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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"embassy"”.
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Aboriginal Embassy, 1972
The Aboriginal Embassy of 1972 is discussed in the thesis as a climax to changes in Aboriginal political consciousness and government policy over the decade which preceded its nine months of protest activity. The adoption of creative, non-violent methods of protest by the Embassy is detailed in …
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Aboriginal Embassy, 1972
The Aboriginal Embassy of 1972 is discussed in the thesis as a climax to changes in Aboriginal political consciousness and government policy over the decade which preceded its nine months of protest activity. The adoption of creative, non-violent methods of protest by the Embassy is detailed in …
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Embassy of New Nations
… safeguard our public spaces. The concept for an embassy that is designed not for one nation but for any number of potentially new ones created the opportunity to look at how the building type and technologies could play a larger role in the development of an architecture of defensive resiliency …
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Embassy of Lebanon, Washington, D.C.
An Edifice that establishes Identity through spatial Experience. An Environment traditional in its Values, modern in its Language, yet capturing a Mood inherent to Lebanon. An Architecture that Reveals a sense of Unity around a Central Court. A Design that reflects an Attitude toward the Totality …
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Parallel Processes: Embassy for the European Community
… in the world?' This project proposes an Embassy for the European Community in Washington D.C. The design process seeks to reconcile several critical oppositions imbedded within the task. The project develops a new embassy programme which extends the notion of cultural exchange, through …
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A Self Portrait: "The Embassy of Chile"
… sparked the idea of making a thesis about the Embassy of Chile may be traced to the experience of being a foreigner, a Chilean, living in Washington D.C. In the same manner that a person may represent its country, an embassy building gives the opportunity to express and show a lot of what that …
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The Effects of Embassy Security on Public Diplomacy
… a topic critical to U.S. public diplomacy and embassy security policy. This thesis argues that security should not take precedence over the embassy's primary mission. In recent years, U.S. embassies have transformed into fortresses that send messages of fear and aloofness to foreign audiences. …
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Cultural Expression; A Korean Embassy in the US
… Many seek to preserve their identity. The embassy becomes the architectural frontier for this immersion and interactions with other cultures. It is tasked with being the face, or rather facade of the country. It is tasked with being a secure yet welcoming place for its own nationals and …
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Intermediary of Opposites/Turkish Embassy at Washington D.C.
The objective of this thesis is not only to design a building or investigate an idea, but also to explore and learn to appreciate what is truly important and, hope- fully, to discover that part of truth which may lead us to a serenity in our souls. My entire struggle is basically to try to achieve …
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Soviet propaganda : a study of Soviet embassy press releases, 1959-1960.
… and achieving foreign policy goals. The Soviet Embassy in Washington daily publishes from one to five press releases, containing from less than one to twenty-five or more pages. During 1959 and 1960 press releases were issued in coordination with, and in support of, Soviet foreign policy goals …
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An embassy for the Union of South Africa in Washington, D.C.
Thesis (M.Arch.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture, 1956.
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An Embassy for Somalia; Traversing the Boundary Between the Sacred and the Profane
… span two disparate entities. The proposal for an embassy for Somalia strives to discover the threshold between the dualities of the Islamic faith and the profane environment. In the faith one must follow a path, whether physical or spiritual in order to find true enlightenment. By allowing the …
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‘Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s The Turkish Embassy Letters (1763): Agency, Authority and the “female spirit of contradiction”’‘Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s The Turkish Embassy Letters (1763): Agency, Authority and the “female spirit of contradiction”’
The Turkish Embassy Letters is considered both inaugural and atypical of women’s travel writing, and scholarship is largely orientated around Montagu’s focus on women and their lives in the different countries she travelled to and stayed in between 1716 – 18. While this dissertation maintains a …
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Metamorphosis, entropy, and seduction : selected moments from the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo by Moriyama & Teshima
The Canadian Embassy in Tokyo by Toronto's Moriyama & Teshima is the representation of a metatemporal continuum. Raymond Moriyama, partner-in-charge of the project, conceived of the privately financed building as an intricate tableau of determined absolutes that equally serve him and his patron, …
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The reawakening of the Chinese heritage through a cultural embassy : transformation of the Chinese architectural language
… this thesis I propose the creation of a CULTURAL EMBASSY to instill pride and arouse self-awareness of the well-educated Chinese first, and eventually the Chinese of all social levels in Boston to revitalize the entire Chinatown. Architecturally, this proposed building will carry a uniqueness of …
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The Queen's and Embassy Chapels and the Boundaries of Tolerance in Early Stuart London, c. 1603-1643
… London through a case study of the queen’s and embassy chapels. A central tension at the heart of early modern society was the imperative to uphold religious uniformity while living with confessional diversity after the Reformation. This was especially pronounced in cosmopolitan London where …
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News Media Coverage of the Attack on the American Embassy in Saigon During the 1968 Tet Offensive
… many battles of Tet, the attack on the American Embassy in Saigon stands out. It is neither the battle's size nor its casualties that makes it important. The significance of the embassy attack lay in the way it was conveyed to the American public. I argue that the 1968 attack on the American …
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The Rebirth of A Nation: An Embassy Proposal for the Republic of South Africa in Washington, DC
In both South Africa and the United States, the occurrence of certain political and social events have affected the cultural structure of the African society. As the patterns of community have been lost over time, due to colonialism and conquest, the foundations of traditional culture and tribal …
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Strategy and ritual in institutional encounters: a linguistic ethnography of weekly meetings in the British Embassy in Brussels
… the closed and secluded community of a British embassy. It enters a cultural milieu, a setting where a group of self-identifying people with certain shared beliefs engage in a set of distinctive and mutually intelligible practices and tries to gain a more complete understanding of its norms, …
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Remembering the 1998 Nairobi terror attack: cultural and trauma memory and the reconciliation of a nation
… as it approached the rear entrance of the U.S. embassy building in Nairobi, instigating a brief argument and confrontation between the 'Arab-looking' men in the truck and the embassy guards. This led to a shoot-out between them before a powerful explosion completely tore down half of the embassy …
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