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Showing 1 to 20 of 107 for “"modern Architecture"”.
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Fiendish Dreams - Reverse Engineering Modern Architecture
… Chicago World's Fair (1893), that inspired the architecture of Coney Island's Dreamland (1905-1911), which beckoned to McCay as he drew from his house just across Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn. The capricious side of this Architecture emerged in McCay's cartoons. A self-taught illustrator, McCay …
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A natural formative basis to post-modern architecture
Within the cyclic order of history, the Modern Age may be seen to have an emphasis on constructive creativity contributing to its progression away from a natural formative basis for order. As a fundamentally different paradigm to post-modern design approaches, a natural formative basis may be seen …
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Sixty-eight & sunny : the un-modern architecture of climate
… filled the air with toxic exhaust, but modernist architects promised to seal the building envelope hermetically, keeping dirty air at bay. Thermal control came to depend on the very same centralized technologies responsible for the toxic storm outside. Pumping climates throughout a …
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The periphery within : modern architecture and the making of the Third World
… examines the critical role played by modern architecture and planning in shaping the discourse on Third World development after the Second World War. At stake here is an ignored dimension of the history of modern architecture and planning as well as that of the development discourse …
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Colonization to Construction: Bridging the Gap Between Ancient Chamorro, Spanish Colonial & Modern Architecture on Guam
… influx of people and culture. Therefore, the architecture that exists on the island is one that divides itself into four distinct styles with each as a response to external forces that affected the island. By researching each of these styles, one is able to fully understand the holistic view …
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Modernism with style : history, culture and the origins of modern architecture in Berlin, 1780-1870
… the continual, but overlooked, impact of Islamic architecture on practicing architects in nineteenth-century Berlin. As such, it examines the origins of Modernism by considering design strategies by architects in post-Schinkel Berlin. The reasons and motivations for this interest in Islamic …
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The new, the old, the modern : architecture and its representation in socialist Romania, 1955-1965
… Grigore Ionescu; and the photography of architecture in the magazine Arhitectura. A consistent set of aesthetic and discursive practices emerged from the interrelation between words, images, and actual buildings in each of these examples: the city as new unit of production, …
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The Beehive, the Favela, the Castle, and the Ministry: Race and Modern Architecture in Rio de Janeiro, 1811–1945
… and decolonial framework to investigate the architecture of cortiços, the Favela Hill, the Castelo Hill, and the Ministry of Education and Public Health (MES) building as constitutive of the history of modernization and modernity in the Centro (city center) of Rio de Janeiro, 1811-1945. The …
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Art, Science, and Construction: Exploring the Boundaries of Modern Architecture in the Arabic Context, the Work of Sayed Karim and Rifat Chadirji
… context focused on its transformation into a modern discipline using locally determined evidence found in primary texts. It explores the changing boundaries of architecture and its relationship to other fields of knowledge, mainly science, mathematics, and art, to develop a reading of modern …
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The House In The Museum Garden: Targeting Domestic Consumers In MoMA’s Architecture And Design Exhibitions
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) promoted modern art and design through exhibitions. Exhibitions of the 1930s were marked by politically and socially minded intentions that aimed to solve modern problems through modern solutions. This continued into the early 1940s, though a shift occurred in the …
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A value based approach to modern architectural heritage in Cyprus: Schools in Larnaka, 1945-1963
… of addressing the heritage assets of its modern architectural heritage. Emerging scholarship has indicated the wealth and the complexity of modern architecture in Cyprus as heritage. Nevertheless, modern architecture in Cyprus, developed during the most turbulent periods of the twentieth …
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Architectural Tectonics: A Shift Between the Cultural Tradition of Making to Contemporary Building Processes
Modern architecture has lost its sense of place by the adoption of practices like standardization and universal modularity, over the focus and influence of unique local building practices. However, looking outside of the cultural main stream works of architecture, there exists some built structures …
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Building a Continent: The Idea of Latin American Architecture in the Early Postwar
In January 1943, New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) opened Brazil Builds. This exhibition has been widely credited 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 …
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The traditional architecture of the Igbo of Nigeria
Modern architecture in Nigeria presents a bizarre picture of indiscriminate transplantation of foreign buildings, and a complete abandonment of traditional architecture. Apparently, the transplanted architecture does not respond to the physical and cultural needs of Nigerians, and, at all events, …
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Modernism and dwelling : residential architecture in early republican Turkey
… the 1930s' Turkey was heavily influenced by the modernization reforms and the official ideologies of the Republican regime. By these reforms, Kemalist regime aimed to transform the whole society and its cultural production. While the existing transformations in the social context was already on …
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Domestic Space, Modernity, and Identity: The Apartment in Mid-20th Century Turkey
… domain that exposed the continuation and modernization of hierarchical class relations; it also highlights women's gendered identity in domestic space. Most significantly, the analysis demonstrates that the urban apartment, as a physical embodiment of contemporary beliefs, social norms, …
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Science of the Small: Nanotechnology Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C.
… to explore post industrial society and how modern industry can become part of the urban experience. Through the design of a nanotechnology research laboratory, I was able to discover a connection between modern architecture and nanotechnology which revolved around the topics of scale, …
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Beyond the easel : the dissolution of abstract expressionist painting into the realm of architecture
… large-scale canvases but, following trends in modern architecture, shifted their painting towards the construction of architectural environments, thus promoting the transformation of painting from a window in the wall to a wall without a window. The artist and architect Tony Smith, a close …
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