Ideas exchange [[electronic resource] ] : the collaborative studio of Hawkins\Brown / / Tim Abrahams

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462994203321
• Autore: Abrahams Tim
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Basel, : Birkhauser, c2010
• ISBN: 3-0346-1163-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Disciplina: 720.92241
• Soggetti: Architecture, Modern - 21st century; Architecture - England - History; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword / Mallett, Lee -- Collaborating with Architects / Richardson, Vicky -- Collaborating with Engineers / Ritchie, Adam -- Collaborating with Designers / Spiekermann, Erik -- Collaborating with Clients / Hart, Adam -- Appendices
• Sommario/riassunto: Das Londoner Architekturbüro Hawkins\Brown, 1988 von Roger Hawkins und Russell Brown gegründet, gehört zu den upcoming Büros der internationalen Architekturszene. Das Spektrum der Arbeiten reicht vom Wohnhaus und Interior Design über Bürobauten und verschiedene öffentliche Bauten wie Theater und Universitätsgebäude bis hin zum Urban Design wie Platzgestaltungen und U-Bahn-Stationen. Es gehört zum Selbstverständnis von Hawkins\Brown, im integrativen Prozess mit allen Akteuren zu einem optimalen Ergebnis zu kommen. Das Buch dokumentiert ca. 25 Bauten aus den letzten fünf Jahren. Zu den vorgestellten Projekten gehören die Tottenham Court Road Underground Station - mit 100.000 Fahrgästen am Tag eine der geschäftigsten U-Bahnstation Londons (Fertigstellung 2011), die Stratford Regional Station in London - eine Zugangsplattform für eine der Hauptaustragungsstätten der Olympischen Spiele (Fertigstellung 2010), Park Hill - das Masterplanning für ein Stadtviertel in Sheffield, UK, (Fertigstellung 2011) und der Dubai Arts Pavilion in den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten.; The Hawkins\Brown architectural firm in London, founded in 1988 by Roger Hawkins and Russell Brown, is one of the up-and-coming offices on the international architecture scene. The spectrum of the firm's works ranges from residences and interior design by way of office buildings and various public buildings such as theaters and university buildings all the way to urban planning, such as designs for squares and subway stations. Hawkins\Brown strives to come to an optimal result in a process that integrates all of the players. Hawkins\Brown has received numerous awards for various projects, such as the RIBA Award for its Wysing Arts Centre (2008), the New Chemistry Building of the University of Oxford (2009), and the New Art Exchange art center in Nottingham (2009) and the BREEAM Award for Eltham Hill Technology College (2008). This book documents some twenty-five buildings from the past five years. The projects presented include the Tottenham Court Road Underground Station, one of the busiest Tube stations in London with a hundred thousand passengers daily (to be completed in 2011); the Stratford Regional Station in London, an access platform for one of the major sites for the Olympic Games (to be completed in 2010); Park Hill, the master plan for a neighborhood in Sheffield (to be completed in 2011), and the Dubai Arts Pavilion in the United Arab Emirates.

Obstinate Hebrews : Representations of Jews in France, 1715-1815 / / Ronald Schechter

• Record Nr.: UNISA996248106003316
• Autore: Schechter Ronald
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2003]; ©2003
• ISBN: 1-282-35695-X; 9786612356957; 0-520-92935-7; 1-59734-780-9
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (346 p.)
• Collana: Studies on the History of Society and Culture ; ; 49
• Disciplina: 305.892/4044/09033
• Soggetti: Jews - France - Social conditions - 18th century; French literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Jews in literature; Public opinion - France - History - 19th century; Public opinion - France - History - 18th century; Jews - Public opinion; Jews - France - Identity; France Ethnic relations
• 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 (p. 263-317) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. A Nation within the Nation?: The Jews of Old Regime France -- 2. Jews and Philosophes -- 3. Jews and Citizens -- 4. Contrapuntal Readings: Jewish Self-Representation in Prerevolutionary France -- 5. Constituting Differences: The French Revolution and the Jews -- 6. Familiar Strangers: Napoleon and the Jews -- Conclusion: Jews and Other "Others" -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Enlightenment writers, revolutionaries, and even Napoleon discussed and wrote about France's tiny Jewish population at great length. Why was there so much thinking about Jews when they were a minority of less than one percent and had little economic and virtually no political ; power? In this unusually wide-ranging study of representations of Jews in eighteenth-century France-both by Gentiles and Jews themselves-Ronald Schechter offers fresh perspectives on the Enlightenment and French Revolution, on Jewish history, and on the nature of racism and intolerance. Informed by the latest historical scholarship and by the insights of cultural theory, Obstinate Hebrews is a fascinating tale of cultural appropriation cast in the light of modern society's preoccupation with the "other." Schechter argues that the French paid attention to the Jews because thinking about the Jews helped them reflect on general issues of the day. These included the role of tradition in religion, the perfectibility of human nature, national identity, and the nature of citizenship. In a conclusion comparing and contrasting the "Jewish question" in France with discourses about women, blacks, and Native Americans, Schechter provocatively widens his inquiry, calling for a more historically precise approach to these important questions of difference.