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Showing 1 to 20 of 155 for “"Art and Architecture"”.
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Tile: Art and Architecture
Tiles create patterns, sequences, and order. This work proposes a museum and creative space that showcases clay tiles. The building itself allows for puzzling wayfinding that encourages curiosity and exploration from the visitor, where paths cross and no two experiences in this space should be the …
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Randomness as a generative principle in art and architecture
… to present itself as the outcome to a rigorous and objective process. So far, several designer-computer relations have been explored. The common designer-computer models are often described as either pre-rational or post-rational. Yet another approach would be the irrational. The hypothesis is …
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Establishing the Cultural Quarter: Cultural Regeneration through Art and Architecture
… the role of cultural regeneration through arts and architecture using Tate Modern as the principal case study. My analysis questions the role of culture in acting as an urban regeneration tool in north Southwark and in London more widely and how cultural output connects with those who …
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Art and Architecture in Neolithic Orkney: Process, Temporality and Context
… presents a contextual analysis of Neolithic art and architecture in Orkney. Focussing upon the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site, it details the results of original fieldwork at three sites with in situ dressed and decorated stonework: Maeshowe, Skara Brae and the Ness of Brodgar. …
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Hybridity, Style and Identity, the Court Art and Architecture of Lucknow 1770-1850
… the capital city of present day Uttar Pradesh, and previously of the Kingdom of Oudh, was the site of an extraordinary cultural and artistic milieu in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Oudh was an semi-independent state within the declining mughal empire, and close contact with …
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Art and Architecture: Democratising and Conceptualising Artistic Space in Cape Towns De Waterkant
… focusses on the relationship between art and architecture, as investigated through conceptual and social lenses, to culminate in the design of an inclusive arts centre in Cape Town's De Waterkant, as a gentrified, layered urban context. Firstly, the relationship between art and …
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The Spiritual Turn: Modern Sufism and the Study of Islamic Art and Architecture
… a genealogy of modern Sufi discourse on art and architecture. It draws the history of a chain of writers and artists, connected through a spiritual and intellectual line of transmission, who developed a particular reading of their world- its values, its cultures and arts. Divided into …
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Vesica: using Neolithic British ritual art and architecture as a model for making contemporary art
Can the creative practices of British Neolithic art and architecture be used in the making of contemporary art? This dissertation describes my practice making works of art based on the Neolithic model, presented in a gallery setting and occasionally in the landscape. The creative process is …
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Developing a dialogue between old and new: North Carolina University Center for Art and Architecture
… church, a state-wide education center for the arts is proposed due to the similarity of their inherent and adaptive nature in function. A similar sized, new building mass with a contemporary design style is added to the old church; it will also utilize a competitive contrast to the old church …
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Dynamic Interiors: The Art and Architecture of Liminal and Transitional Spaces in Florence’s Early Modern Palazzi
This thesis investigates the relationship between art, space and life inside Florence’s early modern palazzi. To explore this intersection, it focuses on four liminal and transitional zones within the elite domestic interior: the staircase and the doorway, which might be defined as universal …
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Dynamic Interiors: The Art and Architecture of Liminal and Transitional Spaces in Florence’s Early Modern Palazzi
This thesis investigates the relationship between art, space and life inside Florence’s early modern palazzi. To explore this intersection, it focuses on four liminal and transitional zones within the elite domestic interior: the staircase and the doorway, which might be defined as universal …
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A discussion of the influence of antiquty in the art and architecture produced during the reign of emperor Napoleon 1st
… the effect of antiquity on the production of art and architecture during Napoleon’s reign. Two ancient civilisations, Egypt and Rome, are used as examples of antiquity, chosen due to the expeditions led by Napoleon to Italy and Egypt prior to his reign. The effect of these expeditions on …
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Islam, Modernity, and the Liminal Space Between: A Vertical Case Study of the Institute of Traditional Islamic Art and Architecture, Amman, Jordan
<p>This dissertation investigates the development and function of the Institute of Traditional Islamic Art and Architecture in Amman, Jordan. A vertical case study using grounded theory methodology, the research attempts to create a rich and holistic understanding of the Institute. Specific areas …
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Transformation of painting into architecture : museum for the works of F. Lembersky
Art and architecture share a common goal and similar formal principles. Their common goal is to express and abstract spiritual content through harmonious, pure and beautiful material form. The shared principles of form generation in art and architecture are abstraction, dematerialization, …
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Out of antiquity : Umayyad baths in context
… explores the relationship between the art and architecture of the early Islamic period to those of pre-Islamic Bilad al-Sham (the region encompassing the modem-day countries of Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Israel), and focuses on the Umayyad bathhouse as a paradigm through …
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Poetics and practical aesthetics in the writings of Gottfried Semper.
… of the writings of the German architect and theorist Gottfried Semper (1803-1879). In his theoretical works, Semper addressed two main concerns. One was to develop an understanding of the ontological significance of art and architecture, the other was to render art and architecture the …
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Foguangsi on Mount Wutai: Architecture of Politics and Religion
… Buddha’s Radiance) is a monastic complex that stands on a high terrace on a mountainside, in the southern ranges of Mount Wutai, located in present-day Shanxi province. The mountain range of Wutai has long been regarded as the sacred abode of the Bodhisattva Mañjuśrī and a prominent center of the …
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The Position of a Chair
… ash wood. Steamed laminates make up each leg, and the spans are solid wood. A bent seat perches on this frame. Drawings, words, and photographs expose the chair in this book. A full exposition of the work can be found in the Art and Architecture Library at the College of Architecture and Urban …
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