Bücher von Matthew Wilson

This book examines diverse ways of questioning, critiquing, and communicating site in the creative process of architecture, interior design, urban planning, and historical and cultural studies. The authors use the term site to connote a series of complex, established, or pre-existing conditions - a setting, an atmosphere, an area - to read, to interpret, to relate to, and to engage with, to redefine, or to create in relation to a design prompt. By acknowledging, accommodating, and empowering the physical, intellectual, and cultural characteristics of a site, students question its history, boundaries, posture, and situational aspects. Such inquiries promote a deeper appreciation of a site and thus help students to acknowledge its capacity to influence design throughout the iterative creative process.Understanding Site in Design Pedagogy adds to the body of literature on design studio pedagogy by presenting a collection of essays that challenge normative assumptions about what defines a site and its distinctive qualities. It poses a series of pedagogical questions for how sites might be diversely interpreted and introduced to design students. This study offers chapters that speak to site, memory, and lived experience; multi-scalar thinking about site; connecting to site through sensory phenomenon in interior design; alternate ways of engaging site for learning sustainable principles; and introducing unorthodox forms of site as the impetus to creative endeavours. It offers innovative approaches to scholarship of teaching and learning with respect to diverse readings of site within design education.

Das Verständnis von Symbolen - seien es Tiere, Artefakte, Pflanzen, Formen oder Gesten - ist entscheidend, um Kunst gebührend bewundern zu können. Dieses Handbuch enträtselt 50 der am meisten verbreiteten und faszinierenden Symbole aus der ganzen Welt, von 2.300 v. Chr. bis heute. Während Symbole in verschiedensten Sprachen und über Landesgrenzen hinweg verwendet werden, kann ihre Bedeutung variieren. Sie sind zuweilen komplex und kulturspezifisch, darum ist diese abwechslungsreiche, gut recherchierte und verständlich geschriebene Übersicht auch so wertvoll. Leicht zugänglich und spannend geschrieben, zeigt dieses Buch, wie sich die von Künstlern verwendeten Symbole über Jahrtausende entwickelt haben. Matthew Wilson untersucht die feinen Implikationen des Symbolismus, offensichtliche und weniger offensichtliche Bedeutungen. Damit liefert er ein unverzichtbares Werkzeug zur Interpretation und Deutung von Kunstwerken. Im Anhang finden Sie Literaturempfehlungen und eine Erklärung von kunsthistorischen Begriffen. Mit 108 Illustrationen

This book is about the life and times of Richard Congreve. As the foremost British acolyte of Auguste Comte, Congreve sought to employ the philosopher's new science of sociology to dismantle the British Empire.

Being too tall is both a blessing and a curse. From school to sports to dating and beyond, the land of the giants is a place rife with physical, social, racial and emotional struggles. A sense of humor is a must when confronting Lilliputians on your travels. This book is a light-hearted attempt to let the reader in on the secret world of seven footers. The author also touches on relevant social and racial issues such as white privilege and the National Anthem protest.

A Handful of Fears Held Together By A Few Joys is a small collections of poems and short stories created over the course of the last four years of my life. The themes mostly include tragedy, recollection, understanding, struggle, resentment, and (of course) a few joyful scenarios. This collection was mainly published as a facet of personal reflection, but I feel the themes covered in the book may be more universal and relatable to a wider audience.

Today recognised as a major innovator of American fiction, Charles W. Chesnutt is an important contributor to de-romanticizing trends in post-Civil War Southern literature, and a singular voice among turn-of-the-century realists who wrote about race in American life. Whiteness in the Novels of Charles W. Chesnutt is the first study to focus exclusively on Chesnutt's novels.