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The Psychology of Happiness

The Psychology of Happiness

Is happiness all down to luck? Do events in our life influence how happy we feel? Can too much of a good thing make us less happy? The Psychology of Happiness introduces readers to the variety of factors that can affect how happy we are. From our personality and feelings of self-worth to our physical health and employment status happiness is a subjective experience which will change throughout our lives. Although feeling happy is linked with positive thinking and our sociability in daily life the book also includes surprising facts about the limitations of our personal happiness. We all want to feel happy in our lives and The Psychology of Happiness shows us that achieving it can be both an accident of fortune and as a direct result of our own actions and influence.

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The Philosophy of Happiness An Interdisciplinary Introduction

The Philosophy of Happiness An Interdisciplinary Introduction

Emerging research on the subject of happiness—in psychology economics and public policy—reawakens and breathes new life into long-standing philosophical questions about happiness (e. g. What is it? Can it really be measured or pursued? What is its relationship to morality?). By analyzing this research from a philosophical perspective Lorraine L. Besser is able to weave together the contributions of other disciplines and the result is a robust deeply contoured understanding of happiness made accessible for nonspecialists. This book is the first to thoroughly investigate the fundamental theoretical issues at play in all the major contemporary debates about happiness and it stands out especially in its critical analysis of empirical research. The book’s coverage of the material is comprehensive without being overwhelming. Its structure and pedagogical features will benefit students or anyone studying happiness for the first time: Each chapter opens with an initial overview and ends with a summary and list of suggested readings. | The Philosophy of Happiness An Interdisciplinary Introduction

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The Architecture of Ethics

The Architecture of Ethics

Ethics is one of the most important and least understood aspects of design practice. In his latest book Thomas Fisher shows how ethics are inherent to the making of architecture – and how architecture offers an unusual and useful way of looking at ethics. The Architecture of Ethics helps students in architecture and other design disciplines to understand the major approaches to ethics and to apply them to the daily challenges they face in their work. The book covers each of the four dominant approaches to ethics: virtue ethics social contract ethics duty ethics and utilitarian ethics. Each chapter examines the dilemmas designers face from the perspective of one of these categories. Written in an accessible jargon-free style the text also features 100 illustrations to help integrate these concepts into the design process and to support visual understanding. Ethics is now a required part of accredited architecture programs making this book essential reading for all students in architecture and design.

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The Development of Children’s Happiness and Success The Science of Optimizing Well-Being Across the Lifespan

The Development of Children’s Happiness and Success The Science of Optimizing Well-Being Across the Lifespan

This engaging book is a comprehensive exploration of children's happiness and success covering a wide range of factors influencing positive functioning. It offers a holistic view of children’s well-being identifying both threats and catalysts to happiness and success as well as evidence-based strategies that promote optimal functioning. The first section of the book delves into the science of happiness discussing the role of early social relationships the importance of experiencing positive emotions and flow spirituality and physical health. The second section focuses on the science of success exploring topics such as mindsets self-control and executive functions. Finally the book explores individual and contextual factors explaining why character matters the influence of media and technology and the critical role of disadvantaged environments. Presenting happiness as an ongoing journey intertwined with the pursuit and achievement of personal goals the book concludes by proposing a new conceptual framework which identifies pivotal contributors to children's happiness and success such as relationships self-regulation and competence. Suited to upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in child development family studies education and positive psychology this book is also an invaluable resource for caregivers educators and child practitioners. It is a must-read for anyone interested in cultivating a fulfilling well-lived life for children and adolescents. | The Development of Children’s Happiness and Success The Science of Optimizing Well-Being Across the Lifespan

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Building Children’s Worlds The Representation of Architecture and Modernity in Picturebooks

Building Children’s Worlds The Representation of Architecture and Modernity in Picturebooks

Children are the future architects clients and users of our buildings. The kinds of architectural worlds they are exposed to in picturebooks during their formative years may be assumed to influence how they regard such architecture as adults. Contemporary urban environments the world over represent the various stages of modernism in architecture. This book reads that history through picturebooks and considers the kinds of national identities and histories they construct. Twelve specialist essays from international scholars address questions such as: Is modern architecture used to construct specific narratives of childhood? Is it taken to support ‘negative’ narratives of alienation on the one hand and ‘positive’ narratives of happiness on the other? Do images of modern architecture support ideas of ‘community’? Reinforce ‘family values’? If so what kinds of architecture community and family? How is modern architecture placed vis-à-vis the promotion of diversity (ethnic religious gender etc. )? How might the use of architecture in comic strips or the presence of specific kinds of building in fiction aimed at younger adults be related to the groundwork laid in picturebooks for younger readers? This book reveals what stories are told about modern architecture and shows how those stories affect future attitudes towards and expectations of the built environment. | Building Children’s Worlds The Representation of Architecture and Modernity in Picturebooks

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John Ruskin and the Fabric of Architecture

John Ruskin and the Fabric of Architecture

Through the theoretical lenses of dress studies gender science and visual studies this volume analyses the impact John Ruskin has had on architecture throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It explores Ruskin’s different ideologies such as the adorned wall veil which were instrumental in bringing focus to structures that were previously unconsidered. John Ruskin and the Fabric of Architecture examines the ways in which Ruskin perceives the evolution of architecture through the idea that architecture is surface. The creative act in architecture analogous to the divine act of creation was viewed as a form of dressing. By adding highly aesthetic features to designs taking inspiration from the 'veil' of women’s clothing Ruskin believed that buildings could be transformed into meaningful architecture. This volume discusses the importance of Ruskin’s surface theory and the myth of feminine architecture and additionally presents a competing theory of textile analogy in architecture based on morality and gender to counter Gottfried Semper’s historicist perspective. This book would be beneficial to students and academics of architectural history and theory gender studies and visual studies who wish to delve into Ruskin’s theories and to further understand his capacity for thinking beyond the historical methods. The book will also be of interest to architectural practitioners particularly Ruskin’s theory of surface architecture.

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The Structural Basis of Architecture

The Structural Basis of Architecture

This is a book that shows how to see structures as being integral to architecture. It engages a subject that is both about understanding the mechanical aspects of structure as well as being able to relate this to the space form and conceptual design ideas that are inherent to the art of building. Analyzing the structural principles behind many of the best-known works of architecture from past and present alike this book places the subject within a contemporary context. The subject matter is approached in a qualitative and discursive manner illustrated by many photographs and structural behavior diagrams. Accessible mathematical equations and worked-out examples are also included so as to deepen a fundamental understanding of the topic. This new color edition’s format has been thoroughly revised and its content updated and expanded throughout. It is perfect as either an introductory structures course text or as a designer’s sourcebook for inspiration for here two essential questions are addressed in parallel fashion: “How do structures work?” and “What form do structures take in the context of architecture – and why so?” A rich varied and engaging rationale for structural form in architecture thus emerges. | The Structural Basis of Architecture

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The Architecture of Medieval Churches Theology of Love in Practice

The Architecture of Medieval Churches Theology of Love in Practice

The Architecture of Medieval Churches investigates the impact of affective theology on architecture and artefacts focusing on the Middle Ages as a period of high achievement of this synthesis. It explores aspects of medieval church and cathedral architecture in relation to the contemporary metaphysics and theology which articulated an integrated theocentric culture architecture and art. Three modes of attention: comprehension instruction and contemplation informed the builders’ intuition and intention. The book’s central premise reasons that love for God was the critical force in the creation of vernacular church architecture using a selection of medieval writings to provide a unique critique of the genius of architecture and art during this period. An interdisciplinary study between architecture theology and philosophy it will appeal to academics and researchers in these fields. | The Architecture of Medieval Churches Theology of Love in Practice

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The Philadelphia School and the Future of Architecture

The Philadelphia School and the Future of Architecture

Flourishing from 1951 to 1965 the Philadelphia School was an architectural golden age that saw a unique convergence of city practice and education all in renewal. And it was a bringing together of architecture city and regional planning and landscape architecture education under the leadership of Dean G. Holmes Perkins. During that time at the architecture school at the University of Pennsylvania (known as the Graduate School of Fine Arts or GSFA) Louis Kahn and Robert Venturi were transforming modern architecture; Romaldo Giurgola was applying continental philosophy to architectural theory; Robert Le Ricolais was building experimental structures; Ian McHarg was questioning Western civilization and advancing urban and regional ecology; Herbert Gans was moving into Levittown; and Denise Scott Brown was forging a syncretism of European and American planning theory and discovering popular culture. And in the city Edmund Bacon was directing the most active city planning commission in the country. This book describes the history of the school the transformation of the city of Philadelphia and the philosophy of the Philadelphia School in the context of other movements of the time and looks at what the Philadelphia School has to offer to architecture today and in the future all from the point of view of a student who was there. | The Philadelphia School and the Future of Architecture

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Architecture and the Unconscious

Architecture and the Unconscious

There are a number of recent texts that draw on psychoanalytic theory as an interpretative approach for understanding architecture or that use the formal and social logics of architecture for understanding the psyche. But there remains work to be done in bringing what largely amounts to a series of independent voices into a discourse that is greater than the sum of its parts in the way that say the architect Peter Eisenman was able to do with the architecture of deconstruction or that the historian Manfredo Tafuri was able to do with the Marxist critique of architecture. The discourse of the present volume focuses specifically for the first time on the subject of the unconscious in relation to the design perception and understanding of architecture. It brings together an international group of contributors who provide informed and varied points of view on the role of the unconscious in architectural design and theory and in doing so expand architectural theory to unexplored areas enriching architecture in relation to the humanities. The book explores how architecture engages dreams desires imagination memory and emotions how architecture can appeal to a broader scope of human experience and identity. Beginning by examining the historical development of the engagement of the unconscious in architectural discourse and the current and historical theoretical and practical intersections of architecture and psychoanalysis the volume also analyses the city and the urban condition. | Architecture and the Unconscious

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The Latent World of Architecture Selected Essays

The Latent World of Architecture Selected Essays

This book features thirteen essays by the late architect philosopher and teacher Dalibor Vesely (1934–2015). Vesely was a leading authority on philosophical hermeneutics and phenomenology in relation to architecture worldwide and influenced a generation of thinkers teachers and practitioners. This collection presents the full range of his writing drawing primarily from the history of art and architecture as well as philosophy theology anthropology and ecology and spanning from early antiquity to modernism. It composes a multifaceted and globally relevant argument about the enduring cultural role of architecture and the significance of its history. The book edited and introduced by Vesely’s teaching partner at Cambridge Peter Carl and former student Alexandra Stara and with a foreword by David Leatherbarrow brings to light new and hard-to-access material for those familiar with Vesely’s thought and at the same time offers a compelling introduction to his writing and its profound relevance for architecture and culture today. | The Latent World of Architecture Selected Essays

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Metaphor an exploration of the metaphorical dimensions and potential of architecture

Metaphor an exploration of the metaphorical dimensions and potential of architecture

Each of these Analysing Architecture Notebooks is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture. They can be thought of as addenda to the foundation volume Analysing Architecture which first appeared in 1997 and has subsequently been enlarged in three further editions. Examining these extra themes as a series of Notebooks rather than as additional chapters in future editions allows greater space for more detailed exploration of a wider variety of examples whilst avoiding the risk of the original book becoming unwieldy. Metaphor is the most powerful component of the poetry of architecture. It has been a significant factor in architecture since the earliest periods of human history when people were finding ways to give order and meaning to the world in which we live. It is arguable that architecture began with the realisation of metaphor in physical form and that subsequent movements – from Greek to Gothic Renaissance to Modern Victorian to Vernacular… – have all been driven by the emergence or rediscovery of different metaphors by which architecture might be generated. | Metaphor an exploration of the metaphorical dimensions and potential of architecture

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Out of Architecture The Value of Architects Beyond Traditional Practice

Out of Architecture The Value of Architects Beyond Traditional Practice

Out of Architecture is both a call to reassess the architecture profession and its education and a toolkit for graduates and working architects to untangle their skills passions and value from traditional architectural practice and consider alternate pathways. Written by design professionals and expert career consultants this book is informed by numerous client accounts as well as the authors’ own stories and routes out of architecture. The initial chapters follow the narrative of a typical architecture training in the US highlighting the many highs and lows skills honed and ultimately the huge disconnect that can occur between architectural education and practice. Subsequent chapters explore a disillusionment with the profession unhealthy work cultures mentorship working with lead architects toxic perfectionism and the notion of a “calling. ” Authors then present the hopeful accounts of many architects who escaped a profession known for its grueling working conditions to find fulfilling well-paying creative jobs that better utilize the skills of architecture than the architectural profession itself. Written in a unique combination of storytelling and analysis this patchwork of client and author stories makes for an immersive provocative and enjoyable read. A wide range of architecture students graduates educators and professionals will recognize themselves within the pages of this book and find prompts to reassess their working practices teaching styles and the profession itself. It will be of particular value to those students skeptical of joining the architecture workforce as well as those further along and considering a career change. | Out of Architecture The Value of Architects Beyond Traditional Practice

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The Making of Mexican Modernist Architecture

The Making of Mexican Modernist Architecture

This book presents the making of Mexican Modernist architecture through five power structures – academic social status economic/political gender and postcolonial – and by interviews and analysis of 13 key Mexican architects. These include Luis Barragán José Villagrán García Juan O’Gorman Pedro Ramírez Vázquez Agustín Hernández Abraham Zabludovsky Carlos Mijares Ricardo Legorreta Juan José Díaz Infante Enrique Norten Alberto Kalach Javier Sordo Madaleno and Clara de Buen. Although the five power structures framed what was built the testimony of these Mexican architects helps us to recognize and discover subtleties and nuances. Their views thereby shed light on what contributed to making Mexican Modernist architecture so distinctive globally. Even if these architects were not always aware of the power structures their projects nonetheless supported discrimination marginalization and subjugation. In that sense the book also reveals the extent to which these power structures are still present today. The Making of Mexican Modernist Architecture’s uniqueness lies in uncovering the remarkable buildings that arose amid the five power structures while at the same time questioning their validity. It also voices the urgent need today for a new kind of architecture outside these boundaries. The book is essential reading for anyone studying Mexican and Latin American architecture.

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Analysing Architecture The universal language of place-making

Analysing Architecture The universal language of place-making

Now in its fifth edition Analysing Architecture has become internationally established as the best introduction to architecture. Aimed primarily at those studying architecture it offers a clear and accessible insight into the workings of this rich and fascinating subject. With copious illustrations from his own notebooks the author dissects examples from around the world and all periods of history to explain the underlying strategies in architectural design and show how drawing may be used as a medium for analysis. In this new edition Analysing Architecture has been revised and expanded. Notably the chapter on ‘How Analysis Can Help Design’ has been redeveloped to clearly explain this crucially important aspect of study to a beginner readership. Four new chapters have been added to the section dealing with Themes in Spatial Organisation on ‘Axis’ ‘Grid’ ‘Datum Place’ and ‘Hidden’. Material from the 'Case Studies' in previous editions has been redistributed amongst earlier chapters. The ‘Introduction' has been completely rewritten; and the format of the whole book has been adjusted to allow for the inclusion of more and better illustrative examples. Works of architecture are instruments for managing orchestrating modifying our relationship with the world around us. They frame just about everything we do. Architecture is complex subtle frustrating… but ultimately extremely rewarding. It can be a difficult discipline to get to grips with; nothing in school quite prepares anyone for the particular demands of an architecture course. But this book will help. www. instagram. com/analysingarchitecture | Analysing Architecture The universal language of place-making

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Art And Architecture In Medieval France Medieval Architecture Sculpture Stained Glass Manuscripts The Art Of The Church Treasuries

Art And Architecture In Medieval France Medieval Architecture Sculpture Stained Glass Manuscripts The Art Of The Church Treasuries

This is an English-language study on the architecture and art of medieval France of the Romanesque and Gothic periods between 1000-1500. In addition to essays on individual monuments there are general discussions of given periods and specific problems such as: why did Gothic come into being? Whitney Stoddard explores the interrelationship between all forms of medieval ecclesiastical art and characterization of the Gothic cathedral which he believes to have an almost metaphysical basis. | Art And Architecture In Medieval France Medieval Architecture Sculpture Stained Glass Manuscripts The Art Of The Church Treasuries

GBP 130.00
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Critiquing the Modern in Architecture

Critiquing the Modern in Architecture

Written over four decades Critiquing the Modern in Architecture is a collection of essays exploring the ideological and metaphysical core of modern architecture. Author Jaimini Mehta moves architectural modernism from its primarily Eurocentric definition interrogating the subject from the perspective on a non-western thought-world. Mehta groups his essays under three key themes: Rethinking Modernity explores the ideological underpinnings of the modernity/modernism binary; The Idea of Architecture looks at a number of issues that constitute the timeless and the invariable aspects of architecture against which the prevalent modernist discourse can be critically evaluated; and On Praxis looks at three contemporary architects' work and the Vienna Secessionist movement between 1890 and 1918 to articulate a critique of the underpinnings of the modern movement. Providing a new view of the modern in architecture this book is critical reading for architectural theorists and scholars of modernism.

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