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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Asheville"”.
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Unlocking the Urban Box: A Multi-Use Building for Asheville, NC
The city block may be seen as the fabric of the urban environment. It is often a compacted form, divided only by changing facades and party walls. Boxes all in rows. There is an inescapable sense of enclosure. Architecture has the potential to unlock the box, allowing interaction between inside and …
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Describing Chaos: Willem de Kooning's Collage Painting Asheville and its Relationship to Traditions of Description and Illusionism in Western Art
… in one of his most important collage paintings, Asheville of 1948. The first part of the thesis reconstructs the collage painting process of Asheville presenting it as a descriptive enterprise in which de Kooning consciously pursued the more chaotic "unknowable" aspects of his visual life by …
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An Examination of Cultural Repertoires and Social Ties Related to Surviving, Navigating, and Exiting Chronic Unsheltered Homelessness in Asheville, NC
… chronic unsheltered homelessness (PECUH) in Asheville, NC, paying particular attention to social ties. Data for this research includes 21 semi-structured interviews with PECUH and three months of ethnographic fieldwork. Utilizing a grounded theory approach, findings indicate that the cultural …
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Discovering the Plan
… a community art gallery located in the city of Asheville, North Carolina. The primary rooms within the building are demonstrated through perspective drawings, models and photographs. The character of each room was established through the spatial composition of pattern, color and form in light. …
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The Life of Buildings: A Narrative Through Time
… cotton mill within the River Arts District of Asheville, North Carolina. The project seeks to establish a continuum between the historic past of the site and the current transformations of the district. The architectural design of the new building serves as a vehicle to study buildings in time …
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Radar multi-sensor (RAMS) quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE)
… concentrated around the Pigeon River Basin near Asheville, NC. In this mountainous locale, beam blockage, beam overshooting, orographic enhancement, and the unique climactic conditions complicate the development of reliable QPE's from radar. The QPE precipitation fields evaluated in this analysis …
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An investigation of ozone and sulfur dioxide concentrations in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
… level ozone monitors located in nearby cities (Asheville, North Carolina, and Knoxville, Tennessee) and a total oxidant monitor located in the Park. Flights, which were made at monthly intervals, prov~ded data which indicate that ozone levels in the Park frequently exceed the NAAQS by late …
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CHARLES OLSON AND THE AESTHETICS OF NEGATIVE CAPABILITY: A DRAFTING OF POSTMODERNITY’S “PLAN FOR A CURRICULUM OF THE SOUL”
… of Black Mountain College, located outside Asheville, North Carolina, worked to create something of an American artistic diaspora. Situated again in Gloucester, Massachusetts, Olson redoubled his own epic poetic efforts that resulted in the ultimately unfinished Maximus Poems. Olson returned …
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CHARLES OLSON AND THE AESTHETICS OF NEGATIVE CAPABILITY: A DRAFTING OF POSTMODERNITY’S “PLAN FOR A CURRICULUM OF THE SOUL”
… of Black Mountain College, located outside Asheville, North Carolina, worked to create something of an American artistic diaspora. Situated again in Gloucester, Massachusetts, Olson redoubled his own epic poetic efforts that resulted in the ultimately unfinished Maximus Poems. Olson returned …