Spiro kostof

architectural historian(!) and teacher • 7 May 1936 - 7 December 1991 • Greek born in Turkey • USA from 1957 • Published books: • • • • • • America by Design Caves of God The Architect The City Assembled The City Shaped A History of Architecture INTRODCUTION • Kostof’s interest likes in real cities – designers are interested in ideal cities or cities that were never build. • Urban process: Physical change through time. • ”A city is never never complete, never at rest.” • E.g. Rome: from 1M people to 50k – where did it go? • The cosmic city: a spatical diagram of social hierachy (e.g. The city of Oblivion, the head of state lives in the middle of the city). • The practical city: A functional contruct. • The organic city: A living organism. INTRODCUTION • Surplus production = creation of cities? • People came to the area for goods and services. • Military and political stability, more so than trade, created the need for cities? WHAT IS A CITY? (P. 37-39) • A city is...: • ”a relativiely large, dense, and peranent settlement of socially heterogenous individuals” – L. Wirth, 1938. • ”a point of maximum concentration for the power and culture of the community”, Mumford, 1938. WHAT IS A CITY? (P. 37-39) • Kostof: • • • • • • • • • A) Energized crowding B) Urban clusters C) Physical circumscription D) Differentiation of uses E) Urban resources F) Written records G) Cityand countryside H) Monumental framework I) Buildings and people…

Class:______ Date:___/___/___ 1. According to text “Fashion-Design Technician”, mark true or false. (10pts) If you’re into fashion, you might consider becoming a fashion-design technician. These professionals are in charge of the whole process of fashion from sketch to execution, and they create new clothes and collections with matching accessories in order to build the perfect outfit. Fashion-design technicians need to be up-to-date with trends, as well as design garments…

Introdução O presente trabalho surgiu no âmbito da unidade curricular de História da Arte e do Design, na qual foi proposta a elaboração de um trabalho sobre um artista de uma e movimento lecionado nessa mesma área curricular. Para o desenvolvimento deste trabalho eu escolhi o artista Pablo Picasso, esta escolha coincide com o meu gosto por algumas das suas obras. Este trabalho tem como objetivo central estudar e desenvolver a vida e as obras de Pablo…

ocean an optimum ship’s route can be found with a minimum travelling time, fuel consumption or risk of damage of the ship and its cargo. These routing advises, are based on the momentary and expected wind and waves and the ship’s reaction to them. The forecast of wind and waves is a meteorological problem. Up to now the prediction of the behaviour of a ship in a seaway - especially the ship’s speed - is based on routing experience with the ship considered or similar ships. When…

09h00 Manuel Forjaz 09h10 Painel Céu Peter Joseph "Arriving at a Resource-Based Economy" http://www.theresourcebasedeconomy.com/2010/11/give-me-money-for-free/ This can still be called ‘a resource based economy’, because money is not what makes us take care of our resources or not, humans is the ones taking care of the resources. With or without money, resources can still be depleted, or, they can be managed well. So, in a resource based economy with money, the emphasis is…

d Case Study Analysis IDEO Product Development Ana Rita Fernandes de Sousa, meg11031 d Case Study Analysis IDEO Product Development Ana Rita Fernandes de Sousa, meg11031 MY POINT OF VIEW… 1. IDEO’s process: * All the projects development is focused with innovation and creativity using brainstorming as the main process to generate ideas (methodology core is brainstorming) [“…the team would focus intensively for an entire day to…

In some aspects this old car still outperforms us, and we can learn valuable lessons from its past to avoid future mistakes and improve current practices. Ó 2009 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Keywords: design practice, automotive design, design history, customization, product development M Corresponding author: Fabrice Alizon fabrice.alizon@gmail. com any of today’s industries target platform-based products tailored to customers’ needs through derivative products. This…

study and is based upon of following principles: the time and motion study, production awards, division of tasks, standardization, design of jobs, tasks and conditions environmental, among others, and these are the key to development task and therefore an increase in productivity. Time passed and the points highlighted by Taylor are still very present in organizations, especially in the productive enterprises. Thus, the study aims, through bibliographical research and a case study in the…

Mobile Devices - An Introduction to the Android Operating Environment Design, Architecture, and Performance Implications Dominique A. Heger DHTechnologies (DHT) dheger@dhtusa.com 1.0 Introduction With the worldwide proliferation of mobile devices, reliability, availability, connectivity, as well as performance related concerns, similar to the once encountered on traditional IT server systems, became paramount. On the smartphone and internet tablet side, one of the fastest growing…

BACKGROUND BACKGROUND INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION The “New Engineering Contract” currently in its 3rd Edition (NEC3) outlooks as a suite of-Construction-Contracts designed to guarantee needs of diverse projects. The-NEC3 can be used for any procurement method and is flexible in terms of amount of design a contractor takes responsibility for, assuring projects being delivered on time and to budget (Boulding, 2006). It is already widely used and recently implemented on the 2012…