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Koning Eizenberg: Buildings and Projects
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Architecture Isn't Just for Special Occasions: Koning Eizenberg Architecture
ASIN: 0847819434
Release Date: 1996-09-15 |
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The award-winning work of Koning Eizenberg reveals the influence of Southern California's unique modernist tradition and earlier craftsmen and bungalow architecture, as well as Los Angeles's stucco dingbat apartments and strip centers, arid climate, and strong natural colors. One of the most widely published of California architecture firms, Koning Eizenberg is best known for innovative, low-cost housing of all types in Los Angeles and its beach communities of Venice and Santa Monica: single room occupancy hotels, multi-family housing, artists' lofts, and single-family houses. In the last ten years, this rapidly expanding firm has designed many other projects, including a community center, offices for film production companies, a municipal gymnasium, and additions to the historic Farmer's Market in Los Angeles.
The young Australian team of Hank Koning and Julie Eizenberg arrived in Los Angeles from Melbourne in 1979 for graduate study at UCLA. They quickly embraced the burgeoning architectural scene dominated by local heroes Frank Gehry and Charles Moore and established their own practice in the early 1980s. Koning and Eizenberg first acquired hands-on experience as designers, developers, and builders of modest residential additions that played up the importance of outdoor space, courtyards, and inexpensive materials. Their work today continues to use sunlight, bright colors, landscape, and unexpected juxtapositions of scale and details to create eye-catching architecture in ordinary, vernacular contexts.
This first monograph on the firm features 26 projects and three essays, illustrated with photographs, plans, and Koning and Eizenberg's signature facade sketches and composition studies. Among the buildings included in this volume are Electric ArtBlock, twenty units of artists' work-from-home housing in Venice; the Simone Hotel, an SRO in downtown Los Angeles; the Ken Edwards Center for Community Services in Santa Monica; the Materials Research Laboratory at the University of California at Santa Barbara; Koning and Eizenberg's own house in Santa Monica; and ten additional single-family houses and additions.
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Beautiful review of 23 buildings.......2005-07-02
Hundreds of photos, plans, elevations, sections, sketches, etc. in beautiful colors or B&W on glossy paper, brief project descriptions.
CONTENTS:
7 Acknowledgments
8 Bound for Santa Monica Bay: An Introduction...
12 Skinning the Program: The Pragmatic Architecture...
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22 Sepulveda Gym
34 Simone Hotel
44 Boyd Hotel
48 Gilmore Bank
58 Gilmore Bank Office Building
62 OP 12 / Berkeley Street Housing
76 Electric ArtBlock
90 McMiHen Studio
94 Rosen and Wendel Franzen Houses
96 17th Street and Given Dennis House Additions
98 Lightstorm Entertainment and Digital Domain
100 Molloy House
106 Ken Edwards Center for Community Services
118 California Avenue Duplex
126 Materials Research Laboratory
130 Hollywood Duplex
142 Ozone Beach Boxes
148 Given Triplex
154 Koning Eizenberg House
168 Moore's Folly
170 Erenberg House
180 31st Street House
194 Tarzana House
206 Cheap Thrills and Double Takes
218 Selected Projects
220 Awards
220 Bibliography
223 Illustration Credits
224 Biographies
224 Office staff
Delightful & Pragmatic: Koning Eizenberg Architecture.......1999-12-30
This first monograph of one of Southern California's premier firms is beautifully presented, with extensive documentation (photos and drawings) of numerous projects and critical writings by Aaron Betsky, William Mitchell, and Julie Eizenberg.
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Tokoname (Famous Ceramics of Japan)
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Tokoname (Togei no rekishi to giho)
Ichiro Akahane
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Digital Magic With Microsoft Picture It!
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Because "globalization" is expressed in many ways and evokes complex responses, it demands various lines of analysis. Globalizing Education shows how this phenomenon is mediated and mitigated by a range of educational policies, pedagogies, and politics. It identifies the forms of educational governance associated with neoliberal globalism and their manifold effects on nation-state education systems, highlighting the colonizing minority-world imperatives and retraditionalizing ramifications. It also shows how the global cultural economy—the disjunctive flows of images, people, and ideas—both challenges and reinforces conventional educational trajectories. The global/national mesh-works created by drugs, technology, and unions are among the complicated connectivities explored. This book exposes the more pernicious effects on education of neo-liberal and corporate globalization and explores and identifies innovative and transformative educational policies, pedagogies, and politics.
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Important guide to the path education needs to consider taking into this era........2007-05-27
Very important educational and socioeconomically-focused work on the direction needed in education for the next genration.
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Noam Chomsky is one of the most outspoken thinkers in the US and views the spread of a single global culture as resulting in a form of cultural imperialism from which only the Western world can truly benefit.
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The essence of Noam Chomskyýs views on globalisation.......2004-06-27
Noam Chomsky is one of the world's most renowned social critics as well the world's greatest linguist. He is also a prolific author, but his books are not easy to read. They are scholarly and dense. Jeremy Fox, on the other hand, writes beautifully plain English and expresses difficult ideas with a clarity that is almost as amazing as Chomsky's erudition.
"Chomsky and Globalisation" is a 65-page summary by Jeremy Fox of Noam Chomsky's views on globalisation. Chomsky believes that neo-liberals from the WTO, IMF and American transnational corporations are sucking the wealth out of Third World countries, while falsely claiming that they are simply encouraging "free trade." Jeremy Fox's translation of these complicated ideas into ordinary language makes them completely straightforward without distorting Chomsky's views at all.
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European Integration and the Postmodern Condition: Governance, Democracy, Identity (Routledge Advances in European Politics)
Peter Van Ham
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This is the first book to look at the process of European integration by drawing on both established and new trends in post-modern thinking and analysis. The author stimulates fresh readings of the European issue, encouraging the development of new analytical horizons. This is a significant cutting-edge contribution to debates in politics, comparative politics and European studies.
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The decisive event of the late twentieth century has been the collapse of communism and the perceived triumph of capitalism. Written by authors from the First, former Second, and Third Worlds, this book reveals the characteristics and flaws of the late capitalist order. The authors explore the societal polarisation produced by globalization, the crisis of Western ideology, and the soft financial underbelly of globalization that could well bring us to an economic collapse. The perspective of this provocative book goes beyond those of the traditional left and the relativist, anti-historical school of postmodernism to offer an entirely fresh view of the world order.
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A Third Alternative.......2005-11-29
Though dated (1997) by fast moving events, this slim collaborative volume retains key themes of interest. The authors (Burbach, Nunez, and Kagarlitsky) grope for a Third Way apart from the twin failures of neo-liberalism and Marxism-Leninism, which have only produced polarized wealth in the former case and suffocating statism in the latter. This requires locating an alternative vision to the currently triumphant neo-liberalism, a highly urgent project considering the depradations of an unrestrained American empire. How well their postmodern socialism provides that vision is up to the reader to decide. Frankly, the details left me somewhat confused, particularly the crucial role the state would play in assisting emerging modes -- the text appears to assert contrasting roles at different points. But then, given the current confusion on the Left, this is perhaps not surprising.
The most clear-headed chapter is Kagarlitsky's on the demise of the eastern bloc. There are indeed many lessons to be learned from that experience, some of which have become cliches of a reformed Left. But I would echo Kagarlitsky's plaintive query, "Why are we afraid to discuss the real merits and advantages of the old communist system?" (p.136). It's as though reformers are afraid of being tarred if they take anything but a a wholly negative view of that 70 year experience. However, in the process of forgetting, much of positive and useful value is being lost on those who insist the Left must start over from scratch, as it were. Putting the point another way: why should an intelligent person sign on to a socialist project of any stripe if the previous experience had been so uniformly negative. A balanced reckoning with the old Soviet system remains not only an urgent historical task but a genuine prerequisite for a revitalized alternative.
Anyway, it's interesting to see how some of the book's projections have played out in the meantime. The unforeseen emergence of Hugo Chavez's Bolivarian socialism again demonstrates the importance of state authority to grass-roots empowerment and presents a new force to be reckoned with. On the topic of state power, I believe the book would have benefitted from a discussion between Kagarlitsky, on one hand, and Nunez and Burbach, on the other. Their differences point to important political consequences, and would have clarified some of the ambiguities of the text. Despite the shortcomings, however, much worthwhile discussion remains.
Paperback format now available.......1999-03-25
Hey folks, this title is available for just 20 bucks at BarnesandNoble, in paperback. And, as reported by NPR, a huge online consortium of independent booksellers will soon be open to the public, selling books via the web!
Also, if you are into the subject of this book, check out _Rethinking Marxism_, especially Roger Burbach's article in Volume 10, Number 1, 1998. Burbach refers to this book and other like-minded books, journals, and intellectuals. And certainly check out Antonio (Toni) Negri, including the _Politics of Subversion_ and _Communists Like Us: New Lines of Alliance_. The latter title was co-authored with Felix Guattari while Negri was imprisoned; and sadly, Negri has been imprisoned again. For a transcript of the truly Orwellian proceedings which led to his imprisonment, see _Revolution Retrieved_.
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Globalization and Postmodern Politics
Roger Burbach
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A 'post-Marxist' perspective on anti-capitalism.......2001-10-01
A new movement has arrived. Wherever the elites of global capitalism meet, under the auspices of the WTO, World Bank, IMF, or the EU, so too do protestors, in their tens of thousands. But what is its nature?
Some sense of it is given by Roger Burbach in this book. For him, public enemy number one is neo-liberalism. It was `[t]he dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile', he writes, that
served as the first laboratory for an experiment in neo-liberal economics in the mid- and late 1970s with its bloody repression of the working class, privatization of state companies, and dismantling of the public health system.
Neo-liberal strategies began in countries such as Chile, Britain and Canada in the mid-1970s and were internationally hegemonic by the late 1990s.
But the model is failing society. Neo-liberal globalisation has not ushered in an epoch of peace and prosperity. For Burbach, this is `an epoch of extraordinary conflict, upheaval and uncertainty', as manifested in frequent economic crises and financial turbulence, particularly in the Third World.
However, despite economic implosion in much of the world, certain businesses have been doing very well for themselves, notably the major TNCs. The bulk of the world market in many sectors is divided amongst a few giants. These use their technological edge but also economic muscle and political influence in the pursuit of market dominance. One crucial means to this end is the control over knowledge. Burbach quotes an intellectual property lawyer to the effect that the control of intellectual assets by modern corporations `makes the monopolies of the nineteenth century robber barons look like penny-ante operations'.
For workers the neo-liberal world has a different face. In the wake of employers' offensives against union organisation poverty and insecurity have been on the rise. `While the new robber barons have accumulated enormous fortunes', Burbach claims `workers have reaped few of the benefits'. Groups such as women and blacks have been affected especially adversely by labour `flexibilisation' and welfare cuts. And yet the incomes of the upper echelons continue to soar. Polarisation, in other words, is not only a matter of the widening `North-South gap'. As Burbach sees it,
[t]he concepts of core and periphery, or North and South, are increasingly not geographic per se as much as they are social class in character.
What of the movement that opposes these developments? Despite differences, there is one positive project that unites all its constituents, namely to encourage the self-assertion of individuals defending their conditions of life and work. Ultimately the common project is participatory democracy. As Burbach puts it, `What these various movements have in common is the goal of expanding the practice of democracy to include the economic realm. They hearken back to the Greek origins of the word: rule of the people'.
Burbach's project is, despite his claim to be `constructing entirely new radical narratives', strongly reminiscent of Proudhon's aim of marrying market competition to communitarian rules of exchange and ownership. His proposal for an `alternative economy' reads like a manifesto for co-operative enterprise and small business, with its recommendation that small firms use the internet `to take control of the marketing and distribution of their products', and its advocacy of small-scale agricultural enterprises, municipally-owned businesses, workers' co-operatives, employee share-ownership schemes, fair trade, socially responsible investment, microcredit banks, as well as land reform. A little later he gives examples of the `alternative, postmodern economy' in Latin American cities:
These are all nascent, alternative economic activities', he opines, without a hint of irony, `because they represent efforts by people to take control of their lives at the most fundamental, grassroots level.
For Burbach, the movement manifests a `new politics' for a fractured, postmodern age. This thesis is developed along three main lines. First, this is an epoch in which national states are becoming increasingly subservient to `footloose and entirely deterritorialized finance capitalists and transnational corporations'. Given the reduced power of states, `it may be more effective to wage an ongoing struggle for change from below rather than holding formal power'. The paradigm here is the Zapatista rebellion. Because the Zapatistas did not seek power but merely `to spark a broadly-based movement of civil society' they may be regarded as `the first postmodern revolutionary movement'. However, how this aim is so radically different to that of the Zapatistas' namesake, to mention but one `modern' movement of `civil society', is unclear. Second, he argues that `traditional class society' is fragmenting, giving way to entirely new strata: `newly affluent employees and professionals' and, on lower rungs, a proliferation of `segmented identities and localized groups, typically based on ethnic or sexual difference'. This social disarticulation is reflected in `political fragmentation', notably the decline of `class politics based on trade unions and a numerous industrial working class' and `the rise of single-issue politics that appeal to the new social strata'. Burbach draws extensively upon the `new social movement' paradigm developed in the 1980s. This refers to theories which predicted a waning of broad-based, anti-systemic, `materialist' movements and their replacement by single-issue movements oriented to `life-political' issues (such as the environment and human rights) and `symbolic' questions of identity representation. Alongside the fragmentation of social movements, Burbach, in a poststructuralist vein, posits the demise of metanarratives', those theoretical frameworks that give coherence to practices of oppression.
There are, however, ambivalences in Burbach's position. He is sensitive to the challenge that metanarratives may also lend coherence to practices of resistance, and that the deconstruction of reason's foundations may point towards `complete relativism, nihilism and a belief that political and social struggles are meaningless'. He feels obliged to concede that capitalism is itself a `metanarrative', and is, moreover, becoming a `universal system'. And he admits that `some universals, like universal human rights, are necessary'. These ambivalences are explicable, in part at least, by the fact that the `anti-capitalist' movement, by intertwining themes of `life politics' with `old' `materialist' issues of working conditions and job security, undermine the assumptions of new social movement theory.
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Good undergraduate Civil Engineering Estimation Textg.......2007-09-18
Good undergraduate book civil engineering estimation class. Used for a graduate course and felt it was not as challenging as it should have been for graduate level (I personally feel that graduate work should be very rigorous). The drawings in the back were too small (8 1/2 X 11) to be useful and should have been provided on a CD or on line so they could be printed full or quarter sized (tabloid, 11X17). I received the drawings, however some of the students and the instructor did not receive the drawings with the book.
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