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Capsules: Typology of Other Architecture

Capsules: Typology of Other Architecture

This book investigates the architectural product design and urban typology of the capsule which beginning in the 1960s broadened the concept of the basic building blocks of architecture to include a minimal living unit called the capsule. Here it is presented with regard to the continuity of the development of the Modern Movement its revisionist criticism pioneering examples as well as contemporary examples and uses. The typology of the capsule allows us to consider this theme in terms of the architecture of resistance with the potential to search for an other architecture that is embedded in our contemporaneity (manifested in small dwellings composite structures and container units; shelters and mobile homes in nature and the urban environment; technology transfer in high-tech designs; devices additions and extensions etc. ). The concept of the capsule as a building element of architecture as well as a spatial element can therefore be regarded as having a generative potential for an architecture of personal space for the individual forcing us to reflect on our existing living and dwelling conditions. | Capsules: Typology of Other Architecture

GBP 36.99
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Introducing Japanese Popular Culture

Introducing Japanese Popular Culture

Specifically designed for use in a range of undergraduate and graduate courses while reaching specialists and general readers this second edition of Introducing Japanese Popular Culture is a comprehensive textbook offering an up-to-date overview of a wide variety of media forms. It uses particular case studies as a way into examining the broader themes in Japanese culture and provides a thorough analysis of the historical and contemporary trends that have shaped artistic production as well as politics society and economics. As a result more than being a time capsule of influential trends this book teaches enduring lessons about how popular culture reflects the societies that produce and consume it. With contributions from an international team of scholars representing a range of disciplines from history and anthropology to art history and media studies the book covers: Characters Television Videogames Fan media and technology Music Popular cinema Anime Manga Spectacles and competitions Sites of popular culture Fashion Contemporary art. Written in an accessible style with ample description and analysis this textbook is essential reading for students of Japanese culture and society Asian media and popular culture globalization and Asian Studies in general. It is a go-to handbook for interested readers and a compendium for scholars.

GBP 32.99
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Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist Movement Urban Utopias of Modern Japan

Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist Movement Urban Utopias of Modern Japan

Amid Japan’s political turbulence in 1960 seven architects and designers founded Metabolism to propagate radical ideas of urbanism. Kenzō Tange’s Plan for Tokyo 1960 further celebrated urban expansion as organic processes and pushed city design to an unprecedented scale. Metabolists’ visionary schemes of the city gave birth to revolutionary design paradigms which reinvented the discourse of modern Japanese architecture and propelled it through the years of Economic Miracle to a global prominence. Their utopian concepts which often envisaged the sea and the sky as human habitats of the future reflected fundamental issues of cultural transformation and addressed environmental crises of the postindustrial society. This new edition expands Zhongjie Lin’s pathbreaking account on Tange and Metabolism centered at the intersection of urbanism and utopianism. The thorough historical survey from Metabolism’s inauguration at the 1960 World Design Conference to the apex of the movement at Expo ’70 and further to the recent demolition of Nakagin Capsule Tower leads to a definition of three Metabolist urban paradigms – megastructure group form and ruins – which continue to inspire experiments in architecture city design and conservation. Kenzō Tange and the Metabolist Movement is a key book for architectural and urban historians architects and all those interested in avant-garde design Japanese architecture and contemporary urbanism. | Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist Movement Urban Utopias of Modern Japan

GBP 31.99
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Theories of Personality A Systems Approach

Theories of Personality A Systems Approach

Designed as a text for both graduate and undergraduate students this book originally published in 1995 presents an intrapsychic explanation of human behaviour – concepts based on psychological processes and ‘structures’ within the mind. In this context a unique treatment of personality theory is introduced. It focuses on Freud Kelly and Angyal: Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of personality based on desires Kelly’s personal construct theory for thinking and Angyal’s holistic concepts of personality. Each theory is given a detailed analysis in separate chapters. Freud’s psychoanalytic theory is cast as a theory of motivation Kelly’s personal construct theory as a theory of cognition and then it is noted that there is no comprehensive theory of personality based on emotion. Although Angyal’s holistic theory is rarely described in modern textbooks Lester includes this because none of the other holistic theorists rival Angyal in their range of hypothetical constructs or descriptive terms. Then in sections dealing with alternative viewpoints the author shows how other personality theorists actually endorse and expand upon the ideas expressed by the aforementioned three albeit with different terminology. Recognizing the diversity of holistic views in theories of personality several counterpoint chapters are devoted to the holistic ideas. Lester separates these into three major areas: theorists who have focused on the split in the mind between the real and ideal self; recent theorists who explore the possibility that the mind is a ‘multiplicity of selves’; and theorists who though not having their viewpoints sufficiently articulated in the literature are still well established in the history of psychology. Other features include a presentation of the material in modern viewpoints instead of the precise and perhaps outdated style as written by the individual theorists and boxed highlights in each section providing students with practical capsule information for easy reading. | Theories of Personality A Systems Approach

GBP 29.99
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