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Apprenticeship, education and training for the building crafts
The Vocational Aspect of Education, 1948exaly +2 more sources
Crafting chiral boron building blocks
Science, 2016Asymmetric Catalysis Carbon-boron bonds are easily transformed into a wide variety of C–C, C–N, and C–O bonds. With that flexibility in mind, Schmidt et al. show that nickel complexes can catalyze asymmetric alkylation of carbon centers adjacent to boron. This protocol creates chiral alkylboronates that function as stable precursors to numerous complex
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Material Aspects of Building and Craft Traditions
2022The manual production of objects and buildings significantly shapes the material culture of societies. Knowledge concerning the ideal properties of materials obtained from nature, techniques of processing raw materials, and the skills needed to manufacture certain products have been passed down from generation to generation over the centuries.
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Exploring, Building, Completing: Context and Craft
Architectural Design, 2021AbstractAmin Taha is Chairman of London architectural office Groupwork and is no stranger to architectural controversy. The practice's buildings are often highly original and predicated on a thorough historical, contextual and collaborative research approach that goes far beyond the simple binary logics of ill‐conceived planning dogma.
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The craft of building Cajun accordions
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2017Craftsmen have been building single-row diatonic button accordions in South Louisiana since the mid-twentieth century. A brief history of this phenomenon will be given, followed by an explanation of how these accordions are constructed, from the perspective of someone who has made these instruments for decades, trained other makers, and served as the ...
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The Building of Craft Policy in India
2019Employing more than an estimated 11 million skilled craftsperson’s and weavers to form the backbone of the nonfarm rural economy the craft sector remains the second largest source of self-employment after agriculture in India. Over the nearly seven decades since India’s independence official government policy on crafts has constructed and shaped the ...
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Landscape And Buildings: Crafting National Heritage
2023In this paper, I discuss the role of architecture and cultural landscape in our continent’s national identity creation and nation-building processes. More specifically, I examine the creation of national heritage institutes in the United States and Brazil in the early 1900s to show how countries imagined their national identity through preservation ...
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Crafting Connections: Building Wellbeing and Community in the PhD Journey
Proceedings of the 37th Australian Conference on Human-Computer InteractionPhD students are six times more likely to develop mental health issues than the general public, with international students at higher risk due to a lack of social support. We propose this workshop, focusing on using craft for fostering wellbeing and community connection, would be beneficial because everyone can share how they approach wellbeing in ...
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Buildings Record at Hand Craft Building, Thickthorn, Kenilworth, Warwickshire
2022Building recording was undertaken at the 'hand craft' building, Thickthorn, Kenilworth, Warwickshire (NGR SP 30174 71136). It was commissioned by RPS Group on behalf of Persimmon Homes Central, in advance of proposed mixed development of the site. The building is located south of the town of Kenilworth, within agricultural land to east of Thickthorn ...
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