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Showing 1 to 20 of 88 for “"ornament"”.
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Ornament and collective fantasy.
Thesis. 1979. M.Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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On Ornament: A Catholic Cemetery for Philadelphia
… and the joining of these materials in which ornament dwells. It is present wherever man has shaped material for construction. It is a whisper when homogenized, and it is a trumpet blast when varied. This thesis will delve into the making of ornament, and my love for it. My first cognizant …
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Ornament because of crime : learning from Mafia Baroque
… a cautionary tale projecting a bleak future. If ornament used to be a direct product of crime, could it now express its patron's ulterior motive for an improved urban environment as it takes on additional collective functions besides communicating power? The previous flat kit bashing of parts …
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Lotte Reiniger and the Animated Ornament in Experimental Film
… reveals Reiniger’s distinct aesthetic as an ornamental mode of animation. When considered in the context of a series of exhibitions in Berlin, Bristol, London, and Manchester, Reiniger’s oeuvre emerges as a central episode in the history and theorization of experimental animation in interwar …
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A re-assessment of ornament as a sculptural element
… with the conventionalised language of historical ornament. This has involved a process of incorporating 'found' imagery into composite images of a fantastical nature. The use of ornament as a source material posed problems. The original symbolic function and communicative power of many ornamental …
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Thermoforming three dimensional set and costume ornament from thermoplastic sheet
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Theatre, 1968
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Ornament is dangerous : a wildfire hazard center for Los Angeles
… building. While the the role and relevance of ornament in architecture has been criticized for centuries, its position has been, for the most part, supported as essential to architecture. In his seminal work On the Art of Building in Ten Books, Alberti wrote, "ornament may be defined as a form …
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Research programs on geometry and ornament : a case study of Islamicist scholarship
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1989.
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Re-envisioning the Alhambra: Readings of architecture and ornament from medieval to modern
… In addressing the overlapping structural and ornamental layers which make up its form, this study challenges the historiographic limitations of categories such as 'medieval' and 'modern', as well as formal categories such as 'ornament' and 'architecture', which render some art histories more …
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My ornament : writing women's moving, erotic bodies across time and space : a novel and exegesis
… work and the exegesis. The creative work, My ornament, is an Australian novel set in India. It explores - from a feminist perspective - issues of desire, subjectivity, agency and connection among three women and their moving, sexual bodies across time and space. In so doing, its aim is to …
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How environments shape ornament morphological evolution: bringing perspective to a century of inconsistent sexual allometry analysis
… species were found to invest in markedly smaller ornament allometries compared to their terrestrial relatives, demonstrating inconsistent sexual allometries can be caused by biomechanical restrictions unique to a species environment. For my third Chapter I used a meta-analysis to reveal female …
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Ornament after the orders : Percier, Fontaine and the rise of the architectural interior in post-revolutionary France
… revolutionary destruction of monuments, ornament, rather than the orders, ensured architecture's survival. Percier and Fontaine's vision of the interior signaled a movement away from an architecture of monumentality towards one of mobility, a shift precipitated by the violence of …
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Visible structures
… is the interplay between structure, surface and ornament. Traditionally, ornament adorned structure thereby giving it its meaning. A society with its intellectual foundations resting in faith or the abstract emphasized the ornament over the structure. The growth of Rationalism and the …
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Ornamenting Fingernails and Roads: Beautification and the Embodiment of Authenticity in Post-War Eastern Sri Lanka
… of local, everyday exchanges from how women ornament their nails to how communities beautify their open—and sometimes contested—spaces. I draw on my ethnographic data from Eastern Sri Lanka and explore ‘color’ as negotiated through personal and public ornaments and notions of beauty with a …
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Two-Dimensional Computer-Generated Ornamentation Using a User-Driven Global Planning Strategy
Hand drawn ornamentation, such as floral or geometric patterns, is a tedious and time consuming task that requires much skill and training in ornamental design principles and aesthetics. Ornamental drawings both historically and presently play critical roles in all things from art to architecture; …
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Printing the vernacular : 3D printing technology and its impact on the City of Sana'a, Yemen
… of the technology. More specifically, the ornament of the tower house and possible scenarios of transformation are the main design focus of the project. Ornament will appear in different scales and configurations in the future city of Sana'a, from high resolution ornament to inhabitable …
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The Modernist Defense of Poetry in Prose and Verse
… as the ennobling essence of poetry; attacking ornament as a property of mere verse; and yoking popular poetry to the vice of over-ornamentation. By drawing together their growing frustration with the prose defense, their internalization of its priorities and prejudices, and their residual …
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