1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462162803321

Titolo

The cultural role of architecture : contemporary and historical perspectives / / edited by Paul Emmons, John Hendrix and Jane Lomholt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-283-84404-4

1-135-76536-7

0-203-72377-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

EmmonsPaul

HendrixJohn

LomholtJane

Disciplina

720.1/03

720.103

Soggetti

Architecture and society

Architecture - Human factors

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; The Cultural Role of Architecture; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Preface; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Prologue: Cultivating Architecture; Part One Architecture as Agent of Recovery: A Testimony to Values; Introduction to Part One; 1 Greek Theatre as an Embodiment of Cultural Meaning; 2 The Restoration of the Hut of Romulus; 3 Il Corridoio Vasariano: A Resplendent Passage to Medici and Vasari's Grandeur; 4 Language Beyond Metaphor: The Structural Symbolism of Borromini's Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza

5 Villa Albani: Repository of Multiple Narratives6 The Space of Fiction: On the Cultural Relevance of Architecture; 7 Using Old Stuff and Thinking in a New Way: Material Culture, Conservation and Fashion in Architecture; Part Two Architecture as Substance and Sustenance: Cultural Desires and Needs; Introduction to Part Two; 8 De Beata Architectura: Places for Thinking; 9 Sverre Fehn: Materials and Culture;



10 A Persuasive Topology: Alvar Aalto and the Ambience of History; 11 Freiraum: Ideas of Nature and Freedom in the Work of Mies van der Rohe

12 Architectural Poetics in Alvaro Siza's Church of Santa Maria13 The Play of Plans: Le Corbusier's Serious Game of Dominoes; 14 Something out of the "Ordinary"; Part Three A Time of Aspirations: Cultural Understanding of the Roles of Architecture; Introduction to Part Three; 15 The Relevance of Beauty in Architecture; 16 Architectural Creation Between "Culture" and "Civilization"; 17 Architectural Identity Demystified: Visual Voices from the Arab World; 18 The Fiction of the Digital in the Mediated City; 19 The Memory of Ruins and the Ruins of Memory

20 The Conceptual Bearings of the Intercultural Role of Architecture21 Architecture as the Psyche of a Culture; Epilogue: The Necessity of Architecture; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Exploring the ambiguities of how we define the word 'culture' in our global society, this book identifies its imprint on architectural ideas. It examines the historical role of the cultural in architectural production and expression, looking at meaning and communication, tracing the formations of cultural identities.Chapters written by international academics in history, theory and philosophy of architecture, examine how different modes of representation throughout history have drawn profound meanings from cultural practices and beliefs. These are as diverse as the designs they inspi



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910154752203321

Autore

Milnor John

Titolo

Introduction to Algebraic K-Theory. (AM-72), Volume 72 / / John Milnor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2016]

©1972

ISBN

1-4008-8179-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 pages)

Collana

Annals of Mathematics Studies ; ; 243

Disciplina

512/.4

Soggetti

Associative rings

Abelian groups

Functor theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Preface and Guide to the Literature -- Contents -- §1. Projective Modules and K0Λ -- §2 . Constructing Projective Modules -- §3. The Whitehead Group K1Λ -- §4. The Exact Sequence Associated with an Ideal -- §5. Steinberg Groups and the Functor K2 -- §6. Extending the Exact Sequences -- §7. The Case of a Commutative Banach Algebra -- §8. The Product K1Λ ⊗ K1Λ  K2Λ -- §9. Computations in the Steinberg Group -- §10. Computation of K2Z -- §11. Matsumoto's Computation of K2 of a Field -- 12. Proof of Matsumoto's Theorem -- §13. More about Dedekind Domains -- §14. The Transfer Homomorphism -- §15. Power Norm Residue Symbols -- §16. Number Fields -- Appendix. Continuous Steinberg Symbols -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Algebraic K-theory describes a branch of algebra that centers about two functors. K0 and K1, which assign to each associative ring ∧ an abelian group K0∧ or K1∧ respectively. Professor Milnor sets out, in the present work, to define and study an analogous functor K2, also from associative rings to abelian groups. Just as functors K0 and K1 are important to geometric topologists, K2 is now considered to have similar topological applications. The exposition includes, besides K-theory, a considerable amount of related arithmetic.