New PDF release: Language as a Local Practice

Language as a neighborhood perform addresses the questions of language, locality and perform as a fashion of relocating ahead in our figuring out of ways language operates as an built-in social and spatial job. by way of taking each one of those 3 parts – language, locality and perform – and exploring how they relate to one another, Language as a neighborhood perform opens up new methods of puzzling over language.

Download e-book for kindle: Six Canonical Projects by Rem Koolhaas: Essays on the by Ingrid Böck

Rem Koolhaas has been a part of the overseas avant-garde because the nineteen-seventies and has been named the Pritzker structure Prize for the yr 2000. This publication, which builds on six canonical Koolhaas tasks, lines the discursive perform in the back of the layout equipment utilized by Koolhaas and his place of work OMA.

Download PDF by Pavlos Lefas: Architecture: A historical Perspective

Dieses Buch vermittelt Geschichte durch Theorie und Theorie durch Geschichte. Es begreift die überwältigende Vielfalt der Architektur der Welt von den Anfängen bis heute als integralen Bestandteil der menschlichen Zivilisation und fragt unter anderem nach der Bedeutung von Konzept und shape, nach dem Unterschied zwischen Architektur und Spektakel oder nach der Gültigkeit des Dogmas "less is more".

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This totally revised new version presents recommendation at the identification, assessment and aid of bilingual novices and assists practitioners in determining the variation among literacy problems as a result of bilingualism or multilingualism and dyslexia. a necessary textual content for employees improvement, it contains cutting edge methods in expertise and educating programmes necessary to multilingual beginners and recommendation on studying extra languages.