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Showing 1 to 20 of 1183 for “"Architects"”.
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Fluxbau architects
… there has resulted an alternative method for architects to design buildings. As a way for architects and architecture to respond to, if not emulate, today's life patterns, all the thousands of pre-fabricated building parts are arranged together in often non-traditional configurations and with …
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Transformation for architects
Transformation has been studied in a number of fields such as geometry, music and linguistics but has never been investigated in architecture even though it occurs there with some frequency. The basic task of this essay is to prepare the way for a study of transformation in architecture through an …
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Planners, architects and landscape architects designing New Orleans : disciplinary differences in developing the unified plan
… cities is a complex proposition. Planners, architects and landscape architects all center their practice on aspects of this proposition. As such, their respective disciplines share the realm of urban design. This thesis attempts to understand how professionals from these three groups work as …
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Architects and energy : issues and proposals.
Thesis. 1975. M.Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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Stronger : the architects of a new intelligence
The modem world is awash in technology, little of which amazes like artificial intelligence. Siri speaks to us out of our iPhones. Google answers our every question. Watson, IBM's Jeopardy!-playing supercomputer, is popularly perceived as a hair's breadth from Arthur C. Clarke's HAL 9000. But the …
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VISTA : a visualization tool for computer architects
… introduces the Visualization Tool for Computer Architects (VISTA) Environment. The VISTA Environment is an extensible and modular information visualization environment for hardware engineers, software developers and educators to visualize data from a variety of computer architecture simulations …
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Architects in the development process : emerging professional roles
… traditional roles as private practitioners, architects have to a great extent been pushed aside or left out of development projects. An inflationary economy has welcomed competition from related businesses such as the "package dealers" who can give guarantees of project cost and delivery …
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Searching for identity : the approaches of three Pakistani architects
… in the projects of several influential architects. The three architects chosen for this study and whose work best represents the current range of architecture in Pakistan are; Habib Fida Ali, one of the most experienced and respected architects in Karachi, who having studied at the …
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Quantifying architects' and engineers' use of structural design software
Both architects and engineers encounter significant barriers and hurdles that compartmentalize both fields and increase the complexity of collaborative design. In addition to little interaction between both fields, software programs are limited in many aspects. That is why the current industry's …
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Celebrity and architects. The significance of celebrity in relation to the professional legitimisation of American architects in the 1970s and 1980s: a case study
… by reinvestigating the relationship between architects and the media during the “starchitect boom” of the late 1970s and 1980s in the United States of America. With thirty years of historical retrospect now available since the arrival of the “starchitect” phenomenon, this thesis provides a …
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Modern in St. Louis: 1930's Architects and Their Clients
… why modernist designs were attractive to certain architects and their clients. l will also endeavor to establish how modernist buildings shaped the lives and professional conduct of the people who occupied them.</p>
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Medieval Islamic and Gothic architectural drawings : masons, craftsmen and architects
As medieval designers and craftsmen have left us with no textual evidence of their thinking processes, their drawings offer valuable sources through which their approach to design and construction can be investigated. Focusing on the early architectural drawings of the medieval period, this thesis …
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Architects, Climate Change, and Resilience: Bridging Gaps Between Research and Practice
… interviews to understand how Canadian architects engaged in green building or regenerative design conceptualize and apply resilience thinking in their practice. It then compared these findings with how resilience is conceptualized in scholarly literature and embedded in green building …
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Existing off the Map: Reading Stein and Barnes as Hybrid Architects
<p>Countless scholarly works have been devoted to the modernist movement and, more specifically, to Gertrude Stein's <i>The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas</i> and Djuna Barnes's <i>Nightwood</i>. The notion of hybridity, however, has remained largely absent from published works about these texts. …
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Infrastructuring Urban Regeneration. Reimagining regeneration practice for architects and community organisers
This practice-led research extends the concept of the embedded practitioner through proposing and developing a new role within the field of urban regeneration; the Architect_Organiser. The A_O is a new role that combines participatory practice and community organising, challenging the knowledge …
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Architectural mediators : a study of the relationship between architects and developers
… the actual roles played by most developers and architects are o f ten inconsistent with what is presumed by the real estate industry. In other words, there are discrepancies existing between the expectation and performance. The thesis proposes that the architect ural mediator, as one form of …
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The Use of Native Hawaiian Plants by Landscape Architects in Hawaii
… were conducted to determine if and why landscape architects in Hawaii use native Hawaiian plants in their planting plans and to compare use in the public and private sectors. The findings show that the majority of landscape architects use native Hawaiian plants in their planting plans as a result …
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Spatial Recombination - The Geography of Architects’ Work and Workspaces in Guangzhou, China
… investigation of the work and workplaces of the architects’ own profession, from which the theory sprung up. The main hypothesis is that such a quantified investigation structured according to work stages, worker responsibilities, and firm characters of a single profession will reveal more …
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