الصفحة 3
الصفحة 3
From Assessing to Conserving Biodiversity : Conceptual and Practical Challenges
This book despite increasing communication, accelerating policy and management responses, and notwithstanding improving ecosystem assessment and endangered species knowledge, conserving biodiversity continues to be more a concern than an accomplished task. Why is it so? The overexploitation of natural resources by our species is a frequently recognised factor, while the short-term economic interests of governments and stakeholders typically clash with the burdens that implementing conservation actions imply. But this is not the whole story. This book develops a different perspective on the problem by exploring the conceptual challenges and practical defiance posed by conserving biodiversity, namely: on the one hand, the difficulties in defining what biodiversity is and characterizing that “thing” to which the word ‘biodiversity’ refers to; on the other hand, the reasons why assessing biodiversity and putting in place effective conservation actions is arduous.
Exhibition Design : An Introduction ; 2nd ed.
Offers a thorough grounding in the principles of designing for exhibitions. It describesthe skills needed to become an exhibition designer, including: Developing a brief and working with clients Design principles for graphics, circulation, lighting, and accessibility Presenting ideas to clients The practicalities of productionVisual material includes photographs of completed exhibitions by world-renowned designers, concept drawings, computer renderings, charts, and tables of informationall for a wide range of exhibitions around the world, permanent and temporary, including museums and galleries, visitor centers, brand experiences, festivals, and trade fairs. The book will inform and inspire, as well as equip students and new exhibition designers with a valuable guide to the profession
Dissonant Heritages and Memories in Contemporary Europe
This book discusses political, economic, social, and humanitarian challenges that influence both how people deal with their past and how they build their identities in contemporary Europe. Ongoing debates on migration, on local, national, inter- and transnational levels, prove that it is a divisive issue with regards to understanding European integration and identity. At the same time, the European Union increasingly invests in projects related to European heritage, museums, and cultural memory networks, while having to take dissonant heritages into account. These processes in their combination offer an interesting dynamic and form the complex puzzle that poses challenging questions for anyone involved in academic research, heritage practices, and policy debates. With this puzzle at its core, this book explicitly focuses on slippery and transforming notions of Europe and critically discusses ongoing and transforming power structures of heritage and memory in today’s Europe.
Digital libraries : Implementing strategies and sharing experiences ; 8th International Conference on Asian digital libraries, ICADL 2005, Bangkok, Thailand, December 12-15, 2005, Proceedings
Constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2005. This book is organized in topical sections on concepts and models for digital library systems, case studies in digital libraries, digital archives and museums, multimedia digital libraries, digital libraries for community building, and more
Designing a world-class architecture firm : The people, stories, and strategies behind HOK
Offers exclusive insights into the revolutionary strategies behind one of the top ten largest architecture firms in the world. Written with dashes of memoir by the former CEO, Patrick MacLeamy, this book offers practicing architecture professionals in small to mid-sized firms and other design professionals such as interior designers and urban planners with detailed guidance for reinvigorating company culture, establishing financial metrics, attracting and retaining talent, diversifying services and firm expansion. This book is flavored with dozens of quirky stories from MacLeamy's time at the helm of HOK, and while it is not a design book - MacLeamy offers insights into many of HOK's most iconic projects, including: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, MD, and more
Cultural heritage and human rights
The volume addresses a deeply political aspect of heritage preservation and management as it relates to human rights. Social and community advocates assert that heritage is necessary for the articulation and preservation of cultural identity. The display of heritage monuments and performance can be a strategy for asserting minority identity in the face of majority pressure – as well as a tool for resistance and the expression of difference.
Maritime Archaeology : Australian Approaches
Subject areas discussed in this book include shipwrecks and abandoned vessels, The application of National and State legislation and management regimes to these underwater cultural heritage sites is also highlighted, together with the important role of avocational divers and training programs in raising the profile of underwater and maritime heritage sites.The book includes a comprehensive bibliography of work conducted both in Australia and by Australian maritime archaeologists in the Asia-Pacific region. This book will be of interest to students and practitioners of maritime and historical archaeology and cultural heritage managers throughout the world .
Lasers in the Conservation of Artworks ; LACONA V Proceedings, Osnabrück, Germany, Sept. 15-18, 2003
Since 1995, when Costas Fotakis first brought together restorers and scientists to discuss the potential of lasers in art conservation, the field has grown enormously in importance, and today restorers and laser scientists work together to develop new applications. This book presents the more than six dozen research papers prepared for LACONA V (Lasers in Art Conservation), held in Osnabrueck/Germany in September 2003. The fifth congress once again gathers restorers, art historians, museum staff, laser scientists and laser manufacturers. The topics include, among others: laser cleaning of artworks (case studies and side effects), removal of former conservation layers, fundamentals of laser-artwork interaction, online monitoring and process control, laser diagnostics, spectroscopy for monitoring and identification, networks and co-operation projects.
Korean modern : The matter of identity : An exploration into modern architecture in an east Asian country
The development of modern architecture in Korea and, more recently, South Korea, is closely tied to the country’s dramatic transformations since the late 19th century.The architectural analyses, ranging from Hwaseong Fortress to 21st-century constructions like Paju Book City, Ssamziegil Shopping Center, the Boutique Monaco skyscraper, and the Bauzium Sculpture Museum, focus on buildings in which the formation of a specifically Korean modernism is particularly observable. The appendix includes biographical descriptions of major architectural figures.
Kid land
الفكرة التي تقوم عليها مدينة الطفل هي تعزيز العمل الجماعي لدى الأطفال ومحاولة دمجهم في بيئة تحفز على الابتكار والخيال والتطبيق العملي للدراسات النظرية ، خروجاً من الأساليب التقليدية في الإلقاء والتعليم واستخدام الحواس الخمس في عملية التعلييهدف هذا البحث إلى دارسة مشروع تخرج (مدينة الطفل) وفق جميع جوانبه العلمية، الثقافية، الاجتماعية والمعمارية .وصولاً إلى نتيجة نهائية تحقق بذلك مشروعاً متكاملاً للطفل ، ويخلق له بيئة مريحة و أمنة تحفزه على الإبداع وتوسع آفاقه و مداركه ، و تتجسد الأهمية الكبرى للمشروع أيضاً بالهدف الذي تسعى إليه فكرة المشروع وهي تعليم الطفل وتثقيفه عن طريق اللعب و ممارسة الأنشطة التفاعلية التي تعزز من العملية التعليمية بشكل ممتع و فعال كما توضح الدراسة أنواع الفعاليات و الأقسام الترفيهية والثقافية والتعليمية التي يحتويها فضاء المشروع من متحف الطفل ، كيدزانيا ، المكتبة والمدرج، إلى القاعات والورش والأنشطة الخدمية والتفاعلية الأخرى
Kengo Kuma : Selected Works
the first full-length monograph on the work of this enormous talent. Included are all of Kuma's most recent projects, including the Museum of Ando Hiroshige, the Stone Museum, the Horai Onsen Bath House in Atami, Louis Vuitton Tokyo Headquarters, and the Nagasaki Prefectural Museum.
Ken Smith Landscape Architect : Urban projects
Ken Smith is one of the most interesting voices in landscape architecture today. His works reflect the intensity and energy of their surroundings and challenge the distinction between landscape and art. Ken Smith Landscape Architect/Urban Projects focuses on three prominent works in New York City: the East River Ferry Landings, P.S. 19, and a roof garden for the Museum of Modern Art. Featuring an interview with Ken Smith and extensive photographic documentation and drawings, as well as an essay by Nina Rappaport and a foreword by Peter Reed, the book reveals how each project expresses new relationships between landscape and place within the city
Julie Snow Architects
This, the first monograph on Snow's work, provides in depth documentation of 14 of her residential, institutional, corporate, and public projects, including the Koehler Residence in New Brunswick, Canada, a series of Minneapolis Light Rail Stations, the Minnesota Children's Museum, and the University of South Dakota School of Business.
Communicating Science in Social Contexts : New models, new practices
Science communication, as a multidisciplinary field, has developed remarkably in recent years. It is now a distinct and exceedingly dynamic science that melds theoretical approaches with practical experience. Formerly well-established theoretical models now seem out of step with the social reality of the sciences, and the previously clear-cut delineations and interacting domains between cultural fields have blurred. Communicating Science in Social Contexts examines that shift, which itself depicts a profound recomposition of knowledge fields, activities and dissemination practices, and the value accorded to science and technology.
Barcelona : urban architecture and community since 2010
Highlights some of the most exciting structures built in Barcelona since 2010, bringing readers on a guided tour of surprising residential buildings, intriguing museums and extraordinary community spaces. The projects, including many additions to existing buildings, are documented with photos, floor plans and texts. Supplementary interviews introduce readers to key players in Barcelona’s architectural scene, while essays shed light on little-known aspects of the city’s urban development and transport planning.
Architectures of festival in early modern Europe : Fashioning and re-fashioning urban and courtly space
Draws on up-to-date research by a Europe-wide group of academic scholars and museum and gallery curators to provide a unique, intellectually-stimulating and beautifully-illustrated account of temporary architecture created for festivals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, together with permanent architecture pressed into service for festival occasions across major European locations including Italian, French, Austrian, Scottish and German.
Architectural tiles : Conservation and restoration
It not only contains new and up to date information on materials, practical methods, and historical research but also reflects changes in the attitudes, outlook and perceptions within the wider conservation, architectural heritage and construction communities which give a new dimension to the conservation and restoration. The growing interest in the preservation of post war ceramic tile murals and the subsequent demand for information pertaining specifically to this era is a welcome and useful addition.
Advances in Meteoroid and Meteor Science
This volume is a compilation of articles that summarize the most recent results in meteor, meteoroid and related fields presented at the Meteoroids 2007 conference held at the impressive CosmoCaixa Science Museum in Barcelona, Spain. The conference took place between the 11th and the 15th of June and was organized by the Institute of Space Sciences (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC) and the Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC). Researchers in meteor science and supporting fields representing more than 20 countries participated at this international conference.
Advances in informatics ; 10th Panhellenic Conference on informatics, PCI 2005, Volas, Greece, November 11-13, 2005, Proceedings
This volume contains a subset of the papers presented at the 10th Panhellenic Conference in Informatics (PCI 2005), which took place at the , Greece, Of the submitted papers, 81 were accepted for inclusion in this volume, papers are classi?ed into 17 thematic sections as follows: – data bases and data mining – algorithms and theoretical foundations – cultural and museum information systems – Internet-scale software/information systems – wearable and mobile computing – computer graphics, virtual reality and visualization – AI, machine learning and knowledge bases – languages, text and speech processing – bioinformatics – software engineering – educational technologies – e-business – computer and sensor hardware and architecture – computer security – image and video processing – signal processing and telecommunications – computer and sensor networks
Adaptive reuse in architecture : A typological index
Presents 50 spectacular conversion and reuse projects worldwide, including buildings such as the TWA Hotel at NewYork's John F. Kennedy Airport, the CaixaForum in Madrid, and the New Museum in Berlin. The projects are presented using a new classification system that addresses practitioners as well as academics.
