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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Monumentality"”.
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Monumentality of Serenity and Dynamism
Monumentality derives from the eternal need of people to own symbols to reveal their inner life and social conceptions. I want to design a building to represent Modern Monumentality. This project came from the idea of " Serenity and Dynamism", which came from the famous wood-print " The Great Wave …
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Embracing Monumentality: a Montpelier Center for the Arts
Monumentality shares a connection with history in its relationship with time, but it is not limited by this association. The selection of noble materials, such as granite, can date a building through the august character of the stone and its referential qualities. However, in the making of a …
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Louis H. Sullivan: The Aesthetic Movement, Classical Monumentality and the Skyscraper
… Movement surfaces and two-part Classical Monumentality. For architects, the Aesthetic Movement allowed for a greater amount of freedom when it came to sources, massing, and ornament, which resulted in the creation of more highly textured surfaces than ever before. Under raking light, this …
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The Poet's Corpus: Memory and Monumentality in Wilfred Owen's "The Show"
… with the limitations of lyric poetry, the monumentality of poetic composition, and the difficulties of representing one’s traumatized memory. I will bolster this reading with a comparative study of the poem’s manuscripts that interprets the rough and fair copies of Owen’s late poem as …
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Textual monumentality and memory in early modern England, 1560–c.1650
This study examines how manuscript and print culture functioned as a site of memory and commemoration in early modern England, creating ‘textual monuments’ to individuals, families, and communities. This dissertation shifts scholarly attention from genre and the structures of texts to the …
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Monumentality and its shadows : a quest for modern Greek architectural discourse in nineteenth-century Athens (1834-1862)
… manifested its effects most prominently. Monumentality, a concept with implications of cosmological unity and sharing in the same communicative framework, serves as a working conceptual tool which fa cilitates the identification, categorization, and analysis of different models of thought …
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LIFE ON THE EDGE: The Archeologist, the Oil Rig, and the Newfoundlander
… by design project engages with questions of monumentality, counter-monumentality, and changing heritage through critical and speculative drawings and maps in a back-and-forth between water, landscape and the possibilities of a reconstituted future. The thesis attempts to grapple with the …
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Dantean reverberations: four readers of Dante in the Twentieth century: a study on the Dantes of Primo Levi, Edoardo Sanguineti, Samuel Beckett, and Seamus Heaney
… with Levi’s troubled relationship with the monumentality of Dante in Levi’s personal culture and with the modern writer’s attempts at rejecting that very monumentality. In the third and fourth chapters, the focus is on the inclusion of Dante within Edoardo Sanguineti’s poetry, and on the …
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City Hall
This thesis grew from a curiosity to understand monumentality, form, and design in a project that is rooted in constructional development. The program is a city hall in Rockville, Maryland, in the spirit of a basilica. A city hall should act as a room for the city. This is a place for public …
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The jungle in the clearing : space, form and democracy in America, 1940-1949
… begins with a reevaluation of the debate over monumentality initiated in modernist architectural circles, which included such figures as Sigfried Giedion, Lewis Mumford, Henry-Russell Hitchcock, and Philip Johnson. Centering on the city, this debate recast monumentality in terms more …
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Construction of history : Mohammad-Reza Shah revivalism, nationalism, and monumental architecture of Tehran, 1951-1979
… fall of the Pahlavi dynasty, raises issues of monumentality, permanence, and the presence or absence of inherent meaning in architecture.
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Designing in virtual reality : tools with the human field of vision
… says that VR will encourage a preference for monumentality and open spaces in comparison to a higher packing density of objects in CAD. The third hypothesis claims that designers will prefer 3d models with realistic rendering textures in VR, more so than CAD. The fourth and final hypothesis is …
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A paradigm for Kemetic architectural design : the beginnings of a Kemetic architectural design language
… In particular, there was a distinct monumentality to its religious architecture. As well, familiar design characteristics permeated many of them. These edifices continue to be a source of discussion and debate. Opposing interpretations range in opinion; from traditional and …
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A flexible system for Olympic villages
… of Olympic Villages, due to the conflict between monumentality and practicality, and the contextual problems, caused by the pressure of time and cost in the building process. An approach to appropriate patterns proposes the construction of high - rise buildings and solves secondary problems in …
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Washington, D.C. : essays on the city form of a capital
… examines a different aspect of the city: its monumentality as determined by its relationship with the nation it governs. the linear network of its plan, the 'abjectness' of its principal buildings, and finally. the significance of nature. Their structure and the manner in which they view the …
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Drifting absence :: drafting memory
… The project considers the limitations of a monumentality which embraces a distinct division between viewer and memorial. Collapsing the traditionally bifurcated relationship between the viewer and object, the memorial becomes inhabitable- unifying the experience of the viewer with the …
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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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Reconsidering institutional collapse and social transformation at Moundville during the Fifteenth century
… shifts, not collapse, in materiality and monumentality during the fifteenth century in the Black Warrior Valley.
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