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Illinois preservation architect Thomas Harboe prefers not to dismantle architectural monuments. But at Mies van der Rohe’s Lake Shore Drive apartments, built in Chicago in 1951, one of the first steps in the preservation process was to remove the broad travertine pavement between the two towers. Tak ...

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4 days ago by Jason Baird Jackson

Claude Lévi-Strauss’ work is important to me and to the fields in which I work–Native American studies, folklore studies, cultural anthropology, social theory, etc. On the occasion of his passing, I won’t say much more than I have already said, that I found his work to be inspiring and directly use ...

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6 days ago by Wisdom about Marketing

The CANADIAN DESIGN RESOURCE is a constantly expanding library of Canadian design and material culture. More: The CANADIAN DESIGN RESOURCE » “Gift Wrapped Velvet” Print Ad Related Blogs on Design And Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.14 : Speckyboy … Free Download: Advanced Design an ...

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8 days ago by teofilo

Looking North from New Alto When I was working at Chaco, we would often get visitors who would complain about how hard it was to get there. They usually focused on the road in and asked why there wasn’t more effort to pave it and make it more accessible to the American public. After all, isn’t that ...

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9 days ago by nschonberger

Running through February 7, 2010, Eco Home at London’s Geffrye Museum examines new and current ideas about “eco living” and links thought about ecology to how we decorate and inhabit our homes. Eco Home serves as introduction to a range of new green products. The intent is to educate and encourage d ...

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9 days ago by historyplus

Here is a collection of resources about the Indian Removal Act, Cherokee Nation and Trail of Tears. Indian Removal Act of 1830 You can find the text of the act (passed May 28, 1830) at civics-online.org At ourdocuments.gov you can see the text of a speech Jackson gave to Congress on December 6, 1830 ...

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11 days ago by Kivmars Bowling Senior Managing Editor

Diana Crane (University of Pennsylvania) To read this article and its associated commentaries for free just click on the PDF links below. Crane PDF Commentary 1 PDF - Gabriel Ignatow (University of North Texas) Commentary 2 PDF - Mark Jacobs (George Mason University) In order to post your comment an ...

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11 days ago by Jason Baird Jackson

The Bard Graduate Center and the American Museum of Natural History announce a Research Fellowship in Museum Anthropology. The fellowship provides support to a postdoctoral investigator to carry out a specific project over a two-year period. The program is designed to advance the training of the par ...

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12 days ago by werner11

Appadurai, Arjun. “The Thing Itself.” ARTIndia 9.4 (2005). Print. I was led to this author because of Bill Brown’s refrence to him in article “Thing Theory”. This author, in this article as well as in others, focuses primarily on the social life of things. His writting has helped me to come understa ...

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13 days ago by werner11

Baudrillard, Jean. America. London: Verso, 1989. Print. I have read Baudrillard before, but I don’t remember exactly what. Ideas about simulation and imitation have come up often for me when I am trying to understand the implications of specific objects. The way he differentiates between the two has ...

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