Patrik Schumacher. Christian Norberg-Schulz. Biography[edit] Thorvald Christian Norberg-Schulz was born in Oslo, Norway. He was educated at the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule in Zurich in 1949 with subsequent studies in Rome. He studied at Harvard University under a Fulbright scholarship. He received his Doctor of Technology in architecture from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1964 and became a professor at Yale University, the following year. Norberg-Schulz was a Professor and later Dean at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design from 1966 to 1992. During 1974 he was a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Architecture Department. [3][4] Personal life[edit] In 1955, he married Anna Maria de Dominicisog. In popular culture[edit] Mark Z. Books in English by Norberg-Schulz[edit] Primary source[edit] An Eye for Place: Christian Norberg-Schulz: Architect, Historian and Editor (Gro Lauvland, author.
References[edit] External links[edit] Norberg-Schulz’s House. Konrad Wachsmann. Konrad Wachsmann (May 16, 1901 in Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany – November 25, 1980 in Los Angeles, California) was a German modernist architect. He is notable for his contribution to the mass production of building components. Originally apprenticed as a cabinetmaker, Wachsmann studied at the arts-and-crafts schools of Berlin and Dresden and at the Berlin Academy of Arts (under the Expressionist architect Hans Poelzig). During the late 1920s he was chief architect for a manufacturer of timber buildings. He designed a summer house for Albert Einstein, one of his lifelong friends, in Caputh, Brandenburg.
He received the Prix de Rome from the German Academy in Rome in 1932. In 1938 he emigrated to Paris and in 1941 to the United States, where he began a collaboration with Walter Gropius and developed the "Packaged House System", a design for a house which could be constructed in less than nine hours. He is buried in his native Frankfurt an der Oder. References[edit] External links[edit] Thomas Metzinger. Thomas Metzinger (2011) Thomas Metzinger (born 12 March 1958) is a German philosopher. As of 2011[update] he holds the position of director of the theoretical philosophy group at the department of philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and is an Adjunct Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies and on the advisory board of the Giordano Bruno Foundation.
From 2008 to 2009 he served as a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He has been active since the early 1990s in the promotion of consciousness studies as an academic endeavour. As a co-founder, he has been particularly active in the organization of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC), and sat on the board of directors of that organisation from 1995 to 2008. He served as president of the ASSC in 2009/10. Metzinger's work addresses some of the fundamental issues in neurobiology, consciousness, and the relationship between mind and body. Metzinger's interests include: Douglas Davies. Douglas Davies at St Chad's College, Durham Douglas James Davies (born 1947) is Professor in the Study of Religion in the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Durham.
He is an authority in the history, theology and sociology of death. His fields of expertise also include anthropology, the study of religion, the rituals and beliefs surrounding funerary rites and cremation around the globe, and Mormonism. His research interests cover identity and belief, and Anglican leadership. Born in Wales, he read two Bachelor of Arts degrees at St John's College, University of Durham, before doing his PhD at the University of Nottingham. His current projects include writings on 'The Encyclopedia of Cremation', 'The Clergy and British Society: 1940-2000', 'A Brief History of Death', 'Inner-speech and prayer' and 'Ritual purity'. His list of books include: He has also published a large number of articles on death, and contemporary Christianity. John Rawls. 1. Life and Work Rawls was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. His father was a prominent lawyer, his mother a chapter president of the League of Women Voters.
Rawls studied at Princeton, where he was influenced by Wittgenstein's student Norman Malcolm; and at Oxford, where he worked with H. L. A. Hart, Isaiah Berlin, and Stuart Hampshire. Rawls's adult life was a scholarly one: its major events occurred within his writings. Rawls's most discussed work is his theory of a just liberal society, called justice as fairness. 2. 2.1 Four Roles of Political Philosophy Rawls sees political philosophy as fulfilling at least four roles in a society's public life.
A second role of political philosophy is to help citizens to orient themselves within their own social world. A third role is to probe the limits of practicable political possibility. 2.2 The Sequence of Theories In contrast to the utilitarian, for Rawls political philosophy is not simply applied moral philosophy. 3.