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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Architecture, American"”.
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Organization and Abstraction: The Architecture of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill from 1936 to 1956
This dissertation examines the history of the architecture firm, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) between 1936 and 1956. While focusing on the birth and growth of SOM, this study attempts to position the firm in a larger historical development of the United States in the mid-twentieth century. …
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Dirty Pictures—Not for Sale: Re-reading Bellocq’s Storyville Portraits
… light district is hardly part of contemporary American consciousness today. Part of my work involves an evaluation of what a lack of archival resources does to perceptions of Storyville and more broadly, the stereotypical late Victorian “fallen women” that has been read into history - both by …
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Robber Barons and Humbuggers: The Rise of Philanthropic Museums in Nineteenth-Century New York
… like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History came to prominence in the second half of the nineteenth century thanks to the support of wealthy benefactors. At the same time, social reformers, mostly Protestant and middle or upper-class, were combating the vice …
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DESIGN GUIDELINES: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO PRESERVING THE HISTORIC, CULTURAL, AND ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE OF GLADEWATER, TEXAS
<p>In October of 1930, Columbus Marion Joiner’s oil rig, “Daisy Bradford No. 3,” blew a gusher of oil high into the East Texas sky. The subsequent storm of economic activity that resulted from the discovery of the East Texas oilfield irrevocably changed the built environment of many small towns in …
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Disorientations
<p>The materials that make up the ordinary and mundane in the United States also reinforce and normalize a white spatial imaginary. Conventions of mapping, imaging of land and landscape, and elements of the built environment continue to orient us in a logic of space as property. In my sculptural …
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The Infinite Crisis: How the American Comic Book Has Been Shaped by War
… that war has been the greatest catalyst for the American comic book medium to become a socio-political change agent within western society. Comic books have become one of the most pervasive influences to global popular culture, with superheroes dominating nearly every popular art form. Yet, the …
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Impression, Storm
… love, gender relations, coming-of-age in the American South, and the mass changes affecting the environment through suburbanization.</p>
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Windows on the World: The Aesthetics of Difference in Neoliberal New York
<p>This dissertation seeks to refine critical methods for interpreting global cities and their cultures, charting an aesthetic history of neoliberal New York — from the 1929 regional plan to the present. Surveying a range of literature, art criticism, and planning discourse, I argue that the global …
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ON DERIVATIVES AND DERIVATIVES PRICING
… banks deal with derivatives products: the closed architecture where a bank sources for the derivatives in-house or with internal investment banks; the open architecture where a bank can source for the derivative or its components from third parties. Because of the migration from closed …
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Nomination to the National Register of Historical Places: Warden's Residence, McNeil Island Penitentiary, Washington
<p>This Master’s thesis nominates the Warden’s Residence of the former Penitentiary at McNeil Island, Washington, to the National Register of Historic Places. The Warden’s House is a superb 1932 French Renaissance Eclectic design, that embodies distinctive characteristics of a method of …
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Building Black Manhattan: Architecture, Art, and the Politics of Respectability, 1857–1914
… to the “politics of respectability” in expecting architecture would forge race pride and express their aspirations for inclusion in American public life. The art and architectural history of Black New York City has concentrated on Harlem in the interwar years as a site that was uniquely positioned …
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Essential Caretaking for Artists with Disabilities: Exploring the Overlooked Histories of Hazel Knapp and Grandma Moses
… on two early-twentieth-century self-taught American artists, Hazel Knapp (1908–95), who fell into obscurity, and Anna Mary Robertson Moses (1860–1961), best known as Grandma Moses, this is a comparative analysis of how disability influenced their artistic practices and shaped their divergent …
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Henry James, Virginia Woolf, And Frank Lloyd Wright: Interiority, Consciousness, Time, And Space In The Modernist Novel And The Home
… also connects the work of the writers with the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright. Using Joseph Frank's theory of spatial form, my work explores the similarities between Wright's designs of private residences with the design of space in the novel. All three artists, I argue, are working with …
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Sweet Briar, 1800-1900: Palladian Plantation House, Italianate Villa, Aesthetic Retreat
… fundamental motif of Palladianism in Virginia architecture, generating a line of offspring that proliferated in the eighteenth century and beyond. The Palladian plantation (Sweet Briar House I, c. 1800) featured this double portico. In 1851, following the return of the Fletcher children from an …
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I. M. Pei, William Zeckendorf, and the Architecture of Urban Renewal
… about practice and the history of urban architecture and modernism, which all too often privileges information about “architect-creators” to the exclusion of such important other actors as real estate developers. The pathbreaking and successful collaboration between this visionary …