2013年8月14日 星期三

漂泊與跨境:1930-1940年代的臺灣、中國與日本系列講座


 很有點某些退休/國外教授 updating 味道
這樣短的時間要談大時代這樣多的人物


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漂泊與跨境:1930-1940年代的臺灣、中國與日本系列講座
  • 講題一
    大分裂時代兩岸文化人的漂泊:許壽裳、陶晶孫與天才少女作家陳蕙貞
    • 主講人:黃英哲(日本愛知大學現代中國學部暨大學院中國研究科教授)
    • 主持人:柯慶明(臺灣大學新百家學堂執行長)
    • 時間:2013年8月20日(週二)8:00pm-9:00pm
    • 地點:誠品臺大店3F藝文閣樓
    • 活動簡介:1940年代東亞發生了兩大重要歷史事件,即1945年的日本敗戰與1949年中華人民共和國的成立,夾雜著這兩大事件的動盪時代下,因戰爭、亂離,使得1940年代的文化漂泊,不斷地於中國大後方、淪陷區、「解放區」、臺灣、香港等地反覆循環。本講將以此大分裂時代為背景,討論許壽裳、陶晶孫與天才少女作家陳蕙貞三位兩岸文化人的漂泊經歷與異鄉體驗,並著眼於此「大分裂」背後的非連續性與不完整性的文化接觸之意義探討。
  • 講題二
    前往上海,前往重慶:被遺忘的電影人――何非光
    • 主講人:三澤真美惠(日本大學文理學部中國語中國文化學科教授)
    • 主持人:梅家玲(臺灣大學臺灣文學研究所與中文系合聘教授)
    • 時間:2013年8月27日(週二)8:00pm-9:00pm
    • 地點:誠品臺大店3F藝文閣樓
    • 活動簡介:何非光,出生於日本殖民下的臺灣,曾赴日本求學;1931年懷抱對日本殖民主義的強烈抵抗意識到上海,在上海以演員進入電影界,並以演出反派成名;1937年,何非光前往抗戰時期的大後方,執導多部抗日主題電影。然而,何非光的臺灣人身分使得他在殖民地臺灣、殖民母國東京、國際城市上海、抗戰根據地重慶,都被視為他者看待,不被納為「國民」,而他的個人生命歷程亦為在此一大時代動盪下的漂泊與跨境,作了最清楚的說明與見證。  

2013年8月10日 星期六

How Architecture Works: A Humanist's Toolkit

美國的出版業在正式出版前的數月就將完整資料上網.
我是從每日建築版主了解這的

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 09:13 AM PDT
The Shape of Things that Work: The Fourth Architecture
CreateSpace, 2013
Paperback, 102 pages


How Architecture Works: A Humanist's Toolkit Hardcover



<>An essential toolkit for understanding architecture as both art form and the setting for our everyday lives
We spend most of our days and nights in buildings, living and working and sometimes playing. Buildings often overawe us with their beauty. Architecture is both setting for our everyday lives and public art form—but it remains mysterious to most of us.
In How Architecture Works, Witold Rybczynski, one of our best, most stylish critics and winner of the Vincent Scully Prize for his architectural writing, answers our most fundamental questions about how good—and not-so-good—buildings are designed and constructed. Introducing the reader to the rich and varied world of modern architecture, he takes us behind the scenes, revealing how architects as different as Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, and Robert A. M. Stern envision and create their designs. He teaches us how to “read” plans, how buildings respond to their settings, and how the smallest detail—of a stair balustrade, for instance—can convey an architect’s vision. Ranging widely from a war memorial in London to an opera house in St. Petersburg, from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., to a famous architect’s private retreat in downtown Princeton, How Architecture Works, explains the central elements that make up good building design. It is an enlightening humanist’s toolkit for thinking about the built environment and seeing it afresh.
“Architecture, if it is any good, speaks to all of us,” Rybczynski writes.  This revelatory book is his grand tour of architecture today.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. Prize-winning architectural writer and University of Pennsylvania emeritus professor Rybczynski (A Clearing in the Distance) follows in the spirit of Steen Eiler Rasmussen's classic Experiencing Architecture to supply an ideal layperson's handbook on the fundamentals of modern and contemporary architecture. Focusing on the functional and aesthetic considerations that define a building, and often calling upon his experience as an architect to illustrate major concepts, Rybczynski vividly explains particulars such as how to read architectural plans and how sunlight figures into designs, as well as discussing issues of style, history, and taste. While the book tends to address structure after structure at a speedy clip, the upshot is a commanding view of the field for beginners. An especially rich example is the walk-through of several designs submitted to the competition for the National Museum of African-American History and Culture: this not only illustrates how different architects respond to constraints, but also how such competitions function. Rybczynski is not a polemicist, but he effectively argues certain basic principles, and makes a cogent analogy to typography to show how the past always influences the present. Here, architecture is treated as craft executed with prudence and conviction. The author doesn't care much for theories, or buildings that fail to be practical, but welcomes a variety of design approaches, all of which make him a model teacher. 140 b&w illus. (Oct.)