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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788990703321

Titolo

Performance, embodiment and cultural memory [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Colin Counsell and Roberta Mock

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars, 2009

ISBN

1-282-48117-7

9786612481178

1-4438-1471-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CounsellColin <1956->

MockRoberta

Disciplina

306.4/84

Soggetti

Performing arts - Social aspects

Collective memory

Body language

Human body - Symbolic aspects

Group identity

Performing arts - Anthropological aspects

Performing arts - Semiotics

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.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PERFORMING INTERCULTURAL MEMORY IN THE DIASPORIC PRESENT; EMBODIMENT OF MEMORY AND THE DIASPORIC AGENT IN AKRAM KHAN COMPANY'S BAHOK; TOHU-BOHU; BELATED SPACES; BARCELONA; DEAD BODIES/LIVE BODIES; CONSUMING CULTURE; NO SWEAT; PIANOLA KARAOKE AND OTHER ATTRACTIONS; NOISE, MEMORY, GESTURE; KEY TEXTS; CONTRIBUTORS

Sommario/riassunto

The subject of cultural memory, and of the body's role in its creation and dissemination, is central to current academic debate, particularly in relation to performance. Viewed from a variety of theoretical positions, the actions of the meaning-bearing body in culture and its capacity to reproduce, challenge or modify existing formulations have been the focus of some of the most influential studies to emerge from the arts and humanities in the last two and a half decades. The ten essays bro...



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823259903321

Autore

Moe Kiel

Titolo

Insulating modernism : isolated and non-isolated thermodynamics in architecture / / Kiel Moe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel ; ; Boston : , : Birkhäuser, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

3-03821-645-3

3-03821-321-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Classificazione

ZH 3090

Disciplina

621.402/4

Soggetti

Insulation (Heat)

Buildings - Thermal properties

Architecture and energy conservation

Modern movement (Architecture)

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

Buildings are non-isolated, transient structures of dissipation : a reckoning in the form of an introduction -- A history of heat transfer in buildings -- A material history of insulation in modernity -- Physiology, insulation, climate, and pedagogy -- The architecture of dissipation -- A dissipative epilogue : breathing walls / by Salmaan Craig -- Conclusion : the metabolic rift, gift & shift of architecture's necessary excess.

Sommario/riassunto

Welches ist die nachhaltigste Lösung für den Umgang mit Energie bei Gebäuden? Der von der Bauindustrie seit mehr als einem Jahrhundert verfolgte Weg heißt: Wärmedämmung durch Dämmsysteme. Eine zunehmend stärker werdende Gegenbewegung insbesondere unter Architekten vertritt die Meinung, dass die beste Lösung im intelligenten Entwerfen als der Kernkompetenz der Architektur zu suchen ist. Dieses faktengesättigte Buch schreibt die Geschichte der etablierten Wärmedämmtechnologien und liefert zugleich die Grundlagen für die sich heute abzeichnenden alternativen Lösungen. Über die wissenschaftlichen, materiellen und architektonischen Aspekte der Wärmedämmung hinaus geht der Blick auf die Isolierung als eine



zentrale und zugleich fragwürdige Kategorie des Umgangs mit Energie beim Bauen. Verfasst von einem Architekten, der neben detailliertem technischen Wissen auch über langjährige Erfahrungen in Forschung und Lehre an der Harvard University verfügt, zielt das Buch auf ein besseres Verständnis der unterschiedlichen Perspektiven auf das Thema Energie. Es öffnet den Blick auf eine thermodynamisch sinnvolle, ökologisch wirkungsvolle, kulturell bereichernde und architektonisch wegweisende Perspektive des Umgangs mit Energie in der Architektur.

What is the best way to consider energy in buildings? For over a century, the building industry has largely focused on ideas of insulation and isolation for its energetic practices. A growing movement of designers claim that other concepts and practices are required for the non-isolated energy systems of architecture. This book describes the history, theory and facts of the mainstream isolation technologies and the emerging alternative design approaches. It is a book on the scientific, material, and design history of building isolation; but more importantly, it is a book on isolated and non-isolated perspectives on energy in architecture. Written by a registered practicing architect with detailed technical knowledge, who is at the same time a researcher and experienced teacher, the aim is to understand the different scientific, architectural and cultural approaches to energy and to promote a non-isolated perspective: a thermodynamically accurate, ecologically powerful, culturally relevant, and architecturally ambitious perspective on energy in architecture.