Studio at Large: Architecture in Service of Global Communities

Book Description

For more than a decade, architects and students from the University of Washington have been working with squatter communities in Mexico, migrant laborers in eastern Washington, and Indian reservations of the inland West as well as communities in Cuba, India, and Africa to provide housing, schools, clinics, and other vital structures. Led by Sergio Palleroni, Steve Badanes, and David Riley, these pioneering design/build programs have combined innovative architectural training with cross-cultural immersion, social activism, and environmental science, using design skills and hands-on construction projects to confront poverty and urgent social problems one building at a time.

Studio at Large documents the international and regional community studios organized by Sergio Palleroni and his colleagues, typically held in intensive ten-week builds in marginalized communities. Involving community members and students, these studios promote maximum use of recycled or inexpensive, locally available materials, as well as lighting and energy systems that reduce utility costs and promote resource conservation. They serve as models for making architectural education relevant to urgent social problems, helping communities mobilize indigenous resources and social capital to develop long-term sustainable practices that protect rather than erode cultural identity, dignity, and stability.

Sergio Palleroni is visiting associate professor at the School of Architecture, University of Texas, Austin, and the founding director of the University of Washington BASIC Initiative. Christina Merkelbach is a designer and former design/build student. Bryan Bell is a founder of Design Corps and editor of Good Deeds, Good Design: Community Service through Architecture.

Customer Reviews:

Sergio Palleroni is one of the most influential promoters of sustainable architecture in the later 21st century.......2007-09-06

This is a great book for both those people who are interested in learning about or those people who are already familiar with environmentally friendly "green" building pratices used in sustainable architecture. Studio at Large specifically chronicles the achievements of the UW BASIC Initiative program that Sergio Palleroni and his colleagues created in 1995. It is fascinating and moving to see the impact this work has on the local and global levels in society.

Studio at Large: Architecture in Service of Global Communities.......2007-05-19

Prof. Sergio Palleroni teaches the "art-and-science" of "architecture" the old fashion way--with leadership and passion! He's not affraid of rolling up his sleeves, soiling his booth and spending his summer vacations whith his students (the future leaders): teachong design, scheduling and building sustainable communities in the "developing countries."

architect and builder.......2004-12-18

Its good to see that the rural studios work is not unique but rather part of a movement, with other brilliant examples such as the work documented in this book. Beautifully illustrated. Probably the most in depth discussion I've read on the methods and challenges of work among the poor and underserved.
A great contribution to architectures claim to relevance.

Customer Reviews:

FROM A PERSON WHO LIVES IN THE AREA DEPICTED IN THE BOOK.......2000-02-21

I PERSONALLY KNOW JUST ABOUT EVERYONE MENTIONED IN THIS BOOK. CAROLYN DID A WONDERFUL JOB IN RELAYING OUR CULTURE INTO A BOOK. I REMEMBER WHEN SHE WAS INTERVIEWING SUSAN LAUNEY FOR THIS BOOK I ABSOLUTELY FELL IN LOVE WITH CAROLYN'S WORK. I JUST RESENTLY SEEN CAROLYN WARE AT A FESTIVAL IN MONROE, LA AND SHE IS STILL WORKING HARDER THAN EVER TO PROMOTE CAJUN HISTORY. IF YOU KNOW ANYONE WHO IS INTERESTED IN OUR MARDI GRAS PLEASE RECOMEND THIS PARTICULAR BOOK. IT DESCRIBES OUR TRADITION (WHICH HAPPENS TO BE THE FIRST AND ORIGINAL MARDI GRAS) TO THE TEE. I APPLAUDE YOU CAROLYN WARE FOR YOUR MAGNIFISENT JOB ON THIS AND ALL OF YOUR WORK. I DO HAVE TO SAY THAT THIS IS MY FAVORITE BOOK ON CAJUN CULTURE BECAUSE I HAD TAKEN PART IN THIS ACTUAL BOOK. I LEARNED FROM MY FRIEND SUSAN LAUNEY HOW TO MAKE THE MASK IN THIS BOOK AND IT IS A REALLY NEAT AND INTERESTING ACTIVITY FOR ADULTS AND KIDS TO TAKE PART IN. THANK YOU CAROLYN FOR YOUR HARD WORK AND INTEREST IN OUR CULTURE. SEE YOU AT JAZZ FEST 2000 SINCERELY, RYAN FONTENOT

Customer Reviews:

SUPERB.......2001-03-19

All you have to do to see a photograph by Bruce Weber is look in any glossy magazine or on any big city billboard or in the Abercrombie & Fitch catalogue. These are his works for advertising, but there is much more to Weber. "Hotel Room With a View" is one of the paperbound photography collections in the Smithsonian series and is, as usual with this series, superb. The fascinating, informative interview with Weber (uncredited interviewer!!) lets us know where, why, when he gets his inspiration and how he makes it happen. Alot of the pictures in this book are of celebrities like Brad Pitt, Chet Baker, Axl Rose, Harry Connick, but there are also a good number of examples of Weber's unknown models, animals and even a few color landscapes. There is also a brief bio and technical info for other photographers.

There are better hotels.......2000-08-09

I have to say that I was a little disappointed when I received my copy of this book. I am a devoted Bruce Weber fan, but I found this book to lack any sense of cohension or purpose. It was a montage of photos - kinda like a "best of" without any of his best photos really included. I guess I expected it to be similar to "Bear Pond," "Chop Suey Club," or even the A&F catalogues. It was not. There are much better examples of his talent out there - don't lose any sleep if you miss a this one.

Excellent book for prospective photographers........1999-05-11

As a photographer who basically idolizes the work of Bruce Weber, I know I have a strong bias for anything he releases. Yet, this book is a great insight into the mind of Weber by having interviews at the begining of the book. These interviews with Weber came at the early part of his fame so it also shows a very realistic and down toearth Weber that is not so affected by fame like some other photographers. I strongly recommend this book for anyone who wants to know more than your basics about what Weber is about, or at least at that time was about.

Glacier's Historic Hotels And Chalets: View With A Room

Average customer rating:

Glacier's Historic Hotels And Chalets: View With A Room
Ray Djuff , and Chris Morrison
Manufacturer: Farcountry Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Travel | Subjects | Books
Similar Items:

ASIN: 1560371706

Book Description

This unique book traces the creation and use of Great Northern Railway's hotels and chalet colonies in Glacier National Park and Prince of Wales Hotel in Waterton Lakes National Park. Anecdotes, inside correspondence, and park and corporate lore. Covers history of the Great Northern Railway in both parks, in addition to the histories of: Belton Chalets Cut Bank Chalets Glacier Park Lodge Goathaunt Chalet Going-to-the-Sun Chalets Granite Park Chalets Gunsight Chalets Lake McDonald Lodge Many Glacier Hotel Prince of Wales Hotel Rising Sun Auto Cabins St. Mary Chalets Sperry Chalets Swiftcurrent Auto Cabins Two Medicine Chalets

Generously illustrated with color photographs of Great Northern promotional materials, as well as black-and-whites of guests and staff at play and work.

Average customer rating:
A Room with a World View : 50 Years of Inter-Continental Hotels and Its People, 1946-1996
James E. Potter
Manufacturer: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KQ684G

Average customer rating:
A Room With a High-Tech View.(Hilton Hotels Corp.): An article from: Chief Executive (U.S.)
Caral Lippert Gray
Manufacturer: Chief Executive Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

General | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
Management | Management & Leadership | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
Management | Business & Investing | Subjects | e-Docs | Formats | Books
General | Business & Investing | HTML | Formats | e-Docs | Formats | Books
ASIN: B0008J9HYI
Release Date: 2005-07-28

Book Description

This digital document is an article from Chief Executive (U.S.), published by Chief Executive Publishing on December 1, 2000. The length of the article is 1187 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: A Room With a High-Tech View.(Hilton Hotels Corp.)
Author: Caral Lippert Gray
Publication: Chief Executive (U.S.) (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2000
Publisher: Chief Executive Publishing
Page: 25

Distributed by Thomson Gale

Room with a view: A narrative history of the Park Hotel, Richland Center, Wisconsin

Average customer rating:

Room with a view: A narrative history of the Park Hotel, Richland Center, Wisconsin
Carol Feyen
Manufacturer: C. Feyen
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0007299EY

Customer Reviews:

A humorous comic begins to offer serious Western adventure.......1999-02-27

Nine complete story arcs are included in this collection. Three of them turn, rather distractingly, on the intrusion of 20th-century life into what otherwise appears to be a classic Western environment, but the other six could quite easily have happened just as Lynde has drawn them. My own favorites are "Paris Green," "The Byte Boys" (featuring Rick's female gunslinger friend Lily), and "Law and Disorder." A nice mix of humor and action characterize the entire book. Recommended.

Book Description

-Provides the practical know-how fathers need to succeed in the essential care-giving tasks of child rearing.

Amazon.com

An airplane flies over enemy territory, dropping a shiny cylindrical object near a town. When the townspeople go to investigate, they find flies, spiders, and feathers scattered among bomb fragments in the snow. Biological testing reveals that all the items are contaminated with the anthrax bacillus. The Iran-Iraq war? International terrorism? Or the United States in northeastern China, 1952?

The term "biological warfare" brings to mind images of ruthless dictators, delusional terrorists, and cartoonish movie villains. The assertions made by Stephen Endicott and Edward Hagerman, that the United States engaged in germ warfare against China and North Korea in the 1950s, are therefore both shocking and disturbing. The United States and Biological Warfare is an important yet flawed history of the American program, from its origin in 1941 as the Bacteriological Warfare Committee (quickly and obfuscatingly renamed the WBC) to its abrupt closure in the 1960s. The main focus of the book, however, is the United States' activities in Korea and China during the Korean War--where, Endicott and Hagerman claim, the U.S. launched a number of biological attacks to spread anthrax, cholera, and smallpox viruses, as well as other disease-causing agents.

This book is bound to draw criticism from many sides; despite their thorough research, the authors have yet to find a proper "smoking gun." Some of the science is muddled, as well--though it is at times difficult to tell if the confusion began in the military documents or with the authors. The circumstantial evidence and overall argument, however, are quite compelling. What is even more disturbing than these activities (including the fact that scientists who were active in Japan's biological warfare program in World War II were granted immunity for their war crimes in return for sharing their knowledge) is the wartime mentality that causes countries to contemplate and even commit atrocities in the name of national security. A chilling read.

Book Description

"This book is disturbing to an extreme degree. As prosecutors, Hagerman and Endicott present a strong case. They cannot be said to be dispassionate, but they are careful, even judicious. At a minimum their research and revelations raise questions about the possible use of biological warfare by the United States in the Korean War that must be answered before we indulge in further moral condemnation of Iraq's research and development of a germ warfare capability."--Stephen E. Ambrose

The United States and Biological Warfare argues persuasively, with startling evidence from both American and Chinese sources, that the United States experimented with and deployed biological weapons during the Korean War. Endicott and Hagerman explore the political and moral dimensions of this issue, asking what restraints were applied or forgotten in those years of ideological and political passion and military crisis.

Customer Reviews:

Only Goebbels could write a book like this!!.......2005-07-17

What someone can say!!! As it is known,in 1998, 12 newly Soviet documents was released, which prove the fabrication of the biological warefare (see: Bulletin Bulletin 11 - Cold War Flashpoints, CWIHP by Milton Leitenberg ). Endicott could simply ask for forgivness from Korean war veterans. But no, he insists and accuses the community of historians that the documents are a fabrication of Beria against his rivals inside the CPSU!!!!!
In Ancient Greece the worst crime was to commit a slander (Sycophantia - sycophant).
Endicott is lucky that he is not live in Ancient Greece
[...]

Like the Kennedy Assasination and Roswell..........2002-10-14

My first thought in reading this book was that it was the product of a critical socialist mind. Korean Conflict should be known as "Resist America, Aid Korea War" and the glorious peoples army of China were right.

Ultimately, the book is a well researched arguement of a conspiracy, like any you'd read on the Kennedy Assisination, UFO's in Rosewell, etc.. As a scholar, the references are more valuable than the book, which plays out the references with faulty reasoning (one could right a book about that alone).

Like most conspiracy theory books, it is the sort of book that can make you question even the perception of reality. This lends itself to a thought provoking work, which concludes a circumstantial case that the US used BW in Korea.

There are major problems with this cicumstancial "evidence" and unlike a court room, no one really cares anymore to provide a counter argument before the jury deliberates. Omission, bias, and incomplete analysis are the books major weaknesses.

It is unusual for a books weaknesses to be a selling point. This is one of those unusual cases. It shows the alternate opinion on the Korean Conflict, and demonstrates that though there is not fighting - the war has not ended.

Detailed proof of US war crimes in Korea.......2001-07-31

This fascinating and deeply researched book examines whether the USA used biological weapons when it attacked Korea. It shows that the US Government, in collaboration with the British and Canadian Governments, spent $500,000,000 between 1951 and 1953 developing such weapons, based on those used by the Japanese Army in its attack on China.

In February 1952, the Joint Chiefs of Staff called for ýa strong offensive biological warfare capability without delayý and for developing ýall effective means of waging war without regard for precedents as to their use.ý The biological weapons were incorporated into the Strategic Air Commandýs strategic plans for general war. The US state has never ratified the 1925 Geneva Protocol banning biological weapons.

The US state fought its war against Korea with no regard for legal constraints. It threatened to use nuclear weapons. It used chemical weapons - 70,000 gallons of napalm a day in 1951, and phosphorus bombs - despite having ratified the Protocol against chemical weapons. The USAF bombed civilians mercilessly: as General Curtis LeMay boasted, ýWe burned down just about every city in North and South Korea both ... We killed over a million Koreans and drove several million more from their homes.ý

The authors examine the evidence of germ-bearing insects, feathers and other carriers found after USAF bombing raids and look at the consequent outbreaks of unusual illnesses. Many captured US pilots confessed to dropping bombs containing these materials. They later retracted their confessions, claiming that their captors had ýbrainwashedý them. A US Army study found no evidence of this. The pilots retracted under threat of death: the US Attorney General said that American POWs who collaborated with the enemy might face charges of treason.

The authors write, ýwe are led to the conclusion that the United States took the final step and secretly experimented with biological weapons in the Korean War.ý Read the book and decide for yourself.

A must read for those interested in Korean War history.......2000-01-03

This book used a lot of declassified material to show it was highly possible that US used bio-weapons in Korean war. US would have used anything it had in its disposal to finish the war: it bombed the big dams to flood the North Koreans and destroy their crops, it contemplated using nukes (which scared the allies). Washington had the technology and the talents from Unit 731, it is logical that US tried to test the effectiveness of the germ-weaponry. Had it worked, it would have been a very cost-effective and low risk way (compared to using nukes) to end the Korean conflict.

Unacceptable scholarship by any standard........1999-06-28

I reviewed this book in the New York Times Book Review, June 27, 1999. The review shows that the authors present, as if it were genuine and unproblematical, evidence long ago shown to be fabricated. The last paragraph of the review states:Carl Sagan used to say that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The evidence Endicott and Hagerman present for their extraordinarily dubious claim is notable only for its weakness. The Chinese and North Koreans themselves had the means, motive and opportunity to fabricate evidence, and were known to rewrite history for propaganda purposes. Any plausible defense of the claim that the Americans were guilty of biological warfare in the Korean conflict must address the question of fabricated evidence. Endicott and Hagerman do not even raise it. If theirs is the best case that can be made for American germ warfare activities in China and Korea, it amounts to a dismissal of the charges and an exoneration of the accused. ---Separately, additional proof that the North Korean and Chinese evidence was fabricated can be found in: Leitenberg, Milton. New Russian Evidence on the Korean Biological Warfare Allegations: Background and Analysis. Cold War International History Project Bulletin II. (Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center) Winter, 1998: 185-199. And:Weathersby, Kathryn. Deceiving the Deceivers: Moscow, Beijing, Pyongyang, and the Allegations of Bacteriological Weapons Use in Korea. Cold War International History Project Bulletin II. (Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center): Winter, 1998. 176-185.

The United States and Biological Warfare: Secrets From the Early Cold War and Korea.(Review) (book review): An article from: Canadian Journal of History

Average customer rating:

The United States and Biological Warfare: Secrets From the Early Cold War and Korea.(Review) (book review): An article from: Canadian Journal of History
Brian L. Evans
Manufacturer: University of Saskatchewan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

Terrorism | Current Events | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books

Book Description

This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of History, published by University of Saskatchewan on April 1, 2000. The length of the article is 660 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: The United States and Biological Warfare: Secrets From the Early Cold War and Korea.(Review) (book review)
Author: Brian L. Evans
Publication: Canadian Journal of History (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2000
Publisher: University of Saskatchewan
Volume: 35 Issue: 1 Page: 186

Article Type: Book Review

Distributed by Thomson Gale

The United States and Biological Warfare: Secrets from the Early Cold War and Korea.(Review) : An article from: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Average customer rating:

The United States and Biological Warfare: Secrets from the Early Cold War and Korea.(Review) : An article from: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
John Ellis van Courtland Moon
Manufacturer: Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

General | Science | Subjects | Books

Terrorism | Current Events | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books

Science & Technology | Subjects | e-Docs | Formats | Books
ASIN: B00098RYPM
Release Date: 2005-07-28

Book Description

This digital document is an article from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, published by Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc. on May 1, 1999. The length of the article is 1843 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: The United States and Biological Warfare: Secrets from the Early Cold War and Korea.(Review)
Author: John Ellis van Courtland Moon
Publication: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 1999
Publisher: Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc.
Volume: 55 Issue: 3 Page: 70(1)

Article Type: Book Review

Distributed by Thomson Gale

Book Description

This book gathers the most recent scholarship on the historicization of masculinity by the most original and widely respected thinkers in this relatively new field. By using the analytical tools of queer theory these international, interdisciplinary scholars have reconfigured the history of sexuality in radically altering how we think about sexuality and how we write history. This book is a timely benchmark in answering and raising questions about male love, sex, friendship, and intimacy in the early modern era. It is a revaluation that takes into account how widely this matter has been debated over the last ten years and is an invaluable contribution to Gay, Lesbian and Queer Studies; sexual, social and cultural history and Early Modern and Enlightenment Studies more generally.

Books:

Books Index

Books Home

Recommended Books