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Showing 1 to 20 of 274 for “"monumental"”.
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Monumental Ephemerality
This thesis completes the process of making architecture. It is a small project designed and built full scale. The act of realizing this work of architecture offered opportunities and limitations that do not exist within the confines of a desk project but, I believe, ultimately produced a stronger …
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Monumental ambition: understanding Jorge Oteiza's innovative sculpture
… art; describe the production of an innovative monumental art /n situ. In distinction to previous approaches, | show how this sculpture developed out of a critique of naturalism, and the creation of new ideal concepts like open wall and vacio. | present an elemental type reception of Oteiza’s …
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"""Carving the world"": Inca monumental sculpture and landscape"
… study a typology and catalogue of forms of Inca monumental sculpture is presented. The physical context of these carved rocks is discussed, whether they have been integrated within architectural settings, or are to be found near springs, rivers and irrigation-canals. Arguments are presented to …
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Nuevos Nanomateriales para la Conservación del Patrimonio Monumental Andaluz
… para tres rocas carbonatadas del Patrimonio Monumental Andaluz: caliza de Estepa (Sevilla), calcarenita de Santa Pudia (Granada) y calcarenita de San Cristóbal (Cádiz). Los productos sintetizados han demostrado su eficacia como consolidantes y como consolidantes-hidrofugantes. Además, se ha …
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Monumental Building Complexes in Orientalizing and Archaic Central Italy
… century and through the sixth century BC, monumental building complexes were erected in proto-urban settlements in Etruria and Latium. Located on prominent positions within settlements and comprising large central courtyards and surrounding building wings, the complexes appear to have been …
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The Architectural Heritage of Private Non-Monumental Structures: Diu Town
The Portuguese colonial empire spanned nearly 600 years spreading across the southern hemisphere of the globe from South America to South East Asia resulting in a string of littoral settlements. Within the realms of comparative urban and architectural studies on Indo-Portuguese settlements, there …
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Outspan Fire Station: challenging the monumental disregard of the public
Includes abstract.
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Titania-silica composite materials for self-cleaning applications on monumental stones
… practical application on buildings and other monumental heritage structures since they can be applied outdoors by means of a simple and low-cost process. The resulting nanomaterials give self-cleaning properties and create crack-free effective adhesive coatings for exterior stone surfaces. In …
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La modificación de la ciudad : restauración monumental en Toledo s. XIX y XX
… un aspecto esencial de la misma: su realidad monumental. La ciudad de Toledo ha experimentado cambios significativos durante los siglos XIX y XX como consecuencia de las circunstancias sociales, políticas y de la preocupación socialmente compartida sobre el patrimonio. El estudio de la …
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The monumental turn: metonymic synergy between the Statue of Liberty and 'The New Colussus"
<p>This study focuses on the inter-animating properties of the Statue of Liberty and Emma Lazarus’ corresponding sonnet, “The New Colossus.” The research explores how these two forms of communication, one visual and one verbal, invite public perceptions that permit them both to retain their …
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Construction of history : Mohammad-Reza Shah revivalism, nationalism, and monumental architecture of Tehran, 1951-1979
… fall of the Pahlavi dynasty, raises issues of monumentality, permanence, and the presence or absence of inherent meaning in architecture.
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A Sign of the Times: Administration, Agency of officials and Monumental architecture in Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt
… a great extent by the physical manifestations of monumental projects. This study examines whether the state’s authority is decentralised among its officials, the state’s proxies, and whether they use their own agency to exert control over the landscape, the resources, and the people. The …
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Monumental Change: Recontextualization and Inclusion Through the Lens of Denver’s Civil War Monument and the Sand Creek Massacre
<p>In recent years, countries in the Global North have begun to grapple with the origins of long-standing monuments and their implication about society’s present values. This project is a case study of the Denver Civil War Monument, a monument erected in 1909 to honor soldiers from Colorado who …
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La restauración y conservación del patrimonio monumental : estudio sistematizado de los métodos de programación en las intervenciones de restauración
Los métodos de planificación, programación y control de obras utilizados en edificación provienen directamente de la industria, con mínimas adaptaciones para su empleo en la construcción. En el caso de las intervenciones de restauración, el problema se agrava ya que, cada obra además de ser …
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Landmarks of the Persian Renaissance : monumental funerary architecture in Iran and Central Asia in the tenth and eleventh centuries
This dissertation investigates the sudden proliferation of mausolea in Iran and Central Asia in the tenth and eleventh centuries and how their patrons, who were secular rulers of Iranian descent, drew on the pre-Islamic past in new ways specific to each region. Mausolea constructed in the tenth and …
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La imagen fotográfica del patrimonio monumental declarado en La Rioja hasta 1936. El Fondo Fotográfico del Instituto de Estudios Riojanos
… with the study of the photographic image of the monumental heritage declared in La Rioja until 1936 through the architectural photographs preserved in the digitized Photographic Fund of the Instituto de Estudios Riojanos. Based on the cataloguing of more than two hundred photographic images …
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