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Books by Irene Cheng






Race and Modern Architecture(1st Edition)
A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present (Culture Politics & the Built Environment)
by Irene Cheng, Charles L. Davis, Mabel O. Wilson
Paperback, 424 Pages, Published 2020 by University Of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-6659-3, ISBN: 0-8229-6659-X

"This volume offers a welcome and long-awaited intervention for the field by shining a spotlight on constructions of race and their impact on architecture and theory in Europe and North America and across various global contexts since the ..."






Race and Modern Architecture(1st Edition)
A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present (Culture Politics & the Built Environment)
by Irene Cheng, Mabel O. Wilson, Charles L. Davis
Hardcover, 424 Pages, Published 2020 by University Of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-4605-2, ISBN: 0-8229-4605-X

"Although race—a concept of human difference that establishes hierarchies of power and domination—has played a critical role in the development of modern architectural discourse and practice since the Enlightenment, its influence on the discipline remains largely underexplored. This volume offers a welcome and long-awaited intervention for the field by shining a spotlight on constructions of race and their impact on architecture and theo ..."






The Shape of Utopia
The Architecture of Radical Reform in Nineteenth-Century America
by Irene Cheng
Hardcover, Published 2023 by University Of Minnesota Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-5179-0745-7, ISBN: 1-5179-0745-4






Clara Ho Tung, a Hong Kong lady
Her family and her times
by Irene Cheng
201 Pages, Published 1976 by Distributed By The University Press Of Hawaii
ISBN-13: 978-0-8248-0489-3, ISBN: 0-8248-0489-9






The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century
(Columbia Books of Architecture)
by Bernard Tschumi, Irene Cheng, The Monacelli Press
Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2004 by The Monacelli Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-58093-134-2, ISBN: 1-58093-134-0

"In March 2003, Bernard Tschumi convened forty of the world’s architectural designers and theoristsóElizabeth Diller, Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, Rem Koolhaas, Greg Lynn, Winy Maas, Thom Mayne, Ben van Berkel, Mark Wigley, Alejandro Zaera-Polo, and many othersófor a conference at Columbia University. The exceptional array was asked to predict the conversations and directions of architectural practice in the twenty-firs ..."






Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States
by Shirley Samuels, Kirsten Pai Buick, Irene Cheng, Martha J. Cutter, Brigitte Fielder, Jennifer Greiman, Wyn Kelley, Kya Mangrum, Kelli Morgan, Janet Neary, Adena Spingarn, Cheryl Spinner, Christine Yao
Hardcover, 238 Pages, Published 2019 by Lexington Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-7311-5, ISBN: 1-4985-7311-8

"Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States is a collection of twelve essays by cultural critics that exposes how fraught relations of identity and race appear through imaging technologies in architecture, scientific discourse, sculpture, photography, painting, music, theater, and, finally, the twenty-first century visual commentary of Kara Walker. Throughout these essays, the racial practices of the nineteenth century are j ..."






Lubricous Architectures
Studies in Hybridity - Open Space, Lobbies, Infrastructure, Amenities (Mac Donald Studio, CBA Studio Works 14)
by With Maia Small, Kari L. Anderson, Irene Cheng, Ali Rahim, William Mac Donald, Chris Perry, Bernard Tschumi
Paperback, 115 Pages, Published 2003 by Columbia University
ISBN-13: 978-1-883584-26-9, ISBN: 1-883584-26-4






Race and Modern Architecture
A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present
by Irene Cheng, Charles L. Davis, Mabel O. Wilson
448 Pages, Published 2020 by University Of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-8741-3, ISBN: 0-8229-8741-4

"... Africa,” and that the edifice should be embraced as an exemplar of what Lagosians could erect.5 It is worth noting that, ... the Lagosian society.7 African immigrant readers of the Lagosian newspapers at the turn of the twentieth century had ..."






Multimedia in Education
Adaptive Learning and Testing
by Irene Cheng
Published 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-283-14356-1, ISBN: 1-283-14356-9






Cabinet 30(1st Edition)
The Underground
by Tirdad Zolghadr, Irene Cheng, Joshua Foer, Sina Najafi
Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2008 by Cabinet
ISBN-13: 978-1-932698-28-2, ISBN: 1-932698-28-0

"Site of hidden infrastructure, source of material and energy, home to clandestine activity, buried landscape of darkness and silence: the physical and emotional space of the underground is at once prosaic and uncanny, rich with both functional potential and metaphorical meaning. Cabinet issue 30, with its special section on The Underground, features Irene Cheng on Thomas W. Knox's 1876 book Underground, or Life Below the Surface and the ..."






The Shape of Utopia
The Architecture of Radical Reform in Nineteenth-Century America
by Cheng, Irene
Paperback, 376 Pages, Published 2023 by Univ Of Minnesota Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-5179-0746-4, ISBN: 1-5179-0746-2






Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States
(Paperback)
by Shirley Samuels, Kirsten Pai Buick, Irene Cheng, Martha J. Cutter, Brigitte Fielder
Paperback, 236 Pages, Published 2023 by Lexington Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-7313-9, ISBN: 1-4985-7313-4

"Throughout these essays, the racial practices of the nineteenth century are juxtaposed with literary practices involving some of the most prominent writers about race and identity, such as Herman Melville and Harriet Beecher Stowe, as well ..."






Doug's Big Shoe Disaster(1st Edition)
(Doug Picture Book)
by Jim Jinkins, Sue Kassirer, Joe Aaron, Jonathan Royce, Irene Wu, Tony Curanas, Brian Donnelly, Cheng-Li Chan
Hardcover, 32 Pages, Published 1997 by Disney Pr (Juv Trd)
ISBN-13: 978-0-7868-3142-5, ISBN: 0-7868-3142-1






Multimedia in Education(1st Edition)
Adaptive Learning and Testing
by Irene Cheng, Lluis Vicent Safont, Anup Basu, Randy Goebel
Hardcover, 178 Pages, Published 2010 by World Scientific Pub Co Inc
ISBN-13: 978-981-283-705-9, ISBN: 981-283-705-1

"In this book, we review many examples of multimedia item types for testing. We also outline how games can be used to test physics concepts -- discuss designing chemistry item types with interactive graphics; study how culture-specific linguistics can help inner-city kids and new immigrants learn better; suggest approaches for automatically adjusting difficulty level in interactive graphics-based questions; and propose strategies for giv ..."






3D Online Multimedia and Games(1st Edition)
Processing, Visualization and Transmission
by Irene Cheng, Guido M. Cortelazzo, Anup Basu, Subodh K. Tripathi, Satish K. Tripathi
Hardcover, 357 Pages, Published 2009 by World Scientific Pub Co Inc
ISBN-13: 978-981-270-587-7, ISBN: 981-270-587-2

"Online applications have been gaining wide acceptance among the general public. Companies like Amazon, Google, Yahoo! and NetFlicks have been doing extremely well over the last few years largely because of people becoming more comfortable and trusting of the Internet. The increasing acceptance of online products makes it increasingly important to address some of the scientific techniques involved in developing efficient 3D online system ..."






Clara Ho Tun(1st Edition)
A Hong Kong lady, her family and her times
by Irene Cheng
Published 1976 by Chinese University Of Hong Kong
ISBN-13: 978-962-201-096-3, ISBN: 962-201-096-2






Clara Ho Tung A Hong Kong Lady, Her Family and Her Times
by Irene Cheng, T'ong Mong-Cheng
Paperback, 222 Pages, Published 1989 by The Chinese Univeristy Press
ISBN-13: 978-962-201-447-3, ISBN: 962-201-447-X

"Dr. Irene Cheng, (1904-2007), B.A., M.A., PhD, was appointed O.B.E. in 1961. She was a lecturer on Chinese cultural life at the University of California in San Diego. In this book Dr Cheng commemorates her mother, whom she credits with as being an inspirational influence in her life and for imbuing in her a passion for education and learning. She has written the book with the context of Hong Kong in mind. She includes appendices on Chin ..."






Multimedia in Education
Adaptive Learning and Testing
by Irene Cheng
Digital, 189 Pages, Published 2014 by World Scientific Publishing Company
ISBN-13: 978-981-283-706-6, ISBN: 981-283-706-X






3D Online Multimedia and Games
Processing, Transmission and Visualization
by Irene Cheng, Anup Basu
369 Pages, Published 2008 by World Scientific
ISBN-13: 978-981-281-125-7, ISBN: 981-281-125-7

"A multiresolution spline with application to image mosaics, ACM Transactions on Graphics 2, 4, pp. 217–236. Chen, S. and Williams, L. (1993). View interpolation for image synthesis, in Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH'93), pp. 279–288. Chen ..."






Intercultural Reminiscences
by Irene Cheng
Hardcover, 449 Pages, Published 1997 by Hong Kong Baptist University
ISBN-13: 978-962-8027-02-6, ISBN: 962-8027-02-6

"A collection of personal, intercultural reminiscences of Hong Kong."



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