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Vernacular Buildings: A Global Survey 9780755694587, 9781780766249
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28-2 Wisconsin dairy farms and good access provided by paved highway 28-3 Floor-plan evolution in the agricultural plains of Punjab State, India 28-4 Symbolic representation of a Pacific Northwest Coast Indian house
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Acknowledgments The creation of a book is never the product of one person’s efforts. I have benefited from the help of several talented individuals, who have solved many problems for me and taught me how to avoid other difficulties which I might
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Library Space and Content Management for a Networked Society
2014, Dharmaram Publications, Dharmaram College, Bengaluru 560 029, India
The creative designing of space for conserving and utilizing recorded knowledge – content – has passed through dramatic and drastic changes from the days in which human beings inscribed their experiences in the cave walls to the present day as we store and retrieve content from cloud space or walk through virtual space seeking knowledge. It was in January 2012 that we decided to conduct an international conference at DVK Central Library. We started the theme discussion with experts in India and abroad. After several rounds of discussions, we decided that the theme should concentrate on actual crises that the present day librarians face. Although there were several burning issues, finally we chose on the theme related to Space and Content Management. Space and Content are interdependent and existential requirements of the library. The drastic chan
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Modern architecture
20th century movement and style
This article is about modern movement architecture. For architecture in the present day, see contemporary architecture.
Top: Villa Savoye, France, by Le Corbusier (1927); Empire State Building, New York, by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon (1931) | |
Years active | 1920s–1980s |
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Location | International |
Modern architecture, also called modernist architecture, was an architecturalmovement and style that was prominent in the 20th century, between the earlier Art Deco and later postmodern movements. Modern architecture was based upon new and innovative technologies of construction (particularly the use of glass, steel, and concrete); the principle functionalism (i.e. th