Jewish Sanctuary in the Atlantic World is a unique blend of cultural and architectural history that considers Jewish heritage as it expanded among the continents and islands linked by the Atlantic Ocean between the mid-fifteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Barry L. Stiefel achieves a powerful synthesis of material culture research and traditional historical research in his examination of the early modern Jewish diaspora in the New World.
Through this generously illustrated work, Stiefel examines forty-six synagogues built in Europe, South America, the Caribbean Islands, colonial...
Jewish Sanctuary in the Atlantic World is a unique blend of cultural and architectural history that considers Jewish heritage as it expanded among the...
Throughout history and around the world, community members have come together to build places, be it settlers constructing log cabins in nineteenth-century Canada, an artist group creating a waterfront gathering place along the Danube in Budapest, or residents helping revive small-town main streets in the United States. What all these projects have in common is that they involve local volunteers in the construction of public and community places; they are community-built.
Although much attention has been given to specific community-built movements such as public murals and community...
Throughout history and around the world, community members have come together to build places, be it settlers constructing log cabins in nineteenth...
Throughout history and around the world, community members have come together to build places, be it settlers constructing log cabins in nineteenth-century Canada, an artist group creating a waterfront gathering place along the Danube in Budapest, or residents helping revive small-town main streets in the United States. What all these projects have in common is that they involve local volunteers in the construction of public and community places; they are community-built.
Although much attention has been given to specific community-built movements such as public murals and community...
Throughout history and around the world, community members have come together to build places, be it settlers constructing log cabins in nineteenth...
Sustainable Preservation: Where Heritage Preservation and Environmental Conservation Overlap brings together ecological conservation theory and heritage preservation theory and shows how these two realms have common purpose. Through theoretical discussion and illustrative examples the book reframes the history of multiple movements within preservation and sustainable design strategy into cross-disciplinary themes. Through the topics: Human Relationships with Ecology and Biodiversity; Energy Use, Production, and Efficiency; Architecture and Building Design; Community Design and...
Sustainable Preservation: Where Heritage Preservation and Environmental Conservation Overlap brings together ecological conservation theor...
Sustainable Preservation: Where Heritage Preservation and Environmental Conservation Overlap brings together ecological conservation theory and heritage preservation theory and shows how these two realms have common purpose. Through theoretical discussion and illustrative examples the book reframes the history of multiple movements within preservation and sustainable design strategy into cross-disciplinary themes. Through the topics: Human Relationships with Ecology and Biodiversity; Energy Use, Production, and Efficiency; Architecture and Building Design; Community Design and...
Sustainable Preservation: Where Heritage Preservation and Environmental Conservation Overlap brings together ecological conservation theor...
