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"Architecture and Ritual explores how the varied rituals of everyday life are framed and defined in space by the buildings which we inhabit. It penetrates beyond traditional assumptions about architectural style, aesthetics and utility to deal with something more implicit: how buildings shape and reflect our experience in ways of which we remain unconscious. Whether designed to house a grand ceremony or provide shelter for a daily meal, all buildings coordinate and consolidate social relations by giving orientation and focus to the spatial practices of those who use them. Peter Blundell Jones investigates these connections between the social and the spatial, providing critical insights into the capacity for architecture to structure human ritual, from the grand and formal to the mundane. This is achieved through deep readings of individual pieces of architecture, each with a detailed description of its particular social setting and use. The case studies are drawn from throughout architectural history and from around the globe, each enabling a distinct theoretical theme to emerge, and showing how social conventions vary with time and place, as well as what they have in common. Case studies range from the Nuremberg Rally to the Centre Pompidou, and from the Palace of Westminster to Dogon dwellings in Africa and a Modernist hospital. In considering how all architecture has to mesh with the habits, beliefs, rituals and expectations of the society that created it, the book presents deep implications for our understanding of architectural history and theory. It also highlights the importance for architects of understanding how buildings frame social space before they prescribe new architectural designs of their own. The book ends with a recent example of user participation, showing how contemporary user interest and commitment to a building can be as strong as ever."--

Buildings --- Edifices --- Halls --- Structures --- Architecture --- Building --- Building materials --- Standards. --- Built environment --- Architecture and society. --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects --- Human factors

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This book analyzes a large number of typical tulou buildings and compact communities in detail, and painstakingly studies the way of life practiced in these communities, their defense systems, building techniques, spatial features, antithetical couplets culture, and historical origins. As such, it offers readers access to a unique treasure of traditional civilian residence, while also representing a valuable asset for architects and researchers in architectural history, cultural relics and fine arts.

Architecture. --- Civilization-History. --- Architectural History and Theory. --- Building Types and Functions. --- Cultural History. --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Design and construction --- Buildings. --- Civilization—History. --- Edifices --- Halls --- Structures --- Architecture --- Architecture, Primitive --- Built environment

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The safety of diplomats has animated recent public and political debates. As diplomatic personnel are increasingly targeted by terrorism and political violence while overseas, sending states are augmenting host nations' security measures with their own. Protective arrangements range from deploying military, police, and private security guards to relocating embassies to suburban compounds. Yet, reinforced security may also hamper effective diplomacy and international relations. Scholars and practitioners from around the world bring to light a large body of empirical information available for the first time in Diplomatic Security. This book explores the global contexts and consequences of keeping embassies and their personnel safe. The essays in this volume offer case studies that illustrate the different arrangements in the U.S., China, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Israel, and Russia. Considering the historical and legal contexts, authors examine how states protect their diplomats abroad, what drives changes in existing protective arrangements, and how such measures affect the safety of diplomats and the institution of diplomacy. Diplomatic Security not only reveals how a wide variety of states handle security needs but also illuminates the broader theoretical and policy implications for the study of diplomacy and security alike.

Diplomats --- Diplomatic and consular service --- Embassy buildings --- Embassies --- Public buildings --- Commissions, High (Embassies) --- Consular service --- Consulates --- Foreign service --- High commissions (Embassies) --- Legations --- Ministers (Diplomatic agents) --- Government missions --- Statesmen --- Protection. --- Security measures. --- Benghazi. --- Diplomatic Security. --- Embassies. --- Inviolability. --- Private Security. --- State Department. --- Terrorism. --- counterespionage. --- international norms. --- Comparative law --- Droit comparé --- Diplomates --- Service diplomatique et consulaire --- Ambassades (Édifices) --- Protection --- Sécurité --- Mesures --- Security measures

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Lieux de réception, d'administration et de représentation, les ambassades sont également des architectures d'exception. Ces témoignages extraterritoriaux d'une présence nationale impliquent non seulement un dialogue avec le pays d'accueil et ses traditions mais aussi l'affirmation d'une culture. Dans cette dialectique se situe l'originalité du programme diplomatique, qui constitue en outre, pour tout architecte, une commande sans équivalent et généralement unique dans une carière. Oeuvres des figures parmi les plus marquantes du XXe siècle (Le Corbusier, Eugène Beaudouin, Roger-Henri Expert, Georges-Henri Pingusson, Bernard Zehrfuss, Christian de Portzamparc...), les sept exemples réunis dans cet ouvrage illustrent la spectaculaire modernisation d'un programme pourtant fortement marqué par la tradition. Formes, matériaux, espaces de travail, insertion dans la ville, intégration des arts : tous ces ingrédients se renouvellent progressivement tandis que perdure une attention particulière aux espaces de la diplomatie.

Service diplomatique et consulaire français --- Ambassades (constructions) --- Architecture française --- À l'étranger --- Architecture française --- Service diplomatique et consulaire français --- Histoire --- Embassy buildings --- Architecture, French --- Diplomatic and consular service, French --- Ambassades (Édifices) --- Buildings --- History --- Constructions --- Expert, Roger-Henri, --- Beaudouin, Eugène. --- Pingusson, Georges-Henri, --- Le Corbusier, --- Jullian de la Fuente, Guillermo. --- Zehrfuss, Bernard --- Remondet, André. --- Portzamparc, Christian de, --- Ambassade --- Architecture de prestige --- Bâtiment public --- Bâtiment administratif --- À l'étranger

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Sustainable buildings --- Buildings --- Architecture and energy conservation --- Transportation --- Architecture and energy conservation. --- Design and construction --- Energy conservation --- Energy consumption --- Energy conservation. --- Design and construction. --- Energy consumption. --- Ecologically sustainable design (Buildings) --- Environmentally sustainable design (Buildings) --- ESD design (Buildings) --- Green building design --- Green design (Buildings) --- Sustainable design (Buildings) --- Energy conservation and architecture --- Energy efficient buildings --- Public transportation --- Transport --- Transportation, Primitive --- Transportation companies --- Transportation industry --- Locomotion --- Commerce --- Communication and traffic --- Storage and moving trade --- Edifices --- Halls --- Structures --- Architecture --- Ecologically sustainable buildings --- Environmentally sustainable buildings --- Green buildings (Green technology) --- Sustainable development --- Economic aspects --- sustainable energy --- built environment --- energy conversion and management --- indoor air quality --- building physics --- havc devices and systems --- Zero energy buildings --- Built environment