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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Architectural Knowledge"”.
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Exploring architectural knowledge in water sensitive design
… design process and planning of water-sensitive architectural buildings, which assists in understanding when collaborating across disciplines. The research is guided by Deep Ecology, phenomenology and Ecological Urbanism. Research by Design is used as the method of the study, in which different …
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Inquiring into architectural texts : towards an interpretation of architectural knowledge
… was carried out on the contents of the architectural texts in order to illuminate written architectural knowledge. The thesis takes as its case study the required reading list for Introduction to Architecture course at Yale College, Yale University, a mandatory course for undergraduate …
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A bioclimatic approach to integrated design : form, technology, and architectural knowledge
… explores a holistic design process through which architectural elements can engage the dynamic forces of natural phenomena and integrate the spatial and temporal experience of building form with its physical environment. The framework for this exploration is a contextual mapping of dynamical …
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Fractured pedagogy : the design and implementation fault line in architectural knowledge : a conceptual and historical analysis
There appears to be a gap in architectural knowledge between design theory and implementation practice which is difficult to bridge in teaching, learning and work. As evidence of the existence of this gap two sources of data are contrasted: exhibition catalogues which convey what individual …
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Fractured pedagogy: the design and implementation fault line in architectural knowledge - a conceptual and historical analysis
There appears to be a gap in architectural knowledge between design theory and implementation practice which is difficult to bridge in teaching, learning and work. As evidence of the existence of this gap two sources of data are contrasted: exhibition catalogues which convey what individual …
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The architectural design studio as a method of inquiry : a pedagogical model for the development of architectural knowledge
… the systematic investigation and application of knowledge within the architectural design studio. The thesis takes, as a point of departure in the development of architectural epistemology, a model of knowledge developed by Yehuda Elkana, in A Programmatic At tempt at an Anthropology of …
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Art, Science, and Construction: Exploring the Boundaries of Modern Architecture in the Arabic Context, the Work of Sayed Karim and Rifat Chadirji
… a historical narrative of the evolution of architectural knowledge in the Arabic context focused on its transformation into a modern discipline using locally determined evidence found in primary texts. It explores the changing boundaries of architecture and its relationship to other fields …
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An exploration of architectural innovation in professional service firms
Architectural innovation is achieved using architectural knowledge to reconfigure an established system to link together components in a new way that provides a competitive advantage. Components in professional service firms are the expertise areas in which the firms have developed proficiency or …
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Canonizing Le Corbusier: The Making of an Architectural Icon as Colonial Hegemony
… as a “modern master” to achieving the architectural status of canonical sainthood. No other architect had been so completely enshrined on UNESCO’s list. The discussions and debates centered on this landmark decision provide evidence regarding how and why Le Corbusier’s figuration …
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Vitruvius on architecture : a modem application and stability analysis of classical structures
… but rather a central source of general architectural knowledge. Directly aimed at architects, contractors, and other individuals involved in the design and construction of buildings, De architectura provides insight into contemporary technical knowledge. One aim of this thesis is to …
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Products and organizations, mirrors in a funhouse: three essays on the mirroring hypothesis
… that mirroring is contingent on the level of architectural knowledge, which correlates with a set of observable constructs. Essay three empirically tests the proposition that mirroring between product and organization is also contingent on the demand characteristics of the target customers. …
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Bridging the Health Divide: Achieving Equitable Healthcare Access in Kenya through Artificial Intelligence
… cultural information, healthcare data, and architectural knowledge. This AI model is then used to generate hospital design concepts that are evaluated against newly developed cultural sensitivity metrics. Key findings demonstrate the potential of AI to significantly reduce design time, …
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Shanghai contemporary : the politics of built form
This thesis is an attempt to integrate research, architectural knowledge, and fieldwork to understand the phenomenon of the urban transformation in Shanghai, one of the fastest growing cities in the world. Having once been a lucrative treaty port city, Shanghai has re-embarked on the mission to …
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Negotiating the gothic in the fiction of Thomas Hardy
… into Hardy’s work in its relation to his architectural knowledge and his philosophic views of life in general, and his views of humanity’s place in it in particular.
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Methodology for architecture development for product design
… and enables others to have access to the architectural knowledge. 4. Increase confidence in the proposed system so that product design can proceed with a minimum of risk. The application of the methodology in the context of the development of the xerographic module architecture for color …
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Safe Haven Orphanage and School
… being able to help those less fortunate with my knowledge and skillset is uplifting and gratifying. There is something truly rewarding about taking the architectural knowledge and training I have received and finding a solution to a problem for a nonprofit or a group of people that could not …
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Architectural Practice in City-Shaping Infrastructure Projects: An Embedded Study of the Sydney Metro
… between the existing conceptualisation of architectural practice and the actions and roles of architects in these decidedly functional project types. This research explores the role of architects in the development of design for large-scale infrastructure, establishing the key contributions …
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Loomings: the sleep of reason produces monsters
… and artifacts that reside in the archives of architectural knowledge. In this sense, me and my ghosts live in a symbiotic relationship. I steal their work and mutate it into a new context, a different proposition, an optimistic visioning; in turn, they get to live on as afterimage. This thesis …
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The silenced complexity of architectural design studio tradition : pedagogy, epistemology and the question of power
… to understanding of the hidden dynamics of the architectural design studio tradition. It develops the thesis that studio pedagogical practices are in a complex way intertwined with the embedded epistemology and the nature of social relationships in the studio, i.e. with how architectural …
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Automated performance characterization of applications using hardware monitoring events
… predominantly reside in hardware and suffer from architectural limits. The implemented applications may experience unexpected bottlenecked executions. It is difficult to avoid these performance inefficiencies in applications due to complex interactions in their executions. These complexities make …
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