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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"history of architecture"”.
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The writings of Louisa Tuthill : cultivating architectural taste in nineteenth-century America
… discusses the architectural writings of Louisa Tuthill ( 1798-1879), a little known nineteenth-century American author. Tuthill has been acknowledged for her History of Architecture from the Earliest Times (1848), the first history of architecture published in the United States. …
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Art as integral part of architectural space
To integrate art with architecture is the intention of every architect. However, many times other requirements overwhelm artistic potential. There are numerous good, simple examples in the history of architecture where solutions to a variety of often functional requirements have produced …
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Tracing a Sacred Building Tradition. Wooden Churches, Carpenters and Founders in Maramures until the Turn of the 18th Century
… for comprehensive studies in different parts of the continent to view both the common features and the particular ones. The advanced Scandinavian research has revealed the problems of studying in depth and maintaining the log heritage when links to traditional carpentry are lost. One of the …
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Transparency in the Urban Context: a study on the complexity of transparent pieces
Architecture should strive to create a dialogue between the history of architecture and its future. This dialogue is really a mosaic of interconnections formed by our conceptions of context and order. These interconnections strive to be transparent so as to introduce a level of complexity that …
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Waterproofing of roofs
Roofing as an element of architecture and construction presents a challenging topic. This challenge, always present in the history of architecture, is now being met by dramatic new technological developments both in materials and systems. In the past decade these have made possible a revolution in …
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Bruce Price, and his Montreal train stations
The following is an investigation into a portion of an American's work contrived in Montreal. Architect Bruce Price experienced a short yet prosperous career; and part of his career was devoted to Canadian architecture. His most famous accomplishment in Canada is most likely Chateau Frontenac in …
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Cultural Translations: A Global history of the chili pepper in Architecture
… ways through performative negotiations of cultural differences. From the Inca royal garden, Moyas, a locus of power where doves feed on chilies to the swidden farms of the Carribean in which the chili grows wild; from the formalized pleasure gardens where it sits among cyclamens and …
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Study and design of a synagogue
… shown that architectural materials and details of synagogues follow the general history of architecture, as is exemplified in the synagogues of Europe from medieval through contemporary times. The synagogues of thirteenth century Eastern Europe have the ribbed vaulted roof structure typical of …
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Light, Shadow and Wind in Building Design
… understanding a space. It is about integration of light and air in building design. It is about light, shadow, reflection. It is about wind, its movement and escape. Through designing this project I was able to explore how sun, wind and light can be used effectively in a building design, in my …
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Modern in St. Louis: 1930's Architects and Their Clients
<p>The long decade between the Wall Street crash of 1929 and the entry of the US into World War 11 in 1941 is notable in the history of architecture in St. Louis because modernist trends first appeared during the period. This thesis examines these early appearances. Some three decades bad elapsed …
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From Geometry to Classical
… and Beauty are the three Vitruvian principles of architecture. They are also my belief of what constitutes architecture. In order to pursue the essence of architecture, I hope to find at least in part an answer through the study of classical buildings that adhere to those principles. Classical …
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Inquiring into architectural texts : towards an interpretation of architectural knowledge
An investigation was carried out on the contents of the architectural texts in order to illuminate written architectural knowledge. The thesis takes as its case study the required reading list for Introduction to Architecture course at Yale College, Yale University, a mandatory course for …
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Interpreting Japan; Central European Design and Architecture 1920-1940
Japonisme, the area of study of "taste for things Japanese", has been a growing field within art history over the past few decades. However, the field of Central European Japonisme has, thus far, been relatively under-researched. Although a few scholars have touched upon this phenomenon (Ken …
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Manfredo Tafuri's notion of history and its methodological sources : from Walter Benjamin to Roland Barthes
… sources: the theories, and their mode of reception, that have directly influenced his thought. The period examined starts with Theories and History of Architecture, first published in 1968 and ends with "The Historical 'Project"', the introductory essay of The Sphere and the Labyrinth, …
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Richard Seifert, Denys Lasdun & the Power of the Press: Critical Responses to the Architects' Building & Their Reputational Impact
… thesis focuses on critical reactions to the work of post-war British brutalist architects Richard Seifert and Denys Lasdun within the media, particularly architectural journals and national newspapers. The impact of such commentary upon the architects’ reputations is considered in detail, with …
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Η ΑΡΧΙΤΕΚΤΟΝΙΚΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΡΗΜΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΙΡΑΝ
THE THESIS CONSTITUTED OF A COMBINATION OF ARCHITECTURAL SHAPES, FUNCTIONS AND STRUCTURAL MATERIALS TO FACE THE CLIMATE AND THE CLIMATOLOGICAL INFLUENCES OVERTHE BAFTS OF THE IRANIAN DESERT REGIONS. THE FORMATION OF THE ARCHITECTURAL UNITS LINKS TO THE HISTORICAL AND CONSTRUCTIONAL EVOLUTIONS SINCE …
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NATØ: Exploring architecture as a narrative medium in postmodern London
This thesis is concerned with the way that architecture, (that is space, buildings, cities and urban environments), has been and continues to be speculated upon through a rich palette of narrative methods. Taking NATØ, the group of young architects led by Nigel Coates that emerged from the …
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Artist, tower, books: the memory theatre of Richard Cockle Lucas
… observatory. Proceeding from the thematic frame of Lucas as a tower builder and dweller, this study makes the first integrated examination of Lucas as a multimedia artist. It identifies that at the Tower(s) a major shift occurred in his practice: the placing of himself within the subject matter …
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Life behind ruins : constructing documenta
A transnational index of contemporary art, documenta in its current form is known in the art world for its scale, site-specificity and rotating Artistic Directors, each with their own theme and agenda. On a unique schedule, the expansive show is displayed in Kassel, Germany from June to September …
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Architectural Historicism Revisited: The Case of Twentieth-Century Traditionalist Architecture in Queen Street, Auckland
Originating from the fields of philosophy and history, the term historicism is often used by architectural historians. In historiography about twentieth century architecture, the term historicism is most commonly associated with traditionalist pre-Second World War buildings, designed with the …
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