Flanders Architectural Yearbook 06-07
Author: Gideon Boie
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9789080952997
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Flanders Architectural Yearbook 02/03
Author: Katrien Vandermarliere
Publisher: Exhibitions International
Published: 2005-04
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789080778757
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn overview of 2002-2003 architecture trends is presented by the Flemish Institute for Architects (VAI), in this 2004 edition of the Flanders Architectural Yearbook.
Designing for the Public
Author: Hans Ibelings
Publisher: Sun
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAppointed with a pivotal role to protect, guide and stimulate qualitative good architecture, the Master Architect (Bouwmeester) in Flanders, Belgium, is a privileged and important position. The last decade has seen two successive Bouwmeesters, Bob van Reeth and Marcel Smets, approach their role with different, yet nevertheless specific approaches and areas of attention.
Historical Dictionary of Belgium
Author: Robert Stallaerts
Publisher: Historical Dictionaries of Eur
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1830, the inhabitants of the southern part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands revolted against King William I. The National Congress then declared independence and proclaimed the installation of a parliamentary monarchy, and thus, the new country of Belgium was created. Belgium's vibrant culture and society have produced such artists as Peter Paul Rubens, Jan Van Eyck, and Antoon Van Dijk, as well as the influential scientists Gerardus Mercator and Andreus Vesalius. Brussels, the country's capital city, also houses the headquarters of the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. This second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Belgium relates the history of this country through a detailed chronology, an introduction, appendixes, a bibliography, and cross-referenced dictionary entries on some of the more significant persons, places, and events; institutions and organizations; and political, economic, social, cultural, and religious facets.
Something Completely Different
Author: Christophe Van Gerrewey
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2024-07-02
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 0262547511
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow architecture in Belgium, from its very beginnings, has epitomized modernity and singularity. Since the foundation of the country in 1830, architecture in Belgium has been an expression of the key issues of modern Western societies. In Something Completely Different, Christophe Van Gerrewey uses this small European country as a case study to describe, interpret, and criticize more universal spatial problems and behaviors. In seven wide-ranging essays, he looks at the activities of architects from the past two centuries to better understand political evolutions, social gaps, aesthetic considerations, housing and planning, transport and infrastructure, order and chaos, and culture and ecology. The result is a literary text full of surprises and discoveries, showing both the shortcomings and the merits of what architects do. Written as a kind of anti-guidebook, Something Completely Different appropriates certain clichés about Belgium (Baudelaire famously called Belgian monuments “counterfeits of France”), eschews the pragmatism of most guidebooks in favor of meditative, essayistic prose, and finally, cunningly, reveals that all along the subject has not been Belgium at all, but rather the nature of architecture.
Bibliographic Guide to Art and Architecture
Author: New York Public Library. Art and Architecture Division
Publisher:
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 568
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUrban Trialogues
Author: André Loeckx
Publisher: UN-HABITAT
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9789211317091
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooks at the process and outputs of the Localising Agenda 21 programme in Nakuru (Kenya), Essaouira (Morocco), Vinh (Vietnam) and Bayamo (Cuba). Reflects on the relationship between sustainable visions for possible futures and strategic urban projects.
Yearbook of International Organizations 2005/2006
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Publisher: De Gruyter Saur
Published: 2005-06
Total Pages: 1428
ISBN-13: 9783598245213
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor the Yearbook of International Organizations, the most up-to-date and comprehensive reference to international organizations, the UIA has selected the most important 31,086 organizations from its extensive database of current and previous organizations. Yearbook provides profiles of 5,546 intergovernmental and 25,540 international non-governmental organizations active in nearly 300 countries and territories in the world today. Organization descriptions listed in Volume 1 are numbere sequentially to facilitate quick and easy cross-referencing from the other Yearbook Volumes. Users can refer to Volumes 2 and 3 to locate organizations by region or subject respectively, and comprehensive indexes are included. Naturally, the high standards of accuracy, consistency and detail set by previous editions of the Yearbook of International Organizations have been maintained for this edition.
Tailored Architecture
Author: Audrey Contesse
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789082122565
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"How can architecture contribute to society? By delivering projects that are tailor-made, and through designs that reveal a cultural and social purpose. ... Recent developments in architecture are covered in thirteen essays. Under four main headings - life, city, scale and form - they deal with comtemporary issues regarding communal space, reuse and repurposing, the status of the public domain, and a visual language for large-scale interventions in the city."--Back cover.
