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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"American design"”.
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Critical encounters: How some Japanese students understand and adapt to the practice of critique in the U.S. design studio
… is a central feature of instruction in art and design programs. Critique is an event in which students present their work and receive feedback from faculty, visiting professionals, and their classmates. Critique can be formative or summative. In formative critiques, the instructor intervenes in …
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An indoor public space for a winter city
Winter is a marginalized season in North American design. Even though most cities in the northern United States and Canada have winter conditions-snowfall, ice, freezing temperatures, and long nights-for substantial portions of the year, their built environments do little to embrace their climate. …
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Native American Chic: The Marketing Of Native Americans In New York Between The World Wars
… museum and gallery exhibitions of Native American art mounted in the United States, particularly New York City, during the interwar period, and documents the immediate and lasting impact these shows and their promotion had on the emergence of "Indian Chic" in women's fashion and interior …
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Shear and Peel Stresses at the Interface between Hollowcore Slabs and the Topping Concrete
… floor’s load carrying capacity. However, North American design standards require intentional roughening of the hollowcore slab surface to consider such composite action. This requirement results in added cost that manufacturers are keen to avoid. This thesis presents a comprehensive experimental …
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Design and Behavior of Composite Steel-Concrete Flexural Members with a Focus on Shear Connectors
… parts, each dealing with a different aspect of design of composite steel-concrete flexural members. The first part deals with a new type of shear connection in composite joists. Composite steel-concrete flexural members have increasingly become popular in design and construction of floor …
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Measuring Economic Value of Native American Cultural Designs within the Tribal Gift Box Market and Tribal Forest Certification
Many companies use Native American names, image and art designs in order to market their products, even though some of them have no affiliation with Native American tribes. This suggests Native American image and design provide a set of values for certain consumers. The purpose of this study is to …
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The ideological construction of new urbanism in Melrose Arch : a critical analysis
… keeping in mind that since New Urbanism is an American design movement, some of its principles may be impractical to apply in a South African environment. In order to conceptualise the environment in which the analysis takes place, the author sketches a background of the origin and history of …
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Analytical and interpretive practices in design and new product development : evidence from the automobile industry
Product design and development have been studied from both positivist and interpretivist paradigms. From the positivist perspective, design and product development are seen as technical transformation or production processes, which take customer requirements and existing technological possibilities …
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Ideas as Interiors: Interior Design in the United States 1930-1965
… the first decades of the twentieth century, Americans grappled with the idea of what it meant to be a modern society. As in other periods and places, arts, architecture and design played a significant role in expressing and exploring the issues and concerns of the day. In the period 1930 to …
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Designing American Taste: Frank Alvah Parsons, Queer Pedagogy and the Development of Applied Art and Design Education in the 20th Century
… thesis seeks to understand the life and work of design educator Frank Alvah Parsons (1863-1930), Parsons School of Design’s namesake, as well as his disciples, William M. Odom and Van Day Truex. Parsons dedicated his life to democratizing design and was one of America's foremost design …