Architecture

Architecture (Latin architectura, from the Greek ἀρχιτέκτων arkhitekton "architect", from ἀρχι- "chief" and τέκτων "creator") is both the process and the product of planning, designing, and constructing buildings or other structures. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural symbols and as works of art. Historical civilizations are often identified with their surviving architectural achievements.The practice, which began in the prehistoric era, has been used as a way of expressing culture for civilizations on all seven continents. For this reason, architecture is considered to be a form of art. Texts on architecture have been written …

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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 November 2024 English

The Western welfare state model is beset with structural, financial, and moral crises. So-called scroungers, cheats, and disability fakers persistently occupy the centre of public policy discussions, even as official …

intentional through to accidental. This complex “architecture” of fraud matters both for the way welfare has claimants themselves. However, in the linguistic architecture of the written sources used here – and even identify five broad types of welfare fraud – an “architecture of fraud” – which chapters 3 to 6 examine closely


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English

Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743–1829) both introduced and epitomized the great philosophical controversies of his age. His influential text Von den göttlichen Dingen und Ihrer Offenbarung aroused the final debate about …

unavoidable end result: a cosmic monistic architecture, a product of intelligence that leaves no space However, metaphysics fails to provide the full architecture of notions concerning an object. It nevertheless


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English

The poetic memorialization of the Maghribī city illuminates the ways in which exilic Maghribī poets constructed idealized images of their native cities from the ninth to nineteenth centuries CE. The …

Qayrawan, its place names, and its once grand architecture. Contrary to Zayde Antrim’s observations on


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 31 October 2024 English

In this publication, the authors offer an analysis of the liquidity challenges facing sovereign states. They identify three key perspectives: the distinction between liquidity and solvency, the implications of rollover …

further exacerbated by an international financial architecture that is ill-equipped to deliver timely and adequate


DDN: Dundurn Press · 29 October 2024 English

“Honest and insightful, a testament to Japanese Canadian resilience.” — KERRI SAKAMOTO, author of Floating CityWhen the North American dream meets traditional Japanese conformity, two cultures collide. Does the past …

received heritage designation to recognize its architecture and history. On December 1, 2012, on the grounds


CPRC: University of Regina Press · 22 October 2024 English

A guide from bestselling author Alice Kuipers on how to write for children and young adults—from igniting an initial idea to creating a finished draft In Spark, acclaimed children’s and …

Useful Words as You Think about Your Story Architecture 97 Central Dramatic Question 97 Chronology


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

Critic, translator, essayist, and gay man, Édouard Roditi (1910–1992) was a singular witness to the twentieth century. His writings over six decades are a unique account of a life lived …

impressed by the preten- tious pseudo-Renaissance architecture of the summer residence of the Bar- onne James restored, if only because its ornate style of architecture displays the elaborately Euro- peanized Ottoman


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

Vancouver, British Columbia, now reports “no religion” as its leading religious identity, putting it in the vanguard of a trend happening across North America. What does this mean for the …

observation exercise included attending to the architecture and layout of the space, the liturgical furniture


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

A thorough account of the cultural achievements of the anthropologist and media scholar Edmund Snow Carpenter.

1950s, the city remained a depressing place: its architecture, food, meanness ... Not a joyous place at all


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

Canadian municipalities oversee the country’s most urgent policy areas, yet the constitutional authority of cities to manage their increasing obligations has not kept pace. This volume considers how policy, law, …

governmental firma- ment. In its constitutional architecture, the federal and provincial governments have


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