Genius Loci

Download or read book Genius Loci written by Christian Norberg-Schulz and published by New York : Rizzoli. This book was released on 1980 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attempts to develop a theory of understanding architecture in concrete, existential terms, following the guidelines of Heidegger

Download or read book Genius Loci written by Jaym Gates and published by Tales of the Spirit of Place. This book was released on 2019-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of guardian spirits and divine powers by Seanan McGuire, Ken Liu, Alethea Kontis, Laura Anne Gilman, Scott Edelman and more. Guardian spirits. Divine presences. Demonic powers. Ghosts. The concept of "genius loci" is indeed an ancient one, found in nearly every human mythology. Genius Loci is a huge anthology of 31 all-new fantasy and science fiction stories drawing on the rich tradition of place-as-person. Within its pages, the authors present stories of sentient deserts, beneficent forests, lonely shrubs, and protective planetary spirits, highlighted by the fantastic art of Lisa A. Grabenstetter and Evan M. Jensen., and edited by Jaym Gates.

Download or read book Genius Loci written by Balthazar Korab and published by Cranbrook Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cranbrook is an estate that became a set of schools and cultural institutions. This work shows readers that Cranbrook is an assemblage of great architecture in which the whole is even more than the sum of the parts. It aims to capture not only the beauty and delight in the buildings and public art of Cranbrook but the meaning of the place itself.

Download or read book Genius Loci written by Clark Ashton Smith and published by eStar Books. This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genius Loci, the spirit of a place… Amberville attempts to capture the genius loci of a strange and haunting place…

Download or read book Genius Loci written by Alison Hawthorne Deming and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-05-31 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a poet and essayist whose writing about nature has won her comparisons with Gary Snyder and Terry Tempest Williams comes a new collection that offers further evidence of her ability to trace the intersections of the human and nonhuman worlds. The title poem is a lyrical excavation of the city of Prague, where layers of history, culture and nature have accumulated to form “a genius loci”—a guardian spirit.

Download or read book Genius Loci written by Ben Aaronovitch and published by Big Finish Productions. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One day she will bring down empires and decide the fate of the universe. One day she will be revered wherever people have had a little too much to drink. But all that is yet to come. Right now Bernice Summerfield is 21 years old and living hand to mouth and drink to drink. Offered a job beyond her qualifications she is lured out to the backwater planet of Jaiwan where nothing has ever happened. There she joins a team of archaeologists who have just discovered that Jaiwan may have been more interesting than people thought. This could be Benny's big break and her ticket to a proper career in archaeology. That's if archaeology doesn't kill her first.

Download or read book Geofusion: Mapping Of The 21st Century written by Norbert Csizmadia and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geofusion is an exciting journey around the main issues of the 21st century.This is a book with roadmaps that show the complexity of our world, the interconnections between places, people, schools of thoughts, and disciplines. Starting with a geographical frame of reference, readers are taken through the global geo-economic trends and likely future scenarios as well as the driving forces of the new world economy. The book points to the importance of cities as the power centers for the multidimensional global network of the 21st century. Geofusion is a thought-provoking guidebook to our interconnected world.