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The Linz Café and the concept of "wholeness": Reclaiming the historical feeling of a long-gone building

Vasileios Chanis

The purpose of the paper is to discuss "The Linz Café," a building that ceased to exist in 1980. This project was conceived and constructed by Christopher Alexander for the summer exposition "Forum Design" in Linz, Austria. Despite its short-lived existenc ...

2024

This book has been designed for instructors in higher education or adult training who wish to develop a new course or revise an existing one. It adopts a practical, visual, and modular approach based on the principle of constructive alignment. At its heart ...

EPFL Press2024

We present a systematic non-invasive investigation of a large corpus of early printed books, exploiting multiple techniques. This work is part of a broader project -- Argeia -- aiming to study early printing technologies, their evolution and, potentially, ...

Elsevier2018

This book focuses on the core question of the necessary architectural support provided by hardware to efficiently run virtual machines, and of the corresponding design of the hypervisors that run them. Virtualization is still possible when the instruction ...

Mogan & Claypool2017

Information Technology Governance in Public Organizations

This book examines trends and challenges in research on IT governance in public organizations, reporting innovative research and new insights in the theories, models and practices within the area. As we noticed, IT governance plays an important role in gen ...

Springer International Publishing2017

BestOf Architectural Design 2014 Students' projects competition

Alexandre Blanc

Cet ouvrage présente trente deux projets d’architecture représentatifs de la vaste réflexion architecturale et urbanistique issue chaque année des ateliers de l’école polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne. En plus de sa mission d’enseignement, l’EPFL est ...

Archizoom2014

Chiese provvisorie. Identità sospesa

Chiara Monterumisi

This book is the result of a choral participation (School of Doctorate Studies in Architecture, University of Bologna and Laboratorio “Ricerca Emilia”) in the exhibition entitled “Architetture padane”. It is also the second step of wider investigation focu ...

CLUEB2013

A social network analysis of Rousseau’s autobiography “Les Confessions”

Frédéric Kaplan, Yannick Rochat, Cyril Antoine Michel Bornet

We propose an analysis of the social network composed of the characters appearing in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's autobiographic Les Confessions, with existence of edges based on co-occurrences. This work consists of twelve volumes, that span over fifty years o ...

2013

Unpleasant Design

Unpleasant Design book is a collection of different research approaches to contemporary urban phenomenon in which social control and is inherent in the design of objects and places. With many examples to be found across cities worldwide, Unpleasant Design ...

G.L.O.R.I.A.2013

Why is it so difficult to translate innovation economics into useful and applicable policy prescriptions?

Dominique Foray

Abstract of the book: While the importance of innovation to economic development is widely understood, the conditions conducive to it remain the focus of much attention. This volume offers new theoretical and empirical contributions to fundamental question ...

National Bureau of Economic Research2012