Pierres Vives
Pierres Vives

Author: Zaha Hadid Architects

Publisher: Skira

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 0847840131

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A monographic look at Pierres Vives, Zaha Hadid's latest major work, and its innovative approach to spatial design and urban planning. This book documents the ten-year creation of Pierres Vives, an imposing new public building by world-renowned architect Zaha Hadid. The 28,500-square-meter stone and concrete sculptural structure brings Hadid's signature boundary-pushing spatial concepts to urban planning on a grand scale. Conceptualized as a "tree of knowledge" by Zaha Hadid as early as 2002, the structure combines three government functions--archives, a library, and a sports center--into one building to fill the needs of a growing population in Montpellier, France. This book is the definitive source of images for the built structure and the construction process, and explores the architect's design choices, allowing a deep understanding of the work and thought behind the structure.

Writing and Madness
Writing and Madness

Author: Shoshana Felman

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780804744492

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This is the author's most influential work of literary theory and criticism in which she explores the relations between literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis.

Playing the Market
Playing the Market

Author: Anne Fuchs

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9783718650446

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This is a first-hand account of theatre in apartheid society. Exploring the forces which led to the foundation and development of "New South African Theatre", the financial backing provided by the South African business world, the black majority's point of view and the influence of cultural boycotts and problems of tours abroad, it provides specialist information on the Market Theatre. It also considers black consciousness and trade union and state-funded theatre in South Africa.

Building the Text
Building the Text

Author: David Cowling

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 9780198159599

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Descriptions of imaginary buildings abound in late medieval and early modern texts in France. This book examines the reasons for their popularity and analyzes the way in which metaphors of the building were used by writers as a tools of persuasion. One such writer was Jean Lemaire (c.1473-after 1515) who used architectural metaphor both to praise his patrons and to advertise his own talents, while drawing on and transforming a tradition of writing popularized by his rh toriqueur predecessors.

A Self-conscious Art
A Self-conscious Art

Author: Akane Kawakami

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 9780853235262

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'A Self-Conscious Art' deals with the formal complexities of Modiano's work, by reading 'against the grain' of his self-professed ingenuousness. A detailed examination of his narratives shows the deeply postmodern nature of his writing. Parodying precursors such as Proust or the nouveau romanciers, his narratives are built around a profound lack of faith in the ability of writing to retrieve the past through memory, and this failure is acknowledged in the discreet playfulness that characterises his novels.

On Assistance to the Poor
On Assistance to the Poor

Author: Juan Luis Vives

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9780802082893

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Sixteenth-century humanist Juan Luis Vives sought to find ways to alleviate the sufferings of the poor of Bruges, dealing with problems and presenting solutions that sound remarkably familiar to twentieth-century urban ears.

Encyclopedia of Modern French Thought
Encyclopedia of Modern French Thought

Author: Christopher John Murray

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 748

ISBN-13: 1579583849

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This work covers not only philosophy, but also all the other major disciplines, including literary theory, sociology, linguistics, political thought, theology, and more. The 240 analytical entries examine individuals such as Bergson, Durkheim, Mauss, Sartre, Beauvoir, Foucault, Levi-Strauss, Lacan, Kristeva, and Derrida; specific disciplines such as the arts, anthropology, historiography, psychology, and sociology; key beliefs and methodologies such as Catholicism, deconstruction, feminism, Marxism, and phenomenology; themes and concepts such as freedom, language, media, and sexuality; and istorical, political, social, and intellectual context. --From publisher's decription.

Art & Build
Art & Build

Author: Art & Build

Publisher: Images Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 1864702966

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Art & Build is committed to turning thoughts into reality, leading to the built form in a time window where contextual parameters of matter, form and light crystallise. This monograph explores the work of this European architectural practice with offices