1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991001304409707536

Autore

Monastyrskii, Mikhail Ilich

Titolo

Riemann, topology, and physics / Michael Monastyrsky ; with a foreword by Freeman J. Dyson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston ; Basel ; Berlin : Birkhauser, c1999

ISBN

0817637893

Edizione

[2nd ed. /]

Descrizione fisica

xiii, 215 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Classificazione

AMS 01A55

QA29.R425M6613

Disciplina

530.15

Soggetti

Mathematical physics

Riemann, Bernhard, 1826-1866

Topology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes bibliographical references and index.



2.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN0162108

Autore

Blundell Jones, Peter

Titolo

Architecture and ritual : how buiding shape society / Peter Blundell Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London [etc.], : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

Titolo uniforme

Architecture and ritual : how buiding shape society

ISBN

978-14-7257-747-4

Descrizione fisica

XVII, 371 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

Disciplina

720.103

Soggetti

Architettura - Fattori sociali

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Architecture and Ritual explores how the varied rituals of everyday life are framed and defined in space by the buildings which we inhabit. It penetrates beyond traditional assumptions about architectural style, aesthetics and utility to deal with something more implicit: how buildings shape and reflect our experience in ways of which we remain unconscious.

Whether designed to house a grand ceremony or provide shelter for a daily meal, all buildings coordinate and consolidate social relations by giving orientation and focus to the spatial practices of those who use them. Peter Blundell Jones investigates these connections between the social and the spatial, providing critical insights into the capacity for architecture to structure human ritual, from the grand and formal to the mundane. This is achieved through deep readings of individual pieces of architecture, each with a detailed description of its particular social setting and use. The case studies are drawn from throughout architectural history and from around the globe, each enabling a distinct theoretical theme to emerge, and showing how social conventions vary with time and place, as well as what they have in common. Case studies range from the Nuremberg Rally to the Centre Pompidou, and from the Palace of Westminster to Dogon dwellings in Africa and a Modernist hospital.



In considering how all architecture has to mesh with the habits, beliefs, rituals and expectations of the society that created it, the book presents deep implications for our understanding of architectural history and theory. It also highlights the importance for architects of understanding how buildings frame social space before they prescribe new architectural designs of their own. The book ends with a recent example of user participation, showing how contemporary user interest and commitment to a building can be as strong as ever.