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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"amphitheater"”.
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A theater and amphitheater for chamber music on a mountain meadow
… for this thesis is the design of a theater and amphitheater for chamber music, upon a beautiful site-- a mountain meadow. The site, context and program which serve as a starting point for the new design are based on a real site and context: that of an existing center for chamber music, situated …
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Reflex motion : choreographing the design of a performing arts center in Hadley, Massachusetts
… theater for music and dance, an outdoor amphitheater, a rehearsal building, a cafe', and living space for forty performers.
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Observation & Light
… light in which a monumental sundial becomes an amphitheater for the town of Newport, Virginia.
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Structure of Sound
… the main auditorium, and an outdoor amphitheater.
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a place for creation: artisans' retreat
… in the celebration of the creations: an outdoor amphitheater and a gallery which displays current and past work of resident artists.
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Evolution in the design and construction of stadiums
… A.D. The Colosseum, Roman's most acclaimed amphitheater is regarded as the mother of all modem stadiums, setting the rule for innovative design and construction. It generated the first stadium designs of the modem era and guided the evolution of their successors to the level of beauty and …
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Alamo Center: A mixed - use facility
… including a market, multi - plex theater, amphitheater, food court, offices, and a restaurant/night club. The main focus is to convert these old industrial structures to usable exciting spaces that adhere to a strict code of honesty of expression of high tech motifs, to establish a center …
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A Computer-Generated Model of the Construction of the Roman Colosseum
… of the Colosseum, the famous ancient Roman amphitheater, by digitally recreating the step-by-step processes that would have been involved in the construction process, demonstrating that the process of retracing the construction of such a large and complex monument presents a variety of …
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Landscapes of Danger: A Geospatial Analysis of Perceived and Realistic Risk in Bryce Canyon National Park
… tended to select locations in the main amphitheater – the most highly trafficked area of the park – even though the fuzzy logic models showed a wider range of locations were susceptible to mass wasting events.</p>
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Structure in architecture: a center for the study of world religions and mythologies
… areas of the complex consist of: a gallery, an amphitheater, a lecture hall, a library. These very different building types are tied together through a common language of structure that expresses our understanding of man’s place between earth and light, and our “struggle towards the heights”. I …
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The Veteran's Way: Addressing Post-Traumatic Stress and Veterans' Re-integration Through Landscape
… important sites and ending at an outdoor amphitheater. The trail offers the stress-relieving benefits of exercise. It also allows veterans to examine their own experiences in the context of others' and prepares them for communal experiences at the culminating public space. Pilgrimage on …
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Xix, A Memorial and Study on the Proximity and Proportion of the Circle and the Square
… overlooks a plaza that includes a small green amphitheater and memorial fountain. The circle and the square became the generating forms for this place, and through an exploration of nineteen relationships that could be shared among the circle and the square two were found dominate in regulating …
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Identification, Mapping, Analysis, and Dating of Composite Mega Landslides in the Colorado Plateau
… the Grand Canyon. Surprise Valley is a dry amphitheater between two major tributaries of the Colorado River with no major source of water to carve it. Poncho’s Radical Runup is the dissected remains of one of the highest landslide run up features in North America"--Abstract, p. iv</p>
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Balancing Sight + Sound: A study of acoustics and architecture
… would be inaudible from the back of a large amphitheater. Therefore, it is important to design a space in which the architecture strengthens the performances that it was intended for. HOW? In this thesis I examine the balance of visual aesthetics and acoustical performance into a single …
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The unities of time and place in sixteenth-century theater and criticism
… since he was all-powerful, to improvise an amphitheater and to bring forth new characters, after the manner of regular plays, lest in this respect a day which she wanted most distinguished seem deficient to the gods. Thereupon, all of a sudden, at a command of almighty Jupiter, by whom all …
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Geology and Structure of Kodachrome Basin State Reserve and Vicinity, Kane and Garfield Counties, Utah
… Cretaceous and Early Tertiary rocks in the Paria Amphitheater and to deposit Plio-Pleistocene channel and sheet conglomerates.</p> <p>During the period of conglomerate deposition, clastic pipes and dikes intruded the strata of the area. X-ray and thin section analyses of samples from the outer …
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Re-Dwelling: A Proposal for Five Dwellings in Maggia, Switzerland
This thesis proposes five new dwellings be constructed within Maggia, a medieval village in Italian-speaking Ticino, Switzerland. The modern scheme placed within Maggia's old town outlines an attempt to revitalize the village's life by providing places for individuals, families, groups of families, …
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Rebirth of a Rock: Pembroke Quarry Amphitheatre
Every place on earth has a voice. This voice resonates from the shaping events that have long passed and the current conditions that continue to give each place its individual character. The voice continually evolves as the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth leaves its trace. This voice in its …
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Architectural Regionalism in Indianapolis
Regional architecture defines a type of architecture that adapts to the everyday needs of a people and is constructed by the building methods and materials of the region. Regions do not have clear boundaries, but are largely defined by the conditions of nature: climate, soil, topography, …