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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Public Architecture"”.
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Cultivat(ing) modernities : the Society for National Heritage, political propaganda and public architecture in twentieth-century Iran
… racial schemas, and aesthetic ends of propaganda architecture as they were conceived and constructed under the aegis of the Society for National Heritage. An in-depth study of the institutional history of the SNH, which included the construction of numerous mausoleums--particularly those belonging …
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Finding the Local within the Global: A Comparative Study of Public Architecture and Urban Development in Roman-period Lycia
… experiences both shaped and were shaped by architecture and urban space, we gain a better understanding of the diverse ways that “Roman” urbanism manifests across the eastern empire. The study is structured as a comparative analysis of six sites in western Lycia, which are divided by …
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Digital boundaries: A study into how mobile devices and information + communication technologies can influence the social programming, spatial conditions and construction of public architecture
… spatial conditions and construction of public architecture. This topic is derived from the study of Urban Informatics which looks at three key actors: people, place and technology. This can be seen in South Africa where many young individuals inhabit public buildings in the urban …
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Architectural Advocacy: Public Buildings as Normative Communication
Public architecture is intrinsically an issue of communication, and both are of keen importance to contemporary public life. Few communications scholars consider public buildings as communicative media, but doing so would begin dialogues on how to broaden the influence of both communication …
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A chance encounter : architecture in a hybrid society
The aim of the research is to look at a public architecture that recognises the unpredictable nature of the contemporary city. This reality is a great opportunity to create a rich architecture that allows for multiple and varied social encounters and events to occur.
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Organizational aspects of Mississippian settlement systems in western Kentucky
… here are data on material culture, site size, public architecture, and structures aimed at the identification of patterns, trends and processes in Mississippian settlement organization. The Mississippian settlement system developed from a local Late Woodland basis, in which site organization …
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Urban Stitch
… elements and artifacts, while defining an iconic public architecture, and a modern riverfront with a new urban identity, thus raising the quality of the city.
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Architecture as an Apparatus of Governance: (British) Architecture from the Welfare State to the State of Neoliberal Workfare
This thesis puts forward the hypothesis that architecture can act as an apparatus of governance and explores the theoretical, spatial, and material implications of this. It examines a specific milieu that of the British welfare state, which it positions as part of the liberal post-war reforms …
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My own, private Washington
… to lay the foundation for a new exploration of architecture. The division line between national and corporate identities, their spatial relationship to the public realm are beginning to blur. The expanding influence of private entities in public affairs necessitates and exploration of how public …
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Amazon here
… that address urban issues. Uber rethinks public transit; Google Sidewalk Labs designs Toronto's waterfront with integrated mobility system; Elon Musk's Boring Company privately funds a rapid transit line from O'Hare Airport to downtown; Amazon provides CIA data and security services for …
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Redefining identity in the altered rural landscape
… site. These components will be used to design a public architecture that serves as the container of memory and generator of exchange, mediating between the physical landscape and the constructed landscape of the assembled personal identity of individuals. The project will serve as a vehicle to …
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House of many rooms
… many rooms, the extremes of an inner, personal architecture contrast the extremes of an outer, public architecture. Each room is an inner architecture of closure and definition. While an outer architecture of openness and expanse surrounds them. One room is a bathroom of concentric cylinders. …
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The architecture of convention hotels in the United States, 1940-1976
… of their meeting facilities and the layout of public areas. In these projects, new techniques in architectural design were used only where they were critical to hotel operation. As the number of hotels increased in the fifties, competition for business required new approaches to design. For …
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Water and the City: Roman Water Distribution and Use in the Transjordan Decapolis
… with large storage facilities integrated into public architecture to meet practical and aesthetic needs. Water is consistently used in baths, latrines, and fountains across all three sites, but it also appears in sacred spaces and theaters in ways that reflect locally adapted religious …
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'And the Sun Sits in His Seat': Creating Social Order in Andean Culture
… plan at Agua Blanca, and the complexes of public architecture are organized around principals of dual division, quadripartition and tripartition. These represent a specific local expression of more generalized Andean principles of social organization. The distribution of stone seats is …
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The meeting of cultures
… in a space. I began by questioning whether architecture can bring together people from different backgrounds and cultures, and if so then what type of architecture does this? And how does it do this? I believe the city is a psychological as well as physical reality. The city exists as a …
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The journey from New Delhi to Islamabad : dependence and subversion in the ambivalent expression of nationhood
… capital city of the nation-state the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The paper identifies a colonial legacy in Islamabad, and establishes the dialogic persistence of socio-spatial structures congruent in both cities. The independent nation status attained by much of the developing world in the …
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The development of a pedagogical framework for the integration of building information modelling in the architecture degree programme in Malaysia
Within the last decade, the architecture world has seen the rise of a new digital technology called Building Information Technology, or BIM, that has constituted a paradigm shift to the profession. Although the last few years have shown promising results in the implementation of BIM despite a …
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Connection and Retreat: Reimagining the Public Library as a Biophilic Urban Escape
… surrounding communities through the design of a public library that incorporates nature to promote the holistic health of the community and the individual. The incorporation of nature into the built environment is proven to have physiological and psychological benefits and improve overall …
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An airport on display
… are commonly not exposed to the eyes of the public, in this case, a general aviation airport. The greatest challenge over the course of the study was how to create displayable spaces without overlooking basic functional programs and deepen both concepts in the process. The airport is designed …