It is admittedly a bold venture to take on Vitruvius. More than twenty centuries have elapsed since he wrote. The language he wrote in is long dead. Iconic classical status has petrified De architectura and added further to its remoteness. If I have…
Cities
are like living organisms like every single living creature that is born, grows up
and dies. Just as when a living being is in bad health and medical intervention
becomes inevitable, such intervention is inevitable in cities as well. One of…
With these words regarding Marina City—a pioneering mixed-use complex on
the north bank of the Chicago River—the influential British architecture critic
Reyner Banham envisioned a new heroic period of Chicago’s architecture.
This book…
Numerous books have been written on the topics of web design and programming, as have many free tutorials that you can read on the Web. Many of them were written during those heady years, and were based on what seemed like best practices back then;…
The study investigates customer responses to service encounters characterized by a
high degree of service providers’ assertiveness, and the individual factors moderating
the resulting responses. The first of two formal experiments examines the…
Volume 3, edited by H. Eichenbaum, consists of 29 chapters which represent a ‘‘progress report’’ on what we know about memory systems and their relationship to different parts of the brain. Memory Systems returns to a comparative approach of…