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Vijay, Bollapragada, and Murphy Curtis, eds. Inside Cisco IOS Software Architecture. Indianapolis: Cisco Press, 2008.
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Il'vickaya, Svetlana. Architectural comparative aspect of Orthodox monasteries in the Balkan countries and Russia. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1039637.
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The monograph is devoted to the concept of comparative (comparative) architecture is a modern approach to the study and analysis of Orthodox architecture. Reveals and architectural comparative aspect of monastic ensembles and churches — the main sources of Orthodoxy in the Balkan countries and Russia, the keepers of the architectural and artistic values and are centers for religious education in modern society. For the first time the regularities of formation of architecture of Orthodox monasteries and built a comparative model of their organization.
For students, postgraduates and lecturers of architectural faculties of universities, architects, designers, and also for a wide range of readers interested in the problems of Orthodox cult architecture.
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Eccheli, Maria Grazia, and Claudia Cavallo, eds. Il progetto nei borghi abbandonati. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-554-7.
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In these harsh lands inhabited by the silence of humble fragments, architectural design ties both history and life together, revealing the essential features of the place. The book proposes a journey within abandonment between Architecture and ruins: it reinterprets the pioneering research of Aldo Rossi; it explores, together with Gianandrea Gazzola, the labyrinths of meaning between Art and ruin; it investigates the projects of Colletta di Castelbianco by Giancarlo De Carlo and the houses in the Canton of Ticino by Buchner Bründler; and finally, it traces an itinerary of contamination between anonymous architecture and architectural languages in the Mediterranean. It is within these horizons that the Design and Research Laboratory of the Florence School of Architecture reveals the deep soul and redesigns a new life for the abandoned villages of Castiglioncello di Firenzuola (FI) and Campo di Brenzone (VR).
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Oselko, Ninel'. Introduction to the profession of "architect". ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1247118.
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In the textbook, the author shows the future specialist what opportunities knowledge and skills give for practical activity, how wide is the field of architecture, where each student can find what he will eventually do.
It provides theoretical training and is designed to broaden the horizons of a young architect, to show the necessary tools for self-improvement in the profession.
For students, postgraduates and teachers of architectural and construction universities, as well as anyone interested in architecture and construction.
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Sal'kov, Nikolay. Descriptive geometry: tasks for term papers. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1200606.
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The tutorial includes tasks in all sections of the descriptive geometry course for completing coursework. It is intended for students studying in the areas of "architecture" and "design of the architectural environment". It can be useful for students of other areas of higher education.
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Nixon, Martin. Architecture, Opportunity, and Conflict in Eighteenth-Century Sicily. Nieuwe Prinsengracht 89 1018 VR Amsterdam Nederland: Amsterdam University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463725736.
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The catastrophic Sicilian earthquake of 1693 led to the rebuilding of over 60 towns in the island’s south-west. The rebuilding extended into the eighteenth century and gave opportunities for the reassertion and the transformation of power relations. Although eight of the towns are now protected by UNESCO, the remarkable architecture resulting from this rebuilding is little known outside Sicily. This is the first book-length study in English of this interesting area of early modern architecture. Rather than seek to address all of the towns, five case studies discuss key aspects of the rebuilding by approaching the architecture from different scales, from that of a whole town to parts of a town, or single buildings, or parts of buildings and their decoration. Each case study also investigates a different theoretical assumption in architecture, including ideas of the Baroque, rational planning, and the relegation of decoration in architectural discourse.
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Traumhäuser³: Bauherren verwirklichen ihr perfektes Energiesparhaus. München: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2010.
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Ute, Chibidziura, and Esch H. G. 1964-, eds. Romanische Kirchen in Köln und ihr historisches Umfeld. Köln: Bachem, 2004.
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Mayrhofer-Hufnagl, Ingrid, ed. Architecture, Futurability and the Untimely. Bielefeld, Germany: transcript Verlag, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/9783839461112.
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The planetary instantaneity that digital technologies have enabled is leading to an effacement of the divisions that separate the past from the future, ensuring that the present is ubiquitous. While contemporary architecture seems to have lost the capacity to conceive of the past as a transformative force, this book stresses the need to rethink today's complex temporal mechanisms through the notion of the untimely. This concept opens up a whole spectrum of possibilities to go beyond what seems predictable. The contributors to this book employ critical concepts and architectural design tools in order to offer experimental and speculative approaches for unknown futures of architecture.
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Winterfeld, Dethard von. Die Kaiserdome Speyer, Mainz, Worms und ihr romanisches Umland. Würzburg: Zodiaque Echter, 1993.
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Hübsch, Heinrich. Die Architektur und ihr Verhältnis zur heutigen Malerei und Skulptur. Berlin: Verlag der Beeken, 1985.
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Gotisch-orientalische Stilgenese: Englische Theorien zum Ursprung der Gotik und ihr Einfluss in Deutschland um 1800. Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang, 1989.
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Die hannoversche Marktkirche und ihr Turm. 2nd ed. Bielefeld: Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, 2004.
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Gel'fond, Anna. Architectural design of public buildings. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1995408.
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The textbook is devoted to the basic principles of the formation of architecture of public buildings of various types. Examines the social, economic, urban planning, functional, planning, structural, compositional and artistic foundations of design, as well as regulatory requirements for the design of public buildings. It covers the material from the study of the structural units of the building and its individual elements to the structure as a whole and is aimed at making the student as familiar as possible with the needs of real architectural design. Much attention is paid to all currently relevant types of buildings: educational institutions; museum and exhibition, sports facilities; trade and catering facilities; car maintenance facilities; entertainment facilities; credit and financial institutions; offices; bureaus; business centers, as well as multifunctional complexes.
Meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation.
It is intended for students of higher educational institutions, undergraduates and postgraduates studying in an enlarged group of directions "Architecture".
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Correia, Mariana, Letizia Dipasquale, and Saverio Mecca, eds. VERSUS: Heritage for Tomorrow. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6655-742-5.
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Vernacular architecture represents a great resource that has considerable potential to define principles for sustainable design and contemporary architecture. This publication is the result of an overall aim to produce a valuable tool for analysis regarding vernacular heritage through different assessments, in order to define principles to consider for sustainable development. This was possible through a comprehensive reflection on the principles established and the strategies to recognise in different world contexts. The present publication was the result of an in-depth approach by 46 authors from 12 countries, concerned with the analysis and critical assessment of vernacular heritage and its sustainable perspective. The book presents 8 chapters addressing operational definitions and synopses advances, regarding the main areas of vernacular heritage contribution to sustainable architecture. It also presents 15 chapters and 53 case studies of vernacular and contemporary approaches in all the 5 continents, regarding urban, architectural, technical and constructive strategies and solutions. VERSUS, HERITAGE FOR TOMORROW: Vernacular Knowledge for Sustainable Architecture is the result of a common effort undertaken by the partners ESG | Escola Superior Gallaecia, Portugal, as Project leader; CRAterre | École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Grenoble, France; DIDA | Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy; DICAAR | Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy; and UPV | Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain. This is the final outcome of VerSus, an European project developed from 2012 to 2014, in the framework of the Culture 2007-2013 programme.
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Fülberth, Andreas. Tallinn, Riga, Kaunas: Ihr Ausbau zu modernen Hauptstädten, 1920-1940. Köln: Böhlau, 2005.
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Keith, Hutton, ed. Authorized self-study guide designing Cisco network service architectures (arch). 3rd ed. Indianapolis, IN: Cisco Press, 2012.
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Biagini, Carlo, ed. L'Ospedale degli Infermi di Faenza. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-8453-591-7.
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In view of its inevitable implications at an individual and collective level, in all historic periods hospital building has represented the most advanced level of elaboration of architectural models aimed at the optimal synthesis of form, function and technique. Consequently, the typological and morphological reading of the Ospedale degli Infermi of Faenza, in the wake of a campaign of architectural surveys and archive research, represents an opportunity for verifying the relationship between technical culture and design and building practice through which it is possible to identify the typological and semantic values of the architecture. Designed and constructed by the master builders Raffaele and Giovanbattista Campidori in the middle of the eighteenth century, the various phases in the transformation of the Hospital are analysed down to our own times, positing tools and methods of investigation designed to optimise operations for the rehabilitation and conservation of the most ancient part of the building.
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Rundfunk, Bayerischer, ed. Die neuen Traumhäuser: Bauherren verwirklichen ihr perfektes Haus. München: DVA, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2015.
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Wiedererstandene romanische Kirchen in Köln und ihr theologisch-liturgischer Sinn. München: Schnell & Steiner, 1985.
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Severin, Vogl, and Bayerischer Rundfunk, eds. Neue Traumhäuser: Bauherren verwirklichen ihr perfektes Haus. München: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2008.
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Packevich, Alla. Architecture of Evolution. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1079356.
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The monograph, on the one hand, examines the period of development of the descending cycle of evolution and the associated progressive changes that show the irreversibility of the processes of formation of the planetary system. The end of one cycle and the beginning of another leads to the transformation of the system of life and the expansion of consciousness at a new energy level. On the other hand, the questions of potential opportunities for the development of the ascending phase of evolution, which goes both along the path of complexity of the organization and along the path of diversity, are considered. In the ascending evolutionary stream, what has been differentiated into the corresponding levels in the descending cycle is brought together and thus prepared to enter into new, more perfect forms of unity. It is shown that the development of humanity along its entire path depends on the interaction of energies of various forms and potentials. Understanding the relationships between different types of energy and their use provides insight into many important issues in the evolution of society. The material introduces the modern features of the existence of the male and female sexes from the energy point of view. The idea of a way out of the current conflict situation that has arisen between the sexes at the present stage of evolution is proposed. It will be useful for those interested in the problems of scientific knowledge, architects, philosophers,historians, physicists and methodologists of science, students and students of secondary schools.
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Architekten und ihr umweltschützendes Verhalten beim Wohnungsbau: Ein Erklärungsansatz zur diskrepanten Anwendung umweltschützender Massnahmen und Techniken. Hamburg: Kovac, 2006.
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Volodina, Elena. Materials science: Design, architecture: in 2 t. Volume 1. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1039908.
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The first volume of the textbook describes the main groups of building and finishing materials and products, their structure and properties.
Special attention is paid to the actual finishing materials, as well as their ecological and aesthetic features, which are important for creating an expressive subject-spatial environment.
The well-thought-out structure of the book allows you to successfully master the discipline in different formats of vocational education: secondary vocational, bachelor's, master's, professional retraining. The volume of the studied material is determined by the teacher in accordance with the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard of the latest generation and the work program.
It is intended for students in the areas of training "Design", "Environment Design", "Architectural environment Design", "Architecture", "Architectural design". It will also be useful as a reference for practicing designers, architects, restorers, builders, teachers of materials science and a wide range of people interested in this field of knowledge.
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Volodina, Elena. Materials Science: Design, architecture. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1046078.
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The second volume of the textbook contains information about finishing materials, products and engineering systems in relation to the interior design of a modern building. Special attention is paid to the actual finishing materials, as well as their ecological and aesthetic characteristics, which are important for creating an expressive subject-spatial environment.
The well-thought-out structure of the book allows you to successfully master the discipline in different formats of vocational education: secondary vocational, bachelor's, master's, professional retraining. The volume of the studied material is determined by the teacher in accordance with the work program.
The content meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation.
It is intended for students in the areas of training "Design", "Environment Design", "Architectural environment Design", "Architecture", "Architectural design". It will also be useful as a reference for practicing designers, architects, restorers, builders, teachers of materials science and a wide range of people interested in this field of knowledge.
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Richard Riemerschmid: "nicht die Kunst schafft den Stil, das Leben schafft ihn". Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner GmbH, 2009.
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Schumann-Bacia, Eva. Die Bank von England und ihr Architekt John Soane. Zürich: Verlag für Architektur Artemis, 1989.
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Die Santacroce und ihr Wohnsitz in Oriolo Romano: Selbstdarstellung einer römischen Familie im Cinquecento. München: Tuduv, 1996.
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Coenen, Ulrich. Von Aquae bis Baden-Baden: Die Baugeschichte der Stadt und ihr Beitrag zur Entwicklung der Kurarchitektur. Aachen: Verlag Mainz, 2008.
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Bertocci, Stefano, Marco Bini, and Saverio Mecca, eds. Documentation for conservation and development. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/8884534933.
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Documentation for conservation and development. New heritage strategy for the future collects the contributions to the 11th International Seminar (Florence 11-15 september 2006). The seminar showed the research realized on specific themes regarding the analysis, documentation and exploitation of both architectural properties and material and immaterial heritage with the purpose of its conservation and future development. Scientific knowledge, work and documentation about architecture and urban environment, the relationship with territory, as well as material and immaterial heritage, become formidable instruments for the comprehension and exploitation of the universe of data and signs given by history and culture, regarding in substance human life that founds and takes place in a certain geographic area.
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Arquitectos, Serôdio Furtado, ed. Oporto University Institute of Research and Innovation in Health - I3S: Instituto de Invetigação e Inovação em Saúde da Universidade do Porto - I3S : Serôdio, Furtado & Associados, Arquitectos. Matosinhos]: AMAG editorial SL, 2018.
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Shishkin, Aleksey. Methods of digital processing and speech recognition. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1904325.
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The monograph discusses the theory, algorithms and practical methods of implementing digital processing and recognition of speech signals. The basics of mathematical analysis of digital signals necessary for speech processing are presented. The acoustic theory of speech formation with the construction of a general discrete model is briefly described. The main characteristic features of speech signals, as well as methods of their isolation are considered. Hidden Markov models and the architecture of traditional recognition systems based on them are described in detail. Weighted finite converters used to increase the efficiency and speed up the process of decoding acoustic signals are considered. The main architectures of artificial neural networks and examples of integrated (end-to-end) speech recognition systems based on them are presented.
It is intended for students, postgraduates, researchers and specialists dealing with speech signal processing, pattern recognition and artificial intelligence.
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Andres, Giedion, ed. Die Architektur der Davoser Alphütten: Ernst Ludwig Kirchners "Alte Sennhütte" und ihr Vorbild. Zürich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2003.
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Taiwan) Workshop on Computer Architecture (1998 Tʻai-nan shih. Proceedings of Workshop on Computer Architecture: International Computer Symposium (ICS '98) : National Cheng Kung University : Tainan, Taiwan, R.O.C. : December 17-19, 1998. Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China: National Cheng Kung University, 1998.
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Blanciak, François. Tokyoids. The MIT Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/14143.001.0001.
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A photographic survey of the robotic face of Tokyo buildings and an argument that robot aesthetics plays a central role in architectural history. In Tokyoids, architect François Blanciak surveys the robotic faces omnipresent in Tokyo buildings, offering an architectural taxonomy based not on the usual variables—size, material, historical style—but on the observable expressions of buildings. Are the eyes (windows) twinkling, the mouth (door) laughing? Is that balcony a howl of distress? Investigating robot aesthetics through his photographs of fifty buildings, Blanciak argues that the robot face originated in architecture—before the birth of robotics—and has played a central role in architectural history. Blanciak first puts the robot face into historical perspective, examining the importance of the face in architectural theory and demonstrating that the construction of architecture's emblematic portraits triggered the emergence of a robot aesthetics. He then explores the emotions conveyed by the photographed buildings' robot faces, in chapters titled “Awe,” “Wrath,” “Mirth,” “Pain,” “Angst,” and “Hunger.” As he does so he considers, among other things, the architectural relevance of Tokyo's ordinary buildings; the repression of the figural in contemporary architecture; an aesthetic of dismemberment, linked to the structure of the Japanese language and local building design; and the influence of automation technology upon human interaction. Part photographic survey, part theoretical inquiry, Tokyoids upends the usual approach to robotics in architecture by considering not the automation of architectural output but the aesthetic properties of the robot.
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Shasore, Neal. Designs on Democracy. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192849724.001.0001.
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Abstract Designs on Democracy examines a pivotal period in the formation of the modern profession of architecture in Britain. It shows how architects sought to meet the newly articulated demands of a mass democracy in the wake of the First World War. It does so by providing a vivid picture of architectural culture in interwar London, the imperial metropolis, drawing on histories of design, practice, professionalism, and representation. Most accounts of this period tend to deal exclusively with the emergence of Modernism; this book takes a different approach, encompassing a much broader perspective on the liberal professional consensus that held sway, including architecture’s mainstream and its so-called avant-garde. Readers will encounter a number of unexpected narratives, episodes, and projects: from the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley to the rebuilding of Waterloo Bridge; from the impact of the Great Slump to the passing of the first Architects Registration Act (1931); from Trystan Edwards’s radical housing campaigns to the Londoners’ League’s unorthodox preservationism. Pulling in a range of evidence and sources—periodicals, exhibitions, photographs, and films, alongside architecture—it evokes architectural culture by listening carefully to the tenor of its discourse. Architecture’s public realm is thus analysed through sometimes surprising phrases: ‘manners’ to understand ideals of public propriety, ‘vigilance’ to explore public proprietorship, ‘slump’ to contextualize the emergence of public relations, ‘machine-craft’ to understand the forging of public institutions. The book spans the excitable discussions about the reconstruction of the profession for a democratic age after the First World War, to reconstruction and planning following the Second. Designs on Democracy provides an ambitious revision of how we can understand twentieth-century architecture in Britain.
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Tavares, André. Vitruvius Without Text: The Biography of a Book. gta Verlag, ETH Zurich, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54872/gta/4302.
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Vitruvius’s “De architectura”, written in the first century BCE, has been revered as the first treatise on architectural theory. Since its resurrection during the Renaissance, its enigmatic text has been adjusted, refined, and redefined in subsequent iterations. The book at hand bypasses exegeses of the text to focus on the material history of the printed editions disseminated throughout Europe. It surveys over a hundred editions of Vitruvius from 1486 to the present, tracing the power of the printed page in establishing the Roman author as an authority. Focusing on the impact of the physical objects that embody the Vitruvian canon highlights how book history and architectural history cross paths and how a symbiotic relationship between the printed and the built emerges. The resulting picture is that of a zigzagging thread between practice and theory, an elusive network of fruitful carelessness in architecture.
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Inside Cisco IOS Software Architecture (CCIE Professional Development). Cisco Press, 2000.
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Lopotenco, Viorica. DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEW INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL ARCHITECTURE AT THE NATIONAL FINANCIAL SYSTEMS LEVEL. RS Global S. z O.O., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.31435/rsglobal/027.
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The fundamental purpose of this paper is to analyze the transformations in the international financial architecture and their impact on the national financial system. The analysis of the international financial architecture's functioning mechanism suggests its similarity with the software system structure. It is static in the way the system functionality is decomposed and divided into implementation teams. The efficiency of international financial architecture's functioning depends mainly on how balanced and interconnected its elements are. Thus, according to systems theory, only by overcoming the deformation of the international financial architecture at all its levels, it is possible to increase the financial system's overall performance. In this regard, maintaining a dynamic balance in the development of the international financial architecture as an integral unit of its structural elements and functions is becoming of urgent importance. This aspect of the research allows the creation of an instrumental and methodological basis for forecasting the directions for further developing the international financial architecture in the context of the globalization of the world economy at the national financial systems level. This study concludes that the complex solution of the international financial architecture challenges involves creating the foundations for implementing progressive structural changes in the economy and contributing to sustainable economic development.
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Bailey, Douglass, and Lesley McFadyen. Built Objects. Edited by Dan Hicks and Mary C. Beaudry. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199218714.013.0025.
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This article presents two bodies of work, both of which take an interdisciplinary approach to the study of buildings from Neolithic Europe. The first connects archaeology to theories in architectural history, while the second creates links between archaeology and art. This article works through four ideas about architecture which the article offers as disconnected propositions. There is no easy narrative for this article, just as there is none for the living built environment of the past or the present. This article proposes that archaeologists step away from accepted and comfortable knowledge of architectural form and interpretation. The aim of this article is to work through four case studies from our work on prehistoric European architecture. The case studies illuminate four propositions, which are offered as provocations for further work on architecture by archaeologists but also by anthropologists and other social scientists and humanities scholars whose work engages architecture concludes this article.
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Maher, Ashley. Reconstructing Modernism. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198816485.001.0001.
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Reconstructing Modernism establishes for the first time the centrality of modernist buildings and architectural periodicals to British mid-century literature. Drawing upon a wealth of previously unexplored architectural criticism by British authors, this book reveals how arguments about architecture led to innovations in literature, as well as to redesigns in the concept of modernism itself. While the city has long been a focus of literary modernist studies, architectural modernism has never had its due. Scholars usually characterize architectural modernism as a parallel modernism or even an incompatible modernism to literature. Giving special attention to dystopian classics Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four, this study argues that sustained attention to modern architecture shaped mid-century authors’ political and aesthetic commitments. After many writers deemed modernist architects to be agents for communism and other collectivist movements, they squared themselves—and literary modernist detachment and aesthetic autonomy—against the seemingly tyrannical utopianism of modern architecture; literary aesthetic qualities were reclaimed as political qualities. In this way, Reconstructing Modernism redraws the boundaries of literary modernist studies: rather than simply adding to its canon, it argues that the responsibility for defining literary modernism for the mid-century public was shared by an incredible variety of authors—Edwardians, modernists, satirists, and even anti-modernists.
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Christensen, Peter H., ed. Buffalo at the Crossroads. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501749766.001.0001.
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This book is a diverse set of twelve cutting-edge chapters that highlight the outsized importance of Buffalo, New York, within the story of American urbanism. The chapters consider the history of Buffalo's built environment in light of contemporary developments and in relationship to the evolving interplay between nature, industry, and architecture. The chapters examine Buffalo's architectural heritage in rich context: the Second Industrial Revolution; the City Beautiful movement; world's fairs; grain, railroad, and shipping industries; urban renewal and so-called white flight; and the larger networks of labor and production that set the city's economic fate. The book pays attention to currents that connect contemporary architectural work in Buffalo to the legacies established by its esteemed architectural founders: Richardson, Olmsted, Adler, Sullivan, Bethune, Wright, Saarinen, and others. The book is a compelling introduction to Buffalo's architecture and developed landscape that frames discussion about the city.
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Verschure, Paul F. M. J. The architecture of mind and brain. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199674923.003.0035.
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The components of a Living Machine must be integrated into a functioning whole, which requires a detailed understanding of the architecture of living machines. This chapter starts with a conceptual and historical analysis which from Plato brings us to nineteenth-century neuroscience and early concepts of the layered structure of nervous systems. These concepts were further captured in the cognitive behaviorism of Tolman and came to full fruition in the cognitive revolution of the second half of the twentieth century. Verschure subsequently describes the most relevant proposals of cognitive architectures followed by an overview of the few proposals stemming from modern neuroscience on the architecture of the brain. Subsequently, we will look at contemporary contenders that mediate between cognitive and brain architecture. An important challenge to any model of cognitive architectures is how to benchmark it. Verschure proposes the Unified Theories of Embodied Minds (UTEM) benchmark which advances from Newell’s classic Unified Theories of Cognition benchmark.
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Townshend, Dale. Gothic Antiquity. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198845669.001.0001.
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This book seeks to provide the first sustained scholarly account of the relationship between Gothic architecture and Gothic literature (fiction, poetry, drama) in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Although the literature/architecture relation is a topic that has long preoccupied scholars of the literary Gothic, there remains no monograph-length study of the intriguing interactions between these two aesthetic forms. Equally, Gothic literature has received only cursory treatment in art-historical accounts of the early Gothic Revival in architecture, interiors, and design. Addressing this gap in scholarship, Gothic Antiquity seeks to situate Gothic writing in relation to the Gothic architectural theories, aesthetics, and practices with which it was contemporary, providing closely historicized readings of a wide selection of texts. In turn, it shows how these architectural debates responded to, and were shaped by, what we have since come to identify as the literary Gothic mode. In both its ‘survivalist’ and ‘revivalist’ forms, the architecture of the Middle Ages in the long eighteenth century was much more than a matter of style. Incarnating the memory of a vanished ‘Gothic’ age in the enlightened present, Gothic architecture, whether ruined or complete, prompted imaginative reconstructions of the nation’s past—a notable ‘visionary’ turn in which Gothic writers, architects, and antiquaries enthusiastically participated. Through initiating a series of dialogues between Gothic literature, architectural history, and the antiquarian interest in the material remains of the Gothic past, the book argues that these discrete yet intimately related approaches to vernacular antiquity are most fruitfully read in relation to one another.
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Ruggles, D. Fairchild. Tree of Pearls. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190873202.001.0001.
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The woman known as “Tree of Pearls” ruled Egypt in the summer of 1250. A rare case of a woman sultan, her reign marked the shift from the Ayyubid to the Mamluk dynasty, and her architectural patronage of two building complexes had a lasting impact on Cairo and on Islamic architecture. Rising to power from slave origins, Tree of Pearls—her name in Arabic is Shajar al-Durr—used her wealth and power to add a tomb to the urban madrasa (college) that had been built by her husband, Sultan Salih, and with this innovation, madrasas and many other charitably endowed architectural complexes became commemorative monuments, a practice that remains widespread today. This was the first occasion in Cairo in which a secular patron’s relationship to his architectural foundation was reified through the actual presence of his body. The tomb thus profoundly transformed the relationship between architecture and its patron, emphasizing and emblematizing his historical presence. Indeed, the characteristic domed skyline of Cairo that we see today is shaped by such domes that have kept the memory of their named patrons visible to the public eye. This dramatic transformation, in which architecture came to embody human identity, was made possible by the sultan-queen Shajar al-Durr, a woman who began her career as a mere slave-concubine. Her path-breaking patronage contradicts the prevailing assumption among historians of Islam that there was no distinctive female voice in art and architecture.
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Walker, Matthew. Architects and Intellectual Culture in Post-Restoration England. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198746355.001.0001.
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Architects and Intellectual Culture in Post-Restoration England charts the moment when well-educated, well-resourced, English intellectuals first became interested in classical architecture in substantial numbers. This occurred after the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660 and involved people such as John Evelyn, Robert Hooke, Sir Christopher Wren, and Roger North. The book explores how these figures treated architecture as a subject of intellectual enquiry, either as writers, as designers of buildings, or as both. In four substantial chapters it looks at how the architect was defined as a major intellectual figure; how architects acquired material that allowed them to define themselves as intellectually competent architects; how intellectual writers in the period handled knowledge of ancient architecture in their writing; and how the design process in architecture was conceived of in theoretical writing at the time. In all, the book shows that the key to understanding English architectural culture at the time is to understand how architecture was handled as knowledge, and how architects were conceived of as collectors and producers of such knowledge. It also makes the claim that architecture was treated as an extremely serious and important area of intellectual enquiry, the result of which was that, by the turn of the eighteenth century, architects and architectural writers could count themselves amongst England’s intellectual and cultural elite.
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Yaneva, Albena. Crafting History. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501751820.001.0001.
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What constitutes an archive in architecture? What forms does it take? What epistemology does it perform? What kind of craft is archiving? This book provides answers and offers insights on the ontological granularity of the archive and its relationship with architecture as a complex enterprise that starts and ends much beyond the act of building or the life of a creator. In this book we learn how objects are processed and catalogued, how a classification scheme is produced, how models and drawings are preserved, and how born-digital material battles time and technology obsolescence. We follow the work of conservators, librarians, cataloguers, digital archivists, museum technicians, curators, and architects, and we capture archiving in its mundane and practical course. Based on ethnographic observation at the Canadian Centre for Architecture and interviews with a range of practitioners, including Álvaro Siza and Peter Eisenman, the book traces archiving through the daily work and care of all its participants, scrutinizing their variable ontology, scale, and politics. It addresses the strategies practicing architects employ to envisage an archive-based future and tells a story about how architectural collections are crafted so as to form the epistemological basis of architectural history.
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Graves, Margaret S. The Poetics of Ornament. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190695910.003.0006.
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This chapter continues with the paradigm of rhetoric established in Chapter 4 of the book, but moves discussion from metaphor to ekphrasis—that is, description that seeks to make an absent artwork or building present in the mind of the reader or listener. The example of carved marble jar stands, called kilgas, from medieval Cairo are used to pose a question that crosses modalities: Can decoration be description? Individual stands have been inscribed with a dramatically reconfigured and miniaturized set of components from a full-scale form of architectural water feature. Tracing the redescription of architecture onto object, this chapter applies to its subjects the rhetorical model of ekphrasis, arguing that the atomized architecture of effect and spectacle encountered in medieval Arabic and Persian poetry is paralleled in the refraction of architectural form upon three-dimensional objects.
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Till, Nicholas. “Sound Houses”. Edited by Yael Kaduri. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199841547.013.48.
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This chapter looks at the relationship of music and architecture, both historically and with regard to the “spatial” and “acoustic” turns in recent cultural thinking. The author suggests that during the twentieth century sound art offered a distinctive challenge to the formalizing tendencies of both modernist music and modernist architecture. Architecture is instead understood in its multi-sensory materiality, while the sonic is understood as an intrinsic property of architectural experience. Similarly, space is understood as an intrinsic property of music, while much recent musical practice is shown to have recognized the inextricable association of sound and space. Examining the work of sound artists alongside the spatially conceived music of composers, this chapter considers the spatial and acoustic turns of the later twentieth century as a means for thinking about the postmodern sonic as a field that challenges the old modernist aspiration of both music and architecture to aesthetic autonomy.
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Oksanish, John. The Elusive Middle. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198818489.003.0004.
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This piece considers the paradoxical reception of Vitruvius and his text, De architectura, as a bellwether of attitudes towards traditionally marginal texts and authors within the discipline of classics. Classicizing figures of the Renaissance such as Alberti sought to emulate Vitruvius’ architectural recommendations but criticized his prose. A break from the holistic esteem in which Vitruvius was held in earlier ages, such attacks on Vitruvius’ Latinity catalysed distinct patterns in the reception of De architectura, placing the text and its author (though not his architectural aesthetics) on the margins of ‘the classical’. A survey of more recent critics suggests that such prejudices about Vitruvius’ style and social status remain embedded even in sympathetic treatments of De architectura and that Vitruvius’ choice of Cicero as a literary model all but guarantees his continued marginality within classics as a literary discipline.