scholarly journals Le Corbusier en Briey. Habitar la unité del bosque. *** Le Corbusier in Briey. Inhabiting the unité of the forest.

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Gómez Vives,
Keyword(s):  
Small Town ◽  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Community Services ◽  
Street Level ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
Northeastern France

La unité d’habitation de Briey-en-Forêt de Le Corbusier aparece como un paquebote de hormigón varado en el corazón de un bosque de una pequeña población del noreste de Francia. Precisamente su ubicación será origen de conflictos políticos a lo largo de sus primeros 30 años de vida, estando al borde de la demolición, tras un período de cierre. De las 4 unités que construye Le Corbusier en Francia es la menos divulgada, quizás por carecer de los servicios comunitarios que tanto éxito le habían conferido al proyecto de Marsella. Estos servicios, que se iban a implantar a nivel de calle en distintos edificios, finalmente no se desarrollarán. Por lo tanto, esta unité sólo alojará en su interior viviendas, las cuales se van a analizar pormenorizadamente. El hormigón será el material protagonista, si bien con unos acabados distintos a los vistos en los proyectos anteriores de Marsella y Nantes-Rezé. En Briey se emplearán nuevas***The Unité d’Habitation of Briey-en-For.t by Le Corbusier appears as a concrete steamboat stranded in the heart of a forest in a small town of northeastern France. Precisely its location will be the source of political conflicts throughout its first 30 years of life, being on the verge of demolition after a period of closure.Among the 4 Unités built by Le Corbusier in France, this is the least publicized, perhaps because it lacked the community services so successful in the Marseille project. These services, which were to be implemented at street level in different building, finally are not developed. It is the apartments hosted in the interior of Unité that will be analysed in detail. Concrete will be the leading material, although with different finishes than those seen in the previous projects of Marseille and Nantes-Rez.. In Briey, new formwork 

Incorporating Christian Communities in North Africa

2019 ◽  
pp. 644-664
Author(s):  
Susan T. Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
North African ◽  
Rural Churches ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
The Face ◽  
Material Evidence

Christian communities in North Africa are attested in textual sources from the second into the tenth centuries. The material evidence for them, especially churches, is restricted to the fourth through the seventh centuries and is embedded in the Roman landscape. Case studies of the urban, small town, and rural churches at Ammaedara, Aradi, Henchir Sokrine, and Horrea Caelia demonstrate a North African tendency to incorporate martyria and baptisteries. Churches also embody and shape local communities of martyrs, saints, clergy, and laymen. Their archaeological histories emphasize the continuity and cohesion of Christian communities in the face of sectarian and political conflicts.

Grupo Austral (1939–1950)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana María León
Keyword(s):  
Functional Traits ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Core Group ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Urban Plan ◽  
Political Conflicts

Grupo Austral was an association of architects that operated chiefly in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 1939 until approximately 1950. The catalan architect Antonio Bonet met Argentinians Juan Kurchan and Jorge Ferrari Hardoy in 1936 while working in Le Corbusier’s office in Paris. Argentina’s promising economic prospects and the impending conflict in Europe prompted the group to move to Buenos Aires in 1938, where they founded Austral together with a core group of young local architects. Argentina had been going through a process of transformation and growth, and Austral sought to reframe this process with the planning ideas of Le Corbusier and the the Cangrès internationaux d’architecture moderne (CIAM). The members of Austral teamed up in different configurations and worked at various levels, designing furniture, buildings, and urban plan proposals. However, although the Argentinian state was eager to embrace the technical and functional traits of modernity, it was also skeptical about foreign influences; in addition, it was mired in political conflicts. These conflicts ultimately prevented the realization of the urban plans the group instigated. Although short-lived, Austral productively collapsed different temporalities and geographies: between their formation in Le Corbusier’s office amid the European avant-garde discourse, and their encounter with a rapidly modernizing Argentina.

Students Involvement in Multilingual and Multicultural Community Services

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying-Chiao Tsao
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Linguistically Diverse ◽  
Community Services ◽  
Cultural Humility ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Multicultural Community ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Teaching Learning

Promoting cultural competence in serving diverse clients has become critically important across disciplines. Yet, progress has been limited in raising awareness and sensitivity. Tervalon and Murray-Garcia (1998) believed that cultural competence can only be truly achieved through critical self-assessment, recognition of limits, and ongoing acquisition of knowledge (known as “cultural humility”). Teaching cultural humility, and the value associated with it remains a challenging task for many educators. Challenges inherent in such instruction stem from lack of resources/known strategies as well as learner and instructor readiness. Kirk (2007) further indicates that providing feedback on one's integrity could be threatening. In current study, both traditional classroom-based teaching pedagogy and hands-on community engagement were reviewed. To bridge a gap between academic teaching/learning and real world situations, the author proposed service learning as a means to teach cultural humility and empower students with confidence in serving clients from culturally/linguistically diverse backgrounds. To provide a class of 51 students with multicultural and multilingual community service experience, the author partnered with the Tzu-Chi Foundation (an international nonprofit organization). In this article, the results, strengths, and limitations of this service learning project are discussed.

Preventing Suicide in Prisons, Part II

Crisis ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 122-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc S. Daigle ◽  
Anasseril E. Daniel ◽  
Greg E. Dear ◽  
Patrick Frottier ◽  
Lindsay M. Hayes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Task Force ◽  
International Association ◽  
Correctional Officers ◽  
Community Services ◽  
Correctional Systems ◽  
Prevention Activities ◽  
Prison Systems

Abstract. The International Association for Suicide Prevention created a Task Force on Suicide in Prisons to better disseminate the information in this domain. One of its objectives was to summarize suicide-prevention activities in the prison systems. This study of the Task Force uncovered many differences between countries, although mental health professionals remain central in all suicide prevention activities. Inmate peer-support and correctional officers also play critical roles in suicide prevention but there is great variation in the involvement of outside community workers. These differences could be explained by the availability of resources, by the structure of the correctional and community services, but mainly by the different paradigms about suicide prevention. While there is a common and traditional paradigm that suicide prevention services are mainly offered to individuals by mental health services, correctional systems differ in the way they include (or not) other partners of suicide prevention: correctional officers, other employees, peer inmates, chaplains/priests, and community workers. Circumstances, history, and national cultures may explain such diversity but they might also depend on the basic way we think about suicide prevention at both individual and environmental levels.

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