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306090 08: Autonomous Urbanism
Now in its fourth year, this bi-annual journal gains more and more momentum with each new issue. Dedicated to addressing architectural issues from perspectives stretching across the theoretical spectrum, 306090 gives voice to young, up-and-coming architects, designers, and academics looking to push the envelope of architectural theory. Much of architectural theory and criticism evaluates a project's success based on how it engages the surrounding environment and how it operates formally and aesthetically. But there are other forces at play in architecture. 306090 08: Autonomous Urbanism focuses on how legislation, financing, politics, and other indirect influences affect architectural strategies. How do architects and urbanists generate design methods that are conscious of law, financing, politics, and the market? 306090 08 investigates different design strategies focused on harnessing these forces and utilizing them to a purposeful end.
Decoration
With Decoration, the long-running architecture journal 306090 enters a new era as it evolves into full-color book format. In this milestone volumemixing contemporary building projects with commentary and criticism from across the ideological spectrum, as well as interviews, studio profiles, and student work306090 takes on one of the very last taboos of contemporary architecture: decoration. Daring to discuss a phenomenon that surrounds us, but has been quietly ignored or dismissed by theorists and critics in the better part of the twentieth century, Decoration addresses emerging trends in design, planning, landscape, and education. Contributors to this landmark installment include Jesse Reiser, Kent Bloomer, Kengo Kuma, Nina Rappaport, and Meredith Warner.
Astral Projection for Beginners
Visit a realm in which time and space have no meaning—the astral realm. Written for beginners, this friendly guide presents step-by-step instructions for six easy and effective astral projection techniques. Travel to different times and eras, visit with departed loved ones, and explore different astral worlds, such as the faerie realm. On the astral plane, it's also possible to heal yourself and achieve improved health, send healing energy to others, receive direction from your spirit guides, and view your Akashic records, the astral record of each soul's past and future events.
The Social Imperative
This book contains multiple short critiques, reflections and manifestos, affording each contributing architect and intellectual the time and space to imagine new social paradigms in China. Emerging from a tumultuous history of high culture and complex territorial conditions, there is nothing straightforward about the social development of China. The complexity of the social practices developed by architects and shapers of the built environment can be explained in part by the last three decades of an intensified adoption of the market economy by the Communist Party of China, after an equally short three decades of closed-door communist control. There is no political meltdown like the democrat...
Interior Urbanism
Vast interior spaces have become ubiquitous in the contemporary city. The soaring atriums and concourses of mega-hotels, shopping malls and transport interchanges define an increasingly normal experience of being 'inside' in a city. Yet such spaces are also subject to intense criticism and claims that they can destroy the quality of a city's authentic life 'on the outside'. Interior Urbanism explores the roots of this contemporary tension between inside and outside, identifying and analysing the concept of interior urbanism and tracing its history back to the works of John Portman and Associates in 1960s and 70s America. Portman – increasingly recognised as an influential yet understudied ...
Changing Chinese Cities
Until the middle of the twentieth century, Chinese urban life revolved around courtyards. Whether for housing or retail, administration or religion, everyday activities took place in a field of pavilions and walls that shaped collective ways of living. Changing Chinese Cities explores the reciprocal relations between compounds and how they inform a distinct and legible urbanism. Following thirty years of economic and political containment, cities are now showcases whose every component street, park, or building is designed to express distinctiveness. This propensity for the singular is erasing the relational fields that once distinguished each city. In China's first tier cities, the result i...
Yule
Jam-packed with more than 60 spells, invocations, and rituals, "Yule" guides readers through the magic of the season, as they discover the origin of the eight tiny reindeer, brew up some Yuletide coffee, and learn ways to create their own holiday traditions and crafts based on celebrations from a variety of countries and beliefs.
Emerging Urbanity
Discussions on the global economy focus on the hyper-mobility of capital, the possibility of instantaneous transmission of information and money around the globe, the centrality of information outputs to our economic systems and emphasise the neutralisation of geography and of places. What is ignored, however, is that even the most advanced information industries need a material infrastructure of buildings and work processes, and considerable agglomeration, in order to operate in global markets. Further, the globalisation of economic activity has brought with it not only a vast dispersal of offices and factories, but also a growing importance of central functions to manage and coordinate suc...
Reality Is Just an Illusion
Join former businessman and long-time professional psychic Chuck Coburn as he searches deep in the rain forest of Ecuador for a shaman of a headhunting tribe- and encounters the mystical realms of angels, spirit guides, sacred sites and psychic healers. With down-to-earth humor, Coburn melds amazing true stories of his personal journey with teachings of metaphysical laws, including how to activate your own natural psychic abilities. Learn the three step process for manifesting your desires. Overcome the obstacles of fear and limitation Explore the shamanic arts of healing, psychonavigation, non-ordinary reality and time journeying Open the lines of communication between you and your spirit guides
Feng Shui in the Garden
Create more ch'i (universal energy) by selecting the most beneficial location and laying out a harmonious garden based on proven feng shui principles. Illustrations. Index.
