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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"architectural vocabulary"”.
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In search of a direction in the contemporary architecture of Arabia
… this study is threefold. First it evaluates the architectural vocabulary of each project in order to understand transformations intended to lead to the evolution of a new architectural vocabulary. Secondly. it is a cautionary tale to designers who set about buildings that attempt to respond to …
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A bookstore
… in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, develops an architectural concept of design compatibility that maintains the continuity of the existing architectural vocabulary rather than creating a literal historic replication. By using this philosophy, the design of an urban infill project that respects …
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Typological transformation of Houston's Coliseum and Sam Houston Park
… connections. The problem is one of creating an architectural vocabulary relative to its context, whose simplification and fusion at specific points would serve to create such connections in the memory of the fabric-dweller.
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Inigo Jones's library and the language of architectural classicism in England, 1580-1640
… and scientific treatises, and specialized architectural books, comprised the library of a professional whose approach to his field was based on an understanding of practical humanism and the study of antique precedent. The library is the starting point for an investigation of the …
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House I
… The topic was never touched on in five years of architectural education or the time spent working in firms. I felt the need to study this typology. It is through the repetition of working with the realization that the hand and mind are one; I understand what I am working toward and the hand …
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Women places and spaces in contemporary American mosque
… communities have implemented the same architectural vocabulary of mosques seen in the Middle East into their American neighborhoods. Nevertheless, this architectural transplantation from the Middle East to America does not come without problems. The weaving of Middle Eastern …
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Collaborative process and the transformation of the urban environment : wall, street, and scaffolding on Massachusetts Avenue in Boston
… place by designing "pieces of the process." An architectural "vocabulary" is put forward that can be used in on-site collaborations to develop alternatives and to build zones of community interaction and reconciliation of civic life. This vocabulary is made up of both build-able form and an …
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The meaning in the pattern
… and inter-relationships of knowledge using an architectural vocabulary. The making of the building is analogous to the development of the individual. lt is from the collective that the individual emerge. The built form encapsulates society in both scale and complexity. lt is an amalgamation of …
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Towards a poly-phon-ic environment
This thesis explores an architectural/landscape environment where polyphonic metaphors are the means for exploration and investigation. Polyphonic, as described in musical definitions/ terms, is the style of composition in which two or more distinctly independent but organically related parts sound …
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The Citadel of Cairo, 1176-1341 : reconstructing architecture from texts
… the different stages of its topographic and architectural development using primarily references collated from the chronicles, biographical compendia, and legal documents of the Mamluk period, and secondarily surface archeology, toponymy, and typological comparisons with extant Bahri Mamluk …
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The Ontology of the Venetian Halo in its Italian Context
… to halo appearance. Additionally, extant architectural vocabulary is translated and reformulated into internal halo motifs by Venetian and Venetan artists, further enhancing the halo’s somatic characteristics, contextualized by examination of halo representation in various media in …
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Non-linearity as architectural narrative : a center for contemporary composition in three movements
… moderato. (Theory.) (2767 w). II. Allegro. (Architectural Expression.) (2283 w). III. Gusto. (Final Building.) (3102 w). To see space, one needs a language. To express space, one needs a vocabulary. I have built on an existing vocabulary - one found in the writings of Faulkner - of non-linear …
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Urban sunspaces : ecology of atria and arcades
… century, atria and arcades merged to a period of architectural highlights of glass covered interiors in steel and glass. Passages, hotels and public buildings of an emerging industrial society in Europe and Northern States spurred the evolution of the "Great Indoors" as an urban feature. The …
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The city's pleasures : architectural sensibility in eighteenth-century Istanbul
… and urban change, in the process of which a new architectural idiom was defined. This dissertation examines the parameters of Ottoman architectural sensibility in the eighteenth century, starting at this pivotal moment and ending with the first European commissions in the 1790s. It draws …
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A tropical grammar : an architectural grammar for hot humid climates
This thesis considers the viability of an architectural grammar based on traditional Caribbean architecture as an aid to designing climatically responsive architecture in hot humid climates. It argues that since traditional Caribbean architecture is a successful response to the constraints of …
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The polygonal chapter house: architecture and society in Gothic Britain
… Introductions and innovations within the architectural vocabulary of the British Isles can be equally salient. One such innovation of visual prominence is the polygonal plan for chapter houses.</p> <p>Chapter houses are the board rooms of ecclesiastic foundations. They are usually square …
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Vishram ghat, Mathura, India: a conservation model for ghat restoration in India
River Yamuna flowing through the northern India figures prominently in the visual and performing arts of Braj, a cultural landscape associated with the life of young Krishna, the Hindu god. This cultural heritage is sustained by ritual behaviors that commemorate her mythic role in bathing, …