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The classroom accounts and activities show how using visual approaches – and audio-visual and drama – can build on children’s knowledge of a range of multimodal texts. There are examples of teaching sequences using film, drama, real-life…

I fi rst met Dr. Evelin Lindner in December 2001 when she was the speaker
at a Colloquium of the Peace Education Program at Teachers College, Columbia University. I was attracted to the colloquium by the title of her talk,
“Humiliation and the…

No
person can have devoted
much time
and pains to the
in-
vestigation of Christian
architecture, as it
was practised in
this country
during
the Middle Ages, without feeling
the im-
portance of acquiring an
accurate
knowledge of…

I clearly remember the moment everything began. It was a hot day in November 2006 in Porto Alegre,
Brazil. When my business partner and great friend, Fabiano Meneghetti, and I got back to work after lunch,
we saw the door of our office broken in,…

The Cities of the Global South Reader adopts a fresh and critical approach to the fi eld of urbanization in the
developing world. The Reader incorporates both early and emerging debates about the diverse trajectories of
urbanization processes…

As far back as we go in our study of the way mankind has
lived, from the earliest reaches of recorded history and even from
the times of the prehistoric monuments studied by archeology,
we find men applying their labor to the resources of Nature…

I T HAS BECOME a cliché to say that education is in “crisis.” But it is true: A deep sense of crisis pervades discussions of education in the United States. Perhaps most distressingly, the crisis appears to be chronic. Reports in the mass media,…

The first edition of this text int roduced students to the ra nge of graphic tools.
techn iques, and conventions designers use to communicate architectural
ideas. The prime objective behind its original formation and subsequent
revisions was to…

The primary purpose of this book is to familiarize code users with the 2015 International Building
Code
®
(IBC). It is intended as an instructional text on how the Code was developed and how it is
organized, as well as a primer on how to use…

This manual began as a reader for a sequence of design drawing
courses offered by the Department of Architecture at the
University of Washington. Its subsequent development is
largely the result of the many discussions, suggestions,…