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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"Cultural Center"”.
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Chinese Cultural Center
… of existence.A. PROJECT To design a Chinese Cultural center. B. PURPOSE 1. To introduce the traditional and contemporary Chinese culture to western people. 2. To illustrate and describe the philosophies of Chinese life and thinking to visitors of the center. 3. To create a new space and form …
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Islamic cultural center
The center for religious life throughout the Muslim world is the Mosque. It dominates the urban landscape of every Muslim town and city and functions both as a place for daily prayers and as a community center. Every new Muslim community requires a mosque. This is true for the hundreds of muslim …
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Persian Cultural Center
… -Rumi In my thesis, by designing a Persian Cultural Center in Washington D.C. on the site of the former embassy of Iran, I want to produce and define a place that introduces architecturally the theme of Persian culture and education which has continuously developed over the past many …
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Space + culture + identity : Chinese cultural center in Sea Point
… of architecture? How can architecture represent cultural identity in a foreign context, in a more respectful way? Can architecture become the platform to connect people with distinct cultural backgrounds? Last but not least, in the contemporary city of Cape Town, what is the multi-cultural …
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Diaspora, dislocation, denizen : a cultural center in Lowell, Massachusetts
… of relearning communication, rethinking a cultural dialogue. It is also an interiorized alone sense of loneliness, and even a longing for a return to a familiar place and time. Being immigrant is a journey, both mental and physical. This thesis concerns itself with the issues of being an …
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Places of the Earth: A Cultural Center for Zimbabwe
… to learn about their culture and traditions. My cultural center was an attempt to take the essential elements of traditional building, use the structural language of the homesteads and create a place that would become part of the site and culture of today's Zimbabwe.
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All the city's a stage : a cultural center for Boston
… design intention has been to produce a cultural center which provides a scaffolding or framework for performance at a variety of levels for a variety of people. Form studies and diagrams analyze this intention in the context of the proposed design.
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Toward Liquid Emerald: A Cultural Center for the Japanese Tea
What are the layers of interaction between building and user? Weight? Time? Material? Space? How do these four elements affect the perception of an architectural figure?
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Auspicious Generation: The Bamboo LIfe Cycle of a Chinese Cultural Center
… To do this, bamboo acts as a catalyst for a cultural center. It grows and matures and is harvested, it changes the space; and as it is used, degrades, and fi nally taken down, it changes the design. From seed to opera house and back again to the earth, the cycle breaths continuous life into …
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Building civic intensity : a cultural center for Rua das Flores, Curitiba, Brazil
Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1990.
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Blacksburg Centre for the Arts: a proposed cultural center and town redevelopment
… using Blacksburg as an example of towns and a cultural center as the vehicle of generation. A need for a cultural center is established, and activities are programmed to fit that need. The idea is to create a center that will generate a new surrounding micro-environment that, once initiated, …
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A design strategy for transforming an old power plant into a cultural center
… proposal for renovating this place is a cultural center where people can recall and celebrate its history. Kalasatama has been selected as an industrial area for Finland's energy production from the very early 1900s up to the present time. It is also the place for a future power plant. …
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Reasserting the Past and Preserving the Future: A Cultural Center in Wadi Rum
… in the Arabian Desert region. It proposes a cultural center that reflects the ecological and cultural significance of the site. The architecture of the building converges elements from the desert with elements from local bedouin culture. The building aims to create spaces for educational …
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Capturing the essence : designing a cultural center for the coastal and mountain peoples of Taiwan
… to examine how a group of people can retain its cultural integrity when under economic development pressure. I am using design as a point of departure in looking at how to approach and preserve a culture. I begin by a search of indigenous folktales, analysis of traditional living patterns, …
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More than meets the eye: exploring a black cultural center as a counterspace for African American college students
… participation in counterspaces like Black cultural centers (BCC). Counterspaces are settings theorized to bolster the self-concepts of African American college, thus enabling them to ameliorate or circumvent the deleterious effects of racial denigration. Yet, the self-enhancing processes …
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Planning for a learning society : Minnestrista Cultural Center and Oakhurst Gardens in Ball State University's professional development schools network
… network sites. This two-part museum, Minnetrista Cultural Center and Oakhurst Gardens, brings community partnership to the focus, incrementally enlarging educational environments and experiences beyond the school classroom and toward the ideals of a learning society.The purpose of this study was …
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Legacy, voice, and identity: Understanding belonging through Black student experiences — A study of the significance of a Black cultural center for sense of belonging
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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Transparency and Movement in Architecture
… platforms, walls and volumes are inhabited by a cultural center. The cultural center contributes to the artistic spirit and identity of the city by concentrating various artistic representations.
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Diversity sieves: Cultural centers as sites of successful subject production in higher education
… college students work through one institution’s cultural center to shape the subjectivities of minoritized students. Using a qualitative case study design, and textual, observational, and interview data collected from one institution, I conducted a discourse analysis to understand how one …
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