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"What is prison architecture and how can it be studied? How are concepts such as humanism, dignity and solidarity translated into prison architecture? What kind of ideologies and ideas are expressed in various prison buildings from different eras and locations? What is the outside and the inside of a prison, and what is the significance of movement within the prison space? What does a lunch table have to do with prison architecture? How do prisoners experience materiality in serving a prison sentence? These questions are central to the texts presented in this anthology. Prison, Architecture and Humans is the result of a collaboration between researchers and architects from Italy, Norway and Sweden. It presents new approaches to prison architecture and penological research by focusing on prison design, prison artefacts, everyday prison life and imprisoned bodies. The book will be of interest to students, researchers, architects and politicians."

Riverscapes are the main arteries of the world's largest cities, and have, for millennia, been the lifeblood of the urban communities that have developed around them. These human settlements - given life through the space of the local waterscape - soon developed into ritualised spaces that sought to harness the dynamism of the watercourse and create the local architectural landscape. Theorised via a sophisticated understanding of history, space, culture, and ecology, this collection of wonderful and deliberately wide-ranging case studies, from Early Modern Italy to the contemporary Bengal Delta, investigates the culture of human interaction with rivers and the nature of urban topography. Riverine explores the ways in which architecture and urban planning have imbued cultural landscapes with ritual and structural meaning.

"Through Creole houses and merchant stores to sugar fields and boiling houses, Jamaica played a leading role in the formation of both the early modern Atlantic world and the British Empire. Architecture and Empire in Jamaica offers the first scholarly analysis of Jamaican architecture in the long 18th century, spanning roughly from the Port Royal earthquake of 1692 to Emancipation in 1838. In this richly illustrated study, which includes hundreds of the author's own photographs and drawings, Louis P. Nelson examines surviving buildings and archival records to write a social history of architecture. Nelson begins with an overview of the architecture of the West African slave trade then moves to chapters framed around types of buildings and landscapes, including the Jamaican plantation landscape and fortified houses to the architecture of free blacks. He concludes with a consideration of Jamaican architecture in Britain. By connecting the architecture of the Caribbean first to West Africa and then to Britain, Nelson traces the flow of capital and makes explicit the material, economic, and political networks around the Atlantic"--Jacket

Technology of the 21st century is changing rapidly in the postmodern world of consumerism. As we move from industrial toward information epoch, built environment become precisely augmented with the trends of commercialization. The breakout of modernism brings up the Postmodernism in late 1970`s where urban space and architecture were faced with signs and symbols once again. Consumerism society was become a debatable issue in the 21st century. Changing trends in world by the means of globalization shaped society and public territory with the improvements in media and technology. Brand new dimension has been brought into urban zones with commercialization. Commercialization began to develop in physical and computerized ways and have begun to contribute disorderly in the built environment. Expansion of working with media causes to have cyberspaces with the utilization of media elements, for example, advertisements, board. Technological developments, and improvement of media and visual arts cause change in the direction of contemporary architecture with the globalization and domination of capitalism. Facades gain new media integrated skin to its external skins of buildings; and society who are the main user of the public space gained a new way of interaction through the media integrated cutting edge technology. Channing technological trends shape the formation of building façade. The main motivation of this thesis is to investigate essential ideas behind the utilization of advanced media facade on buildings. Extraordinary emphasis on innovation and visual media, it is intended to see how architecture is influenced and its advancement in postmodernism. Theoretical section is supported with cases from developed countries where media architecture is popular trend, other case is "1001 Airport Mall" selected from Nicosia, North Cyprus which is from 3rd world country with too many political problems. After theoretical examination, end of the study will create understanding towards the integration of media and architecture through its evolution and how building form and spatial organization is affected in architectural scale. Finally, changing urban space with the media architecture will be discussed. Keywords: Postmodernism, Media Architecture, Consumer Society, Augmented Surface & Hybrid Space, Visual Media ; ÖZ : 21. yüzyılın teknolojisi, Postmodern tüketim dünyasında hızla değişiyor. Endüstriyel çağında bilgi çağına geçerken, ticarileştirme trendleri ile yapılı çevre alanı tamamen artırılmış yüzeylerle donatıldı. Modernismin çöküşü ile 1970li yıllarda Postodernisimi gündeme getirerek, kamusal alan ve mimari bir kez daha simge ve semboller ile donandı. Tüketici toplumu 21. yüzyılda tartışılması gereken konu haline geldi. Globalleşme ile dünyada değişen trendler, medya ve teknolojinin gelişmesi ile birlikte toplumu ve kamusal alanı şekillendirdi. Kentsel alanın ticarileşmesi ile, yepyeni bir boyut kazanıldı. Ticarileşme, fiziksel ve bilgisayarlı ortamlarda gelişmeye başladı ve yapılı çevreye düzensizce katkı koymaya başladı. Medya alanında çalışmaların gelişmesi reklam, panolar gibi medya elemanları ile sanal gerçekliğin oluşması yol açtı. Teknolojik gelişmeler ve medya ve görsel sanat alanında ilerlemeler, globalleşme ve kapitalizmin baskınlığı ile çağdaş mimarinin yönünü değiştirmiştir. Bina dış cephesine yeni bütünleşmiş medya yüzeyi kazandırıldı ve kamusal alanın ana kullanıcıları olan toplum, yeni entegre edilmiş son teknoloji ile yeni bir etkileşim kazandı. Değişen teknolojik trendler bina cephesini şekillendirdi. Bu tezin ana motivasyonu, bina cephesinde kullanılan medya cephesinin ardındaki önemli düşünceleri araştırmaktır. Yenilikler ve görsel medya vurgusu ile, postmodern zamanında nasıl etkilenmiş olduğunu görmeyi amaçlar. Teorik bölüm, medya mimarisinin popular olduğu gelişmiş ülkelerden örnekler ile desteklenirken, diğer örnek bina ise 3. Dünya ülkesi olan ve politik problem yaşanan Kuzey Kıbrıs, Lefkoşa ilinde bulunan "1001 Airport Mall" binasıdır. Teorik incelemeler sonrasında, çalışmanın sonunda, medya ve mimarinin entegrasyonu ve gelişimi ile ilgili kavrayış sağlanacak ve mimari ölçekde bina formu ve mekânsal organizasyonuna olan etkileri tartışılacaktır. Son olarak, medya mimarisi ile değişen kamusal mekan tartışılacaktır. Anahtar Kelimeler: Postmodernism, Medya Mimarisi, Tüketici Toplum, Artırılmış Yüzey & Mekânlar, Görsel Medya ; Master of Science in Architecture. Thesis (M.S.)--Eastern Mediterranean University, Faculty of Architecture, Dept. of Architecture, 2016. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hıfsiye Pulhan.

"Metaphors are diversly and intricately embedded in architectural practice and discourse. Precisely for this reason, this volume argues and sets out to explore, how they can be engaged to critically interrogate architecture's social, cultural and political dimensions - past and present - and to productively challenge and intervene with established perspectives, debates and practices. Mapping out not just potentials but also addressing the challenges, limitations and dangers inherent in using metaphors in architectural research and practice, the volume prominently illustrates the ambiguity and contradictoriness inherent in both metaphors and the process of engaging and exploiting them. Covering a broad range of historical and geographical cases and concerns, the contributions illustrate effectively that metaphors can expand or narrow our engagement with architecture, and consolidate or legitimise but also destabilise and challenge established social, cultural, disciplinary and political structures, concepts and categories. With its aim to explore metaphors as both subject and method to critically challenge and expand established practices, perspectives and standards in architectural research and practice, the volume will be of interest for scholars working across the architectural humanities, including architectural history, theory, culture, design and urbanism, as well as for researchers concerned with architecture and the city from fields such as cultural, visual and area studies as well as art history"--

The accommodation of a welfare state economy after 1945 profoundly changed the Belgian territory. Government support for private home ownership resulted in widespread suburban sprawl. This book investigates the new infrastructural and business backbone that supported this suburban realm. At first sight the history of the construction of the highway network, the establishment of a tissue of consumer goods industries and the transformation of Brussels' periphery into a capital region reads as an account of economic policy and investment decisions. However, upon closer scrutiny, various urban models and architectural paradigms left their mark on these endeavors

"Architecture and the Housing Question examines how the design and provision of housing around the world have become central both to competing political projects and to the architecture profession. How have architects acting as housing experts helped alleviate or enforce class, race, and gender inequality? What are the disciplinary implications of taking on shelter for the multitude as an architectural assignment and responsibility? The book features essays in the historiography of architecture and the housing question, and a collection of historical case studies from Belgium, China, France, Ghana, the Netherlands, Somalia, the Soviet Union, Turkey, and the United States. The thematic organization of the collection, interrogating housing expertise, the state apparatus, segregation and colonialism, highlights the methodological questions that underpin its international outlook. The book will appeal to students and scholars in architecture, architectural history, theory, and urban studies"--

"Bioclimatic Architecture and Cyprus" sets out to demonstrate that bioclimatic architecture is a viable energy-saving concept which can be applied in the context of Cyprus through both research and hands on examples. A principal aim of the research revealed in this publication was to develop an understanding of the criteria needed for an appropriate bioclimatic architecture that is sensitive to both energy use and climatic conditions. For this purpose, the climatic conditions Cyprus, thermal comfort, passive solar systems, comparison of vernacular and contemporary buildings, energy uses, building and energy legislations, education in bioclimatic architecture and building examples (academic and professional) were studied, concluding that passive solar design may be successfully applied through the design of modern buildings in Cyprus. A crucial argument that transpires from this research is whether environmentally responsible architecture should be regarded as a specialisation within architectural education or whether the entire spectrum of architecture should be taught as a science and as an art that is equally accountable to man and to the environment. This begs the question: Shouldn't architecture always be ecologically responsible? This book brings local case studies to the forefront in an attempt to give a concrete understanding on bioclimatic architecture. It entails of a compilation of student design projects from the Department of Architecture of the University of Nicosia as well as built projects by the author which address bioclimatic design approaches. The goal of this book is to transcend knowledge without any monetary benefit. The book is available for free. View low resolution book: https://issuu.com/petroslapithis/docs/bioclimatic_architecture_and_cyprus Download high Resolution print: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JR-hL_D1ecHbD5QVCp2ns3nQ_QDBfoHw/view?usp=sharing Order the high resolution printed book here: ...

Riverine- Front Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Illustration credits -- Cover -- The amphibian townscape -- Ancient waterfront palaces: a case study of the Great Palace at Amarna -- Spectacle of power on the Po: Ferrara and its riverfront during the Renaissance -- From Bishops' Inns to private palaces: the evolution of the Strand in London from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century -- Revealing the Bièvre in contemporary Paris -- Along the river Temo in Bosa, Sardinia -- Building rivers: how the aqueducts of Roman Britain furthered connections between towns and their riverine settings -- Riverine architecture in the absence of rivers -- The Sabarmati in Ahmedabad, India: the story of a city told through its river -- Villeneuve d'Ascq: the French riverine new town -- Fleeting memories: bringing the Fleet River back to life in St Pancras -- Sauf aux riverains: the riverine memorial of Georges-Henri Pingusson -- Water and memory: Tracing Nantes' Watermarks -- Sensing the Swan -- Nature and artifice: Nadav Kander's Yangtze, The Long River -- Metropolitan riverine: landscapes of the modern port city -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Notes -- The amphibian townscape -- Water as a medium of expression -- Water as a barrier and means of communication -- Bridges: connecting and dividing -- The boundary between land and water -- Building on amphibious sites -- Water technology -- Water and urban identity -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- SECTION ONE: ENSEMBLES: by the river -- Ancient waterfront palaces: a case study of the Great Palace at Amarna -- Introduction -- The typology of ancient waterfront palaces -- Waterfront palaces open on the water level -- Waterfront palaces open on a high level -- Introverted waterfront palaces -- The Great Palace at Amarna -- Architectural analysis and conclusion.