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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"modern design"”.
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A cross-cultural design pattern: Chinese modern design
Chinese graphic designers are gaining more visibility and earn awards in various international poster competitions, shaping a new visual frontier in Chinese graphic design. These successes are based on their special cross-cultural design principle, which combines Chinese traditional culture with …
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Knit architecture : low tech fabrication techniques in modern design : thesis
… means of fabrication in a world of high-tech design. This thesis attempts to break knitting down into its most essential components and use these to build a catalog of basic forms which can be generated through knitting. These basic forms will act as building blocks which can be combined to …
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City Full of Dreams: Colonial Spaces and Modernity in Interwar Paris
This dissertation examines the role of modern design, architecture, and concepts in sites that linked Paris with France’s colonial empire in the interwar period. I argue that the colonies were a significant part of modern life in Paris, with efforts made to promote the use of colonial materials and …
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Pattern and fabric : the role of craftsmanship in contemporary architecture
… the hand of the craftsman. As a result most modern buildings lack the qualities of craftsmanship. This thesis seeks to identify and define these qualities, speculates on their importance to the human psyche, and suggests ways that they can be adapted to modern design and construction …
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The Works of Josef Hoffmann Koloman Moser and The Wiener Werkstatte
… Arts and Crafts Movement as a case study for modern design theory during the first thirty years of the 20th century. I establish that through the implementation of innovative design concepts, manufacturing collaborations and retail experiments that the Wiener Werkstätte constitutes an …
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an Architecture Manufactum
… the human component, "manufactum", into modern design reacquaints us with our own capricious temperaments. As powerful tools of the contemporary world heighten our faculty for exactitude, the prudence remains as to whether and when it is appropriate to do so.
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Modernized Traditional Temple
This thesis design explores the integration of traditional temple architecture with modern design principles. The study focuses on reinterpreting and modernizing traditional elements using contemporary materials and building techniques, while still preserving traditional religious culture and …
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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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Terraced Landscape: A School Building Design in Virginia Tech
… and landscape. Along with the development of modern design education, architecture design has been subdivided into several specific branches which actually cause harm to the whole design process and education in turn. In this thesis, I try to bridge the difference between the traditional …
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Mainstreaming straw as a construction material : understanding the future of bio-based architectural materials
There is a current trend in design and construction towards the use of distinct prefabricated components in the production of buildings. There is also a growing awareness by architects and builders of the environmental impact caused by the production, operation, and disposal of buildings. Since the …
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Instruction Set Design for Support of High-Level Languages
… interpretable languages (DILs) have not been designed with high-level languages (HLLs) in mind. The resulting semantic gap is known to cause significant inefficiencies in space and time resources in execution. Direct interpretation of HLLs is not the solution, because it is too complex and …
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Frequency Domain Methods for Predicting the Transport of Non-Uniform Flow Through Turbomachinery Compressors
… modeling methods are applied to a rotor of modern design with promising results.
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The reception and study of Renaissance architecture in Great Britain, 1890-1914
… in Great Britain changed dramatically. Despite modernism's tenet of rejecting history from design, Renaissance architectural history in Great Britain functioned as both an alternative to and a source of inspiration for modernism. At first Renaissance architecture supplied a stylistic alternative …
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Characterizing Virtual Prototype Constructability Programming for the Pictographic Instruction of Procedure
The modern design-construction boundary is facing an unprecedented moment of evaluation. Global applications of building information modeling, including virtual prototyping, factory-based component procurement and industrialized site production are only a few of the forces that threaten to engulf …
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Towards a post-industrial architecture : design and construction of houses for the information age
The design and construction of modern residential architecture, which came into critical focus by architects of the Machine Age, continues to be a priority in the architectural discourse. For Modern architects, the desire to relate the house to industrial processes was an aesthetic and social …
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Nature in practice : the Olmsted firm and the rise of landscape architecture an planning, 1880-1920
… of an office system that forms the basis of modern design practice. On the road, John Charles Olmsted expanded the firm's national practice and became the most sought-after expert called in to help plan cities and towns across the country.
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A community center for Suffolk
… at the same time to introduce features in the design which have been left out in the past. The community center has been designed in a modern manner, with the thought always in mind to create two buildings of which the citizens or the community will be proud. The research in connection with …
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The Royal College of Art : its influence on education, art and design 1900-1950.
… is considered through its teaching of art and design, and its work as a centre for the training of art teachers. The ideas of some of the staff are evaluated with regard to the need for art and design education. The influence of the diplomates of the College on the areas of education, art and …
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Design Solutions for Cultural Sustainability: A Case Study of Vernacular Residential Interiors from Northern and Central Jordan
This thesis applies a design ethnography approach to investigate how vernacular residential interiors in Northern and Central Jordan can contribute to the development of culturally sustainable interior design practices. This study integrates fieldwork, visual documentation, and qualitative …
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Re-Dwelling: A Proposal for Five Dwellings in Maggia, Switzerland
… in Italian-speaking Ticino, Switzerland. The modern scheme placed within Maggia's old town outlines an attempt to revitalize the village's life by providing places for individuals, families, groups of families, and the whole village community. The act acknowledges a process of evolution which …
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