This project involves the design, construction and performance of an “architecture of being” that expresses selfhood in virtual space and real time using: (1) physiological data as its building material, (2) architectural design as its expressive intent, (3) digital space as its medium, (4) screen projection as its enveloping and viewing technique, (5) user interactivity and performance as its ...

Santorini is one of the best known caldera volcanoes in the World. Its fame comes from the spectacular geology of the caldera wall and the catastrophic large magnitude explosive eruption of the late Bronze Age which had major effects on eastern Mediterranean civilisation of the time. The ancient Minoan town of Akrotiri is preserved beneath many metres of pumice and ash from the eruption, with s...

In this paper, we offer some observations regarding the sex industry, in particular the pornography and erotica sectors. Marketing literature observing pornography and erotica is scant. We find that following exponential growth of the sex industry (given use of the Internet) an evaluation of consumer behaviour and marketing practices is justified. In order to begin a study of these industry sec...

this article examines the cultural and artistic context of one of the most famous roman frescoes, the Odyssey landscapes. it argues that the painting’s fictive portico frame would have evoked in the roman viewer the experience of the ambulatio, the act of walking for leisure and contemplation that came to be an essential element of a properly hellenized otium. the painted portico thus puts the ...

s – QIRT 2002 1 QIRT’2002: Quantitative InfraRed Thermography 6 ~ Abstracts ~ edited by D. Balageas, G. Busse, G.M. Carlomagno and S. Švaić Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 24-27, 2002 Organized by: Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb, Crotia IR Thermography Applied to Historical Buildings by E. Grinzato CNR-ITC, C.so Stati Uniti 4, 35127 Padova, Italy, E...

Giorgio Vasari argued that the polyvalent term disegno in the Cinquecento should unite the arts of painting, sculpture and architecture in the Accademia del Disegno. The nature of invention, or invenzione in the united arts, was not as united; it was not the same for architecture as it was for painting. Alberti, as is well known, argued for the status of painting to be a liberal art modelled on...