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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"architectural preservation"”.
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Retrieving the past : an analysis of the purposes of architectural preservation
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning; and, (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1984.
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Preserving Power, Remaking the Past: Race, Colonialism, Modernism, and Architectural Preservation
… and settler colonialism by focusing on architectural preservationists' explanations of what are referred to as white cities. Through dialogue between architectural history, international relations, and critical heritage studies, I map the making and remaking of the histories of white …
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The future of the historic city from perceptions of the past: Experience of place, authenticity, and architectural preservation in Barcelona
… changing urban context. Different approaches to preservation and adaptive reuse influence the way visitors interact with, experience, and perceive historic spaces. Architecture is charged with giving context to culture and helping to shape collective memory and individual experience. As the …
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Additions, extensions, transformations : new architecture to old
Architectural preservation in America has led to an increase in imitative architecture in many sectors of the profession and, as one architectural historian has pointed out, there is no historical precedent for imitative architecture. Fortunately, buildings can only rarely be preserved in a static …
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Preserving bad architecture : radicaL preservation in the post-disaster era
… Žižek This thesis re-examines the role of ruins preservation by speculating on the inherent tension between disaster ruins, psychological interventions and collective memorialization. It challenges the misconception of architectural preservation which is against human interaction as well as …
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Sacred sounds and natural grounds: designing acoustic communities within Prairie Style and Organic architectural spaces
… between music performance and Midwestern architectural spaces designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and his Prairie Style and Organic Architectural contemporaries. It examines a period of nearly 100-years, from the late 1890s to the mid-1980s, and considers the way music performance has been used …
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Living with the past : preservation and development in Japanese architecture and town planning
The study examines the architectural preservation program as it has developed over the past century in Japan, and demonstrates how relics of the past have been manipulated and re-interpreted by individuals and communities seeking to define a modern identity. The study chronicles the development of …
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Echoes From the Stone Reframing Preservation in Syria Through Haurani Folklore
… formal archives but in scattered material like architectural ruins, oral poems, folk songs, diasporic transcripts, and 8mm video cassettes, many of which resonate as sonic artifacts. What began as a project of documenting the decay of our old house evolved into a meditation and manifesto on …