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Chapters: Umeå School of Business, Umeå School of Architecture, Umeå Institute of Design, Umeå Institute of Technology, Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå, Lund School of Economics and Management, Lund Institute of Technology, Linköping Institute of Technology. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 34. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Umeå School of Business, USBE, or Handelshögskolan i Umeå, is a collegiate business school at Umeå University in the north of Sweden. About 2000 students currently study at USBE. The School offers four Bachelor programs, seven Master's degree programs, EMBA-Prague program and doctoral programs. Umeå School of Business holds the European Foundation for Management Development 'EQUIS' accreditation. The International atmosphere is important to the school and offers one Bachelor program (International Business program), all Master's programs, and all doctoral programs entirely in English, USBE also accept a large number of international students as exchange or degree students. USBE is located at the very heart of the University campus, a meeting-place for all academic disciplines, giving the school tremendous opportunities to co-operate across traditional academic boundaries. It also gives USBE- students an opportunity to take an active part of student environment created for the 28 000 students at Umeå University. USBE is located in the social science building that has been renovated and updated recently. USBE is organized into four academic units (or departments) of Accounting and Finance, Entrepreneurship, Management, and Marketing. Every academic staff member belongs to one of these four departments. Each department is headed by a professor who is assigned responsibilities for coordinating activities within the department, overseeing quality, promoting resear...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3618340 ... Read more

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Chapters: Illinois Institute of Technology, University of Florida, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Temple University, Rhode Island School of Design, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Mit School of Architecture and Planning, Cal Poly Pomona College of Environmental Design, Philadelphia University, Georgia Institute of Technology College of Architecture, California College of the Arts, Notre Dame School of Architecture, Tulane School of Architecture, Newschool of Architecture and Design, University of California, Berkeley College of Environmental Design, Southern California Institute of Architecture, Land Arts of the American West, University of Oregon School of Architecture and Allied Arts, Ball State University College of Architecture and Planning, Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, University of Illinois School of Architecture, Yale School of Architecture, Roger Williams University, Harvard Graduate School of Design, University of Washington College of Built Environments, the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, Ucla School of the Arts and Architecture, Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Florida International University School of Architecture, University of Virginia School of Architecture, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo College of Architecture and Environmental Design, University of Arkansas School of Architecture, University of Texas School of Architecture, Texas Tech University College of Architecture, Texas A ... Read more

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An essential guide to Prairie School art and architecture in the Midwest.

Largely regarded as one of the most important movements of American architecture and design, the Prairie School helped move America into the modern age. Signaling a departure from nineteenth-century formality, its practitioners sought to create buildings that were organic and would facilitate a new, progressive way of life. This exhaustive guide to the treasures of the Prairie School at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts focuses not only on the museum's outstanding collection of early twentieth-century American design but also on the Institute's historic Purcell-Cutts house, one of the most significant examples of Prairie School architecture in the country. With its multitude of historic photographs, many never before published, Progressive Design in the Midwest is a unique combination of history, house tour, and museum guide.

Built by William Gray Purcell and George Grant Elmslie in Minneapolis in 1913, the Purcell-Cutts house features a buff-colored facade, nearly flat roof, and a revolutionary interior structured around an open floor plan, facilitating everyday living without the senseless division of space. Progressive Design in the Midwest documents the history of the house and its furnishings from the year it was built to the time it was donated to the museum, restored, and opened to the public in 1990.

The many objects in the Institute's Prairie school collection including works by Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, William Gray Purcell, and George Grant Elmslie, among others, are described in detail. Along with each piece is a list of relevant texts, exhibitions, and the historical background of the piece, as well as information about the designer.

With its multitude of historic photographs, many never before published, Progressive Design in the Midwest is a unique combination of history, house tour, and museum guide.

Jennifer Komar Olivarez is assistant curator of decorative arts, sculpture, and architecture at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

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Volume 9 in the Babbage Reprint Series makes the Moore School Lectures (1946) available for the first time. Delivered by such notable engineers and scientists as J.P. Eckert, J. Mauchly, H. Goldstine, A.W. Burks, and J. von Neumann at the University of Pennsylvania as a direct response to crucial new developments in the design and construction of the early stored program computer, the ENIAC, the lectures provide a comprehensive overview of the history of computing devices and digital and analog computing mechanisms; machine elements, including arithmetic circuits and the Selectron; numerical mathematical methods; and a detailed presentation of the ENIAC, the parallel type EDVAC, and the serial acoustic binary EDVAC. ... Read more

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Chapters: Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies, the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, Urenio, Urban Institute, Mit Senseable City Lab, Global Urban Research Unit, Academy of Urban Planning, Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, Ahuri, Center for Urban Policy Research, San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association, Queen's School of Urban and Regional Planning, Taub Urban Research Center. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 47. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: IHS is the international institute on urban management of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, based in the Netherlands. IHS was founded in 1958. Operating on a global scale IHS offers post graduate education and training, advisory services and applied research in the field of urban management and urban planning. In 1958 Jan van Ettinger, managing director of the Bouwcentrum, established the first International Course Building (ICB). The objective was to acquaint planners, engineers and architects from developing countries with the methods required to achieven a systematic solutions to building requirements. In June 1972 ICB's educational activities were transferred to Bouwcentrum International Education (BIE), which remained located in the round building in the heart of Rotterdam. In addition to the standard course available more and more specialised courses were added to the teaching programme, aimed at mid-career professionals. A new phase was welcomed in 1982 when BIE changed its name to the Institute for Housing Studies (IHS). The institute redesigned its courses to promote skills development with which to solve problems in the local context. In 1990 the name changed again to Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies, but the acronym IHS remained. At the same time th...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=23340183 ... Read more

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Chapters: Umeå School of Architecture, Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Umeå Institute of Design, Umeå Institute of Technology, Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå, Norrland's University Hospital, Humlab, Hhus. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 38. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Umeå University (Swedish: ) is a university in Umeå in the Midnorth of Sweden. The university was founded in 1965 and is the 5th oldest within Sweden's present borders. During the seventies the university became known as the "red university" due to a large number of student strikes and a large share of left-wing politically active students. Since then conditions have normalised and Umeå University now has over 33,000 students, including master and doctoral students. It has more than 4000 employees, including 332 professors. Internationally, the university is known for research relating to the genome of the Populus tree (Life sciences), contributions to the Gleason problem and function spaces on fractals (mathematics) and its school of industrial design which gives degree programs in English open to students from all of the world. It is also the one of largest providers of distance education courses in the Nordic countries. Umeå University has four faculties and nine campus schools, with additional campuses in the cities of Skellefteå and Örnsköldsvik. The total number of students enlisted to some of the 50 different study programs and 800 separate courses exceeds 29,000. The University today has four faculties, listed below in alphabetic order: Umeå University has nine Campus Schools, listed below in alphabetic order: ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=31798 ... Read more