loss can make grieving even harder. Loving You From Here explores the traumatic impact of losing a baby through stillbirth and neonatal death. It features the moving stories of multiple families; some affected recently, some decades ago, but still living with the loss. This book is a practical guide for grieving parents in the grips of tragedy, and those around them who want to be able to offer support. From managing those initial feelings of shock, grief, guilt and anger, this book will also show families how it is possible to grow around that grief and eventually form an enduring bond with their baby.This profound and insightful book will help everyone impacted by the loss of a baby - before, during or after birth - including those who have suffered an early or a late miscarriage and those who have had an ectopic pregnancy, and provides sensitive and reassuring advice on all aspects of loss and bereavement, as well as practical advice on how to find a new normal.This groundbreaking book breaks through the suffocating silence that surrounds the death of a baby and gives a voice to all those affected by baby loss.The Rolling Stones In the Beginning: With unseen images
By Bent Rej. 2020
"The photographs are amazing - the Stones are still practically children, messing around, pulling faces and writing the odd song."GQ"The…
finest single collection of Stones photographs I have ever seen" Bill WymanNEW, EXPANDED EDITION CONTAINING NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN PHOTOGRAPHS. In 1965 the Rolling Stones were big and about to be huge, when Bent Rej was given unprecedented access to a year in the eye of the rock 'n' roll storm, accompanying the band on its first full European outing: the Satisfaction tour. The Rolling Stones In the Beginning is Rej's collection of more than 300 intimate photographs of the band on stage, on the road and at home, documenting a year in the life of the Rolling Stones as they enjoyed their first taste of popular success.Long a fan favourite, this brand new edition offers an even closer look into the making of music history with images recently unearthed from Rej's archives.