1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910972774203321

Autore

Jeska Simone

Titolo

Transparent plastics : design and technology / / Simone Jeska

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel ; ; Boston, : Birkhauser, c2008

ISBN

1-281-96042-X

9786611960421

3-7643-8287-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 p.)

Disciplina

721.0449923

721/.0449923

Soggetti

Plastics in building

Transparency in architecture

Buildings, Plastic

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. 154-155) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- A Brief History of Plastic Buildings -- Material and Form - "Form Follows Material?" -- Transparent Plastics between Intellectualisation and Trash Culture -- Exhibition -- BMW Bubble / Abb Architects / Franken, Bernhard -- EBO Bologna / Mario Cucinella Architects -- »Light Building« Mobile Pavilion / Atelier Kempe Thill -- Cyclebowl / Atelier Brückner -- Residences -- Apartments and Studios in Cologne / B & K+ -- Naked House / Ban, Shigeru -- Lucky Drops / Tekuto Architecture Studio -- Housing Project in London / Sakula, Ash -- Cité Manifeste / Lacaton & Vassal -- House And Studio in Almere / Arconiko -- Semi-Detached Houses in Müllheim / Pfeifer.Kuhn -- Culture and Sports -- Museum of Paper Art / Ban, Shigeru -- Catholic Church of Jesus Christ the King, Radebeul / Staib Architects / Behnisch, Günter -- DBU Conference and Exhibition Pavilion / Herzog + Partner -- Allianz Arena / Herzog & De Meuron -- Research -- Gerontology Technology Centre, Bad Tölz / Siegert, D. J. -- Rocket Tower / Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners -- Festo AG Technology Centre / Jaschek & Partner -- Glasshouses, Graz / Giencke, Volker -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration Credits -- Backmatter



Sommario/riassunto

Recent years have seen the construction of buildings made of plastic, structures that are as attractive as they are unusual. After initial experiments in the 1970s, plastic is currently experiencing a tremendous boom. Originally used for temporary structures like the BMW Pavilion in Frankfurt, it is now employed in many permanent buildings as well, including the recent Catholic church in Radebeul by Staib/Behnisch. Prominent international avant-garde architects such as Shigeru Ban and Herzog & de Meuron frequently use transparent plastic for their structures. Transparent plastic seems ephemeral and thus captures the spirit of the times. Its various qualities between transparent and translucent make it possible to achieve fascinating effects with light and color. Projects presented include the Allianz Arena in Munich by Herzog & de Meuron, the Rocket Tower in Leicester by Grimshaw & Partners, the Paper Art Museum by Shigeru Ban in Shizuoka, Japan, and the public housing development Cité Manifeste in Mulhouse by Lacaton Vassal. Seit einigen Jahren entstehen ebenso attraktive wie ungewöhnliche Bauten aus Kunststoff. Nach ersten Versuchen in den 1970er Jahren erlebt der Baustoff derzeit einen ungeheuren Boom. Zunächst für temporäre Bauten wie dem BMW Pavillon in Frankfurt genutzt, entstehen mittlerweile auch zahlreiche bleibende Gebäude (wie kürzlich die Katholische Kirche von Staib/Behnisch in Radebeul). Bekannte Architekten der internationalen Avantgarde wie Shigeru Ban oder Herzog & de Meuron verwenden gerne transparenten Kunststoff für ihre Bauten. Das Material scheint ephemer, transitorisch (ohne es zu sein) und trifft damit den Nerv der heutigen Zeit. Seine unterschiedlichen Qualitäten zwischen transparent und transluzent erlauben faszinierende Licht- und Farbeffekte. Zu den dargestellten Projekten gehören die Allianz-Arena in München von Herzog & de Meuron, der Rocket-Tower in Leicester von Grimshaw & Partner, das Papiermuseum von Shigeru Ban in Shizuoka, Japan, und der soziale Wohnungsbau der Cité Manifeste in Mulhouse von Lacaton Vassal.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911046677603321

Autore

Ferris Marcie Cohen

Titolo

The Edible South : The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region / / Marcie Cohen Ferris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill : , : The University of North Carolina Press, , [2014]

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2016

©[2014]

ISBN

979-88-908403-0-1

979-88-908403-1-8

1-4696-1982-2

1-4696-1769-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (494 p.)

Disciplina

394.1/20975

394.120975

Soggetti

Cooking, American - Southern style - History

Food - Social aspects - Southern States - History

Food habits - Southern States - History

Electronic books.

Southern States Social conditions

Southern States Social life and customs

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""; ""Contents""; ""Preface: I Look for Food in Everything""; ""Introduction""; ""PART I: EARLY SOUTH�PLANTATION SOUTH""; ""1 Outsiders: Travelers and Newcomers Encounter the Early South""; ""2 Insiders: Culinary Codes of the Plantation Household""; ""3 I Will Eat Some for You: Food Voices of Northern-Born Governesses in the Plantation South""; ""4 An Embattled Table: The Language of Food in the Civil War South""; ""5 Culinary Testimony: African Americans and the Collective Memory of a Nineteenth-Century South""; ""6 The Reconstructed Table""; ""PART II: NEW SOUTH""

""7 The Shifting Soil of Southern Agriculture and the Undermining of the Southern Diet""""8 Home Economics and Domestic Science Come to



the Southern Table""; ""9 The Southern “Dietaries�: Food Field Studies in Alabama and Eastern Virginia""; ""10 Reforming the Southern Diet One Student at a Time: The Mountain South and the Lowcountry""; ""11 Agricultural Reform Comes Home""; ""12 The Deepest Reality of Life: Southern Sociology, the WPA, and Food in the New South""; ""13 Branding the Edible New South""; ""14 A Journey Back in Time: Food and Tourism in the New South""

""PART III: MODERN SOUTH""""15 I�m Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table: Southern Food and the Civil Rights Movement""; ""16 Culinary Landmarks of “The Struggle�""; ""17 A Hungry South""; ""18 A Food Counterculture, Southern-Style""; ""19 New Southern Cuisine""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""

Sommario/riassunto

In The Edible South , Marcie Cohen Ferris presents food as a new way to chronicle the American South's larger history. Ferris tells a richly illustrated story of southern food and the struggles of whites, blacks, Native Americans, and other people of the region to control the nourishment of their bodies and minds, livelihoods, lands, and citizenship. The experience of food serves as an evocative lens onto colonial settlements and antebellum plantations, New South cities and civil rights-era lunch counters, chronic hunger and agricultural reform, counterculture communes and iconic restaurants as Ferris reveals how food--as cuisine and as commodity--has expressed and shaped southern identity to the present day. The region in which European settlers were greeted with unimaginable natural abundance was simultaneously the place where enslaved Africans vigilantly preserved cultural memory in cuisine and Native Americans held tight to kinship and food traditions despite mass expulsions. Southern food, Ferris argues, is intimately connected to the politics of power. The contradiction between the realities of fulsomeness and deprivation, privilege and poverty, in southern history resonates in the region's food traditions, both beloved and maligned.