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ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2019Corpora Delicti
CORPORA DELICTI, The Significant Detail. The Corpus Delicti is the evidence of a crime. The term denotes the formation of a proof that allows the unmasking of a perpetrator. In the realm of interpretation and language, it could reveal matter on which an ac ...
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Recent 'turns' in social sciences, namely the visual, qualitative, actorial or spatial turns, all indicate a rising interest in individuals. Since the aesthetic dimension always nourishes and informs individualsâ spatialities and their decision-making pr ...
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The architectural projects and building operations conducted over the past three decades by Patrick Bouchain and his collaborators challenge a series of assumptions regarding architecture’s authorship, its purpose and usage. Examined in light of Paul Ricoe ...
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If we study the evolution of the urban space in Switzerland we must notice the high importance assigned by different urban actors to aesthetic questions. In a sense, the subjective realm of the aesthetic has proved to be able to generate conditions that le ...
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