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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"civic architecture"”.
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Multi-Scalar Perspective in Civic Architecture: Arlington Civic Center
… methodology. By giving particular attention to civic programs, this thesis presents a model for multi-scalar architecture and construction of place meanings. With urban, political, and historic networks contributing to place categories, ecological evolution provides developmental trajectories …
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Rhetoric and the architecture of empire in the Athenian agora
… established and legitimated their power through civic architecture and public rhetoric in the agora. A study of the parallel developments of architectural and rhetorical form , supported by previously published archaeological evidence and the well documented history of classical rhetoric, …
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Toward culture : converging on the civic moment in architecture
… an investigation into physical constituents of civic architecture including some speculation on how civic architecture pertains to cultural awareness. The process of investigation is carried out through architectural exploration and definition of a site in the city of Boston. The site in …
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Urban Canopy
… explores the definition of an urban canopy, how civic architecture can create a space for the pedestrian in the city, and the elements which can compose such a space. Experimentation in the urban canopy allows definition into the protective nature of such an archetype. Filtering and entrance …
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Community in the electronic age : an information resource center at Government Center
… technology, this thesis explores the role of a civic architecture which restores on the one hand a traditional public institution, while on the other hand represents a functional information exchange in the Electronic Age. The proposed Information Resource Center is modeled after the positive …
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The American college and its architecture : an institutional imperative
… preconceptions of the profession of architecture during the American period of 1880 to 1920 using the college campus of Carnegie-Mellon University and the work o f Henry Hornbostel as the means of investigation. The architecture of the campus reflected the values and ideals of a …
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forwards and backwards
… previous architectural styles. Our colonial architecture imported the architecture of the Old World. The more important the building, the more grand the style. Most often our civic architecture received the most lavish attention. Washington DC became the home of the government and with that …
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Long Branch Nature Center - modern primitivism and the constructed dialogue of being within nature
… between humans and nature through the lens of civic architecture within a naturalistic setting. The fundamental thesis of this project is that there is a primal biological thread that connects human beings to the natural order, whether on a visceral or conscious level. This project explores the …
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Timurid central Asia and Mughal India : some correlations regarding urban design concepts and the typology of the Muslim house
… monumental achievements in Urban Planning and Civic Architecture, beginning with the reign of Tamerlane (1346 - 1405); served as a literal source of inspiration for the urban form of Mughal cities. As an additional corollary to this premise, it puts forward the thesis that the formal …
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Apotheosis of the Public Realm: Civic Classicism in New York City's Architecture
… liberals coincided with a new kind of civic architecture. For the first time in American history, cities and the urban public emerged as crucial parts of democratic citizenship, at least for progressives such as Frank Goodnow, Frederic Howe, and Herbert Croly. At the same time, New York …
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Contextus: A Modern Intervention in the Urban Fabric
… should be addressed, and by what methods? As a civic building, what role will the new library play beyond that of a place to find books? What are the contexts that the new architecture will confront, and how does this building transcend the contexts of the present to endure as something equally …