Arkitektur og design

This book examines urban governance, digital divide, poverty, unemployment, financial and social exclusion and presents a theoretical perspective on inclusive cities, urbanization, migration, slums and affordable housing.

This book brings together essays by established and emerging scholars that discuss Pakistan, Turkey, and their diasporas in Europe.

The book offers insight into the healthcare system by exploring emerging technologies and AI-based applications and implementation strategies. It includes current developments for future directions as well as covering the concept of the healthcare system along with its ecosystem.

This book presents interdisciplinary research on bamboo in Vietnam drawing on the anthropology of gesture, ethnobotany, and the history of technology.

This book is a reference on digital technology and its impact on sustainability, providing insight into sustainable practices globally among various organizations and communities. It describes the green computing paradigms and the impact of a circular economy with a focus on sustainable practices in a post-pandemic world.

This book examines the performance strategies used by contemporary Iranian artists and activists to reimagine "Iranian-ness" in the context of Iran's local, regional, and global position.

By entering and critically re-activating the Zionist photographic archive established by the Division of Journalism and Propaganda of the Jewish National Fund, this research examines its rippling impact on civil landscapes prior to 1948 in Palestine, and its lasting impact on the region to date.

Diversifying the current art historical scholarship, this edited volume presents the untold story of modern art by exposing global voices and perspectives excluded from the privileged and uncontested narrative of "isms."

This book explores the evolving relationship between fashion and transnational capitalism.

These include: the role of weights in Asian cultures, the manufacture of weights using lost-wax casting, metal analysis of weights, counterfeit and regional weights, 'weights' used as amulets, weights produced more recently in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This book offers a fresh perspective on ecological dynamics in the Mediterranean basin, positing their correlation with social and economic regimes, demographic transformations, local governance structures, and deficiencies in spatial planning.

Colorful textile sculpturesWool, linen, and silk as sensual materialsSpatial installations

This book collects thirteen exhibitions that read architecture as a field coordinated by documents with distinct historical, mediatic, and disciplinary registers.

Based on previously unpublished documents, this book traces the life in Paris of Countess Olga von Hohenfelsen, later known as Princess Paley, the morganatic wife of Grand Duke Paul of Russia, uncle of the last emperor Nicholas II.While immersing the reader in the world of Marcel Proust (most of Princess Paley's social contacts had fed the writer's imagination), the book explores the couple's day-to-day life, highlighting their relationships with leading suppliers such as couturiers Worth and Paquin and the jeweler Cartier. It also provides an overview of the Parisian art market, and studies the development of the couple's successive residences from Paris to St. Petersburg. For a time in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, the significant collection and the palace built to house it were shown to the public as the Museum of French Art and History. Dispersed during the 1920s by the Soviet authorities, the collection is studied as a whole here for the first time.First published in French in 2018, this updated English version includes an additional chapter on Princess Natalie Paley, the couple's youngest child. She continued her family's legacy of contributing to culture and the arts well into the twentieth century while living in Paris and the United States, where she was a muse to writers, designers, photographers, and artists.

How do we medicate ourselves, and why can’t we cure the people we love? In Body High, encounters with lurid bodily sculptures from the '60s offer remedies to the author’s own illness and malaise.In Body High, the introduction to lurid sculptural practices from the 1960s and the author’s own experience in proximity to opiate use will be used to offer a surreal and unsettling, yet seductive landscape where wider universal themes are explored: How do we medicate ourselves, and why can’t we cure the people we love?Dripping latex and collapsed rubber tubes were among the provocative materials that signaled an aesthetic turn in European and American sculptural practices starting in the late 1960s. Objects became corporeal: they responded to gravity in ways suggestive of exhaustion, offered sensual form, and confronted viewers with the ephemeral realities of our bodies through viscosity and deterioration.  This book analyses the objects by women within that movement, which explored maternity and mortality to capture the body under or after medical care. It argues that in these works, art-making served as a therapeutic strategy to re-claim bodies being manipulated at molecular levels.

A major new survey of an internationally significant collection of Japanese woodblock prints.This wide-ranging volume brings together over seventy five significant woodblock prints from the collection of Worcester Art Museum, MA, spanning three hundred years, from the seventeenth century through the twentieth. Organized chronologically, it begins with rare, and in some cases unique, examples of Edo-period (1603-1868) woodblock ukiyo-e prints, many of which were sourced from the museum's seminal John Chandler Bancroft collection, donated in 1901. Encompassing a diverse range of sizes, materials, and subjects, among the renowned artists represented are Katsushika Hokusai, Utagawa Kunisada, Utagawa Hiroshige.This volume then surveys later periods and artists associated with Japanese print output during the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Meiji (1868-1912) and Taishō (1912-1926) periods including many produced by artists working as part of the Shin-hanga "new prints" and Sōsaku-hanga "creative print" movements. The works from this time period include designs by such influential artists as Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Kamisaka Sekka, Hashiguchi Goyo, Yoshida Hiroshi, Kōshirō Onchi and Ito Shinsui.Finally, later post-war prints featured in the catalogue, dated to the 1950's onwards, manifest the influence of international art movements including Cubism, Surrealism and Popart.

A long overdue volume which re-establishes Vivian Browne as an important and dynamic American artist with an expressive hand and expansive world view.Vivian Browne's (1929-1993) varied career spanned more than three decades, from her early portraits and landscapes in the late 1950s and early '60s, her Little Men series of 1966-69, through her final San Joaquin and King's Canyon paintings of the very early 1990s, completed just before her death in 1993. This highly active career was framed by Browne's lasting political engagement and activism, that included being an initial director of the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC), born out of a response to the Metropolitan Museum's failure to include a single Black Harlem-based artist in its 1969 exhibition, Harlem on My Mind, and her active memberships of Where We At (WWA), the Women's Caucus for Art (WCA), and the feminist art collective Heresies, from the early 1970s through her death in 1993.This volume presents about 62 paintings, prints, and works on paper across several major bodies of work, alongside ephemera highlighting Browne's enduring activism and teaching work. Drawing upon previously unknown works and archives that have recently become available, this is a significant contribution to the history of twentieth century American art. It accompanies a major exhibition at the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH, and at The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, in 2025.

First published in 1978, Artists and People examines formal attempts by arts administrators to set up schemes for artists to work in community contexts. The experience of creative artists who have taken up 'residencies' in schools, libraries and art centres is contrasted with unique forms of expression developed by local communities.

The comprehensive coverage makes the book a valuable reference for practitioners and students, particularly postgraduate and MBA students, who require such insights to improve business functions and make informed decisions. It is also accessible for readers without a strong background in mathematics.

Disabled by chasing curricular criteria (required for accreditation and professional registration), architecture schools are mostly compliance and reproduction machines serving the building industry. This book asserts disciplinary knowledge over professional skills as the proper aim and focus of architecture education.

This study demonstrates the significance of using contemporary art in scholarly debates about cultural aspects of skin, in particular "whiteness" as a phenomenon that is both overly visible and invisible.

This book, the first of its kind, introduces various aspects of urban planning in India and contributes towards debates on changes required in the current practice.

This book examines the emergence of modern company towns in Iran by delineating the architectural, political, and industrial histories of three resource-based 'company town' projects built during World War II. It will be of interest to researchers and students of architecture, history, international relations and Middle Eastern studies.