university of virginia press apr 2009 (6 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Includes essays that explore the question of how ethical ideas guiding the design process - a concern for the environment or for social justice - relate to the beauty of our buildings, cities, and artworks. This book presents a range of viewpoints and does not ignore the perils of an easy association of ethics and aesthetics.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In his readings of 'The Professor's House', 'The Great Gatsby', and 'Miss Lonelyhearts', the author finds that, far from the simple selfishness or apathy for which it is so often dismissed, the cynicism in these texts is suffused by a desire for the certainty promised by norms such as national teleology, ethnic identity, and civic participation.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Women have practiced as landscape architects for over a century, since the founding of the practice as a profession in the United States in the1890s. They came to landscape architecture as gardeners, garden designers, horticulturalists, and fine artists. They simultaneously shaped the profession whilereflecting contemporary practice. It is all the more surprising, then, that thehistory of women in American landscape design has received relatively littleattention. Tha sa Way corrects this oversight in 'UnboundedPractice: Women and Landscape Architecture in the Early Twentieth Century.'Describing design practice in landscape architecture during thefirst half of the twentieth century, the book serves as a narrative both of women --such as Beatrix Jones Farrand, Marian Cruger Coffin, Annette Hoyt Flanders, EllenBiddle Shipman, Martha Brookes Hutcheson, and Marjorie Sewell Cautley -- and of thepractice as it became a profession.Winner of a 2008 David R. CoffinPublication Grant, awarded by the Foundation for Landscape Studies.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Focusing on the representations of spiritual crisis in twentieth-century African American fiction and autobiography, this title asks how some of the most distinguished writers of this tradition wrestle with the inexplicable nature of God and the experience of unmerited natural and moral sufferings such as racial oppression.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Includes essays that explore the question of how ethical ideas guiding the design process - a concern for the environment or for social justice - relate to the beauty of our buildings, cities, and artworks. This book presents a range of viewpoints and does not ignore the perils of an easy association of ethics and aesthetics.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Analyzes the architecture, landscape, and planning patterns of the capital of Massachusetts and forty surrounding cities and towns that fan out from Boston Harbor. Illustrated with photographs and maps, this book assesses built form from initial colonial settlement in the 1630s through twenty-first-century additions to the Boston area landscape.