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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"modernist architecture"”.
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Reviving cosmopolitan Beirut : a case study of three modernist art spaces
… past (or the prospective future). I track the architecture of the different art galleries and institutions and supplement it with the kind of art they exhibit, to create preliminary categories, each vying for its own identity of Lebanon. In the thesis, I choose the modernist architecture …
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Preserving Power, Remaking the Past: Race, Colonialism, Modernism, and Architectural Preservation
… to "Indigenous" zones – that brought together modernist architecture, white supremacy, early twentieth-century European settler colonialism, and architectural preservation. My focus on preservationists' narrations of these white cities extends interdisciplinary work charting their historical …
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Approximate translation : media, narrative, and experience in urban design
… capital, postmodernism, aesthetics, semiotics, modernist architecture, epistemology, and hermeneutics are drawn upon in order to construct a framework for this that is both robust enough for use in practice and pedagogy, as well as mutable enough for further refinement and expansion.
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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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From Victorian to Modernist: the changing perceptions of Japanese architecture encapsulated in Wells Coates' Japonisme dovetailing East and West
… chronicles the change in perception of Japanese architecture from the Victorian, where it was little recognised, to an inspiration for inter-war modernist architecture and lifestyle; to record, to a lesser extent, how Japanese art, particularly the way in which it was displayed, underwent a …
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Modernism and Paul Olds (1922–1976) Questioning New Zealand’s Story of Art
… within New Zealand’s cultural landscape, with modernist architecture standing as a notable exception. Only recently have art historians begun to interrogate modernism’s influence, particularly through focused studies of New Zealand Cubism. Modernism’s arrival in New Zealand—part of its global …
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Data-Based Urban Heritage Policy Assessment: Evaluating Tel Aviv’s Preservation Plan
… on an outstanding synthesis of the Modern architecture movement and an outstanding example of new town planning of the 20th century. Municipal plan 2650b was enacted in 2008 and is linked to the WHS, protecting modern architecture and mainly focusing on the center-city area. The Plan …
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Language and metaphor in postmodern architectural meaning: an interpretative model
… postmodern and in particular, poststructuralist architecture. The existing lacuna of interpretation in this area is the result of the disfiguring, but ubiquitous, 'language of architecture' formulation which is formally challenged here as part of the construction of a model of interpretation. …
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A minimal aesthetic: the relationships between fashion and art in New York and Paris, from 1964 to the present day
… to the practice of fashion design and retail architecture, specifically in a high-fashion context. The research establishes that the earliest manifestation of a minimal aesthetic in fashion design, took place in 1964, in the work of the French fashion designer André Courrèges. Designers who …
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Among the Modernist Ruins: British Writing and the Architecture of the State
… authors turned to what had already been termed “modernist” in architecture to make sense of the modern movement in literature. In modern architects' ultra-visible ability to destroy the forms of tradition, these authors discovered a public realm in which modern literature's aspirations to “make …
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Socialist Constructions: Modern Urban Housing and Social Practice
… Housing and Social Practice,” investigates the modernist production of living space by focusing on housing reform in Weimar Germany’s Berlin and Frankfurt am Main as well as on the subsequent projects of German modernist architects working in the USSR in the early 1930s. Broadly, my work …
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Beyond the easel : the dissolution of abstract expressionist painting into the realm of architecture
… 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 friend and …