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Energy in buildings
Nature & Environment

Energy in buildings

...architectural literature and the trade press, simply because the degree Celsius is more familiar. Technical literature can use a range of different presentations of the units of U-values: W m-2 K−1, W/m2 K, W m-2 °C−1 and W/m2 °C. These are all identical. Window U-values Table 2 gives some indicative U-values for different glazing options. Note that these are only...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Dutch painting of the Golden Age
History & The Arts

Dutch painting of the Golden Age

...architectural projects, became the dominant form of visual art in the Netherlands. It has been estimated that in the twenty-year period from 1640 to 1659 alone, between 1.3 and 1.4 million paintings were produced in the Netherlands – a remarkable figure given that the population at mid-century numbered approximately 2 million. Contemporary reports describe large numbers...
Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Exploring innovative assessment methods
Education & Development

Exploring innovative assessment methods

...architecture and urban planning, states: Each pattern describes a problem that occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it the same way twice. (Alexander et al., 1977) At its core, a pattern has three parts: a problem...
Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...architecture, which now adds the Hangzhou Ecopark to its list of attractions. The local landfill site incorporates China’s first industrial landfill gas power plant, where gas from the anaerobic decomposition of waste is collected through a network of pipes and burned to generate electricity (Liu, 2011). This is part of the visitor attractions, which include sculpture...
Translation as a career
Languages

Translation as a career

...architecture and an interview with the linguist and political activist, Noam Chomsky. I also proofread texts translated by others working on the project. This was invaluable experience for a newly trained translator whose aim was to go straight into freelancing, particularly in terms of understanding the process (translation, self-checking/editing, revision by another...
Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...architecture, amenities and furnishings – undoubtedly made the asylum seem a more pleasant place to the families of the insane, these reforms seem to come too late to explain the growth in asylum numbers. Similarly, improvements in the status of doctors dealing with asylum patients (which owed little to their ability to cure patients) came in the second half of the...
Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation

...architecture and performance spaces’, in M. Stöckli and A.A. Both (eds) Flower World: Music Archaeology of the Americas / Mundo Florido: Arqueomusicología de las Américas, Vol. 2. Berlin: Ekho Verlag, pp. 11–35. Suits, B.H. (1998) ‘Tuning: Frequencies for Equal-Tempered Scale, A4=440 Hz’, Physics of Music – Notes. Available at:
Exploring the history of prisoner education Badge icon
History & The Arts

Exploring the history of prisoner education

...architecture and experience of imprisonment at Lincoln Castle Gaol. Watch this video now, and try to write down some brief notes about the ideas being presented in it. You will refer back to these later in this session. [GENTLE MUSIC] ROSALIND CRONE This is the chapel at Lincoln Castle Gaol, which was constructed in 1848 as part of the renovation and enlargement of the...