Informal City Caracas Case is the result of an extraordinary urban research project, initiated in the Venezuelan capital by the German Federal Cultural Foundation (Kulturstiftung des Bundes) and the Urban Think Tank. This publication is a form of compendium of informal and cultural developments that pertain not only to Caracas but to almost every Latin American metropolis. It o...(展开全部)

Balmond is making the transition from structural engineer working alongside other architects to an architect in his own right. His structural thinking differs from that of others in his field, in its completely innovative conception of the engineer's contribution to architecture. The plasticity of architectural plans is enhanced through a decisive promotion of their structural ...(展开全部)

塞西尔·巴尔蒙德(Cecil Balmond)，台译瑟希尔·包曼，世界知名结构工程师。专注于创新结构建筑设计方向。现任奥雅纳工程公司(Ove ARUP)副总裁，合伙人，运营部负责人，高级几何部门主管。 他长期与世界顶尖建筑师合作，完成了大量富有创新意义的建筑和构筑物，将结构工程提升到一种富于创新的行为。他的兴趣特别注重于将数字、代数和音乐作为视觉元素体现几何结构的动态感。 他的近期作品包括伦敦巴特西发电厂改造工程；伦敦蛇形画廊2002年临时建筑；纽约新世贸中心和北京中国中央电视台等。 塞西尔也同时在各国多所建筑院校讲学和指导，包括美国宾夕法尼亚大学建筑学院教授，伦敦AA学校学术考试委员等。 塞西尔的著作以工程创作的创新设计探索为主，利用形式、代数推理和先进技术创造非以往的新设计。包括《数字9》(1998)，《异规》(2002)，element（200...(展开全部)

塞西尔·巴尔蒙德(Cecil Balmond)，台译瑟希尔·包曼，世界知名结构工程师。专注于创新结构建筑设计方向。现任奥雅纳工程公司(Ove ARUP)副总裁，合伙人，运营部负责人，高级几何部门主管。 他长期与世界顶尖建筑师合作，完成了大量富有创新意义的建筑和构筑物，将结构工程提升到一种富于创新的行为。他的兴趣特别注重于将数字、代数和音乐作为视觉元素体现几何结构的动态感。 他的近期作品包括伦敦巴特西发电厂改造工程；伦敦蛇形画廊2002年临时建筑；纽约新世贸中心和北京中国中央电视台等。 塞西尔也同时在各国多所建筑院校讲学和指导，包括美国宾夕法尼亚大学建筑学院教授，伦敦AA学校学术考试委员等。 塞西尔的著作以工程创作的创新设计探索为主，利用形式、代数推理和先进技术创造非以往的新设计。包括《数字9》(1998)，《异规》(2002)，element（200...(展开全部)

Balmond is making the transition from structural engineer working alongside other architects to an architect in his own right. His structural thinking differs from that of others in his field, in its completely innovative conception of the engineer's contribution to architecture. The plasticity of architectural plans is enhanced through a decisive promotion of their structural ...(展开全部)

Informal Logic is an introductory guidebook to the basic principles of constructing sound arguments and criticizing bad ones. Non-technical in approach, it is based on 186 examples, which Douglas Walton, a leading authority in the field of informal logic, discusses and evaluates in clear, illustrative detail. Walton explains how errors, fallacies, and other key failures of argu...(展开全部)

'I have decided to write down everything that happens, because I feel, I suppose, I may be putting myself in danger.' London, 1965. An unworldly young woman suspects charismatic psychotherapist Collins Braithwaite of involvement in a death in her family. Determined to find out more, she becomes a client of his under a false identity. But she soon finds herself drawn into a worl...(展开全部)

'I have decided to write down everything that happens, because I feel, I suppose, I may be putting myself in danger.' London, 1965. An unworldly young woman suspects charismatic psychotherapist Collins Braithwaite of involvement in a death in her family. Determined to find out more, she becomes a client of his under a false identity. But she soon finds herself drawn into a worl...(展开全部)

A powerful book about the desperate lives of the homeless and marginalized in post Cold War Ukraine. Through touching portraits of intimacy and documents of brutal injuries sustained, Boris Mikhailov has emerged as a driven, compassionate photographer of his native land. Widely exhibited in Europe and recently at MoMA in New York, this beautiful, deeply moving visual account ra...(展开全部)

The city is Beszel, a rundown metropolis on the eastern edge of Europe. The other city is Ul Qoma, a modern Eastern European boomtown, despite being a bit of an international pariah. What the two cities share, and what they don't, is the deliciously evocative conundrum at the heart of China Mieville's The City & The City. Mieville is well known as a modern fantasist (and urbani...(展开全部)