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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Architecture, Modern"”.
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A comparative analysis in residence design in early American traditional and one of the current revolutionary styles
… criteria by which we could properly evaluate the modern house in relation to its neo-colonial neighbor, then what? Idealism? Idealism in architecture is as extramundane as idealism in social systems. Sentiment is as essential to architecture as it is to literature, music or art. The danger lies in …
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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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Building a Continent: The Idea of Latin American Architecture in the Early Postwar
In January 1943, New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) opened Brazil Builds. This exhibition has been widely credited as initiating the international appraisal and celebration of Latin America's modern architecture. Responsive to the war context and to the museum's engagement with the Office of …
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Environmental complement to Rice and its School of Architecture
Since the first Architecture schools were established in the U.S. over a century ago there have been instances when the country has questioned its own methods, values and identity. The perceptions of a university and, in some cases, of the school of architecture, as microcosms of the world gives …
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Leandro Erlich: Towards A Collaborative Relationship Between Architecture and Art
<p>For this Museum Studies capstone project, I presented and developed a proposal and project plan for an exterior interactive exhibition of an Argentinean artist, Leandro Erlich, at the Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) in San Francisco, California. After researching diverse conflicts between …
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Primitivism, Regionalism, and the Vernacular in Le Corbusier's middle years, 1929-1945
… the gradual emergence of the second-phase of his modern architecture. The concrete realization of this process can be explicitly seen in his urban plans for North Africa and South America and his small-scale domestic projects in France starting from the late-1920s onward. Overall, this thesis …
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RE: Banco Sul Americano
El sistema de loteos que tanta virtud y posibilidades les dieron a los primeros arquitectos ahora perjudicaban a quienes llegaron tarde al fervor constructivo, en detrimento de aquellos edificios originales. El banco fue rodeado a sus lados por nuevas torres de oficinas y residencias, perdiendo su …
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Sacred sounds and natural grounds: designing acoustic communities within Prairie Style and Organic architectural spaces
This dissertation examines the relationship between music performance and Midwestern architectural spaces designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and his Prairie Style and Organic Architectural contemporaries. It examines a period of nearly 100-years, from the late 1890s to the mid-1980s, and considers the …
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Bloomsbury's Byzantium and the Writing of Modern Art
<p>“Bloomsbury’s Byzantium and the Writing of Modern Art” examines the role of Byzantine art in Bloomsbury art critics Roger Fry’s and Clive Bell’s narratives of aesthetic Modernism. Fry, in his pre-World War I and interwar writings and teachings on art, and Bell, in seminal texts such as …
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RE: Galería Monteiro
La Galeria Monteiro fue proyectada en 1959 y construida en 1963 por los arquitectos Rino Levi, Roberto Cerqueira y Luis Carvalho. Su encargo proviene del empresario textil Rocky Monteiro, quien busca realizar un desarrollo en el centro de la ciudad de San Pablo. La misma se la puede comprender como …