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Showing 1 to 20 of 364 for “"Juxtaposition"”.
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Spatial overlay: valuing the existing through juxtaposition
Adaptive reuse can be viewed as a catalytic process that upgrades an existing building into its current temporal reality. This process has given rise to the practice of facadism; a practice that operates in the middle ground between two extreme approaches of either preservation or complete …
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Two Autonomous Spatial Systems and Their Juxtaposition
… a syntactic grid and a pure formal volume. The juxtaposition of these two elements allows for insight into and exploration of their autonomous ordering potentialities, as well as the potential relationships or the presence of both systems. The syntactic grid articulates structure and strength …
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Juxtaposition and the creative reader Malinowski in the field
A re-assessment of Bronislaw Malinowski's two principal texts conceived during his fieldwork experience in the Trobriand Islands, The Argonauts of the Western Pacific and A Diary in the Strictest Sense of the Term, will be attempted in light of James Clifford's contention that they are two halves …
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Building a federal ideal : juxtaposition of individual and the state
This thesis is about the design of a hypothetical national institution called the American Institute. The Institute consists of a presidential library and archive, a somewhat scholarly center for national debate, and a museum for the public presentation of critical national issues. Included in the …
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Syntax, Juxtaposition, and Non-Hierarchical Space: A Monastery in Hell's Kitchen
… coexistence in spite of difference. Duality and juxtaposition both denote multiplicity, and thus are apt qualities for the honest expression of communal architecture. Duality, defined as "an instance of opposition or contrast between two concepts or two aspects of something", speaks to an …
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Synergy in a town center : juxtaposition of artifact, public, and educational space
This thesis proposes a new model for public and educational space in a synergistic and physical relationship that encourages interaction and change. This model provides an arena for redefinition and mutual transformation of the concepts of public and education through time. The exploration of how …
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Woven Speaker: Exploring the Potential of Technology and Craft Juxtaposition through Speaker Weaving
… foster these behaviors. This work explores the juxtaposition of craft and technology through weaving to create speakers and investigates how this juxtaposition can be utilized to ignite curiosity and lead a deeper engagement with technology. Following a research-through-design approach, a …
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Scars of an Empire: A Juxtaposition of Duncan Campbell Scott and Jacques Soustelle
… Canada, France and Mexico. It argues that a juxtaposition of these individuals illuminates the struggles of liberal modern nation-states in relationship with Indigenous peoples. The dissertation explores the failures of both French liberal imperialism and Canadian domestic colonization in …
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The Rational and the Intuitive : a Thematic Juxtaposition in the fiction of William Faulkner
… Snopes trilogy he sets up the rational/intuitive juxtaposition in terms of a conflict, between certain characters and within others, which must be resolved if modern man is to survive his propensity for self-destruction. It is with these three novels--The Hamlet, The Town, and The Mansion--that …
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Showing the Unsayable: Trauma and Juxtaposition in Persepolis and A Child's Life and Other Stories
… of the comics medium and of memoir by using juxtaposition — of alternative illustration styles, of what is seen and what is not seen, of different tellings of a protagonist's story — to subvert cultural and sexual roles traditionally imposed on women.
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A Blending of Purpose: The Juxtaposition of Functional and Aesthetic Qualities in Pots of Use.
<p>This thesis supports the Master of Fine Arts exhibition entitled <em>A Blending of Purpose</em> at East Tennessee State University, Carroll Reece Museum, Johnson City, Tennessee, November 4 – 22, 2004. It discusses the artist’s desire to create exceptionally crafted functional work which focuses …
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Mosaic: a study of juxtaposition in literature, as an approach to Pound's Cantos and similar modern poems
The principles of form in ‘mosaic’ poems such as The Cantos, Paterson, Maximus, or even ‘The Waste Land,’ are not yet clearly understood. Criticism needs to bring its various ideas of ‘musical form,’ ‘non-linear form,’ or ‘the poem as a field of forces’ into sharper focus. Mosaic poems are …
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Problematizing partnership: the experience, perceptions, and insights of Ugandan church leaders in church partnership with Christians overseas, in juxtaposition with the Western literature
This research examines the experience and perceptions of church leaders in Mbale, Uganda engaged in ‘local-to-local’ relationships: direct, cross-continental, missional partnerships without mediation by traditional gatekeepers (typically Christian missionaries or ministries). Its findings are then …
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A Juxtaposition of rational choice and socio-cultural approaches to explain changes in family size throughout the process of economic development using household survey data from Brazil
This research juxtaposes empirical approaches to analyze the relationship between fertility and economic development. Using household survey data from Brazil in the mid 1990s, separate Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) models are run that comparatively evaluate the explanatory power of divergent methods …
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A coming together: The juxtaposition of the Rae and Hearne cratons along the Virgin River shear zone (Snowbird tectonic zone), Saskatchewan, Canada, and the implications for proto-Laurentia
The Snowbird tectonic zone of western Laurentia remains an enigmatic feature; some researchers have suggested that it represents a Paleoproterozoic suture, whereas others have proposed that it represents a reactivated Archean intracratonic fault zone. The Virgin River shear zone is the most …
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Contextual priming effects in the reception and evaluation of news events
Juxtaposition is a complex phenomenon that exists abundantly in media messages, at least since early newspapers. Nevertheless, while many studies focus in the effects of news and while the research on context effects is broad, studies about context effects in news reception are scarce. A hypothesis …
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Human Theatre
Human Theatre III's photography series of juxtaposition of space is a confluence of ideas and a group of loose practices. It does not have a single point of origin, a clear meaning, or a linear narrative: Instead, it uses a series of fragmented metaphors and metonymy phrases to solve the problem of …
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An application of the Kuleshov Experiment on Generation X: Testing viewer reactions to editing
… concluded that audiences find meaning in the juxtaposition of unrelated shots. This discovery was one of the earliest observations used to formulate the theory of montage. This study combines historical information related to the original experiment, editing techniques, and theories in visual …
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Between Order and Chaos
… work. Tension is created formally through the juxtaposition of organic and geometric forms as well as the juxtaposition of orderly elements, like mathematical drawings, and chaotic elements, like splatters of paint. Conceptual tension is created through the comparison of opposites. For example …
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