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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"architectural research"”.
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Visualizing Information: Internet Guidelines For Distributing Architectural Research
A web site was designed and constructed for the Research + Demonstration Facility (RDF) as a master’s thesis project to help educators teach future architects more interactively by using the dynamic medium of the Internet. Students and faculty will learn about evolving architectural research and …
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Universalism and Its Discontents: Konrad Wachsmann's 20th Century Architecture
… workshops around the world. With two novel architectural research institutes, which he supported with military and government commissions that became the subject of design inquiry at these programs, Wachsmann envisioned a transformation of architectural education within the university system …
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Semi-nonstandard construction and its application in post-squatter İstanbul
… be nonstandard construction, whose potential in architectural discourse is frequently seen as an enabler of novel form making. Yet by strategically utilizing nonstandard tools in an otherwise mass-produced housing system, these techniques can provide variation within an industrial process while …
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Segregation, Education and Space - a Case Study of Malmö
… about segregation and its implications for architectural research. The first question is whether examining segregation in terms of education is a fruitful tool for analyzing segregation in general. In answering that question, the dissertation describes how educational segregation relates to …
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Corbelled Buildings as heritage resources: in the Karoo, South Africa
… heritage identification theory, interviews and research it is clear that the buildings are significant and a heritage resource. Their significance lies in their historical, social, aesthetic, symbolic and cultural values, as well as their unique vernacular construction and limited distribution. …
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Emergent pedagogies in design research education
Recent demand for applied knowledge within architectural practice has resulted in the proliferation of university based research groups. Given the role advanced degree programs play in educating architectural researchers, an opportunity exists to educate architects towards bridging the traditional …
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Research and design : methods for integration
… and foster the integration and application of research knowledge with design practice. The results are presented in two parts: Part I, a generic user handbook, and Part II, a series of case studies dealing with specific matters in research and design. Part 1: RESEARCH AND DESIGN, presents …
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The Palazzo Calderini, the City of Imola and the Calderini Dynasty between the 14th and 20th century
The purpose of this thesis is to research a Renaissance-era palace in Imola, Italy, within the context of the surrounding city, through a combination of historical, archaeological, geographical and the topographical approaches. To start off, this research involves the study of cartography, whereby …
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A kreol coastal confluence in Mahebourg, Mauritius
… Mauritian cultural dissolution concentre in this architectural research – in the cerebration of a Kreol Coastal Confluence. This design inquiry presents an architecture of mediation as key, which focalises the divergent spheres into the same space - artisanal fishing as the vernacular culture and …
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The architecture of care : the role of architecture in the therapeutic environment. The case of the Maggie’s Cancer Care Centre
… architecture based on a concise and emotional architectural brief in synergy with its psychosocial support programme is what lies behind its success. With historical reference to the ancient Greek tradition of the therapeutic architecture of healing temples and to the model of organisation of …
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L’architettura dell’Industria elettrica in Sardegna dal 1911 al 1961
… and thermic plants and power lines. The research focuses on the architectures related to Sardinian electrization: the S.E.S., along with its scientific committee led by Angelo Omodeo e Giulio Dolcetta, has built high quality architectures and high level factories. The dykes and the plants …
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Interstitial space in health care facilities : planning for change & evolution
Hospitals are most useful material for architectural research for they exhibit all the problems encountered in other building types in an acute and easily measurable form. Health Care Facilities house the greatest range of functions within their operations and are subject to continuous changes …
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930 sqft of Architecture
… as a measure for critical analysis of three architectural research projects. They are built from a history of pre-defined criterion, named and redefined in an attempt to elevate a personal study and practice of architecture at a period in time. These projects have a high degree of personal …
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Research and design : the need for integration
Today's architectural knowledge base is a heterogeneous mixture of empirical wisdom generated in numberless ways by thousands of practitioners through centuries' of trial-and-error. Architecture has never developed a professionally recognized system or research, nor any organized method for …
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A Framework for Promoting Socio-Economic Factors to Achieve Sustainable Mass Housing in Abuja, Nigeria.
… between socio-economic factors and sustainable architectural practices in mass housing developments in Abuja, Nigeria. Employing a Constructivist Grounded Theory approach, this research explores the underlying narratives that shape how sustainable housing is conceived, delivered, and experienced …
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The Paradox of Ramallah: An Investigation into Palestine’s Political and National Architecture and Urban Topography Since 1995
… cities during state-building processes, the research begins by exploring Palestinian attempts to establish a government base in Jerusalem after Oslo Accords. It then spatially investigates the built political and national topography in Ramallah, then focuses on the memorial sites of two …
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Architecture as an Apparatus of Governance: (British) Architecture from the Welfare State to the State of Neoliberal Workfare
… it. The thesis unravels the operations of this architectural apparatus by scrutinizing two specific moments in the mid1960s when the welfare state was fully formed. Initially, it analyzes the Whitehall plan of 1965 for a new national and government centre, as indicative of the extensive …
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The social meaning of domestic space : notes on a suitable research methodology for southern African architectural studies
The thesis is primarily a proposal for a research methodology. Its concern is with the analysis of southern African domestic architecture, which, it is argued, has become separated from the study of social systems and human behaviour. It is suggested that architectural research needs to be grounded …
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The Social Lives of Vacant Homes: Tracing Registers of Value in Contemporary Cairo
… discernable at a much closer scale of social and architectural investigation. Addressing this gap and drawing on 15 months of fieldwork involving interviews and architectural analysis, the thesis investigates five trajectories of homemaking in four neighbourhoods traversing social class and …
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Discourse formation in architecture exhibitions - an oligoptical approach
… has become the object of the study. In this way, architectural discourse is ‘made public’ (Latour, 2005b: 14-43), and the exhibition acts as a discursive space. The first chapter of the thesis locates the origins of these publications in response to debates about autonomy and criticality in …
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