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Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture

Wed, 19 May 2010 10:26:49 PST

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A dictionary for a world whose cities are linked by fiber optic cables and whose citizens are virtually global, a world where airports are meeting places and meetings take place via web conference, the Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture identifies a new architectural will and a new social and cultural panorama. From "abduction" to "zoom," radical definitions abound. Collected together ...

Index Architecture

Wed, 19 May 2010 10:26:29 PST

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INDEX Architecture documents the extensive cross-fertilization of ideas that can occur between architectural practice and education. Through work developed by students and faculty at Columbia University's School of Architecture, it offers not only an archive of avant-garde work but a record of architectural discourse at a time when the design studio has been radically altered by digital technolog ...

Phylogenesis Foa's Ark

Wed, 19 May 2010 10:26:07 PST

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Phylogenesis--wait, we'll explain the title soon--is structured as a reflection on the work that Foreign Office Architects (FOA) has produced during its first 10 years of practice. With its genesis as a primarily speculative and academic endeavor, FOA has recently expended much energy in the development of a technical arsenal for implementing real projects. Such explorations have been undertaken ...

Architecture

Wed, 19 May 2010 10:25:33 PST

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A new edition of the classic visual reference to the principles of architecture For more than 30 years, the beautifully illustrated Architecture: Form, Space & Order has been the classic introduction to the basic vocabulary of architectural design. This Third Edition now includes a companion CD-ROM featuring interactive digital models created by Professor Ching, along with new considerations of ...

Morphosis

Wed, 19 May 2010 10:25:08 PST

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High tech architecture

Wed, 19 May 2010 10:24:50 PST

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Shows examples of experimental homes, medical facilities, community centers, stores,supermarkets, labs, golf clubs, breweries, ice rinks, warehouses, and ...

Media, Mountains and Architecture

Wed, 19 May 2010 10:24:24 PST

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Office for Metropolitan Architecture

Wed, 19 May 2010 10:24:01 PST

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OMA's design for the Seattle Public Library--one of the firm's most heavily anticipated projects to date--begins with a radical rethinking of the very nature of the library. If the library exists today as a threatened sanctuary, it has been done in by its own stubborn reliance on one kind of literacy and its consequent blindness to other emerging forms that increasingly dominate our culture, espe ...

S M L XL

Wed, 19 May 2010 10:23:23 PST

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This extraordinary, massive, and mind-boggling 1,300-page book combines essays, manifestos, diaries, fairy tales, travelogues, a cycle of meditations on the contemporary city--and complex illustration--with work produced by Koolhaas' Office for Metropolitan Architecture over the past twenty years. This almost overwhelming accumulation of words and images illuminates the condition of architecture ...

CCTV by OMA

Wed, 19 May 2010 10:22:10 PST

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Rem Koolhaas/OMA

Wed, 19 May 2010 10:20:06 PST

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In this book, the projects, buildings and theories of Koolhaas, as well as the other members of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, are examined in ...

OMA Rem Koolhaas living, vivre, Leben

Wed, 19 May 2010 10:19:06 PST

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The Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and his Rotterdam Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) have gained global acclaim and respect with their complex building tasks (for example, the Dutch Dance Theatre in Den Haag or the Rotterdam Art Museum), and with large-scale urban plans as for Melun-Senart, Euralille and Seoul. Less known are Koolhaas' apartment buildings, which this publication makes a ...

Platform

Wed, 19 May 2010 10:19:04 PST

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生命中不能承受之輕

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:30:16 PST

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《生命中不能承受之輕》以“布拉格之春”蘇聯軍隊進佔、捷克知識分子大量逃亡歐洲海外為背景，一男兩女交纏的愛情故事帶出了對政治、文化、人類生命的省思與嘲諷。比起昆德拉的其他小說，《生命中不能承受之輕》更像是一部愛情小說。特麗莎嫉妒著。她的嫉妒在白晝馴服，在夜裡甦醒，偽裝成夢境其實卻是死亡的詩篇。漫漫長路上，這個年輕女子有她的丈夫托馬斯為伴。托馬斯一半是風流的唐璜，一半是深情的崔斯坦，對特麗莎的愛和壓抑不住的放蕩撕扯著他。薩賓娜是托馬斯的情人，她的命運將小說的脈絡延伸至整個世界。她聰明，她厭惡多愁善感，她離開她的日內瓦情人弗蘭茨，追尋她的自由，從歐洲到美國，目的地卻只是“不能承受的生命之輕”。究竟，什麼樣的特質最符合人類境況（condition humaine）？是“重”，還是“輕”？嚴肅要到何處才會讓位給輕浮？輕浮又要到何處才會讓位給嚴肅？昆德拉以悖論的手法透 ...

小王子

Mon, 8 Feb 2010 13:48:51 PST

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聖修伯里有一支生花妙筆，在他的筆底下的人物，是那麼活潑有生氣；他所說的故事，又是那麼曲折離奇；這不能不令人欽佩他豐富的想像力！「小王子」一書，雖是寫給孩子看的，但未失去童稚之心的大人，更喜歡讀這一冊書。當你讀此書時，必獲得會心的微笑，純真的喜悅。

其實，佛不是佛，你也不是你

Mon, 8 Feb 2010 13:47:09 PST

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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

Mon, 8 Feb 2010 13:40:11 PST

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曼陀羅

Mon, 8 Feb 2010 13:38:59 PST

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分享珍貴密法讚嘆輝煌時輪密恐懼幻滅征服者謙卑頂禮我致敬　　佛陀的法教是願一切眾生離苦得樂。佛陀教導了許多不同的法門，在不同的教示中，藏傳佛教的密續是最高深的，而時輪金剛沙壇城則是佛陀傳授的密續之一，也是佛教修行體系中最進步又最複雜的法教之一。如同所有的佛法教示一樣，時輪金剛密續提供了成佛之道，是透過不絕的口頭傳承一代又一代的傳承下來，從上師到弟子一直到當代的達賴。　　由於時輪金剛沙壇城的炫麗色彩和複雜難懂的特質，引起許多人的興趣。雖然這項珍貴的密法有些能公開解釋，但大部分還是秘密的。達賴喇嘛認為，「時輪金剛早是公開的秘密，但夾雜著許多錯誤的觀念，我有責任去導正它。他向世人展示時輪金剛的奧密，不只是一個本尊，還是一個法教，一個密續，並且有它自己的壇城、經典、咒語、祈請文、修法、儀軌、金剛舞，還有一個長而精采的歷史。透過許多元素的整合，時輪金剛呈現二千六百年前釋迦牟尼佛傳授密法的奧秘 ...

Demonstrating digital architecture

Mon, 8 Feb 2010 13:28:29 PST

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The latest FEIDAD Award presents the 50 best projects by architects, students and designers from 22 different countries, exploring digital concepts such as ...

活潑建築

Mon, 8 Feb 2010 13:27:30 PST

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　　「活潑建築」是關於當代建築設計裡正在浮現的議題，包括互動裝置、編織構成與基因運算。這些剛開始被辨識的主題，在電腦科學的發展下逐漸地勾勒自身，歷經當下如「突現」、「自我組織」、「智慧材質」、「能動性」以及「編織」等思潮無可避免地激發驅使下，指引出一個建築可以具備回應易變性質的嶄新向度。　　為了探究始終處於變動的人造生物體之組織構成，此書函括多樣的案例，逐一在不同的操作層級與尺度上，展示相異的技術。它分為三個主要的方向，捕捉建築中正浮現的易變性質，開展其回應。首先是關於「能動構造」，它根據環境變化而變形其物質主體，以創造嶄新的組織機制。第二是關於「編織構成」，其展示成形過程如何被外在刺激影響，引導出不同的紋理。第三是「形態發生運算」，其利用關於基因與運算的知識，模擬生長成形，以及如何在與具影響的外力對話中，演化自身。　　藉由實驗多元的議題，收集的案例一齊轉化靜態的建築，成為較為動態的、互 ...

近乎佛教徒

Mon, 8 Feb 2010 13:25:03 PST

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宗薩蔣揚欽哲仁波切是藏傳佛教的老師，也是聞名影壇的導演。在書中，他以電影的虛擬實境，巧妙地比喻我們身處的幻相世界；了解因緣的善變與無常。

Heart of Buddha's Teaching

Mon, 8 Feb 2010 13:22:43 PST

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In The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching, Thich Nhat Hanh introduces us to the core teachings of Buddhism and shows us that the Buddha's teachings are accessible and applicable to our daily lives. With poetry and clarity, Nhat Hanh imparts comforting wisdom about the nature of suffering and its role in creating compassion, love, and joy--all qualities of enlightenment. Covering such significant teac ...

佛陀之心

Mon, 8 Feb 2010 13:22:19 PST

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　　一個徹底活在佛法中的人，一個慈悲的行動者，以他的生命經驗，淬煉出這一本如詩的生活佛法書。　　在本書中，一行禪師以平實的文字重新解譯佛陀四聖諦、八正道的教導，沒有深奧的理論，要讓佛法在日常生活中生根、發芽、開花、結果，只要我們知道如何澆灌自己內在的佛性種子，時時抱持正念、深入觀察，苦就能轉化為平靜、喜悅、解脫。這是佛陀自在解脫的方法，同樣也是我們達到自在解脫的憑藉。　　一行禪師透過自身的深刻體驗，將距人千里之外的佛法濃縮成一篇篇貼近生活的行動方針，他不僅告訴你根本的義理，也揭示了身體力行的訣竅，當你拿起書跟著做時，就像有一位老師在一旁諄諄善誘，亦步亦趨地提點你，讓你每一步都能舒服安穩。想在佛法中安頓身心，這便是一本能讓你貼近佛陀本懷的佛法生活版教科書。　　本書的三大主題：　　一、理解苦、集、滅、道四聖諦　　佛陀將苦稱為「聖諦」，因為我們的苦能讓我們看到解脫之道。修習第一聖諦「苦」，辨識 ...