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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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Crafting Production: Design Build as Alternative Practice
Journal of Architectural Education, 2017Academically driven design-build is an alternative—and even subversive—way to build, incorporating social needs, political will, and a novice yet ideological workforce. The ramifications of Modernism and the opportunities and liabilities of the postindustrial context have created ideal conditions for academically driven design-build efforts to thrive ...
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Nation building: craft and contemporary American culture
International Journal of Heritage Studies, 2017The edited collection Nation Building: Craft and Contemporary American Culture showcases the work and writing of leading scholars and craftspeople to present the current state of craft scholarship ...
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Corporate Craft: Constructing the Empire State Building
The Journal of Modern Craft, 2011AbstractAt its opening in 1931, the Empire State Building inspired two contradictory narratives, one valuing the skyscraper's novel technocratic assembly-line-like construction methods and the other validating the artisanal virtuosity of its craftsmen.
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The commentator's craft: Building a mathematical commentary from quotations
Historia Mathematica, 2019This is a presentation of an anonymous commentary on Euclid's \textit{Elements}, preserved in two manuscripts in Hyderabad. After mentioning some general characteristics of commentaries, singled out by \textit{R. Netz} [Rev. Hist. Math. 4, No. 2, 261--288 (1998; Zbl 0967.01003)], there follows a typology of commentaries, a presentation of 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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Ancient Egyptian Masonry: The Building Craft
The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 1931S. R. K. Glanville +2 more
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Building Cohesion in School Through Crafting
2022Karen Thomas, Rebecca Reeve
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