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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Architectural criticism"”.
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Résidences secondaires : how Eisenman houses fictive structures of history
… by fragile links disrupt the boundaries between architectural criticism and practice in architecture and promote interaction between the critic and the practitioner. My thesis focuses on the link between writing and designing. Peter Eisenman exemplifies the architect's transitory position between …
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Architecture and development as instruments for political control and marginalization in Lucknow, India
… explore the role that architecture, development, architectural criticism, and urban intervention played, as representational and ideological tools, in the process of British colonial formation in Lucknow, from 1765 to 1858. Results show: (1) Architecture and development played a crucial role in …
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Nomadology in architecture: ephemerality, movement and collaboration.
… describes how nomadology may serve contemporary architectural practice and criticism; challenging static, permanent, and heroically solitary ways of working and dwelling. Nomadology in architecture proposes ways for thinking and working temporally, dynamically, and collaboratively. The thesis …
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The use of precedents in contemporary Arab architecture : case studies; Rasem Badran and Henning Larsen
… and a production, and suggests an approach for architectural criticism.
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On the epistemological significance of aesthetic values in architectural theory
… which have been ignored by contemporary architectural criticism. The theoretical foundation of my argument lies in the work of analytic philosophers and literary theorists such as Hilary Putnam, Nelson Goodman and Satya P. Mohanty. These writers emphasize the rational and affective nature …
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Houses undergoing psychoanalysis :
… is of tension and animosity and that architectural design, following a psychoanalytical tendency to reduce tension, is used to improve this condition. When great amounts of energy and care are invested in this process, the narrative of tension and its resolution is brought to the …
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Architectural conventions and contextual cognition
What is offered herein are some tools of architectural criticism. The focus of these criticisms is concerned with the environmentally-public edge between individual buildings and their site-specific contexts. Within such a domain, the particular interest of this investigation pertains to the formal …
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An Experimental Domain: Object-Oriented Ontology and Architecture
Architectural discourse has begun to explore a new domain of discussion regarding Posthuman theory, Speculative Realism, New Materialism, and Object-Oriented Ontology. The response within academia to these relatively new areas can be seen in architectural school pedagogy, studio topics, syllabi, …
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Apotheosis of the Public Realm: Civic Classicism in New York City's Architecture
… of citizenship, the public realm, and architectural and urban form. </p> <p>In this context, an informal school of architecture in New York that I call "civic classicism" developed three distinctive design modalities to reform the city's public space: the ensemble of buildings in a …
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Returns-- towards a photographic criticism : [or, the case of the Berliner Bild-Bericht and the North American grain elevators]
… and it develops the possibility of ‘photographic criticism’ as a method of interpretation. To do so, the thesis considers the photographic image as an object of different guises – as a lantern slide (Chapter Three), as a 35mm slide (Chapter Four), as a retouched photograph (Chapter Six), as a …
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Among the Modernist Ruins: British Writing and the Architecture of the State
… Lawrence exchanged letters with the editor ofThe Architectural Review, a correspondence culminating in what proved his final piece of writing, an article calling for a wholesale clearance of traditional forms: “Pull down my native village to the last brick...Make a new England.” After seeing the …
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Building a History: Evaluation of Central Washington University Campus Buildings to Determine Eligibility for Listing on the National Register of Historic Places
… building, I compared research results with the architectural inventory, and found twenty buildings to be eligible for NRHP nomination (as of 2015). Through extensive research, I created an historical context for the physical development of CWU’s campus, which can be used in the future to …