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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Opera House"”.
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Design for an opera house
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 1892
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Design for a national opera house
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 1891
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A national opera house for Sydney, Australia
Thesis (M.Arch.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture, 1956.
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Opera House for the city of Zürich, Switzerland
Thesis: B. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 1961
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An opera house for the Lincoln Square Project
Thesis (M.Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1957.
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An opera house for Metropolitan Boston: location and site selection
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1960.
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An opera house for Boston : the documentation of a design process.
Thesis. 1978. M.Arch--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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The opera house and cultural policy: the post-war politics of La Scala, Milan
This is a study of La Scala, the opera house in Milan, and its relationship with cultural policy-making and political power, since the end of the Second World War. The study provides an original interpretation of Gramsci 's writings in relation to cultural policy analysis, and applies this …
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The role of cultural flagships in the perception and experience of urban areas for tourism and culture. Case study: The Royal Opera House in Covent Garden
… area for tourism and culture, taking the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden as a case study. Covent Garden, as an important part of London’s tourist portfolio is a case study of interest because of its wide array of land use that makes it a popular area for tourism and cultural consumption, with …
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In Search of the Organic: An Unequivocal Exploration into the Principles of Organic Architecture
… arts complex consisting of a full-scale opera house, a mid-size open-air theater, a small recital salon, and an outdoor arena-style street-stage. The building is sited at Buzzard Point in Washington, DC at the terminus of South Capitol Street along the Anacostia River. The thesis is an …
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Motion, Space and Sound
… arts facility in which the main space will be an opera house in a metropolitan setting. Since the District of Columbia already has two such venues, I landed on the idea of providing the City of Alexandria with one of its very own. I propose The Alexandria Performing Arts Center, located on a …
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Jørn Utzon: the education of an architect
… exuberant, curvilinear sections of the Sydney Opera House, Silkeborg Art Museum, and Bagsvaerd Church, in the work of that most restrained of architects, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969). I trace, through this unlikeliest of confluences, the genesis in Mies's work of Utzon's three most …
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The sub-stage orchestral environment : the pits?
… become evident. The success or failure of an opera pit depends directly upon these principles. Third, the examination of individual features of design in relation to these principles forms the basis for refined critical assessment. Since its inauguration in 1971, the orchestra pit at the Nico …
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Auspicious Generation: The Bamboo LIfe Cycle of a Chinese Cultural Center
… taken down, it changes the design. From seed to opera house and back again to the earth, the cycle breaths continuous life into the site. The project, located near 7th and H Street, NW, in Washington, DC is a dual program - both cultural center and public garden. The "bookends" or exterior …
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Diplomatic Gifts and Cold War Strategies: The Role of North Korea’s Overseas Art Studios in Egyptian Memorial Culture
… tour in Asia; the Japanese-funded Cairo Opera House (1988), the North Korean-designed October War Panorama (1989), and the Chinese-built Cairo Conference Center (1989). Next, the study theorizes the function of North Korean museums in Egypt and questions the implications of importing …
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The Tale of the Southern Tour
… world premiere in December 2019 at the Guangzhou Opera House. The work is a musical sketch depicting ancient Chinese story of Emperor Shun’s southern tour which took place thousands of years ago. The piece consists four sections, with each section depicting a different scene. Different …
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The Skyscraper And The Suburb: Architecture, Capitalism, And The American Metropolitan Landscape, 1929–1940
… It began in the late 1920s as a project for an opera house adjoined by revenue-producing commercial development. After the October 1929 stock market crash, it became a fourteen-building, office-and-entertainment complex that, when completed in 1939, manifested an argument unequivocally in favor …
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The Victor Brass Quartet: Its Genesis, History, and Literature
… with the Biessenhertz Band and English's Opera House. A biography of Walter B. Rogers, the famous cornetist and boyhood friend of Herbert, is included. Chapter three examines the history of the Schubert Brass Quartette (Walter Rogers and Herbert Clarke, cornets; Edwin Clarke, alto horn; …
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Der Ring des Nibelungen in the New World: the American performance and reception of Wagner's Cycle, 1850-1903
Given the central position of Wagner’s operas in art music culture over the past century and a half, the performance and reception of his works in various national contexts has received—and continues to receive—considerable scholarly attention. Of significant interest is the period of the late …
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