Race and Modern Architecture(1st Edition) A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present (Culture Politics & the Built Environment) by IreneCheng, 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 IreneCheng, 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 IreneCheng 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 IreneCheng 201 Pages, Published 1976 by Distributed By The University Press Of Hawaii ISBN-13: 978-0-8248-0489-3, ISBN: 0-8248-0489-9
"In March 2003, Bernard Tschumi convened forty of the worlds 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 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 ..."
"... 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 ..."
"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
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 IreneCheng Published 1976 by Chinese University Of Hong Kong ISBN-13: 978-962-201-096-3, ISBN: 962-201-096-2
"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 IreneCheng Digital, 189 Pages, Published 2014 by World Scientific Publishing Company ISBN-13: 978-981-283-706-6, ISBN: 981-283-706-X
"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 IreneCheng 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."