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This 36th volume of Perspecta -- America's oldest and most distinguished student-edited architecture journal -- begins with the assumption that association is a tool of creativity and analysis. The axiomatic modernist oppositions of macro/micro, literal/phenomenal, nature/industry, either/or, and both/and have evolved from an argumentative tool into a narrative method.
Juxtapositions create conflict. "Juxtapositions" attempts to reclaim the breadth, scope, and relevance of the early volumes of Perspecta through meaningful juxtapositions -- what might be termed poignant adjacency. Thus a critique of studio education is deepened by its adjacency to discussions of technology and urbanism, to visual art, to old modernism, to balkanization and globalization, to film, to fear of war, and to the annihilation and creation of cities. The juxtapositions (graphic and ideological) in the volume, although created with editorial consideration, seek to evade and subvert that consideration in favor of unforeseen overlap. This is meant as a provocation -- not intentless, but ultimately intent-proof, a landscape upon which the unexpected can occur.
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Review of Perspecta 36: Juxtapositions.......2005-07-06
Writing in 3-D (2000)
By Huang Xiang
The oldest way to write poetry
Is with a brush
The newest way to write poetry
Is with the body
The most wonderful way to write poetry
Is to stand right on your head
With mind and body as one
And dab ink
On the ground!
In a back alley in Pittsburgh sits a shingled house of little note except for the fact that the exterior walls are covered from foundation to roof with the cursive script and revolutionary verse of dissident Chinese poet Huang Xiang. Part of the City of Asylum project which gives international writers at risk a safe haven within which to write, this narrative home is the perfect materialization of many of the ideas in Perspecta 36: Juxtapositions, edited by Macky McCleary and Jennifer Silbert.
Sweeping in its focus on the conditions of our time, the journal takes the reader on a multi-layered journey of discovery that turns the concept of architecture on its head in much the same vein as Huang Xiang's verse. Revolution, power and transition take center stage in this well-balanced journal that seams texts together to create sub- and hyper-texts that force the reader to mentally juggle the words and images before them. A sense of nostalgia in the form of roads traveled and studies undertaken arises throughout. Marjetica Potrc's "Caracas Case Study: The Culture of the Informal City" provides rich illustrations on the organic nature of the ever-changing homes on the hills high above Venezuela's capital city and, for this reader, brought back to life an evening spent sipping coffee with a young man eager to show his barrio home to a foreign guest. Leslie Lu's "The Asian Arcade Project: Progressive Porosity" allowed me to relive my own vertical traversal of Hong Kong via the intricate system of escalators and elevated walkways that intersect the city's close-packed skyscrapers while providing a new viewpoint on the ways the city's residents experience and navigate urban space. Many more recollections will be invoked in readers who have stood at the feet of the Berlin Wall, gazed out the window of a modernist home or walked down a meticulously planned boulevard in Brasilia.
Broad in its attention to international contemporary culture, Perspecta 36 shows that the world's sovereign nations simultaneously rely upon and compete with one another to produce what might be called the stage of global juxtapositions. Architecture plays out upon this ever-shifting stage, providing a haven within which we may take shelter from the storm. In much the same vein as Huang Xiang's poem, the theoretical texts in the issue subvert architecture to the degree that we may begin to question its position in our tumultuous times. Evelyn Preuss's "The Wall You Will Never Know" deconstructs our notions of what the Berlin Wall stood for, both in physical and philosophical terms. In an equally revolutionary bent, Roger Connah's "Pulp Architecture" is a manifesto against "big name" architecture that calls for a new architectural strategy reliant on "film, street culture, art, play, terror, surveillance, the hacker ethic, shopping...war and new media." (Page 34) The editors surely used this list as a source of inspiration in their critique of the systems that fuel the architecture machine.
The journal's visual program features the paintings of Joy Garnett that feature ghostly airplanes which hint at imminent disaster and attack from the sky and C.J. Kang's The Manhattan Project that melds imagery from the popular U.S. comic Popeye with superimposed bombers and a new tattoo for the hero's arm that reads "Enola Gay." Clearly addressing 9/11 fears and the Hiroshima nuclear attack, these paintings make us question the stability of the constructed form in an age when potential threats to the status quo loom large. To this end, Perspecta 36 urges us to rethink our built and social environment. Alexander Garvin's "Ground Zero: The Rebuilding of a City" is timely proof of the import of juxtapositions to our daily lives that extend well beyond the pages of Perspecta. On June 30th, 2005 the New York Times ran an article entitled "Redesign Puts Freedom Tower on a Fortified Base" that presented the new design for David M. Child's skyscraper for the World Trade Center site. A far cry from the plans outlined in Garvin's article, the new "impregnable" tower in many ways becomes Preuss's wall built directly in the midst of New York. Returning to Huang Xiang's poem, we may only question on what end architecture, and indeed contemporary society, will land in a world that seemingly depends on juxtapositions to survive.
Eric C. Shiner (MA, History of Art, 2003) is an independent curator and writer based in New York City. He was the co-editor of Palimpsest: Yale Literary and Arts Magazine in 2004.
(For more information on Huang Xiang's City of Asylum Pittsburgh project, please see www.mattress.org/news/events/asylum.html)
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The new student edition of the definitive reference on urban planning and design
Planning and Urban Design Standards, Student Edition is the authoritative and reliable volume designed to teach students best practices and guidelines for urban planning and design.
Edited from the main volume to meet the serious student's needs, this Student Edition is packed with more than 1,400 informative illustrations and includes the latest rules of thumb for designing and evaluating any land-use scheme--from street plantings to new subdivisions. Students find real help understanding all the practical information on the physical aspects of planning and urban design they are required to know, including:
* Plans and plan making
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* Economic and real estate development
Planning and Urban Design Standards, Student Edition provides essential specification and detailing information for various types of plans, environmental factors and hazards, building types, transportation planning, and mapping and GIS. In addition, expert advice guides readers on practical and graphical skills, such as mapping, plan types, and transportation planning.
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A public sector must-have resource.......2007-04-07
An excellent resource for anyone involved in public sector land-use planning. Contains great detail on many different subjects. Good illustrations throughout. Not the best resource for site planning, though.
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"As they watched on television as airliners controlled by terrorists flew into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the American and international public at large became suddenly aware of the symbolic, political, economic and social importance of architecture."
-- Max Protetch
Architecture gained a new significance in the eyes of the world when New York's World Trade Center was brutally attacked on September 11, 2001, as a symbol of the freedom and commercial strength of the United States of America. Recognizing the public's new appreciation of the correlation between architecture and the culture that creates it, Max Protetch, a New York art gallery owner who is the world's preeminent dealer of architectural drawings and has represented some of architecture's finest minds, launched an artistic response to the attacks that would help New Yorkers regain their footing and envision a new future for the city.
By the end of September, as the debate began to stir over what would become of the devastated lower portion of Manhattan, Protetch had begun asking many of the world's top architects to contribute to one of the most important and provocative architecture and design shows in recent history. The result was a unique combination of proposals from a diverse group of architects that included sketches from the late Samuel Mockbee, a proposal for a multiuse, multicultural cathedral from Paolo Soleri, Daniel Libeskind's ideas for a memorial structure, and Zaha Hadid's vision for the future of high-rise architecture. A New World Trade Center is an extraordinary display of creativity in thought and design that considers the future of lower Manhattan from myriad perspectives -- serving at once as a powerful remembrance of lives lost and a catalyst to the debate on downtown Manhattan.
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Drawing Buildings and Towns (Understand How to Draw Series, No 5)
Clifford Bailey , and
Clifford Bayly
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Buildings and Towns in Pastel (Leisure Arts)
Christopher Stones
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Intermediate Microeconomics: A Perspective on Price Theory
Frederick G. Hay ,
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Retailing, Challenge and Opportunity
Robert F. Hartley
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Dead-End Journey
Ofer Dalia
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This work is an English translation of the Hebrew book, "Parashat Kladovo Sabac" (published by Am Oved publishing house, 1991). It tells the story of a group of Jewish refugees who set out in 1939 for Mandatory Palestine and in 1941 were trapped by Nazi invaders. The book supplies elaborate details in order to provide readers with a better understanding of the historical backdrop of the Kladovo-Sabac story. Specifics reveal the significance of the changes in the European Jewry situation and the distinct challenges faced by the Zionist movement. By following the voyage of the Kladovo-Sabac group, this text will show readers the overall intricacy of the Nazi era. Contents: "Introduction; Getting Out By Any Means: Illegal Immigration Activities Organized by" Hehalutz "and the Youth Movements in Austria and Germany, 1938-1989; "Aliyah "and Refugee Life: The Kladovo-Sabac Group in Yugoslavia from January 1940 to April 1941; Unfinished Journey to the Promised Land; The End of the Kladovo-Sabac Group; Epilogue; Appendixes; Bibliography; List of Illustrations; The Transport's Leaders with Naftali (Bata) Gedalja: From Right to Left: Jozsi Schechter, Jukl Dorfman, Bata Gedalja, Emil Schechter; The "Car Nikola"; Winter Wharf at Kladovo Harbor; Waiting in Line for Food; Ironing Laundry On Board Ship; The "Penelope;" Sport Day in Kladovo; Hanukkah Presentation--Sabac, December 1940; Pupils at the Kladovo School; Kladovo Refugees Listening to Spitzer (above); The "Mühle" in Sabac; Rehearsal at the Sabac Theatre; One of the Youth "Aliyah" Groups (Summer 1940); MAPS; Map 1; Map 2."
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Feathers: Poems About Birds
Eileen Spinelli
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ASIN: 0805067132 |
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How does a pelican say hello, a dipper swim, or a plover find a meal in a crocodile's mouth? Where does a cygnet go when it is frightened? These are some of the many questions explored in Eileen Spinelli's lyrical poems and Lisa McCue's charming pictures. Whether children are studying birds in the classroom or are just curious about bird antics and behavior, this playful collection makes an ideal choice for all.
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Feathers -- Poems About Birds.......2004-08-08
This book, written by Eileen Spinelli, is an utter delight. The title of each poem is, in itself, a concise description of the bird in question. For example, the crow's poem is entitled "Country Bumpkin" for obvious reasons, and that of the Fairy Tern, who doesn't build a nest, is called "Homeless." The illustrations by Lisa McCue are sharp, colorful and accurate in their portrayal of each bird, including its locale, be it the plover ("The Wading Bird of Egypt"), the lyrebird of Australia or the elf owl of the North American desert. This is a splendid way for youngsters - those of all ages, in fact -- to study birds, not only of their own region but also of far-off places, combining, as it does, learning with cheerful and clever poetry. The book begins with a wake-up call from the woodpecker and ends with the lullaby of the nighthawk. Its final two pages feature a list of facts about each bird. This book cannot help but awaken the birdwatcher in everyone who reads or hears it. Feathers - Poems About Birds is sure to encourage reading; the poems are perfect to be read aloud because of their flowing language. It is likely to encourage writing as well because of the catchiness of each verse. It can also instill the love of nature, through the vivid illustrations of birds and foliage as well as the poetry. Certainly, anyone who enjoys this book will want to make sure that a "silent spring" never happens again. A must for children of all ages, it belongs on everyone's bookshelf, next to Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses.
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