...Through a comparison of the political architecture of the first and second lines, this chapter tracks how Shenzhen has deployed its various borders to produce economic and social value. It examines the planning and construction of the internal boundary separating the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone...

... of Star Electrical was emblematic of the relationship between architecture and consumer culture during the Great Depression. Like so many streamlined consumer products, the Star Electrical building was repackaged to appear new and improved, even though in essence it remained the same store it had always...

...This chapter examines how the rise of the “remittance house” changes transnational migrant dwelling practices, rural construction markets, and long-distance architectural practices. A study of the remittance house as envisioned, as built, and as inhabited or experienced in the state of Jalisco...

... connected to his thinking about religion. Janik reconstructs Loos’s views on architecture and taste with a view to extrapolating how he might have been able to teach Wittgenstein something about philosophy. He begins with an account of Loos’s social criticism, proceeds to his view of architecture as a craft...

...This chapter investigates the representation of the Orient at turn-of-the-century world's fairs, asking initially why Americans became so interested in representing the Orient through architecture at these expositions. It focuses on the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, where...

... developed to account for this split. The lay taxonomy of nostalgic vision, goes the argument, determined the architecture of new lookout towers—the most significant additions to the “prayer wall.” The chapter closes with an analysis of two such sites. nostalgia Stifter Emma windows use of Adolph R “look...

... architecture against a melancholy terrain indebted to a long European tradition of philosophical pessimism. This opposition is mediated, however, by a trope that Woolf and Sebald share. In his only explicit reference to Woolf, Sebald singles out the figure of the death-bound moth from her story-essay...

...Much of the architecture of the frontier was fleeting, temporary, or poorly built. As the Americans pushed out into the uplands north of the old French villages, most of the buildings they built first were of horizontal log construction—log cabins. Most log houses built in central Illinois during...

...This chapter, which addresses the construction of Arthur Evans's modernist “peace memorial” and the writing of his Palace of Minos, also presents a consideration of the gold “Ring of Nestor.” The relationship between modern movement architecture and Mediterranean archaeology...

... in which urbanism and architecture functioned as forms of political and social power. aménagement du territoire Dautry Raoul Exposition de la reconstruction Première 1945 Exposition des Techniques Américaines de l'Habitation et de l'Urbanisme 1946 Ministère de la Reconstruction et de l′Urbanisme MRU...

... of the international financial architecture. International Financial Institutions Advisory Commission International Monetary Fund IMF Article IV consultations and World Trade Organization WTO crises debt global financial architecture lender of last resort United States liquidity exchange rate regimes...

... of the Peninsula or that of Sa Caleta on the Island of Ibiza. In regard to urbanism and architecture, it is generally accepted that the presence of these settlements resulted in indigenous peoples' adoption of some new elements, such as a rectangular floor plan and buildings with a complex ground plan...

... of measurements medieval history Roman surveying medieval architecture Corpus agrimensorum romanorum history of geometry triangulation Ovid centuriation Fibonacci Ovid’s Metamorphoses starts as a poem of natural deterioration. Rather than presenting humanity as laboriously making its...

...In “The Ambiance of Projection: An Environmental Archaeology of Mediality,” Bruno excavates a conceptual and etymological history of projection itself, locating its roots in “atmospheric thinking,” and across domains of architecture, environmental philosophy, film, psychoanalysis and (historical...

... as an architectural plan, while others have considered it a map. The problem of naming the drawing as a plan or a map underpins the main argument of the chapter, namely that the diagram functions as an architectural plan, a ritual map, and a display object that images kingly authority. Together, these aspects...

... Klux Klan Davies Ebenezer tourism postcards restaurants New Orleans slave auctions slavery cooking dining coffee alcohol hotels architecture yellow fever on january 11, 1855, a Wisconsin newspaper reporter took part in a popular tourist pastime in New Orleans. “Being a looker...

...This chapter reconstructs George Maciunas’s entry into (and exit from) the profession of architecture. Over the course of the 1950s, he passed through multiple sites of instruction and employment, among them the Carnegie Institute of Technology and the firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill...

... institution in its offerings and its architecture. The chapter also explores how Addams adapted John Ruskin’s and William Morris’s image of pre-industrial craft production to reconstruct capitalism’s division of labor and its conception of private property. Addams Jane method of ethical deliberation...

... assistance. “An Evaluation of Proposals to Reform the International Financial Architecture” by Morris Goldstein is (c) 2001, Institute for International Economics. This chapter evaluates several proposals for the reform of the international financial architecture using the lending policies and practices...

..., and temple architecture reflected the Japanese encounter with South and Southeast Asia. The arrival of a portion of the purported relics of Śākyamuni Buddha to Japan, their display, and the creation of the Japan-Siam temple, Nissenji (today Nittaiji, Japan-Thai temple) are discussed as well. Akegarasu Haya...