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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Cultural Aesthetics"”.
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Hybrid Architecture within Najd Region, Saudi Arabia: Environmental, Cultural, Structural, and Functional Juxtapositions
… architectural factors, including environmental, cultural, structural, and functional ones. The work examines the Najd region of Saudi Arabia and its historical and contemporary contexts concerning functional utility, cultural frameworks, tectonic architectural elements, and site-based …
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Assembling Caliban: French and Other European Depictions of American Bodies in the Sixteenth Century
… evolution of European literary understandings of cultural difference. This study hopes to better situate this Franco-Brazilian encounter within a broader Renaissance cultural aesthetics. The writings of a series of French thinkers including André Thevet, Jean de Léry, and Michel de Montaigne, are …
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Comparative Landscape Infrastructure in Kolda, Senegal and Washington, D.C.
… risk of water stress, I am able to compare cultural aesthetics and engage two different levels of infrastructural build out (World Resources Institute, Water Risk Atlas). The design approach draws inspiration from Lawrence Halprin's notion of "experiential equivalents," and proposes a suite …
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Understanding Lists: Umberto Eco's Rhetoric of Communication and Signification
… concurrent to his commentary on the social and cultural implications of the algorithmic-obsessed Internet age. To understand his argument, this project collects hints of insight through his corpus. In Eco’s cultural aesthetics, he celebrates the notion of openness that invites and encourages …
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Preserving the ethos of industry at the Carrie furnaces: the redevelopment of an industrial heritage site and the interpretation of manufacturing culture
… to the site, and conserves the material and cultural aesthetics of steel production, labor, thrift, and enterprise that made industrial Pittsburgh the center of American heavy manufacturing.
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From hood to highbrow: Narratives of Black college girls’ identity development across class lines
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01