100+1 Pakistani Architects and Their Own Houses
Author | : Mukhtar Husain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Architects |
ISBN | : 9789698559007 |
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Author | : Mukhtar Husain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Architects |
ISBN | : 9789698559007 |
Author | : David Robson |
Publisher | : Tuttle Publishing |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2014-01-21 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1462905803 |
This beautifully illustrated book showcases the works of one of Sri Landa's most influential architects--Anjaledran, an ethnic Tamil and visionary artist. During the past 25 years of civil war in Sri Lanka, Anjalendran has stayed on, creating architecture that has attracted interest across the entire Indian subcontinent. In Anjalendran, David Robson explores this unique man and his uncommon vision. Anjalendran's buildings have a simple directness, and although totally modern in spirit, they acknowledge the rich design traditions of Sri Lanka. Whether working with ample budgets or at rock bottom cost (like his SOS Children's Village orphanages), his work focuses not only on creative buildings, but--a la Frank Lloyd Wright--also their landscaping, furniture and decoration. Just as interesting as the architecture is the process by which Anjalendran works—:from home, never employing more than four student assistants, with no office, no secretary, no car and no cell phone. He operates without a bank account and has never signed a contract with either a client or a builder. With stunning color photographs, plan details and behind-the-scenes insights, Anjalendran sheds light on the works of this exceptional man.
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Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Pakistan |
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Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Bibliography, National |
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Author | : Matthew S. Hull |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2012-06-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520272145 |
“Drawing inspiration from actor-network theory, science studies, and semiotics, this brilliant book makes us completely rethink the workings of bureaucracy as analyzed by Max Weber and James Scott. Matthew Hull demonstrates convincingly how the materiality of signs truly matters for understanding the projects of ‘the state.’” - Katherine Verdery, author of What was Socialism, and What Comes Next? “We are used to studies of roads and rails as central material infrastructure for the making of modern states. But what of records, the reams and reams of paper that inscribe the state-in-making? This brilliant book inquires into the materiality of information in colonial and postcolonial Pakistan. This is a work of signal importance for our understanding of the everyday graphic artifacts of authority.” - Bill Maurer, author of Mutual Life, Limited: Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason "This is an excellent and truly exceptional ethnography. Hull presents a theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich reading that will be an invaluable resource to scholars in the field of Anthropology and South Asian studies. The author’s focus on bureaucracy, “corruption," writing systems and urban studies (Islamabad) in a post-colonial context makes for a unique ethnographic engagement with contemporary Pakistan. In addition, Hull’s study is a refreshing voice that breaks the mold of current representation of Pakistan through the security studies paradigm." - Kamran Asdar Ali, Director, South Asia Institute, University of Texas
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Total Pages | : 582 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
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Author | : Markus Daechsel |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2015-03-19 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1107057175 |
This book offers a transnational history of Pakistan's development in the 1950s and 1960s, and the creation of the capital city Islamabad.
Author | : Laurajane Smith |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2006-11-22 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1134368038 |
Examining international case studies including USA, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, this book identifies and explores the use of heritage throughout the world. Challenging the idea that heritage value is self-evident, and that things must be preserved, it demonstrates how it gives tangibility to the values that underpin different communities.
Author | : Roland Reisley |
Publisher | : Princeton Architectural Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2001-07-01 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1568982453 |
Usonia, New York is the story of a group of idealistic men and women who, following WWII, enlisted Frank Lloyd Wright to design and help them build a cooperative utopian community near Pleasantville, NY. Through both historic memorabilia and contemporary color photos, this book reveals the still-thriving community based on concepts Wright advocated in his Broadacre City proposals. Over the years, thousands of architects, scholars, planners, and students have visited the community, but no book has yet appeared on this remarkable site. Reisley, one of the original members of Usonia (and still a resident), has written the first full account to illuminate the events, problems, and passions of a democratic group of people developing a designed environment an hour from New York City and the ups and downs of working with America's most famous -and most famously volatile-architect.
Author | : Nadeem Aslam |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2017-04-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0451493796 |
When shots ring out on the Grand Trunk Road in the fictional Pakistani city of Zamara, Nargis’s life begins to crumble around her. Soon her husband—and fellow architect—is dead and, under threat from a powerful military intelligence officer, she fears that a long-hidden truth about her past will be exposed. For weeks someone has been broadcasting people’s secrets from the minaret of the local mosque, and, in a country where even the accusation of blasphemy is a currency to be bartered, the mysterious broadcasts have struck fear in Christians and Muslims alike. A revelatory portrait of the human spirit, in The Golden Legend, Nadeem Aslam gives us a novel of Pakistan’s past and present—a story of corruption and resilience, of love and terror, and of the disguises that are sometimes necessary for survival.