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The Alhambra

by

Washington Irving

Tales of the Alhambra is a collection of essays, verbal sketches, and stories by Washington Irving.

Shortly after completing a biography of Christopher Columbus in 1828, Washington Irving travelled from Madrid, where he had been staying, to Granada, Spain. At first sight, he described it as "a most picturesque and beautiful city, situated in one of the loveliest landscapes that I have ever seen." Irving was preparing a book called A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, a history of the years 1478-1492, and was...

Research and communication processes in the arts and humanities are undergoing profound change. On the one hand, the digitalization of the source material promises global availability "from your desk," on the other hand, new approaches and applications are developed in information technology which - under the key word digital humanities (German: eHumanities) - improve the scientific exploration and evaluation of the material available in the humanities. The contributions in this volume discuss approaches, problems and issues in the development of this research environment from a...

Graffiti and street art images are ubiquitous, and they enjoy a very special place in collective imaginary due to their ambiguous nature. Sometimes enigmatic in meaning, often stylistically crude and aesthetically aggressive, yet always visually arresting, they fill our field of vision with texts and images that no one can escape. As they take place on surfaces and travel through various channels, they provide viewers an entry point to the subtext of the cities we live in, while questioning how we read, write and represent them. This book is structured around these...

In this key text in the history of art and aesthetics, Karl Rosenkranz shows ugliness to be the negation of beauty without being reducible to evil, materiality, or other negative terms used it's conventional condemnation. This insistence on the specificity of ugliness, and on its dynamic status as a process afflicting aesthetic canons, reflects Rosenkranz's interest in the metropolis - like Walter Benjamin, he wrote on Paris and Berlin - and his voracious collecting of caricature and popular prints. Rosenkranz, living and teaching, like Kant, in remote Konigsberg, reflects on phenomena of...

Die Autoren dieses Bandes eroffnen Zugange, Perspektiven und Standpunkte zu einer Architektur- und Planungsethik fur Menschen in einer bebauten und bewohnten Welt, die auch in Zukunft bewohnbar bleiben soll. Den Beitragen ist gemeinsam, dass sie von einer konkreten Praxis ausgehen und zeigen, welche ethisch relevanten Aspekte mit dem Handeln der Akteure verbunden sind oder mit welchen moralischen Herausforderungen dieses Handeln konfrontiert wird. In einem ersten Zugriff werden Zugange zu moralischen, ethischen und politischen Aspekten der Planung identifiziert und fur weitere architektur-...

In recent years, the group Forensic Architecture began using novel research methods to undertake a series of investigations into human rights abuses. Today, the group provides crucial evidence for international courts and works with a wide range of activist groups, NGOs, Amnesty International, and the UN. Forensic Architecture has not only shed new light on human rights violations and state crimes across the globe, but has also created a new form of investigative practice that bears its name. The group uses architecture as an optical device to investigate armed conflicts and environmental...

Greenhouse-gas emissions have become one of the most impacting environmental issues in today's society. A rapidly increasing trend in global CO₂emissions particularly since the early nineties (23.64% since 1990) has led to the generation of about 50,000 million tons of CO₂-equivalent (eqv) worldwide in 2010. According to mainstream climate experts, the increasing concentration of greenhouse-gases is having a warming effect on the world climate. To slow down global warming, there is a global focus on reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. Life cycle assessment in green...

Designing Disability traces the emergence of an idea and an ideal - physical access for the disabled - through the evolution of the iconic International Symbol of Access (ISA). The book draws on design history, material culture and recent critical disability studies to examine not only the development of a design icon, but also the cultural history surrounding it.

Infirmity and illness may be seen as part of human experience, but 'disability' is a social construct, a way of thinking about and responding to a natural human condition. Elizabeth Guffey's highly original and...