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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"architecture and culture"”.
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Mediterraneità and modernità : architecture and culture during the period of Italian colonization of North Africa
… examines the intersection of the modern and the colonial in architecture and culture during the period of Italian colonization of North Africa from 1911 to 1943. Rather than see the colonies as merely a projection of the metropolitan context, this research reverses this relationship by …
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Space + culture + identity : Chinese cultural center in Sea Point
… living in two places that both have distinctive cultures. Architecture being a form of culture motivated me to enter the school of architecture. After 6 years of study, this paper attempts to answer my initial concerns on architecture and culture. For me it is very important to understand what …
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Interpreting Alaminos : the cultural context of form
… examines the interactional role of holism - and its underlying mechanisms - between Pilipino architecture and culture. Given this approach, I base my design of a community center for Alaminos, a medium-sized town in Pangasinan, the Philippines, on three levels of analysis: language, time, and …
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Experiencing architecture, experiencing nature
… of the richness in an architectural experience and the desire to understand more about the meaning of this experience in the larger context of architecture and culture. Andalusia, Spain provides a uniqueness in that it unites, through many years of struggle, two cultures, the Spanish and the …
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Out of antiquity : Umayyad baths in context
… explores the relationship between the art and architecture of the early Islamic period to those of pre-Islamic Bilad al-Sham (the region encompassing the modem-day countries of Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Israel), and focuses on the Umayyad bathhouse as a paradigm through which …
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Linger: Chinese Culture Center
How to better integrate urban texture, architecture, and culture organically, and use the architecture as a carrier to transmit more humanistic information? In today's society, people have a variety of ways to explore the culture and understand the culture. However, the most direct experience is a …
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Italians and the New Byzantium: Lombard and Venetian Architects in Muscovy, 1472-1539
… identity was shaped by the built environment and, likewise, how the built environment was a result of an emerging Russian identity. I focus on the years 1472 to 1539 because they were crucial to the formation of this early modern Russian identity. Muscovite princes, seeking to rebuild Moscow's …
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Reformulating underused facilities through adaptive reuse: making and remaking the architecture of Copper Cliff, Ontario
… have a history of shaping the development and heritage of communities. In the case of Copper Cliff, the mining industry has influenced the architecture and culture of the community. However, these mining operations no longer operate how they were created. The community of Copper Cliff has …
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Multi-ethnic London: an architectural study of religious buildings in a globalized urban culture
… through to modern buildings, humans have created architecture for shelter. Different cultures began to develop architectural forms to suit many kinds of social functions; then, as time passed, and civilizations grew and developed even further, more complex forms materialized to suit even more …
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The script-analogue and its application in architectural analysis: the relationship of African women to African traditional architecture
… of significance in works of traditional architecture within their cultural contexts. The theory includes a set of related ideas about the relationship of architecture and culture, and uses these ideas as a method to analyze the relationship of African women to African traditional …
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Building a Continent: The Idea of Latin American Architecture in the Early Postwar
… as initiating the international appraisal and celebration of Latin America's modern architecture. Responsive to the war context and to the museum's engagement with the Office of the Coordinator of Inter American Affairs directed by Nelson Rockefeller, this exhibition presented a clear …
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A Chinese Community Center
… more than 3000 years ago - an era of hermit culture in China - private gardens played an important role in the development of Chinese culture. In this thesis, the essence of Chinese private gardens, especially the principles of their spatial organization, is used to direct the design. In a …
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Invisible village: A potential alternative for urban village redevelopment in China
… intervention contribute to a more functional and culturally identifiable community in an urban village redevelopment project in Langfang, China? ABSTRACT This research explores an alternative architectural strategy for urban village regeneration, focusing on Dong Village in Langfang, China. …