This collection of ideas and lesson plans will help classroom and home-school teachers integrate art into their general curriculum. These inventive and effective methods use the visual arts to inspire creative writing and drama; explore math, music, science, and history; and cultivate critical thinking skills. Art instructors will learn strategies for incorporating other areas of study into the art classroom. Ranging from thought-provoking suggestions...

How do governments design their strategy for heritage property? What do they try to accomplish in their laws and their tax systems to favour the re-use of older buildings, districts, and cities? What institutional framework can assist the restoration of tourist designations and the conservation of neighbourhoods? In this international study, eighteen experts from ten countries describe the legal challenges and solutions relating to such property....

“A school garden is a tremendously valuable tool to help young people turn book knowledge into real experience. This book is a must-have resource for anyone considering embarking on a youth gardening adventure.” —Mike Metallo, President, National Gardening Association In this groundbreaking resource, two school garden pioneers offer parents, teachers, and school administrators everything they need to know to build school gardens and to develop...

From soft politics, soft power and soft spaces to fluid territories, software and soft programming, Bracket 2 unpacks the use and role of responsive, indeterminate, flexible, and immaterial systems in design. In an era of declared crises-economic, ecological and climatic, among others-the notion of soft systems has gained increasing traction as a counterpoint to permanent, static and hard systems. Acknowledging fluid and indeterminate situations with...

A comprehensive handbook of all the crucial information interior designers need to know on a daily basis. In the world of interior design, thousands of bits of crucial information are scattered across a wide array of sources. Color, Space, and Style collects the information essential to planning and executing interiors projects of all shapes and sizes, and distills it in a format that is as easy to use as it is to carry. Section 1, Fundamentals, provides...

A perceptive review of the various materials influencing current architecture may be found in "What Materials Do Architects Use: A Guide to Contemporary Architects' Preferred Building Materials". This thorough reference explores the importance of material selection in the architectural process and highlights how it affects a building's appearance, functionality, and environmental impact.It looks at the innovative ways that conventional materials,...

Through essays, interviews, and narratives by Bruce Sterling, Fiona Raby, Sam Jacob and other significant voices in the field, this volume questions the initial discourses around "design fiction"-a broad category of critical design that includes overlapping interests in science fiction, world building, speculation, and futuring. Made Up: Design's Fictions advances contemporary analysis and enactment of narrative and speculation as an important part...

The 3 iconic architects and their iconic buildings - Le Corbusier (Villa Savoye), Phillip Johnson (The Glass House) & Mies Van De Rohe (House Farnsworth) - will feature in this article. They embody, circumvent, and encapsulate Modernism in an Architectural context. For scholars, it includes the in-depth comparison and contrast of these renowned buildings. Very valuable to students, artists, sculptures, architects, and designers with specific reference...

The Ecologies of the Envelope theorizes the building envelope as a literal embodiment of the social, political, technological, and economic contingencies, which have become embedded within it over the last century, analyzing the historical lineages, heroes and villains that helped define the complex material ecologies we see within the envelope today. While the façade is one of the most thoroughly theorized elements of architecture, it is also one...

Monika Mitasova interviewed an influential group of current American theorists, historians and practitioners proposing critical and projective architecture, respectively, which forms the first book that brings those perspectives together to show the state of current critical and projective theory, practice and new alternative actions of designing architecture. Interviewed theorists: Kenneth Frampton, K. Michael Hays, Mark Wigley, Mary Mcleod, Beatriz...