Finalizamos desta forma o ano Burle Marx, com algumas imagens do Catalogo da Exposição "Roberto Burle Marx - A permanência do instavel"
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livros que marcam
Ja algum tempo para ca que uma leitura nao me marcava tanto como este livro de Jonathan Littell As Benevolentes
A proposito tambem de uma efemeride esquecida, os 70 anos do inicio da Segunda Guerra Mundial e para acompanhar esta leitura, uma serie de documentarios da BBC, intitulada BBC History of World War II, uma caixa com 10 series de documentarios num total de 30 horas
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"The Nazis: A Warning from History" (1997, 6 Episodes, 290 minutes, 4:3 Fullscreen, 2 Discs) - On the reasons behind the rise and fall of the Nazis and of Nazi Germany.
"The Road to War" (1989, 4 Episodes, 195 minutes, 4:3 Fullscreen, 1 Disc) - On how Germany, Britain, Italy, The Soviet Union, France, Japan and the USA entered the war. Narrator is Charles Wheeler
"Dunkirk" (2004, 3 Episodes, 176 minutes, 16:9 Anamorphic, 1 Disc) - Drama on the evacuation from Dunkirk.
"War of the Century" (1999, 4 Episodes, 190 minutes, 4:3 Fullscreen, 1 Disc) - On the Russo-German War.
"Battle of the Atlantic" (2002, 3 Episodes, 146 minutes, 16:9 Anamorphic, 1 Disc) - On the U-boats and the Atlantic convoys.
"Horror in the East" (2000, 2 Episodes, 98 minutes, 4:3 Fullscreen, 1 Disc) - On the Japanese Army's atrocities in the Asia-Pacific war and why the Japanese fought to the death. Supplements on the Indian Army and the Burma War.
"Battlefields" (2001, 4 Episodes, 194 minutes, 16:9 Anamorphic, 1 Disc) - On El Alamein, Monte Cassino, the Battle of Arnhem and RAF Bomber Command [Episode Name: "Bomber"] on the firebombing of German cities. Presenter is Prof. Richard Holmes.
"D-Day: Reflections of Courage" (2004, 2 Episodes, 90 minutes, 16:9 Anamorphic, 1 Disc) - Docudrama on the events surrounding D-Day.
"D-Day to Berlin" (2004, 3 Episodes, 150 minutes, 16:9 Anamorphic, 1 Disc) - Docudrama on the breakout from Normandy, Operation Market Garden, the Battle of the Bulge and the German surrender. Presenter is Sean Bean.
"Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State" (2005, 6 Episodes, 300 minutes, 16:9 Anamorphic, 2 Discs) - Docudrama on the Nazis' conceptualisation and implementation of the Final Solution.
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Student Competition 2010 IFLA
Submission deadline: 31 March 2010 Following the theme of IFLA 47th World Congress to be held in Suzhou, China in May 2010, Harmony and Prosperity: Traditional Inheritance and Sustainable Development, participants can submit entries related to the following sub-themes: Entries must specifically address the preservation, restoration or rehabilitation of urban historic sites in the countries in which students live and/or study, and demonstrate a creative approach and thinking in their projects, so that the value and spirit of the place are cherished and preserved, while satisfying the needs of modern society, such as accessibility, sustainability, etc. Prizes will be awarded considering the following criteria:
The competition invites submissions from teams of students in Landscape Architecture programs or other allied disciplines.The objective of this competition is to encourage and recognize superior student environmental design work that addresses and attempts to find solutions for the various issues and challenges that face future generations and the landscape architecture discipline in making the world a better place to live in.1. Protection of Natural and Cultural Resources Strategy, methodology, policies, laws and regulations dealing with protection of natural and cultural resources.2. Eco-system Rehabilitation/Restoration/DevelopmentDeveloping and implementing plans to rehabilitate, restore or create functional ecology-based landscape systems, ranging from small scale projects within communities and villages, to larger scale projects, such as brown-fields, urban green spaces and urban-rural green space systems.3. Landscape Planning and Design Contemporary planning processes and designs for landscape projects such as parks, plazas, institutions, campuses, residences, garden expos, sports and recreational facilities and waterfronts, etc.4. Landscape Architectural Education Goals, guidelines, standards, courses, teaching methods and accreditation and links to licensing of practitioners.5. Sustainable Landscape Construction and Technology Recent research and applied technology in sustainable practices for such projects as wetland treatment, water-saving irrigation, high-tech waterscape and lighting, rainwater collection, storm water management, and energy conservation, for both landscapes and structures, especially within parks.6. Landscape Stewardship and Management Laws, regulations, standards and guidelines for landscape stewardship and management at local, national and international levels.7. Landscape Planting Planting design and materials selection, and standards and guidelines for plant materials installation, and landscape maintenance and management.Schedule Entry submission deadline: 31 March 2010Jury session and notification of winners: April 2010Selected competition submissions on exhibit at the 47th IFLA World Congress: 27-30 May 2010Presentation of prizes at the closing ceremony at the 47th IFLA World Congress: 30 May 2010Awards 1st Prize GROUP HAN Prize for Landscape Architecture ($3,500 US, certificate)2nd Prize IFLA Zvi Miller Prize ($2,500 US, certificate)3rd Prize CHSLA Award ($1,000 US, certificate)Jury Awards 9-15 selected entries (certificate)Further Information:Prof. Xiaoming Liu2010 IFLA Student Competition DirectorChinese Society of Landscape Architecture9 Sanlihe Road, Beijing 100835, ChinaTel.: +86-(0)10-88 08 25 68Fax: +86-(0)10-58 93 39 18eMail: ifla2010@yahoo.cn
International Photo Competion People's Landscapes
UNISCAPE the Network of Universities especially dedicated to the implementation of the European Landscape Convention. Aim of UNISCAPE is to support and reinforce interdisciplinary co-operation within and among European universities regarding landscape issues, especially in the areas of research and education. UNISCAPE thereby promotes the principles and the objectives of the Florence Convention organises the In The aim of the contest is to encourage students to observe landscapes through the eyes of people in order to express how each one of us sees and perceives our landscapes by capturing the soul and the transitory identity of places, in particular of the degraded and everyday landscapes. The participation to the contest is open to all students of the Member Universities of Uniscape from 18 to 35 years old. Each student can participate with a maximum of three digital images in colour or in black and white. The images must express the approach of the European Landscape Convention to landscape as: “an area, as perceived by people, whose character is the result of the action and interaction of natural and/or human factors”. Therefore, they may concern natural, rural, urban and peri-urban areas, including inland water and marine areas, but also those landscapes that might be considered outstanding as well as everyday or degraded landscapes. The images must reflect the point of view of the observer with regard to the represented landscape and prove the importance and the influence of the place on the observer himself. The overall winner of the People’s Landscapes International photographic contest will be the student with the best image, as determined by the Jury. The winner will be awarded with a 1000 euro prize and his/her images will be published on UNISCAPE’s website. During the award ceremony, an exhibition of the best photos selected by the jury will be organized. The selected images will become part of UNISCAPE’s photographic archive and will be used for the principal banner of the UNISCAPE website. The deadline for submitting entries is the 1 of April 2010 by sending the images and the participation form to this e-mail: peopleslandscapes@ http://www.uniscape.eu/pageNews.php?idCont=838〈=en&tit=People http://www.uniscape.eu/allegati/international%20photographic%20contest_def.pdf
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The National Parks: America's Best Idea Filmed over the course of more than six years at some of nature's most spectacular locales - from Acadia to Yosemite, Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon, the Everglades of Florida to the Gates of the Arctic in Alaska - The National Parks: America's Best Idea is nonetheless a story of people: people from every conceivable background - rich and poor; famous and unknown; soldiers and scientists; natives and newcomers; idealists, artists and entrepreneurs; people who were willing to devote themselves to saving some precious portion of the land they loved, and in doing so reminded their fellow citizens of the full meaning of democracy.
A Monumental Documentary on the History of US National Parks
Ken Burns' documentary The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009) is designed to run on PBS television in six episodes of about two hours each. The documentary doesn't give viewers much of a feel for what it's like to visit a national park; instead, the focus is on the history of US national parks from their inception in the 19th century up through the 1970s. Burns integrates his coverage of the parks into the broad sweep of American history from the vanishing frontier to the advent of the automobile to the Great Depression to the post-World War II boom in tourism.
Yosemite, Yellowstone and Grand Canyon are old and popular, so they are central to Burns' history. There are 55 other national parks, and several of these play significant roles in the documentary, including Mesa Verde (Colorado), Everglades (Florida), Great Smoky Mountains (North Carolina and Tennessee), Acadia (Maine) and Denali (Alaska). But Burns isn't trying to promote specific attractions; he wants to exalt nature in general and warn against commercial, logging, mining and ranching interests.
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Number of DVD Discs: 6
Feature Runtime: 11 hours 35 minutes
There are 3 1/4 hours of bonus materials spread over the six discs in the DVD set containing The National Parks: America's Best Idea.
1) The Scripture of Nature
(1851-1890)
In 1851, word spreads across the country of a beautiful area of California's Yosemite Valley, attracting visitors who wish to exploit the land's scenery for commercial gain and those who wish to keep it pristine. Among the latter is a Scottish-born wanderer named John Muir, for whom protecting the land becomes a spiritual calling. In 1864, Congress passes an act that protects Yosemite from commercial development for "public use, resort and recreation" - the first time in world history that any government has put forth this idea - and hands control of the land to California. Meanwhile, a "wonderland" in the northwest corner of the Wyoming territory attracts visitors to its bizarre landscape of geysers, mud pots and sulfur pits. In 1872, Congress passes an act to protect this land as well. Since it is located in a territory, rather than a state, it becomes America's first national park: Yellowstone.
2) The Last Refuge
(1890-1915)
By the end of the 19th century, widespread industrialization has left many Americans worried about whether the country - once a vast wilderness - will have any pristine land left. At the same time, poachers in the parks are rampant, and visitors think nothing of littering or carving their names near iconic sites like Old Faithful. Congress has yet to establish clear judicial authority or appropriations for the protection of the parks. This sparks a conservation movement by organizations such as the Sierra Club, led by John Muir; the Audubon Society, led by George Bird Grinnell; and the Boone and Crockett Club, led by Theodore Roosevelt. The movement fails, however, to stop San Francisco from building the Hetch Hetchy dam at Yosemite, flooding Muir's "mountain temple" and leaving him broken-hearted before he dies.
3) The Empire of Grandeur
(1915-1919)
In the early 20th century, America has a dozen national parks, but they are a haphazard patchwork of special places under the supervision of different federal agencies. The conservation movement, after failing to stop the Hetch Hetchy dam, pushes the government to establish one unified agency to oversee all the parks, leading to the establishment of the National Park Service in 1916. Its first director, Stephen Mather, a wealthy businessman and passionate park advocate who fought vigorously to establish the NPS, launches an energetic campaign to expand the national park system and bring more visitors to the parks. Among his efforts is to protect the Grand Canyon from encroaching commercial interests and establish it as a national park, rather than a national monument.
4) Going Home
(1920-1933)
While visiting the parks was once predominantly the domain of Americans wealthy enough to afford the high-priced train tours, the advent of the automobile allows more people than ever before to visit the parks. Mather embraces this opportunity and works to build more roads in the parks. Some park enthusiasts, such as Margaret and Edward Gehrke of Nebraska, begin "collecting" parks, making a point to visit as many as they can. In North Carolina, Horace Kephart, a reclusive writer, and George Masa, a Japanese immigrant, launch a campaign to protect the last strands of virgin forest in the Smoky Mountains by establishing it as a park. In Wyoming, John D. Rockefeller Jr. begins quietly buying up land in the Teton Mountain Range and valley in a secret plan to donate it to the government as a park.
5) Great Nature
(1933-1945)
To battle unemployment in the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the Civilian Conservation Corps, which spawns a "golden age" for the parks through major renovation projects. In a groundbreaking study, a young NPS biologist named George Melendez Wright discovers widespread abuses of animal habitats and pushes the service to reform its wildlife policies. Congress narrowly passes a bill to protect the Everglades in Florida as a national park - the first time a park has been created solely to preserve an ecosystem, as opposed to scenic beauty. As America becomes entrenched in World War II, Roosevelt is pressured to open the parks to mining, grazing and lumbering. The president also is subjected to a storm of criticism for expanding the Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming by accepting a gift of land secretly purchased by John D. Rockefeller Jr.
6) The Morning of Creation
(1946-1980)
Following World War II, the parks are overwhelmed as visitation reaches 62 million people a year. A new billion-dollar campaign - Mission 66 - is created to build facilities and infrastructure that can accommodate the flood of visitors. A biologist named Adolph Murie introduces the revolutionary notion that predatory animals, which are still hunted, deserve the same protection as other wildlife. In Florida, Lancelot Jones, the grandson of a slave, refuses to sell to developers his family's property on a string of unspoiled islands in Biscayne Bay and instead sells it to the federal government to be protected as a national monument. In the late 1970s, President Jimmy Carter creates uproar in Alaska when he sets aside 56 million acres of land for preservation - the largest expansion of protected land in history. In 1995, wolves are re-established in Yellowstone, making the world's first national park a little more like what it once was
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Já assisti a esta fabulosa obra de Ken Burns, varios aspectos me fascinaram, para além da beleza das Paisagens Americanas e do próprio ideal por trás da nomeação e definição de Parque Nacional.... As pessoas que contribuiram para a proliferação e consolidação dos Parques, quer através dos agentes que o findaram e gerem mas tambem dos visitantes, desta forma destaco fotografos, pintores, Arquitectos Paisagistas e instiuiçoes criadas para a protecção dos Parques para além do National Parks service.
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Por este motivo este post será o primeiro de uma série de posts sobre parque nacionais e outros, que contribui tambem para alargar o conhecimento adquirido nas aulas de Ordenamento do Territorio. Um post terá a ver com a posiçao e contributo dos Arquitectos Paisagistas para a criação e valorização do ideal de Parque Nacional....
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Fica aqui contudo a lista de Parques Nacionais nos EUA. uma lista de parques a nivel mundial e uma refência para o exemplo Portugues:
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das cerca de 12h de emissão, fiquei deslumbrando com algumas imagens, Ken Burns destaca-se pela utulização de imagens de arquivo, fazendo uma manipulaçao destas magsitral, por esse motivo essa tecnica é conhecida por Ken Burns Effect.... dessas imagens de arquivo ha fotografias fabulosas e obras de artistas plasticos como Chiura Obata, contudo partilho aqui imagens realizadas para esta série de documentarios que sao para mim autenticos wallpaper:
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