The potential of vernacular materials to the sustainable building design [PDF]
, 2014 Publicado em "Vernacular heritage and earthen architecture : contributions for sustainable development", ISBN 978-1-138-00083-4Vernacular architecture embodies a plurality of constraints from places where it belongs, in which the use of local materials ...
Bragança, L. +2 more
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Continuities and Discontinuities in the Vernacular Architecture
ATHENS JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURE, 2015 Vernacular architecture has been growing over time with continuities, changes, transformations and adaptations to the different social and economic conditions of each period in response to actual needs with the available means of every place. Continuities in vernacular architecture are closely related to space, time and materiality and involve ...
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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TERRITORIALIZING POWER: The Politics of Presidential Projects in Antananarivo, Madagascar
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Large‐scale infrastructure projects have become a defining feature of African urbanism. The study of the surge in infrastructure investments has largely been conducted against the backdrop of a purported ‘neoliberal global modernity’ in which cities compete to attract international investments.
Fanny Voélin, Lars Buur
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VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE AND FURNITURE OF VÂLCEA AND SIBIU COUNTY, ROMANIA IN A EUROPEAN CONTEXT [PDF]
Pro Ligno, 2014 The objective of this paper is to address in a critical and synthetic manner Romanian vernacular architecture and traditional furniture in a European context.
Biborka BARTHA, Marina CIONCA
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Human Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper applies the concept of institutional habitus to analyse the accounts of participants on a talent management (TM) programme that is underpinned by an Exclusive/Developed talent philosophy. In doing so we reveal the structural presence of the organisation in shaping individual expectations and experience on TM programmes, adding to a ...
Tracy Scurry +2 more
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Application of vernacular architectural ideas in New Saffein Village of Kish Island [PDF]
, 2011 The vernacular architecture of Iran is a result of a long time process of both social and cultural developments which have expanded all over the country.
Abdullah, John Ashraf Lucas +2 more
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The structure of ordinary: Hui vernacular settlements and architecture in China [PDF]
, 2015 Ponència presentada a: Session 8: Dimensiones psicosociales de la arquitectura y el urbanismo / Psycological dimensions of architecture and ...
Ren, Xiang
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Biophilic design features in vernacular architecture and settlements of the Naxi
Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, 2020 As a newly formed concept, “Biophilic design” is attracting a growing attention among both practitioners and academics. However, the link between biophilic design and vernacular architecture has yet to be thoroughly explored, especially in the context of
Mengbi Li, Hing-Wah Chau, Lu Aye
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Design Exchanges in Mid-Twentieth Century Buenos Aires: The Programme Parque Almirante Brown and its Process of Creative Appropriation [PDF]
, 2017 The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.This article offers a critical analysis of planning and housing design in mid-twentieth century Buenos ...
Massidda, Adriana Laura
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