How the rise of the large-scale atrium space in the 1970s and '80s changed the way buildings could be designed, constructed, regulated, and occupied. In the 1970s, a void opened at the heart of architecture. In hotels, offices, public buildings, and commercial centers, the atrium emerged globally to challenge the modernist legacies of form and function, altering the pattern and experience of cities. While often appearing at vast scale and to striking effect, the atrium also became omnipresent and mundane. In this lively critique, Charles Rice charts the atrium's appearance in the 1970s and its development through the 1980s, as it accompanied profound shifts in the discipline and practice of architecture. During this period, architectural practice especially in the United States and United Kingdom was changing rapidly, due in part to the manifold effects of deregulation. All aspects of the way buildings were designed, developed, regulated, built, managed, and occupied were being reshaped. A practice guided by the progressive tenets of modernism was being turned into a professional service fully integrated within neoliberal social and economic imperatives. As Rice shows, the atrium gives this story a distinct spatial and material figure, one that offers an inside view of architecture in transformation.

Atrium

Arts & Photography

Rice, Charles

Architecture

The MIT Press

Emergence of the Interior: Architecture, Modernity, Domesticity

Taking a radical position counter to many previous histories and theories of the interior, domesticity and the home, The Emergence of the Interior considers how the concept and experience of the domestic interior have been formed from the beginning of the nineteenth century. It considers the interior's emergence in relation to the thinking of Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud, and, through case studies, in architecture's trajectories toward modernism. The book argues that the interior emerged with a sense of 'doubleness', being understood and experienced as both a spatial and an image-based condition. Incorporating perspectives from architecture, critical history and theory, and psychoanalysis, The Emergence of the Interior will be of interest to academics and students of the history and theory of architecture and design, social history, and cultural studies.

Routledge

Tavern singing in early Victorian London: The diaries of Charles Rice for 1840 and 1850

Laurence Senelick (editor)

Biographies & Memoirs

Society for Theatre Research

50 questions on the natural law: What it is and why we need it

Religion & Spirituality

Ignatius Press

A comprehensive starship adventure sourcebook designed to supplement or extend any of the popular d20 space based role-playing games. Blood and Space contains extensive rules for starship construction, combat, and crews as well as new classes, feats, and skills for space based adventures.

RPGObjects Presents: Blood and Space: D20 Starship Adventure Toolkit

Davis,Chris

Literature & Fiction

Interactivies Ink Ltd

Blood and Guts brings the action of military combat into the Modern d20 System game! Blood and Guts includes new feats, skills, and occupations for military based campaigns, as well as a Prestige Class for the predominant Special Operations units: Army Rangers, Delta Force, Special Forces, Combat Controllers, Pararescue, Force Recon, Navy SEALs, and others. Blood and Guts also includes rules for military rank and promotion, military medals and decorations, as well as an array of new weapons and equipment.

Blood and Guts: Modern Military

RPGObjects

Extensively researched and faithfully rendered, Legends of Excalibur provides all the mechanics for adventuring in the world of Arthurian Legend. This extensive tome presents players with over twenty new Arthurian classes, an alternative magic system, and a flavorful system for fate and destiny. For game masters, Legends of Excalibur offers a detailed campaign guide, including NPC statistics, adventure locations, quests, campaign models, color maps, and other tools. Book jacket.

Legends of Excalibur: Arthurian Adventures

RPG Objects

Inhabiting the Doubled Interior

Interior Urbanism: Architecture, John Portman and Downtown America

Vast interior spaces have become ubiquitous in the contemporary city. The soaring atriums and concourses of mega-hotels, shopping malls and transport interchanges define an increasingly normal experience of being 'inside' in a city. Yet such spaces are also subject to intense criticism and claims that they can destroy the quality of a city's authentic life 'on the outside'.
Interior Urbanism explores the roots of this contemporary tension between inside and outside, identifying and analysing the concept of interior urbanism and tracing its history back to the works of John Portman and Associates in 1960s and 70s America. Portman – increasingly recognised as an influential yet understudied figure – was responsible for projects such as Peachtree Center in Atlanta and the Los Angeles Bonaventure Hotel, developments that employed vast internal atriums to define a world of possibilities not just for hotels and commercial spaces, but for the future of the American downtown amid the upheavals of the 1960s and 70s. 
The book analyses Portman's architecture in order to reconsider major contexts of debate in architecture and urbanism in this period, including the massive expansion of a commercial imperative in architecture, shifts in the governance and development of cities amid social and economic instability, the rise of postmodernism and critical urban studies, and the defence of the street and public space amid the continual upheavals of urban development.
In this way the book reconsiders the American city at a crucial time in its development, identifying lessons for how we consider the forces at work, and the spaces produced, in cities in the present.

History & Criticism

Bloomsbury Academic

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