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[Urban] Monastery
… project, the driving parameter is the program: A monastery for the Dominican order within an urban context of Washington DC. The architecture has two primary responsibilities, one is to preserve the sanctity of a restricted way of living and the other to engage with its profane surrounding. The …
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An urban monastery
… could define and capture the spirit of an urban monastery. The spirit of this monastery was to dictate the form, structure, volume, materials and details. Each part of the project, inside and outside, were to have the spirit of an urban monastery. lt was my hypothesis that the best way to capture …
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Ritual space : an urban monastery
Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1990.
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A monastery on a hill
… consisted of the design and presentation of a monastery in Rock Creek Park, Washington, D.C. The scheme developed consisted of a church, library, refectory(kitchen and dining space), campanile(bell tower), four chapels, individual cells and gardens, and exterior connecting spaces including a …
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An Urban Monastery and Its Genius Loci
… The main interest in considering an urban monastery program is to create a place that embodies the spirit and culture of Tibetan Buddhism in the context of urban Washington, D.C. Given Tibet's unique culture that has developed over centuries without much Western influence, and it recent …
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Pathways: a monastery in the Allegheny River
… without the reliance on traditional icons. The monastery is an institution with a history rich with symbolism that supports a way of life guided by ritual. The monastery is composed of individual structures vastly different in their role and significance that are brought together as a unified …
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Sketches for a Benedictine monastery, Paris Mountain, Virginia
… fields and the winding road along the river. The monastery is thought of as a whole encompassing its various parts: the church, the monk's dormitory, the library, the winery, the bakery, the barns and the field chapel. Also in the enclosure are the elementary school with its classroom building, …
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Oxygen isotope composition of megacrysts from the Monastery kimberlite
… well-characterized suite of megacrysts from the Monastery kimberlite, South Africa, are presented to: (1) constrain the δ18O value of the mantle source and (2) evaluate the effects of melt-SCLM interactions on the δ18O value of mantle-derived magmas. The Monastery kimberlite megacryst assemblages …
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Contemplation in an urban landscape : a contemporary Cistercian monastery
… time-honored typology of a medieval Cistercian monastery. A hypothetical community of twenty-four Cistercian monks attempting to locate on a strip of land on the edge of the city of Lowell, Massachusetts, is the vehicle used to implement some of the architectural possibilities to reflect the …
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Materials of Buddhist Culture: Aesthetics and Cosmopolitanism at Mindroling Monastery
… and culture as exemplified at Mindroling Monastery. Focusing on the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, this work argues that Mindroling was a seminal religio-cultural institution that played a key role in cultivating the ruling elite class during a critical moment of Tibet's …
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The Secular Monastery: a research center in the Negev Desert
… issues pertaining to the desert. It will be a ‘monastery of the mind’. Semi-autonomous and distanced from an urban setting, this will be a place for intellectual refuge, a community of people with common goals, interests, and aspirations. The spring of Ein Netafim is situated at the beginning of …
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Geochemical aspects of the megacryst suite from the monastery kimberlite pipe
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A Spanish Renaissance Church and monastery for Cartagena, Columbia, South America
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1916.
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Syntax, Juxtaposition, and Non-Hierarchical Space: A Monastery in Hell's Kitchen
… to more resilient communities. In this case, a monastery in Manhattan is a dual condition to study and explore how space held in common should express openness while acknowledging the diversity of groups which dwell within. In short, communal architecture should communicate its intent with …
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Saints' lives and typika: the Constantinopolitan monastery of Panagiou in the eleventh century
… departure one community, the Constantinopolitan monastery of Panagiou, and the texts that can be attributed to its members. In Chapter One I show that Panagiou was an offshot of Lavra on Mt Athos, having been founded by Anthony, former disciple and designated successor of the Lavriot abbot …
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Finding Peace in a City at War: d.a. levy's "Suburban Monastery Death Poem"
… through a close reading of his epic, Suburban Monastery Death Poem (1968). Despite providing a unique perspective of the 1960s in America, levy’s work has been ignored by mainstream academic literary studies. Most of the existing investigations into levy or his work have been completed by a …
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A votive chapel foring a subordinate element in a great cathedral - monastery scheme
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 1912
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A Joining Of Hands: Form, Function, And Diversity At A Buddhist Monastery In Batesville, Mississippi
… "mindfulness" practice center, Magnolia Grove Monastery, in Batesville, Mississippi. Participant observation and interviews are implemented to understand the local concerns of its practitioners, and how they deal with these concerns. "Mindfulness" practice is made locally relevant to its …
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The Monastery Tou Libos: Architecture, Sculpture, and Liturgical Planning in Middle and Late Byzantine Constantinople
The monastery tou Libos is one of the most important imperial foundations to survive in Constantinople. The earlier church, dedicated to Theotokos Panachrantos, was erected in the early tenth century by Constantine Lips, a high military official of the imperial army. At the end of the thirteenth …
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The evolution of a craft: Post-Byzantine bookbinding between the late fifteenth and the early eighteenth century from the libraries of the Iviron Monastery in Mount Athos/Greece and the St. Catherine's monastery in Sinai/Egypt.
… major monastic libraries, those of the Iviron monastery in Mount Athos/Greece and of the St. Catherine's monastery in Sinai/Egypt. The primary material of the research consists of a detailed survey of 419 bookbindings dated between the late fifteenth and the early eighteenth century. To collect …
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