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    Play Among Books

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    How does coding change the way we think about architecture? Miro Roman and his AI Alice_ch3n81 develop a playful scenario in which they propose coding as the new literacy of information. They convey knowledge in the form of a project model that links the fields of architecture and information through two interwoven narrative strands in an “infinite flow” of real books

    HERITAGE 2022. International Conference on Vernacular Heritage: Culture, People and Sustainability

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    Vernacular architecture, tangible and intangible heritage of great importance to European and global culture, represents the response of a society culturally linked to its territory, in terms of climate and landscape. Its construction features are born from the practical experience of the inhabitants, making use of local materials, taking into consideration geographical conditions and cultural, social and constructive traditions, based on the conditions of the surrounding nature and habitat. Above all, it plays an essential role in contemporary society as it is able to teach us important principles and lessons for a respectful sustainable architecture. Vernacular Heritage: Culture, People and Sustainability will be a valuable source of information for academics and professionals in the fields of Environmental Science, Civil Engineering, Construction and Building Engineering and ArchitectureMileto, C.; Vegas López-Manzanares, F.; Cristini, V.; García Soriano, L. (2022). HERITAGE 2022. International Conference on Vernacular Heritage: Culture, People and Sustainability. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/HERITAGE2022.2022.15942EDITORIA

    Geotechnical Engineering for the Preservation of Monuments and Historic Sites III

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    The conservation of monuments and historic sites is one of the most challenging problems facing modern civilization. It involves, in inextricable patterns, factors belonging to different fields (cultural, humanistic, social, technical, economical, administrative) and the requirements of safety and use appear to be (or often are) in conflict with the respect of the integrity of the monuments. The complexity of the topic is such that a shared framework of reference is still lacking among art historians, architects, structural and geotechnical engineers. The complexity of the subject is such that a shared frame of reference is still lacking among art historians, architects, architectural and geotechnical engineers. And while there are exemplary cases of an integral approach to each building element with its static and architectural function, as a material witness to the culture and construction techniques of the original historical period, there are still examples of uncritical reliance on modern technology leading to the substitution from earlier structures to new ones, preserving only the iconic look of the original monument. Geotechnical Engineering for the Preservation of Monuments and Historic Sites III collects the contributions to the eponymous 3rd International ISSMGE TC301 Symposium (Naples, Italy, 22-24 June 2022). The papers cover a wide range of topics, which include:   - Principles of conservation, maintenance strategies, case histories - The knowledge: investigations and monitoring - Seismic risk, site effects, soil structure interaction - Effects of urban development and tunnelling on built heritage - Preservation of diffuse heritage: soil instability, subsidence, environmental damages The present volume aims at geotechnical engineers and academics involved in the preservation of monuments and historic sites worldwide

    A Holmes and Doyle Bibliography, Volume 9: All Formats—Combined Alphabetical Listing

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    This bibliography is a work in progress. It attempts to update Ronald B. De Waal’s comprehensive bibliography, The Universal Sherlock Holmes, but does not claim to be exhaustive in content. New works are continually discovered and added to this bibliography. Readers and researchers are invited to suggest additional content. This volume contains all listings in all formats, arranged alphabetically by author or main entry. In other words, it combines the listings from Volume 1 (Monograph and Serial Titles), Volume 3 (Periodical Articles), and Volume 7 (Audio/Visual Materials) into a comprehensive bibliography. (There may be additional materials included in this list, e.g. duplicate items and items not yet fully edited.) As in the other volumes, coverage of this material begins around 1994, the final year covered by De Waal's bibliography, but may not yet be totally up-to-date (given the ongoing nature of this bibliography). It is hoped that other titles will be added at a later date. At present, this bibliography includes 12,594 items

    A Holmes and Doyle Bibliography, Volume 5: Periodical Articles--Secondary References, Alphabetical Listing

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    This bibliography is a work in progress. It attempts to update Ronald B. De Waal’s comprehensive bibliography, The Universal Sherlock Holmes, but does not claim to be exhaustive in content. New works are continually discovered and added to this bibliography. Readers and researchers are invited to suggest additional content. Volume 5 includes "passing" or "secondary" references, i.e. those entries that are passing in nature or contain very brief information or content

    A Holmes and Doyle Bibliography, Volume 6: Periodical Articles, Subject Listing, By De Waal Category

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    This bibliography is a work in progress. It attempts to update Ronald B. De Waal’s comprehensive bibliography, The Universal Sherlock Holmes, but does not claim to be exhaustive in content. New works are continually discovered and added to this bibliography. Readers and researchers are invited to suggest additional content. Volume 6 presents the periodical literature arranged by subject categories (as originally devised for the De Waal bibliography and slightly modified here)

    Representation of Otherness In Literary Avant-Garde of Early Twentieth Century : David Burliuk’s and Ezra Pound’s Japan

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    The subject of the dissertation is the East-West opposition and the image of Japan in the works of Ezra Pound and David Burliuk, representatives of European/American Vorticism and Russian cubo-futurism respectively. The opposition is discussed in the cultural and historical context of the early twentieth-century Russian and European avant-garde esthetics with a focus on the typological similarities and radical differences between the two literary groups. The primary material used in the analysis consists of little-studied Japan-related materials in the oeuvre of the two authors: Pound’s Noh-based dramatic works A Supper at the House of Mademoiselle Rachel and Tristan (1916, published in 1987), as well as his Japanese correspondence (published in 1987) and essays which appeared in Japanese periodicals (1939-1940), and, on the other hand, Burliuk’s prose narratives and poetry written during his stay in Japan in 1920-1922 (The Ascent to Fuji-san, Oshima, and In the Pacific Ocean, published in the USA in 1926-1927 and never reprinted, as well as verse collections Marusia-san and ½ Century published in the USA in 1925 and 1932 respectively). The dissertation draws on Roman Jakobson’s dichotomy (outlined in “Two Aspects of Language and Two Types of Aphasic Disturbances”, 1954) of two opposite language modes, those of metaphor and metonymy, understood by the scholar in a broad sense as paradigmatic and syntagmatic relationships structuring any semiotic system. In accordance with Jakobson’s view, the dissertation discusses the Vorticist and cubo-futurist esthetic assumptions, and the representation of the East/West opposition in particular, as examples of respectively metaphoric (based on analogy) and metonymic (based on contiguity) approaches. The analysis of Pound’s and Burliuk’s Japan-related texts within the frame of Jakobson’s dichotomy allows foregrounding the essential difference between the Oriental projects of the two poets: while Pound builds a similarity-based East-West paradigm that challenges the familiar Western culture, Burliuk creates a contiguous background image of Japan, which legitimizes familiar cultural assumptions and essentially frames his dialogue with the West.Väitöskirjan aiheena on itä-länsi -oppositio ja Japania koskevat representaatiot eurooppalais-amerikkalaisen vorticismin edustajan Ezra Poundin ja venäläisen kubo-futurismin edustajan David Burliukin teoksissa. Tutkimuksessa käsitellään oppositiota 1900-luvun alun venäläisen ja eurooppalaisen avantgarde-estetiikan kulttuuri-historiallisessa kontekstissa keskittyen typologisiin yhtäläisyyksiin ja radikaaleihin eroihin kahden kirjallisuusryhmän välillä. Tutkimuksen alkuperäislähteet ovat edellä mainittujen kirjailijoiden vähän huomiota saaneet Japania koskevat tekstit. Tutkin Poundin kahta japanilaiseen Noh-teatteriin perustavaa näytelmää, A Supper at the House of Mademoiselle Rachel ja Tristan vuodelta 1916 (julkaistu 1987), hänen kirjeenvaihtoaan Japanista (julkaistu 1987) sekä vuosina 1939-1940 japanilaisissa aikakausilehdissä ilmestyneitä esseitä. Burliukin teksteistä tutkin hänen Japanissa oleskelun aikana, vuosina 1920-1922, kirjoittamiaan proosakertomuksia ja runoja The Ascent to Fuji-san, Oshima ja In the Pacific Ocean, sekä runokokoelmia Marusia-san ja ½ Century (kaikki julkaistu vuosien 1925-1932 aikana Yhdysvalloissa). Väitöskirja pohjautuu Roman Jakobsonin kahtiajakoon, jonka hän esittää teoksessaan Two Aspects of Language and Two Types of Aphasic Disturbances (1954) ja joka siis koskee kahta vastakkaista kielikuvaa - metaforaa ja metonymiaa. Jakobson tulkitsee näitä kielikuvia laajassa merkityksessä eli paradigmaattisina ja syntagmaat-tisina suhteina, jotka jäsentävät tai rakentavat minkä tahansa semioottisen systeemin. Tutkimus käsittelee Jakobsonin näkemyksen mukaisesti vorticismin ja kubo-futurismin esteettisiä periaatteita, ja erityisesti itä-länsi -opposition ilmenemistapoja, esimerkkeinä metaforisesta eli ennalta odottamattomaan analogiaan perustuvasta ja metonymisesta eli kulttuurisesti jo tunnustettuihin asiayhteyksiin perustuvasta lähestymistavasta. Jakobsonin kahtiajaon soveltaminen tutkimuksellisena menetelmänä Poundin ja Burliukin Japania koskevien tekstien analyysissä tuo esiin olennaisen eron kahden runoilijan suhteissa itään. Pound rakentaa itä-länsi -paradigmaa, joka perustuu ennakoimattomalle samankaltaisuudelle (metafora) ja joka näin haastaa perinteisen länsimaisen kulttuurin. Burliuk puolestaan luo Japani-kuvaa, joka perustuu ja oikeuttaa jo tunnustettuja kulttuurisia näkemyksiä (metonymia) ja joka jäsentää olennaisesti hänen vuoropuheluaan lännen kanssa.Siirretty Doriast

    Drawing Futures

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    Drawing Futures brings together international designers and artists for speculations in contemporary drawing for art and architecture. Despite numerous developments in technological manufacture and computational design that provide new grounds for designers, the act of drawing still plays a central role as a vehicle for speculation. There is a rich and long history of drawing tied to innovations in technology as well as to revolutions in our philosophical understanding of the world. In reflection of a society now underpinned by computational networks and interfaces allowing hitherto unprecedented views of the world, the changing status of the drawing and its representation as a political act demands a platform for reflection and innovation. Drawing Futures will present a compendium of projects, writings and interviews that critically reassess the act of drawing and where its future may lie. Drawing Futures focuses on the discussion of how the field of drawing may expand synchronously alongside technological and computational developments. The book coincides with an international conference of the same name, taking place at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, in November 2016. Bringing together practitioners from many creative fields, the book discusses how drawing is changing in relation to new technologies for the production and dissemination of ideas
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