Comfort,Class and Climate Change: The Rise of Glass in Late Medieval and Early Modern Domestic Architecture

ABSTRACT

In the modern world, glass windows are considered an indispensable element of the built environment. Throughout premodern times, however, glass was not universally used in European architecture. This article argues that the rise of glass in Western architecture was neither an inevitable nor a linear process, but rather a response to certain social, cultural and environmental factors that gained increasing relevance from the late medieval period onwards. In other words, glass windows are a cultural convention, reflecting some of the wide-ranging and transformative challenges that Europeans faced in the late medieval and early modern period.     

英国登录建筑保护制度与中国建筑遗产保护制度比较分析

为了更好地保护和利用我国的建筑遗产,在分析英国和中国建筑遗产保护制度发展历程的基础上,比较了二者在建筑遗产申报与确定程序、等级划分与评价标准以及改造与再利用要求等方面的不同,由此,提出了借鉴英国登录建筑保护制度、完善我国建筑遗产保护制度的几点建议.     

器械武技“刀”的时代特征及其演变

刀出现在旧石器晚期。从石刀、骨刀、贝刀到殷商铜刀的出现,至少经历了数万年。铜刀出现后,刀的用途、形制和装饰有了较明显的改变。然而,作为武术器械的刀,从蛮砍直刺到技艺娴熟也经历了夏商周、汉三国、唐宋、明清几个主要演变阶段。     

现代家居中的布艺装饰艺术

布艺装饰是现代家居装饰中的一枝奇葩,它涉及到了家居装饰的各个方面,如何进行布艺装饰,让它与室内环境相得益彰,主要要考虑材质、图案、色彩、造型等几个因素。     

装饰性在工笔人物画中的运用

工笔人物画以人物为主要表现对象,以单纯的线条勾勒作为造型手段,以色彩分染、罩染、烘染等手法表现物象,是中国传统绘画中的重要科目之一。它从线条的组织、色彩的运用、墨色变化、细节刻画以及构图的安排和变化等方面都充满了浓郁的装饰性,这种装饰性是将现实生活中的物象,按其本质特征和客观规律给予加强、取舍、夸张等艺术手段进行再创造而得来的,使画面具有装饰美感和艺术性。     

Building a Digital Library: What to Expect as a Technology Project Manager on a Library Construction Project

Column Editor's Note. This JLA column posits that academic libraries and their services are dominated by information technologies, and that the success of librarians and professional staff is contingent on their ability to thrive in this technology-rich environment. The column will appear in odd-numbered issues of the journal, and will delve into all aspects of library-related information technologies and knowledge management used to connect users to information resources, including data preparation, discovery, delivery and preservation. Prospective authors are invited to submit articles for this column to the editor at kenning.arlitsch@montana.edu.

The Taylor Family Digital Library is the central library opened in 2011 at the University of Calgary dedicated to supporting digital scholarship, creativity, analysis and a supportive learning environment for students. The new building is a technologically advanced converged cultural institution, with mandates to continually evolve in order to meet the needs of students and researchers. The infrastructure to support these mandates required research, collaboration and intense planning, resulting in new construction and technology standards for library renovation and construction projects. This pragmatic article is written for those who will follow in similar footsteps; it provides a roadmap for those embarking on the construction of a new technologically advanced library building.     

装饰材料的艺术特征在室内设计中的创新

目前随着人们对艺术的追求逐渐上升到了生活层面,尤为突出的艺术表现就是在进行室内设计的时候,装潢材料特征所展示的艺术美感,这些美感在一定程度上充分体现了设计师的聪明智慧和艺术水准。随着生活水平的不断提高,紧靠装饰材料本身的特征来增添室内设计的美感已经远远不能满足人们的需求,还需要从装饰材料的视觉特征入手。本文从装饰材料在室内设计中的应用入手,论述了装饰材料作在室内设计中的创新途径,为增添装饰材料的艺术表现力提供有效的创新设计方法。     

建筑设备专业流体力学的教学

流体力学是工科院校一门重要的专业基础课。针对建筑设备工程专业的相关专业课程和专科技术人才培养目标,调整流体力学的教学思路和方法。     

关于别墅建筑设计教学方法的探索

依托别墅建筑设计,从学生认知规律的角度,结合以往的教学实践,在课程中探索并提出循序渐进的任务安排和建立自评与互评机制的教学方法。