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Showing 1 to 20 of 232 for “"Monument"”.
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Monument without qualities
Traditional interpretations of monuments look either at the process of production or of the nature of reception. In this thesis, I take a slightly different approach and look at the monument that exists in peoples' imagination prior to what is actually constructed. The mausoleum of Quaid-e-Azam …
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Monument of Travel
Let's go up. Yeah, but it's raining. I know, let's just go. Well, we'll meet you up there. "Therefore we travel not like messengers but like travelers. We do not think only about the departure and the arrival but also the interval separating them. The trip itself is a pleasure for us." Rousseau …
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Washington Monument Visitor's Center
The Washington Monument is an international symbol of the United States of America. The monument has around one million of visitors every year. The necessity for better amenities and accessibility, safety and security for the visitor (better than wait in a line under the rain) and better …
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'The Monument' with Critical Analysis
'The Monument' is a play about community and remembrance. An elderly Harry Mutlow recounts the events in his Herefordshire village in the months after the First World War, together with the Villagers' attempts to come to terms with the ramifications of that war on their everyday lives. An attempt …
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Proscribed scenes from a monument
In producing the historic monument through attention to a neatly defined prescription of privileged concerns, architectural scholarship yields an effluvium of discarded issues proscribed by the conventions of scholarly tradition. This study proposes that a 'monument' arises from the unstable …
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As time passes: garden, monument, ruin
Groundspace to bury the deceased has become a rare commodity. As an alternative, cemeteries are beginning to build large high density mausoleums to house the dead above ground. As I began to study the building type of a mausoleum, an issue perturbed me: As time passes, the loved ones of the …
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The Monument: The Shoah and German Memory
… of remembering the Shoah in Germany and its monumental manifestations in the form of the planned Holocaust Memorial in Berlin. The research project sets out to critique and analyse a body of artistic, literary and philosophical works that engage with the problematics of remembering and …
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A living monument for a rootless city
… with a lack of identity. In this thesis, monumentality is used as an analytical and design tool to address the city's rootlessness. Defining Shenzhen as a city of immigrants, this thesis proposes to build an urban monument for the immigrants. In addition to its symbolic meaning, the …
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Cultural Monument: The Future of The Past City
“Things are changing, but nothing changes, and still there are changes.” The rise of science and technology facilitate the means to an end. As it seem, many undeveloped countries are rapidly competing to be a part of a modern civilization. Through these rapid revolutions, civilization becomes …
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Conceptualizing Ideoclasm: Monument Removal Through an Iconoclastic Lens
… This is strikingly relevant for contemporary monument removal movements where advocates can be positioned as the performers of denial even if removal is not achieved or performed by official authorities.
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El Metro: The History of a Monument in Motion
… methodology that was previously used to examine monuments in Mexico. My approach was novel because I applied this system of analysis to the Metro. The Metro is not like a standard monument. Although it used symbols to create narrative through naming and the creation of the Metro map, it is more …
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IVAAIU urban instrument : hyper-complex civic monument for Seoul
This thesis aims to plan and design an urban monument in Seoul, Republic of Korea, that can reflect the political movement of the city at the urban area which has been historically associated with political representations of the government and civic organizations. The advent of digital …
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Monument Square, Charlestown : seeking timelessness in a temporal world
The Bunker Hill Monument, a 220-foot high granite obelisk built from 1825-1842, stands on a grassy mound known as Monument Square. Today the situation of the monument incites curiosity, standing as it does amidst brick and wooden rowhouses in a residential area of Charlestown, Mass. The Bunker Hill …
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Permanence and poetics: a monument to individual achievement, Washington, D.C.
Have we lost the Art of Architecture? In this post-industrial epoch economics, capitalism, apathy, and popular culture are causing modern man to neglect aspects of his humanity. The essence of his existence and the quality of his life are quietly becoming a superficial image, T.S. Eliot sees this …
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Kazimir Malevic and architectons as monument : on looking at early modernism
Kazimir Malevich and the Architectons as Monuments: Looking at Early Modernism examines Malevich' s 1919-1932 artistic exploration, architectons. Conventionally understood as early modern avant-garde art objects or as blueprints for a new urbanism, this thesis explores their function as monuments …
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Bears Ears National Monument, Relationship, and the Rhetoric of Public Lands
… case studies related to Bears Ears National Monument (BENM). I argue that a central part of what makes public lands rhetorical are the relationships that people have with the lands, or the experiences, interactions, and meanings that they associate with the land. Chapter Two examines how …
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