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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"architectural representation"”.
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Architectural representation ; spatial comprehension and assessment through visualization technique
… parts to this thesis. Part I is a discourse on architectural representation. It defines the theoretical boundary for Part II, research on a particular spatial representation system, physical models, and their use as a design aid. In Part I, representation is discussed as it pertains to the …
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Architectural representation and meaning : towards a theory of interpretation
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1989.
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The conjured drawings of Carlo Scarpa: a magic-real inquiry into architectural representation
This dissertation proposes a theory of architectural representation based on a close examination of Carlo Scarpa's drawing practices at the Brion cemetery located in San Vito d'Altivole, Italy. Informed by the literary practice of magic-realism and Massimo Bontempelli's thoughts on the ontology of …
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Drawing Apocalypse: Architectural Representation in the Nuclear Age and the Imagination of the End
… and discourse contaminated speculative architectural representation in the decades that followed World War II. Stepping away from the pragmatic responses proposed by architects, planners, and institutions to the nuclear threat, it first theorizes the role of architectural images in the …
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Constructing the architectural moving drawing: transdisciplinary practices between architecture and artists’ film
… establishes original forms of reading and making architecturally focussed timebased artefacts through the construction of practices which I term “architectural moving drawing”. The subject of this thesis emerges out of my dual-disciplinary grounding in fine art and architecture and explores the …
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Innovation in Practice: Experiment and Improvisation in the Architecture of Henry Chapman Mercer
… of new and experimental techniques swept the architectural field. The materials and methods of building altered so rapidly that standards of architectural representation and the acts of construction they choreographed appeared for a time to exist without history or precedent. In chaotic times …
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From Piazza to place royale: The evolution of an absolutist type (Italy, France)
… the shift from the concept to the convention of architectural representation of power. Architectural forms possess no intrinsic political qualities. Their accomplishment or level of resolution is, however, consistently related to the political processes that facilitate their construction.
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Playing on the tracks
… proposed as the generating mechanisms of form in architectural treatises since Vitruvius. Recently, computational approaches to architecture have pursued a language for rulebuilding rather than the rules themselves. However, architects have resisted adopting computation as a means of expression, …
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Rulebuilding : exploring design worlds through end-user programming
… proposed as the generating mechanisms of form in architectural treatises since Vitruvius. Recently, computational approaches to architecture have pursued a language for rulebuilding rather than the rules themselves. However, architects have resisted adopting computation as a means of expression, …
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(Trans)forming the Binary: An Archive of Gender Affect
… potential of transed spaces is explored through architectural representation focused on embodied and relational experiences to create an ever-shifting and collaborative archive of gender affect.
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Will you have a yam? : a study in agency and representation
Systems of architectural representation, and their implied balance of agency, are a potential site of tectonic, spatial, and programmatic reinvention. By altering only the roles of those involved in the design/construction process, and the system of representation employed, one will necessarily …
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Metaphor in the Making: Comparative methods of representation in physical architectural models.
… understand concepts in terms of other concepts. Architectural representation is a metaphor that stands in place of the design being represented. This metaphor allows us to structure our thinking around something tangible while thinking about something that is less tangible. This investigation …
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Teasing out technique : animating Boston's City Hall
… animation has quickly become a primary means of representation within architecture; however, architects have not yet taken a critical approach to the techniques of this medium as we have with other forms of representation. As it becomes easier and easier for the everyday person to create a …
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My life, my Home: Reasserting the connection between home and occupant
The intent of this paper is to uncover an architectural typology for a people who have none. An architectural typology that speaks to a culture and life of the people that live at the margins. I uncovered and have experienced that there is a lack of architectural representation of the people that …
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Computing drawing : programming a vintage pen plotter
… is biased toward the notion of re-production. Representation in design, as a result, has become image-centric. This project explores a method for computing drawing (and the converse, drawing computing) by programing a vintage pen plotter. An apparatus that spans from the computational to the …
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The Shape of Kubler: George A. Kubler in Peru, 1948-49
… art historical—including anthropology, architectural representation, and biology—in order to generate new readings and understandings of the history of South and Central American art. This thesis takes a look into a year of Kubler’s life in 1948-49, spent in Peru conducting archival …
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Architetture arcaiche. Invarianti tipo-morfologiche e principi dello spazio nuragico
… archaeological heritage through a predominantly architectural lens, aiming to extract enduring values and spatial interpretations that contribute both to an innovative understanding of prehistoric architecture and to the identification of particular archaic principles for contemporary design. …
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Figuring the Middle Ground: A Search for Authorship in Perceiving China's COVID-19 Lockdowns
… times and locations. In addition, utilizing architectural representation tools, I curated a collection of works that reproduce the research process and exhibit the processed information. This endeavor is not intended to rationalize pandemic control. Rather, it cultivates a ground for …
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Designing (with) Trees: Active Agents in Architectural Production
… of the relationship between urban trees, architectural representation, and the legal framework governing their existence, with a particular focus on tree hearings in Boston as a platform for this study. Against the backdrop of capitalist influences shaping urban landscapes, standardized …
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UNSEX: Exhibition-Making as a Methodological Approach to Interpret Contemporary Gender-Neutral Fashion in Museums and Gallery Spaces
… the graphic integration of fashion imagery, architectural representation and text comprises as significant a contribution to the research as the body of text and provides a new template for practice-based research on fashion exhibition-making.
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