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Condizione: Very Good. Picture Shown is For Illustration Purposes Only : CONDITION ? VERY GOOD ? PAPERBACK :light wear and grub marks to cover, pages in nice condition, shipped from the UK.

Condizione: New. Shikder, Ashraf-ul Alam (illustratore).

Condizione: New. Shikder, Ashraf-ul Alam (illustratore).

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition. Shikder, Ashraf-ul Alam (illustratore).

Hard Cover. Condizione: Fair. Fair Jacket. First Edition. 250pp. Supplement To Family Laws in Pakistan included. Tips, spine ends and edges are bumped and heavily rubbed. First 20 and last 20 pages have some rippling. Former owner name on front endpaper. Edges of yext block have a few stains. Jacket flaps are fused to inside boards. Jacket has many small tears, creases and spieces missing along the edges. Top edge of front board has a 3" tear starting at the spine head. Front panel has a couple of surface tears at the spine head. Jacket has rippling light soiling. Rear panel has many holes in the lower 1/3. Text is clean and unmarked. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/Fair Jacket.…

Condizione: New. pp. 240 105 Illus.

Condizione: New. pp. 240.

Condizione: New. pp. 240.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Used - Very Good. Made in India Guest-edited by Kazi K Ashraf The architectural and urban landscape of India is being remade in unexpected and exuberant ways. New economic growth, the infiltration of global media and technologies, and the transnational reach of the diasporic Indian have unleashed a new cultural and social dynamic. While the dynamic is most explicit and visible in the context of the Indian city, a different set of transformations is taking place in the rural milieu. Yet, as the political writer Sunil Khilnani notes, the world's sense of India, of what it stands for and what it wishes to become, seems as confused and divided today as is India's own sense of itself. It is a challenge, in these conditions, to explore how the deeply entrenched histories and traditions of India are being reimagined, and how questions of the extraordinary diversity of India are being reinterpreted in its architectural and urban landscape. AD traces this compelling story through the writings of Prem Chandavarkar, Sunil Khilnani, Anupama Kundoo, Reinhold Martin, Michael Sorkin, Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha, and others, as well as through the work of some 25 practices currently producing work on the Indian subcontinent.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. First. 240pp. 105 illustrations. The Hermits Hut offers an original insight into the profound relationship between architecture and asceticism. Although architecture continually responds to ascetic compulsions, as in its frequent encounter with the question of excess and less, it is typically considered separate from asceticism. In contrast, this innovative book explores the rich and mutual ways in which asceticism and architecture are played out in each other?s practices. The question of asceticism is also considered?as neither a religious discourse nor a specific cultural tradition but as a perennial issue in the practice of culture. The work convincingly traces the influences from early Indian asceticism to Zen Buddhism to the Japanese teahouse?the latter opening the door to modern minimalism. As the books title suggests, the protagonist of the narrative is the nondescript hermit?s hut. Relying primarily on Buddhist materials, the author provides a complex narrative that stems from this simple structure, showing how the significance of the hut resonates widely and how the question of dwelling is central to ascetic imagination. In exploring the conjunctions of architecture and asceticism, he breaks new ground by presenting ascetic practice as fundamentally an architectural project, namely the fabrication of a ?last? hut. Through the conception of the last hut, he looks at the ascetic challenge of arriving at the edge of civilization and its echoes in the architectural quest for minimalism. The most vivid example comes from a well-known Buddhist text where the Buddha describes the ultimate ascetic moment, or nirvana, in cataclysmic terms using architectural metaphors: ?The roof-rafters will be shattered,? the Buddha declares, and the architect will ?no longer build the house again.? As the book compellingly shows, the physiological and spiritual transformation of the body is deeply intertwined with the art of building. The Hermits Hut weaves together the fields of architecture, anthropology, religion, and philosophy to offer multidisciplinary and historical insights. Written in an engaging and accessible manner, it will appeal to readers with diverse interests and in a variety of disciplines?whether one is interested in the history of ascetic architecture in India, the concept of ?home? in ancient India, or the theme of the body as building.…

Condizione: New. Shikder, Ashraf-ul Alam (illustratore).

Hardback. Condizione: New. The Hermit's Hut offers an original insight into the profound relationship between architecture and asceticism. Although architecture continually responds to ascetic compulsions, as in its frequent encounter with the question of excess and less, it is typically considered separate from asceticism. In contrast, this innovative book explores the rich and mutual ways in which asceticism and architecture are played out in each other's practices. The question of asceticism is also considered-as neither a religious discourse nor a specific cultural tradition but as a perennial issue in the practice of culture. The work convincingly traces the influences from early Indian asceticism to Zen Buddhism to the Japanese teahouse-the latter opening the door to modern minimalism. As the book's title suggests, the protagonist of the narrative is the nondescript hermit's hut. Relying primarily on Buddhist materials, the author provides a complex narrative that stems from this simple structure, showing how the significance of the hut resonates widely and how the question of dwelling is central to ascetic imagination. In exploring the conjunctions of architecture and asceticism, he breaks new ground by presenting ascetic practice as fundamentally an architectural project, namely the fabrication of a "last" hut. Through the conception of the last hut, he looks at the ascetic challenge of arriving at the edge of civilization and its echoes in the architectural quest for minimalism. The most vivid example comes from a well-known Buddhist text where the Buddha describes the ultimate ascetic moment, or nirvana, in cataclysmic terms using architectural metaphors: "The roof-rafters will be shattered", the Buddha declares, and the architect will "no longer build the house again". As the book compellingly shows, the physiological and spiritual transformation of the body is deeply intertwined with the art of building. The Hermit's Hut weaves together the fields of architecture, anthropology, religion, and philosophy to offer multidisciplinary and historical insights. Written in an engaging and accessible manner, it will appeal to readers with diverse interests and in a variety of disciplines-whether one is interested in the history of ascetic architecture in India, the concept of "home" in ancient India, or the theme of the body as building.…

HRD. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition. Shikder, Ashraf-ul Alam (illustratore).

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Communications - Movies and Television, Jahangirnagar University, language: English, abstract: 'Uncanny' as a recurrent gothic ingredient has been pervading the literary narratives for quite a long time since the period of The Castle of Otranto and Mysteries of Udolpho. The idea of the 'return of the repressed' dominates the concept the 'uncanny' which Sigmund Freud elaborated in his 1919 essay 'The 'Uncanny''. However, this unfamiliarity of the real is something which grounded the domain of suspense in the prose narratives and helped in rendering the text a creepy sentimentality. But it should be kept in mind that this feeling is nothing alien to our emotional praxis. Rather, it derives or finds its root from the mundaneness of our life. Maybe, such concern influenced Freud to theorize dream and propound the idea of 'dream thought' and 'dream content'. The concept of 'uncanny' is related in many ways to the concept of 'return', be it a memory, an unhappy recollection or a traumatic revisitation. Such 'return' definitely accounts for a psychological interpretation with probable reference to 'hauntology' and unconscious. One thing has to be clarified at this point of our discussion about 'uncanny, that is, this phenomenon should be distinguished from 'magic realism' which rather problematizes the reality and our familiarity with the reality. But in the context of 'uncanny', the reality should be recognized as an expression of the unconscious. The translation of textual 'uncanny' is something which deals with the visual physicality of the objects. The 'uncanny' what we perceive through words is quite different from what is spelt out by means of visuals and sound. The elaboration of popular culture and the invention of cinema technologies have facilitated and innovated a new mode of presentation of the 'uncanny', that is film. Film as a new sign system can different modes of presentation to render the familiar unfamiliar ranging from shots, set-design, settings to sound cuts. As 'uncanny' became the key supplement to gothic literature, so gothic films (generic term for horror movies) inculcate the depiction of the so-called unfamiliar (the unheimlich). Film plays, as Lesely Stern argues, with 'indeterminacies: here/there, appearance/disappearance, life/death, past/future [.]' thus knocking our 'imagination, our unconscious, to produce a sensory affect of dissonance at the very moment of identity.' The fluctuation between such indeterminacies is what renders the 'uncanny' possible and helps question our own senses. [.].…

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Condizione: New.

brossura. Condizione: nuovo. NEW BOOK.

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hardcover. Condizione: New. **HARDBACK**.

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Hardcover. 8vo. pp viii, 120. Purple dust jacket with decorations and white lettering. Publisher's pink boards lettered in gilt at spine. Signed and inscribed by contributor Syed Ali Ashraf; "With affection & respect from Ali Ashraf 21/12/1982." Compliments slip loosely inserted.ISBN: 0340236124 Very good, a little rubbed at foot of spine. In good plus dust jacket with fading towards and along spine, a little rubbed at edges of spine.…

Condizione: new.

hardcover. Condizione: New. New copy picked straight from printer's box. Sealed copy. Priority orders will be dispatched by Royal Mail TRACKED 24 or courier (particularly if over 2kg). Standard mail will be dispatched by Royal Mail TRACKED 48 (up to 2kg), heavier items by courier . Overseas orders will be dispatched by Royal Mail International.Tracked. PLEASE CONTACT ME FOR MY PRIVACY POLICY.…

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Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. How South Asian architects broke with the colonial past and found ingenious ways to negotiate modernism's universalist claims with the material and labor conditions on the groundSouth Asia holds a unique place among the many regions of the world where modern architecture was understood as both a tool for social progress and a global lingua franca in the second half of the 20th century. Following the end of British rule in 1947-48, architects in the newly formed nations of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh (East Pakistan until 1971) and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) proposed a novel understanding of modernity, disrupting the colonial hierarchy of center and periphery by challenging modernism's universalist claims.Architecture offered multiple ways to break with the colonial past. Through the establishment of institutions that embodied the societal aspirations of the period, and the creation of new cities and spaces for political representation, South Asian architects produced a distinct body of work in dialogue with global developments while advancing the theory and practice of low-cost, climatically and socially responsive design.Anchored by a newly commissioned portfolio of images from architectural photographer Randhir Singh, this richly illustrated and meticulously researched catalog features essays by the curators and leading scholars in the field on subjects such as the politics of concrete, institution-building, higher education, housing, infrastructure and industry, landscape and design, as well as presentations of 17 transformative projects from around the subcontinent. While several of the architects appearing in these pages have in recent years received monographic exhibitions, The Project of Independence marks the first attempt to consider their work within the ideological frameworks of its creation and the political context of the region as a whole. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. The Hermit's Hut offers an original insight into the profound relationship between architecture and asceticism. Although architecture continually responds to ascetic compulsions, as in its frequent encounter with the question of excess and less, it is typically considered separate from asceticism. In contrast, this innovative book explores the rich and mutual ways in which asceticism and architecture are played out in each other's practices. The question of asceticism is also consideredas neither a religious discourse nor a specific cultural tradition but as a perennial issue in the practice of culture. The work convincingly traces the influences from early Indian asceticism to Zen Buddhism to the Japanese teahousethe latter opening the door to modern minimalism. As the book's title suggests, the protagonist of the narrative is the nondescript hermit's hut. Relying primarily on Buddhist materials, the author provides a complex narrative that stems from this simple structure, showing how the significance of the hut resonates widely and how the question of dwelling is central to ascetic imagination. In exploring the conjunctions of architecture and asceticism, he breaks new ground by presenting ascetic practice as fundamentally an architectural project, namely the fabrication of a "last" hut. Through the conception of the last hut, he looks at the ascetic challenge of arriving at the edge of civilization and its echoes in the architectural quest for minimalism. The most vivid example comes from a well-known Buddhist text where the Buddha describes the ultimate ascetic moment, or nirvana, in cataclysmic terms using architectural metaphors: "The roof-rafters will be shattered," the Buddha declares, and the architect will "no longer build the house again." As the book compellingly shows, the physiological and spiritual transformation of the body is deeply intertwined with the art of building. The Hermit's Hut weaves together the fields of architecture, anthropology, religion, and philosophy to offer multidisciplinary and historical insights. Written in an engaging and accessible manner, it will appeal to readers with diverse interests and in a variety of disciplineswhether one is interested in the history of ascetic architecture in India, the concept of "home" in ancient India, or the theme of the body as building. (jacket).…