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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Architectural profession"”.
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The architectural profession: a management viewpoint.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1971. M.C.P.
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The structure of things to come: New movements in the architectural profession
… never came about. Buildings, specialization, professionalism, project delivery and contracts, as they developed over the century, all seemed to conspire against such a reality; but the industry has not come to the point the team and entity Gropius wrote about are impossible. This thesis is an …
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An institutional analysis of the architectural profession and passive solar energy : the discovery of hidden barriers.
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning; and, (M.S. in Advanced Studies)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1979.
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Towards a design process for micro-based computer-aided drafting systems
Few things will change the architectural profession in the coming years more than the wholesale introduction of computers into the design process that has been made possible by the development of affordable micro-based CAD. This thesis is a case study into how the current state of the art will …
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Institutional control of architectural education and registration 1834-1960
This thesis examines the history of architectural education and professionalism in Britain from the foundation of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in 1834 to the Oxford Conference on education held by the RIBA in 1958. Between these dates, it investigates with primary source …
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An architectural response to the housing crisis
… a number of opportunities through which the architectural profession might contribute to the resolution of the housing crisis. These opportunities were evaluated and used as organizing elements in the development of an architectural response. It was decided that a construction system was …
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The indirect architect : linking design services and mass-production to improve workforce housing
… housing for the last century. Historically, the architectural profession has witnessed limited participation and a narrow impact on this building type. As mass-production increasingly becomes a viable means of developing budget housing, and as companies seek to market these building products, …
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"Informal" architecture : an examination of some adaptive processes in architectural traditions
… treatment and styles. The emergence of the architectural profession during colonialism and its alliance with emerging tendencies of modern architecture than with indigenous artistic urges is examined. The hypothesis is made and supported by empirical evidence, that both tradition and …
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Reconciliations and continued polarities in the works and theories of Halim and Bakri
… it. It attempts to achieve this from within the architectural profession by taking the attitudes, theories and works of two contemporary Egyptian architects -- Abdel Halim Ibrahim Abdel Halim and Carnal Bakri -- as examples of the moderate position that tries to rid itself from any emotional or …
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Multivariate optimization of neighborhood scale problems for economic, environmental, and social sustainability
This thesis begins by arguing that the architectural profession has fallen out of balance. I contend that the series of objectives which compete for the architect’s attention have been gradually subsumed by economic concerns. As a means of empirically seeking to restore a balance, a method is …
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Many mini model homes
Architectural ideas have historically circulated through a literary format. Since the rediscovery of Vitruvius's De Architectura in the fifteenth century, the architectural book has fore fronted itself as a critical tool in the deliverance of disciplinary knowledge. Producing a book became a …
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Tensions Between Theory and Practice in Sustainable Architectural Design
Architectural practice is often criticised for being contingent on a plethora of standards, regulations and commercial pressures. Such contingency is concerning given that the objectives for architectural and urban sustainable design are based on a reductive epistemology that places ‘zero-carbon’ …
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Architectural Emptiness: On a reinterpretation of the architectural implications of Heidegger's concept of dwelling.
This thesis reinterprets the architectural implications of Heidegger’s concept of dwelling. In particular it stresses the importance of the concept of poetry on dwelling that was outlined in ‘... Poetically Man Dwells ...’. This essay from Heidegger’s late period has been less frequently quoted in …
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Government regulation of health facilities construction: certification-of-need laws and the implications for architects
… unknown by those who have gone before him in the architectural profession. He now finds himself in the position of expanding his services to his clients or risk losing those clients completely. Nowhere is this more evident than in the dynamic and expanding health field At the forefront of such …
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Improving the computer interface in architectural education
… of the computer is increasing within the architectural profession. One aspect of this is the growing use of microcomputer programs in architectural education. Many of these programs have their roots in the engineering disciplines, and therefore their procedural methodology may no t be …
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Searching for identity : the approaches of three Pakistani architects
… as well as the consequent development of an architectural identity. In order to establish the framework for the study various discourses that reflect on the notion of identity have been examined. Due to the lack of an indigenous architectural discourse, and the consequent absence of …
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The American college and its architecture : an institutional imperative
The architectural form of the American college campus is shaped by broader cultural and philosophical factors which themselves are based on the notion of an architectural environment able to control the intellectual growth of the individual. This thesis investigates the artistic and philosophical …
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Architectures of the everyday in 1920s and 1930s Russia
This dissertation is an architectural history of Russian everyday life, or byt, in the first two decades after the October Revolution. In this period, the investigation and reform of byt was a project that vastly crossed the limits of the architectural profession. I survey ways in which the …
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Designing in context : a new building for Boston's Beacon Hill
… design is once again becoming recognized by the architectural profession. A contextual design is based upon an understanding of historical and social factors as well as the physical context of the project. This thesis is an exploration of the relationship between an existing environment and the …
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The professionalization of housing design in Amsterdam, 1909-1919
… municipality drew on expertise from a variety of professions: medicine, architecture, law, and social work. However, the professionalization of housing design generated a number of conflicts: struggles between professions for authority, disagreements between laymen and experts, between middle and …
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