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“marcel vellinga”

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  • Atlas of Vernacular Architecture of the World

    by Marcel Vellinga, Paul Oliver, Alexander Bridge ...
    The first world atlas ever compiled on vernacular architecture, this comprehensive work illustrates the variety and ingenuity of the world’s vernacular building traditions from a multi-disciplinary, cross-cultural and comparative approach, using over sixty world and regional maps.Mapping such diverse aspects as materials and resources, technologies, structural systems, symbolism, forms and service ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Design and the Vernacular

    Interpretations for Contemporary Architectural Practice and Theory

    Edited by Paul Memmott, John Ting, Tim O’Rourke, Professor Marcel Vellinga ...
    Design and the Vernacular explores the intersection between vernacular architecture, local cultures, and modernity and globalization, focussing on the vast and diverse global region of Australasia and Oceania. The relevance and role of vernacular architecture in contemporary urban planning and architectural design are examined in the context of rapid political, economic, technological, social and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Architectural Regeneration

    Edited by Aylin Orbasli, Marcel Vellinga ...
    A comprehensive and detailed overview of the active regeneration, rehabilitation and revitalisation of architectural heritage.The combined processes of globalisation, urbanisation, environmental change, population growth and rapid technological development have resulted in an increasingly complex, dynamic and interrelated world, in which concerns about the meaning of cultural heritage and identity ... Read more

    $77.00 USD

  • Vernacular Architecture in the 21st Century

    Theory, Education and Practice

    Edited by Lindsay Asquith, Marcel Vellinga ...
    The issues surrounding the function and meaning of vernacular architecture in the twenty-first century are complex and extensive. Taking a distinctively rigorous theoretical approach, this book considers these issues from a number of perspectives, broadening current debate to a wider multidisciplinary audience. These collected essays from the leading experts in the field focus on theory, education ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Consuming Architecture

    On the occupation, appropriation and interpretation of buildings

    Edited by Daniel Maudlin, Marcel Vellinga ...
    Projecting forward in time from the processes of design and construction that are so often the focus of architectural discourse, Consuming Architecture examines the variety of ways in which buildings are consumed after they have been produced, focusing in particular on processes of occupation, appropriation and interpretation. Drawing on contributions by architects, historians, anthropologists, ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • Built to Meet Needs: Cultural Issues in Vernacular Architecture

    by Paul Oliver ...
    The study of vernacular architecture explores the characteristics of domestic buildings in particular regions or localities, and the many social and cultural factors that have contributed to their evolution. In this book, vernacular architecture specialist Paul Oliver brings together a wealth of information that spans over two decades, and the whole globe. Some previously unpublished papers, as ... Read more

    $224.99 USD

  • Curated Decay

    Heritage beyond Saving

    by Caitlin DeSilvey ...
    Transporting readers from derelict homesteads to imperiled harbors, postindustrial ruins to Cold War test sites, Curated Decay presents an unparalleled provocation to conventional thinking on the conservation of cultural heritage. Caitlin DeSilvey proposes rethinking the care of certain vulnerable sites in terms of ecology and entropy, and explains how we must adopt an ethical stance that allows ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Curating the Future

    Museums, Communities and Climate Change

    Edited by Jennifer Newell, Libby Robin, Kirsten Wehner ...
    Series series Routledge Environmental Humanities
    Curating the Future: Museums, Communities and Climate Change explores the way museums tackle the broad global issue of climate change. It explores the power of real objects and collections to stir hearts and minds, to engage communities affected by change.Museums work through exhibitions, events, and specific collection projects to reach different communities in different ways. The book emphasises ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Eating Chilli Crab in the Anthropocene

    Edited by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson ...
    In this era of climate crisis, in which our very futures are at stake, sustainability is a global imperative. Yet we tend to associate sustainability, nature, and the environment with distant places, science, and policy. The truth is that everything is environmental, from transportation to taxes, work to love, cities to cuisine.This book is the first to examine contemporary Singapore from an ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Dark Emu

    Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture

    by Bruce Pascoe ...
    History has portrayed Australia’s First Peoples, the Aboriginals, as hunter-gatherers who lived on an empty, uncultivated land. History is wrong.In this seminal book, Bruce Pascoe uncovers evidence that long before the arrival of white men, Aboriginal people across the continent were building dams and wells; planting, irrigating, and harvesting seeds, and then preserving the surplus and storing it ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Our Voices

    Indigeneity and Architecture

    by Rebecca Kiddle, Patrick Reid Stewart, Kevin O'Brian ...
    Our Voices: Indigeneity and Architecture is an exciting advance in the field of architecture offering multiple Indigenous perspectives on architecture and design theory and practice. Indigenous authors from Aotearoa NZ, Canada, Australia, and the USA explore the making and keeping of places and spaces which are informed by Indigenous values and identities. The lack of publications to date offering ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Prehistory

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Chris Gosden ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Prehistory covers the period of some 4 million years before the start of written history, when our earliest ancestors, the Australopithecines, existed in Africa. But this is relatively recent compared to whole history of the earth of some 4.5 billion years. A key aspect of prehistory is that it provides a sense of scale, throwing recent ways of life into perspective. Humans and their ancestors ... Read more

    $7.99 USD