Local antiquities, local identities
Local antiquities, local identities

Author: Kathleen Christian

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2018-10-12

Total Pages: 556

ISBN-13: 152613103X

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This collection investigates the wide array of local antiquarian practices that developed across Europe in the early modern era. Breaking new ground, it explores local concepts of antiquity in a period that has been defined as a uniform 'Renaissance'. Contributors take a novel approach to the revival of the antique in different parts of Italy, as well as examining other, less widely studied antiquarian traditions in France, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Britain and Poland. They consider how real or fictive ruins, inscriptions and literary works were used to demonstrate a particular idea of local origins, to rewrite history or to vaunt civic pride. In doing so, they tackle such varied subjects as municipal antiquities collections in Southern Italy and France, the antiquarian response to the pagan, Christian and Islamic past on the Iberian Peninsula, and Netherlandish interest in megalithic ruins thought to be traces of a prehistoric race of Giants.

Graphical Heritage
Graphical Heritage

Author: Luis Agustín-Hernández

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-05-11

Total Pages: 739

ISBN-13: 3030479838

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This book presents the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Graphic Design in Architecture, EGA 2020, focusing on heritage – including architectural and graphic heritage as well as the graphics of heritage. Consisting of two parts: “Representation and Analysis” and “Concept and Creation”, this second volume gathers selected contributions on topics ranging from graphic representation to the graphic presentation of ideas, i.e. artistic creation, to bridge the gap between graphic heritage and the graphics of heritage. Given its scope, this volume will appeal to architectural and graphic designers, artists and engineers, providing them with extensive information on new methods and a source of inspiration for future research and interdisciplinary collaborations.

A Fortified Sea
A Fortified Sea

Author: Pedro Luengo

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 2024-08-20

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 0817361529

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"Illuminates the role of forts in the greater Caribbean during the long eighteenth century as international powers fought for ascendency"--

A Bibliography of Latin American Bibliographies, 1980-1984
A Bibliography of Latin American Bibliographies, 1980-1984

Author: Lionel V. Loroña

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9780810819412

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This book packs the five issues of the Bibliography of Latin American Bibliographies from 1980 t o 1984 in one volume. Organized by subject area, this work covers topics in Latin America and theCarribbean, listing articles in journals and other periodicals alnog with other sources.

Architectural Graphics
Architectural Graphics

Author: Manuel A. Ródenas-López

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-05-03

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 3031046404

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This book reports on several advances in architectural graphics, with a special emphasis on education, training and research. It gathers a selection of contributions to the 19th International Conference on Graphic Design in Architecture, EGA 2022, held on June 2–4, 2022, in Cartagena, Spain, with the motto: "Beyond drawings. The use of architectural graphics".

Semiotics and Visual Communication
Semiotics and Visual Communication

Author: Evripides Zantides

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2014-04-11

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1443859303

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This book is the result of selective research papers that were presented at the First International Conference on Semiotics and Visual Communication at the Cyprus University of Technology in November 2011. The conference was structured around the theme from theory to practice, and brought together researchers and practitioners who study and evaluate the ways that semiotic theories can be analysed, perceived and applied in the context of various forms in visual communication. Within a semiotic framework, the book explores research questions under five main thematic areas: Architectural, Spatial Design-Design for Three-Dimensional Products; Design for Print Applications; Design for Screen-Based Media; Pedagogy of Visual Communication; and Visual Arts. This volume will be an asset for people who have an interest in semiotics, not only from a theoretical and historical perspective, but also from an applied point of view, looking at how semiotic theory can be implemented into educational research, design and visual communication practice. The book provides 25 essential contributions that demonstrate how the concepts and theories of semiotics can be creatively adapted within the interdisciplinary nature of visual communication.

Research Tracks in Urbanism: Dynamics, Planning and Design in Contemporary Urban Territories
Research Tracks in Urbanism: Dynamics, Planning and Design in Contemporary Urban Territories

Author: Alessia Allegri

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2021-09-12

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 100046413X

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Maybe the Global Village metaphor has never been more accurate than it is today, where societies join forces in the fight against the COVID 19 pandemic, in a global coordinated effort, possibly never tested before in the known history of Humankind. Although we are sure that in the past some other shared demands have united the different peoples of the world, this has never been so strongly necessary, mainly in what the global scientific community is concerned. This is a fight for the survival of a society. However, we should not lose sight of what we are fighting for. We fight together for people. Not just for the abstract value of Human life, but for life in society as a whole, including its moral and ethical aspects. The topics of this book are based on this claim, on what makes it possible. We do not build our lives in a vacuum, or in distant Invisible Cities, but through a higher value, which represents physical life in society: the City, built by the discipline of Urbanism. This book is a spin-off of the International Research Seminar on Urbanism_SIIU2020. Inspired by the contents of twelve research seminars, a group of researchers from the universities of Barcelona, Lisbon and São Paulo discuss the contemporary agenda of research in Urbanism. Following the conference, a selection of 35 original double-blind peer-reviewed research papers were brought together with different perspectives about such an agenda.