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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Architecture History"”.
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The use and abuse of architecture: history, elements, and conditions
Architecture is a way of making that enables man to present his world. This making allows him to find his relationship to architecture and himself. The history of architecture is a part of the history of man and demands our attention if we are to make a contribution to the life of man. Nietzsche …
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Between external and internal space : an urban transition
… dissertation is to explore the evolution of both architecture and urban space, in terms of mutual relationship between solids and voids, with particular attention to two transitional moments of ancient and modern history: the Hellenistic and Baroque periods. This study is the result of the …
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The writings of Louisa Tuthill : cultivating architectural taste in nineteenth-century America
… author. Tuthill has been acknowledged for her History of Architecture from the Earliest Times (1848), the first history of architecture published in the United States. However, her numerous other books dealing with architecture have been largely ignored. As early as 1830, Tuthill published …
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Knot/Knotting Practice in Craft and Space
… an art historical study that combined craft and architecture history with critical theory related to the social production of space. The third part was an exhibition of drawing and knotted objects titled Opening Closures. This document unifies the lines inquiry that define my project. The first …
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A study of Cork City Gaol, (1824-1878), As a typical example of an Irish county Gaol of the Nineteenth century with reference to the relevance of such county gaols to modern prisons and as an example of heritage research
… modern prisons. O'Mahony, (1994), described the history of official punishment as being of itself interesting, and therefore relevant to our understanding of a modern penal system. Most modern, liberal minded penologists argue that the aim of punishment is the protection of society (Rusche & …
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The Project of the City in Nineteenth-Century Lebanon: Missionary Competition and Collective Colonialism in Beirut, 1820–1914
… AUB and USJ. Situating these projects within a history of imperial contestation in the Levant, the dissertation questions the relationship between the missionaries’ educational aims and political ambitions, as revealed by their architectural and urban implementation in the territory, and later, …
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L'architettura terrestre delle ciclovie. Nuovi strumenti e metodologie nella progettazione delle ciclovie di lunga percorrenza: una sperimentazione sulla ciclovia del Lago Maggiore
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Reframing Femininity: Collecting Pictures of Early Christian Virgin Martyrs in Seicento Naples
<p>This dissertation is an art historical study of the production and consumption of early Christian female martyr imagery in seventeenth-century Naples. Although it was the second largest city in Europe at the time, scholars have only recently begun to study the flourishing art market and the …
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Arquitectura durante la Edad Moderna en la sierra burgalesa
La presente tesis aborda un detallado estudio sobre la actividad artística en general, y arquitectónica en particular, desarrollada dentro de la comarca de la sierra burgalesa durante la Edad Moderna. No obstante, el estudio excede este propósito tan concreto para adentrarse en un análisis en …
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Within the Wrought-Iron Fence: the Hidden Heritage of McCormick Theological Seminary, 1864-1975
<p>Few people today realize that the black wrought iron fence that runs along the west side of Halsted Street and west on Belden and Fullerton Avenues to the El tracks once defined the grounds of McCormick Theological Seminary, a Presbyterian Seminary. The first major building site in this area, …
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The Art of Burial in the Medieval Nile Valley: Christian and Islamic Interchange in Religious Funerary Contexts
<p>Christian communities in medieval Islamic Egypt (ca. ninth to twelfth centuries) were active participants in Islamicate visual culture. Indeed, Christians employed the same artistic objects as their Muslim neighbors in secular contexts, and close commonalities were even pervasive in art employed …
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Spatial analysis and the late Medieval Tower-Houses of Britain and Ireland
… analysis, comparing the defensive and domestic architecture of the tower-houses to determine whether they were fit for purpose as lordly residences. <br/> <br/>The spatial analysis reveals that the same basic spatial format is found across Britain and Ireland, though there are clearly regional …
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Interpreting Japan; Central European Design and Architecture 1920-1940
… Japanese", has been a growing field within art history over the past few decades. However, the field of Central European Japonisme has, thus far, been relatively under-researched. Although a few scholars have touched upon this phenomenon (Ken Tadashi Oshima, Claudia Delank, Marketa Hanova and …
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