Cervantes’ Architectures

Cervantes’ Architectures

Author: Frederick A. de Armas

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2022-03-31

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 1487542402

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Cervantes’ Architectures is the first book dedicated to architecture in Cervantes’ prose fiction. At a time when a pandemic is sweeping the world, this book reflects on the danger outside by concentrating on the role of enclosed structures as places where humans may feel safe, or as sites of beauty and harmony that provide solace. At the same time, a number of the architectures in Cervantes trigger dread and claustrophobia as they display a kind of shapelessness and a haunting aura that blends with the narrative. This volume invites readers to discover hundreds of edifices that Cervantes built with the pen. Their variety is astounding. The narrators and characters in these novels tell of castles, fortifications, inns, mills, prisons, palaces, towers, and villas which appear in their routes or in their conversations, and which welcome them, amaze them, or entrap them. Cervantes may describe actual buildings such as the Pantheon in Rome, or he may imagine structures that metamorphose before our eyes, as we come to view one architecture within another, and within another, creating an abyss of space. They deeply affect the characters as they feel enclosed, liberated, or suspended or as they look upon such structures with dread, relief, or admiration. Cervantes' Architectures sheds light on how places and spaces are perceived through words and how impossible structures find support, paradoxically, in the literary architecture of the work.


Designing Software Architectures

Designing Software Architectures

Author: Humberto Cervantes

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Published: 2016-04-29

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 0134390830

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Designing Software Architectures will teach you how to design any software architecture in a systematic, predictable, repeatable, and cost-effective way. This book introduces a practical methodology for architecture design that any professional software engineer can use, provides structured methods supported by reusable chunks of design knowledge, and includes rich case studies that demonstrate how to use the methods. Using realistic examples, you’ll master the powerful new version of the proven Attribute-Driven Design (ADD) 3.0 method and will learn how to use it to address key drivers, including quality attributes, such as modifiability, usability, and availability, along with functional requirements and architectural concerns. Drawing on their extensive experience, Humberto Cervantes and Rick Kazman guide you through crafting practical designs that support the full software life cycle, from requirements to maintenance and evolution. You’ll learn how to successfully integrate design in your organizational context, and how to design systems that will be built with agile methods. Comprehensive coverage includes Understanding what architecture design involves, and where it fits in the full software development life cycle Mastering core design concepts, principles, and processes Understanding how to perform the steps of the ADD method Scaling design and analysis up or down, including design for pre-sale processes or lightweight architecture reviews Recognizing and optimizing critical relationships between analysis and design Utilizing proven, reusable design primitives and adapting them to specific problems and contexts Solving design problems in new domains, such as cloud, mobile, or big data


Quixotic Frescoes

Quixotic Frescoes

Author: Frederick A. De Armas

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0802090745

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Quixotic Frescoes delves into the politics of imitation, self-censorship, religious ideology expressed through the pictorial, as well as the gendering of art as reflected in Cervantes' work.


Software Architecture in Practice

Software Architecture in Practice

Author: Len Bass

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 9780321154958

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This is the eagerly-anticipated revision to one of the seminal books in the field of software architecture which clearly defines and explains the topic.


Manuel Cervantes Céspedes

Manuel Cervantes Céspedes

Author: Manuel Cervantes Céspedes

Publisher: Arquine

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9786077784845

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This monograph celebrates the work of Mexican architect Manuel Cervantes Caespedes (b. Mexico 1977), whose large-scale projects address urban transport issues in metropolitan areas. His firm, CC Arquitectos, draws on traits of Mexican modernism as well as on architectural traditions from pre-Hispanic settlements.


Cervantes' Architectures

Cervantes' Architectures

Author: Frederick A. de Armas

Publisher: Toronto Iberic

Published: 2022-07-15

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9781487542399

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Cervantes' Architectures uncovers and examines the countless architectures found in Cervantes' prose fiction.


Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture, On Patterns and Pattern Languages

Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture, On Patterns and Pattern Languages

Author: Frank Buschmann

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2007-04-30

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 9780470512579

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Software patterns have revolutionized the way developers think about how software is designed, built, and documented, and this unique book offers an in-depth look of what patterns are, what they are not, and how to use them successfully The only book to attempt to develop a comprehensive language that integrates patterns from key literature, it also serves as a reference manual for all pattern-oriented software architecture (POSA) patterns Addresses the question of what a pattern language is and compares various pattern paradigms Developers and programmers operating in an object-oriented environment will find this book to be an invaluable resource


Bodies beyond Labels

Bodies beyond Labels

Author: Daniel Holcombe

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2024-06-03

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1487556918

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Bodies beyond Labels explores moments of joy and joyful expressions of self-identity, intimacy, sexuality, affect, friendship, social relationships, and religiosity in imperial Spanish cultures, a period when embodiments of such joy were shadowed by comparatively more constrictive social conventions. Viewed in this manner, joy frames historic references to gender, sexuality, and present-day concepts of queerness through homoeroticism, non-labelled bodies, gender fluidity, and performativity. This collection reveals diverse glimmers of joy through a variety of genres, including plays, poems, novels, autobiographies, biblical narratives, and civil law texts, among others. The book is divided into five categories: theatrical works that use mythology to enjoy themes of homoeroticism; narrative prose and visual arts that reveal public and private homoerotic expressions; scopophilia within garden and museum spaces that make possible joyous observations of non-labelled and non-corporeal bodies; biblical narratives and epistolary works that signal religious transgressions of gender and friendship; and sexual geographies explored in historic and legal documents. As new generations develop more nuanced senses of gender and sexual identities, Bodies beyond Labels strives to provide new academic optics, as framed by non-labelled bodies, queer theorizations, joy in unexpected places, and the light that has historically (re)emerged from the shadows.


Bollinger + Grohmann

Bollinger + Grohmann

Author: Christian Schittich

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2013-06-18

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 3955531422

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From the design competition to planning: Architects and engineers as a team from the very beginning