Arkitektur og design

A must-have for jewelry enthusiasts, this engaging volume illuminates the ways in which jewelry has been used to craft and express identity.

Bridging scholarly research and conservation practice, this long overdue resource provides conservation professionals with the information needed to analyze preservation issues and implement efficient, long-lasting treatments.

This groundbreaking work presents an alternative history of art that foregrounds the indispensable contributions of plants.

This collection of essays examines experimental scores and source documents from the postwar avant-gardes, interpreted by experts on art, music, dance, and poetry.

London's Royal Parks are among its most beautiful and beloved spaces: just as much as the Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace or St Pancras Station, the mere mention of Hyde Park or Greenwich Park is enough to evoke the capital in all its glory for residents and tourists alike. They have a magnificent history - some were royally owned as far back as the Norman conquest, others were acquired by Henry VIII during the Reformation and were great hunting grounds for successive monarchs - and since being opened to the public, they have hosted some of London's great events, including the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park and innumerable jubilees, international games and competitions and celebrations. Today, the Royal Parks are visited by over 77 million visitors. But what are the ingredients of these magnificent green spaces? We often think of wider landscapes of trees, grass, lakes, meandering footways, bedding displays and herbaceous borders. But the Royal Parks are much more than this. Defined as 'parkitecture', we find royal palaces, stately homes, villas, monuments, memorials, statues of national figures and war heroes, public art, often controversial yet inspiring, sculpture, bandstands, gates and railings of exquisite designs, fountains, refreshments rooms, lodges and pavilions, bridges and boathouses. Each of the Royal Parks is defined by its 'parkitecture', from the formality of Regent's and St James's Parks to the rurality of Bushy and Richmond Parks. This new book is a long overdue complete celebration of the many buildings and monuments of London's Royal Parks with over 250 beautiful illustrations.

This book presents different tools and techniques used for Decision Support Systems (DSS) including decision tree and table, and their modifications, multi-criteria decision analysis techniques, network tools of decision support and various case-based reasoning methods supported by examples and case studies.

The text covers topics on the sustainability of nanomaterials in tribology, economic aspects of nanomaterials, theories, and mathematical models. It will serve as an ideal reference text for senior undergraduate, graduate students, researchers in diverse engineering domains including manufacturing, mechanical, aerospace, industrial, and materials.

This book offers a novel perspective on aesthetics in experimentation via ten original essays from an interdisciplinary group comprised of philosophers, historians of science and art, and artists.

This book brings together some of the finest academics in the field to address the important questions around the way in which people experience their physical environments including temperature, light, acoustics and so forth.

This book critically examines the philosophy of the term 'transgression' and how it shapes the utopian vision of contemporary urban design scenarios.

This book explores young Cambodians' perceptions of their place in today's society and how they interact with the country's arts and culture scene.

This timely book explores the spatial and social injustices within our streets, malls, schools, and public institutions. Taken-for-granted acts like going for a walk, seeing an exhibition with a friend, and going to school are, for people with disabilities, conditional or precluded acts due to exclusion by design.

This book reports on one of the largest co-ordinated efforts to survey the theatrical audience experience: the City Study of the Project on European Theatre Systems, which conducted over 7000 surveys and dozens of interviews and focus groups with audience members from four mid-sized cities across Europe.

This book discusses 3D printing of sensors, actuators, and antennas and illustrates how manufacturers can create smart materials that can be effectively used to prepare low-cost products. The book also includes how to select the appropriate process for your manufacturing needs.

On any given day, millions of people will read e-books. Yet many of us will do so while holding them apart from 'real books'. The fact that a book can be worthy - of our time, money, respect, even love - without being 'real' is a fascinating paradox of twenty-first century reading. Drawing on original data from a longitudinal study, Laura Dietz investigates how movement between conceptions of e-books as ersatz, digital proxy, and incomplete books serves readers in unexpected ways. The cultural value of e-books remains an area of intense debate in publishing studies. Exploring the legitimacy of e-books in terms of their 'realness' and 'bookness', Dietz enriches our understanding of what e-books are, while also opening up new ways of thinking about how we imagine, how we use, and what we want from books of every kind. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

A richly illustrated new exploration of the painting, photography, and illustration of the politically progressive American artist Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity offers a fresh and wide-ranging account of the work of Ben Shahn (1898-1969), a Jewish immigrant from Russian-controlled Lithuania who became one of America's most prominent and prolific "social viewpoint" artists from the Great Depression through the Vietnam War. Revealing why Shahn remains so relevant today, the book examines his commitment to progressive political causes, from combating fascism to fighting for civil rights. Incorporating international perspectives, it investigates his World War II poster art, labor-related work, and engagement in postwar artistic debates. It brings new insights to Shahn's social realist and documentary styles and their evolution into allegorical, lyrical, and often abstract idioms that embrace the philosophical and the spiritual. And it demonstrates the underappreciated complexity of Shahn's layered visual language and how he experimented with modernist conceptual strategies-often involving photography-to create his paintings, murals, drawings, prints, posters, illustrated books, and commercial designs. Shahn's guiding credo-formulated in the Cold War-asserted that nonconformity was the precondition for all significant art and great social change. Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity illuminates why the artist's work should be seen as a series of "nonconformities" driven by his steadfast dedication to social justice and humanistic values. Exhibition ScheduleThe Jewish Museum, New YorkMay 23-October 12, 2025

This book examines Delhi in the politically and culturally dynamic nineteenth century. By bringing together the city's past and its present as well as addressing its future, the book can count among its readers not just scholars but also those interested in cities and their evolving landscapes.

This book provides a conceptual and global overview of the field of Surrealist studies.

Many chapters attempt to reconstruct past climatic changes in deserts and their margins at a variety of scales in space and time in the expectation that such information might assist in preparing us for future global warming and drying.

The aim of this book is to provide an overview of the situation regarding the biodegradable polymer along the value chain, identify and analyse existing practices for biodegradable plastics, assess the relevant legal, regulatory, economic and practical reasons for the importance of proper use and proper recycling of biodegradable plastics.

More than 100,000 organizations throughout the European Union have to comply with the NIS2 Directive. Is your organization one of them? If so, what do you need to do to become compliant? Two questions that are easy to ask, but the answers are never as straightforward. With 46 articles, 144 provisions, and over 140 references to other documents, the NIS2 is anything but easy to read, let alone interpret. This book provides an answer to your questions in a straightforward, easy-to-understand way. The NIS2 Navigator's Handbook is written in plain English terms to help members of management bodies (including security and IT management) understand the Directive and its intentions. An extensive analysis of the scope specifications, with a clear Annex to support it, provides insight into the NIS2's scope and an answer to the first question.For the second question, the book walks you through the different requirements that organizations must comply with. A GAP assessment included in the Annexes of the book, that can be used at a high level or in depth, provides you with an understanding of your level of compliance and the steps you need to take to become compliant. The book also comes with access to an assessment tool that allows you to perform the assessment in a number of languages.If you need to understand the impact of the NIS2 Directive on your organization, this book provides you the ultimate answer.

This book is a photographic journey-complemented by a collection of academic essays on related historical, architectural and artistic topics-on the origin and life of "Africa Hall" in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Discover the imaginary worlds of Victor Hugo, one of France's most famous writers, with his rarely-seen works on paper. To accompany an exhibition at the RA 21 March - 29 June 2025.

Mark Fisher was the creator of a new art form: the travelling rock show. This book details every major project and more than 100 of his extraordinary drawings.