Inhabited Spaces
Title | Inhabited Spaces PDF eBook |
Author | Nicole Guenther Discenza |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 277 |
Release | 2017-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1487500653 |
In Inhabited Spaces, Nicole Guenther Discenza examines a variety of Anglo-Latin and Old English texts to shed light on Anglo-Saxon understandings of space.
Bridging Times and Spaces: Papers in Ancient Near Eastern, Mediterranean and Armenian Studies
Title | Bridging Times and Spaces: Papers in Ancient Near Eastern, Mediterranean and Armenian Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Pavel S. Avetisyan |
Publisher | Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Pages | 428 |
Release | 2017-10-31 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1784917001 |
This book presents papers written by colleagues of Professor Gregory E. Areshian on the occasion his 65th birthday. The range of topics includes Near Eastern, Mediterranean and Armenian archaeology, theory of interpretation in archaeology and art history, interdisciplinary history, historical linguistics, art history, and comparative mythology.
Virtual Space
Title | Virtual Space PDF eBook |
Author | Lars Qvortrup |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 2011-06-28 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 1447102258 |
Containing the edited research papers resulting from an ambitious, cross-disciplinary research project, this volume examines the spatiality of virtual inhabited 3D worlds - virtual reality and cyberspace. (Three other volumes look at Interaction, Staging and Methodology.) It is about the communication spaces emerging at the Internet and supported by special 3D interfaces. It is also about the virtual spaces created by virtual reality hardware (CAVEs, panoramic screens, head mounted display systems etc.) and software. Virtual Space: Spatiality in Virtual Inhabited 3D Worlds is interdisciplinary. It deals with philosophical, psychological, communicational, technological and aesthetic aspects of space. While philosophy raises the question concerning the ontology of space - what is space - psychology deals with our perception of space. Communication theory looks at the way in which space supports communication (i.e. that space is a medium for communication), and finally aesthetic analyses exemplify the use of virtual space in virtual cities, in museums and in art.
Space Framed
Title | Space Framed PDF eBook |
Author | Hugh Campbell |
Publisher | Lund Humphries Publishers Limited |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Architectural photography |
ISBN | 9781848222731 |
While much has been written about how photography serves architecture, this book looks at how fine-art photographers frame constructed space? from cities to single anonymous rooms. It analyses various techniques used and reveals resonances and rhythms found in the photographs as they occur at different scales, times and settings. Photographs become vehicles for thinking about the co-existence between individuals and social groups and their surroundings spaces and settings in the city and the landscape. By considering questions of technique and practice on the one hand, and the formal and aesthetic qualities of photographs on the other, the book opens up new ways of looking at and thinking about architecture and how we relate to our environment.
Proceedings of the 3rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Image and Imagination
Title | Proceedings of the 3rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Image and Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Daniele Villa |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 1251 |
Release | 2023-04-05 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 3031259068 |
This book gathers peer-reviewed papers presented at the 3rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Image and Imagination (IMG), held in Milano, Italy, in November 2021. Highlighting interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary research concerning graphics science and education, the papers address theoretical research as well as applications, including education, in several fields of science, technology and art. Mainly focusing on graphics for communication, visualization, description and storytelling, and for learning and thought construction, the book provides architects, engineers, computer scientists, and designers with the latest advances in the field, particularly in the context of science, arts and education.
Small Spaces
Title | Small Spaces PDF eBook |
Author | Swati Chattopadhyay |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 377 |
Release | 2023-08-24 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1350288233 |
Small Spaces recasts the history of the British empire by focusing on the small spaces that made the empire possible. It takes as its subject a series of small architectural spaces, objects, and landscapes and uses them to narrate the untold stories of the marginalized people-the servants, women, children, subalterns, and racialized minorities-who held up the infrastructure of empire. In so doing it opens up an important new approach to architectural history: an invitation to shift our attention from the large to the small scale. Taking the British empire in India as its primary focus, this book presents eighteen short, readable chapters to explore an array of overlooked places and spaces. From cook rooms and slave quarters to outhouses, go-downs, and medicine cupboards, each chapter reveals how and why these kinds of minor spaces are so important to understanding colonialism. With the focus of history so often on the large scale - global trade networks, vast regions, and architectures of power and domination - Small Spaces shows instead how we need to rethink this aura of magnitude so that our reading is not beholden such imperialist optics. With chapters which can be read separately as individual accounts of objects, spaces, and buildings, and introductions showing how this critical methodology can challenge the methods and theories of urban and architectural history, Small Spaces is a must-read for anyone wishing to decolonize disciplinary practices in the field of architectural, urban, and colonial history. Altogether, it provides a paradigm-breaking account of how to 'unlearn empire', whether in British India or elsewhere.
Space and Time in Mediterranean Prehistory
Title | Space and Time in Mediterranean Prehistory PDF eBook |
Author | Stella Souvatzi |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 327 |
Release | 2013-10-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1135042888 |
Space and Time in Mediterranean Prehistory addresses these two concepts as interrelated, rather than as separate categories, and as a means for understanding past social relations at different scales. The need for this volume was realised through four main observations: the ever growing interest in space and spatiality across the social sciences; the comparative theoretical and methodological neglect of time and temporality; the lack in the existing literature of an explicit and balanced focus on both space and time; and the large amount of new information coming from prehistoric Mediterranean. It focuses on the active and interactive role of space and time in the production of any social environment, drawing equally on contemporary theory and on case-studies from Mediterranean prehistory. Space and Time in Mediterranean Prehistory seeks to break down the space-time continuum, often assumed rather than inferred, into space-time units and to uncover the varying and variable interrelations of space and time in prehistoric societies across the Mediterranean. The volume is a response to the dissatisfaction with traditional views of space and time in prehistory and revisits these concepts to develop a timely integrative conceptual and analytical framework for the study of space and time in archaeology.