Peter Christensen

Irrigation and Environments in the History of the Middle East, 500 B.C. to A.D. 1500

The Decline of Iranshahr

Peter Christensen er cand. mag., tidligere forlagsredaktør på Gyldendal og tidligere ansat på dagbladet Politiken, blandt andet som litteratur- og kritikredaktør og avisens New York-korrespondent. Han er i dag redaktør på Zetland og tilknyttet Politiken som anmelder. Han har udgivet bøgerne Film & Fin de Sieclé (red. med Bo Tao Michaëlis), Fodbold: Forfattere om fænomenet fodbold (red. med Frederik Stjernfelt) og Med andre øjne (red. med Adam Holm og Marcus Rubin). PETER CHRISTENSEN HAR til denne bog opsøgt en række store reportere og talt med dem om deres væsentligste historier – om de beretninger, der i de seneste seks årtier er blevet skrevet ind i historiebøgerne. Fra Seymour Hershs afsløring af massakren i My Lai over Helen Zilles dokumentation af aktivisten Steve Bikos død i et af apartheidstyrets fængsler til Robert Fisks øjenvidneberetning efter massakren i Sabra og Shatila. Og - ikke mindst - Woodward og Bernstein om Watergate. SCOOP er en bog om journalistik, når den er allervigtigst – dengang og nu.

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Barry Bergdoll

As the world's population swells and the need for sustainable ways of living grows ever more urgent and obvious, prefabricated architecture has taken center stage. Even before our current predicaments, the mass-produced, factory-made home had a distinguished history, having served as a vital precept in the development of Modern architecture. Today, with the digital revolution reorganizing the relationship between drafting board and factory, it continues to spur innovative manufacturing and design, and its potential has clearly not yet come to fruition. Home Delivery traces the history of prefabrication in architecture, from its early roots in colonial cottages though the work of such figures as Jean Prouvé and Buckminster Fuller, and mass-produced variants such as the Lustron house, to a group of full-scale contemporary houses commissioned specifically for the MoMA exhibition that this book accompanies. In addition to an introductory essay by Barry Bergdoll, Chief Curator in the Museum's Department of Architecture and Design, this volume contains essays on prefabricated housing in Japan and in Nordic countries by Ken Tadashi Oshima and Rasmus Waern, respectively. It also includes focused texts on approximately 40 historical projects and five commissions, as well as a bibliography.

Fabricating the Modern Dwelling

Home Delivery

The history of the Middle East is traditionally structured around the rise and fall of dynasties and states. The widely perceived view is that after the glories of an earlier golden age the region went into a steady and prolonged decline: populations decreased, ancient cities decayed and nomadism spread at the expense of civilized culture. In this pioneering text Peter Christensen challenges this story of decline. Long out of print but now reissued with a new introduction by the author, this important work is both a foundational text in the environmental history of the Middle East and a pioneering reassessment of traditional ideas about the historical processes of Iran and the Middle East region.

Irrigation and Environment in the Middle East, 500 B.C. - A.D. 1500

Ken Tadashi Oshima

Vimalin Rujivacharakul

H. Hazel Hahn

How did terms like “Asia,” “Eurasia,” “Indochina,” “Pacific Rim” or “Australasia” originate and evolve, and what are their connections to the built environment? In addressing this question,Architecturalized Asia bridges the fields of history and architecture by taking “Asia” as a discursive structure and cultural construct, whose spatial and ideological formation can be examined through the lenses of cartography, built environments, and visual narratives. The first section, on the study of architecture in Asia from the medieval through early modern periods, examines icons and symbols in maps as well as textual descriptions produced in Europe and Asia. The second section explores the establishment of the field of Asian architecture as well as the political and cultural imagining of “Asia” during the long nineteenth century, when “Asia” and its regions were redefined in the making of modern world maps mainly produced in Europe. The third section examines tangible structures produced in the twentieth century as legible documents of these notional constructions of Asia. In exploring the ways in which “Asia” has been drawn and framed both within and without the continent, this volume offers cutting-edge scholarship on architectural history, world history and the history of empires. Written by architectural historians and historians specializing in Asia and European empires, this unique volume addresses the connection between Asia and the world through the lenses of built environments and spatial conceptualizations. Architecturalized Asiawill appeal to readers who are interested in Asian architecture, world architecture, Asian history, history of empires, and world history.

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