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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"palimpsest"”.
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Palimpsest
Palimpsest presents the belief that the common bond between one metaphysical poet and another exists in their attempts to articulate a relationship to some ultimate, unifying reality, and that the primary methods employed in the articulation of the relationship depend on the analogical functions of …
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Palimpsest Theatre
M.Arch.
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Palimpsest and the Architecture of Time
The Palimpsest of time is ever changing.Mankind has tried to understand and utilize time through many lenses. Through the concepts of Khronographics, Kairographics, and the Technics, Architecture can be used as a means of expressing and revealing time.
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A palimpsest-image: place, space and film geographies
… house films. It proposes the notion of the palimpsest-image as an orbit around three gravitational vectors: the relationship between place and space in film, the association of different art forms in the creation and interpretation of an image, and the simultaneity of discourses involving …
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A Critical Palimpsest: Reconstruing an Existing Spatial Condition
… of embracing the figural possibilities of palimpsest through layering new construction upon extant. The existing building, a neglected warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky, is challenged by a new program that is intended to subdivide the vast, horizontal space and reconstrue the two distinctly …
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Finding the Material of Memory: Sketch for a Palimpsest
… film. The two-screen film titled Sketch for a Palimpsest embeds the methods and motivations of deep topography in its structure and mapping of the architecture and spaces of the Barbican, tracking the movements of a walking figure through the site. The film contains a voiceover of sources …
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Inner-city palimpsest: Building the city above the city
… fabric of dense inner-cities, the layered palimpsest, and strong sense of character as a result of the piecemeal evolution of the city over time. Retaining this character is at odds with the phenomenon of a market-driven, developer-led method of place ‘un-making’ within the city which aims …
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Piranesi's Campo Marzio plan : the palimpsest of interpretive memory
… of Rome, Campo Mania plan can be termed as the palimpsest of Piranesi's interpretive memory.
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Eroding the palimpsest : landscape, cinema and the site of history
The thesis will explore the migration of content between forms, specifically between cinema and text. By reflexively interrogating my film Dry Country, and drawing a thread through Yugoslav film history and Slovenian history (1941-present), I will map what happens when the record of what has been …
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Journeys in the Palimpsest: British women's travel to Greece,1840-1914
Discussions of British travel to Greece in the nineteenth century have been dominated by the work of Lord Byron. Byron’s contemporary Greeks were Orientalised, while antique Greece was personified as a captive Greek woman on the brink of compromise by the Ottomans, or a cadaver. Throughout the …
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Design within an urban frame: a school for palimpsest Alexandria, Virginia
It is in man's nature to want to know his place within his environment. This inherent need manifests itself in many ways, often unique to the cultures and societies that husband them. The primacy of man's need for a sense of his place in the world is evident in the collective mythologies that …
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Palimpsest : derelict mines and architecture of archeology one hundred years from now
The realities of the built past and the palimpsest-ic nature of activities on the African mining landscape is under critique. On a site where nature gives way to the man-made activity of platinum ore excavation and mineral extraction, the activity of mining essentially creates infrastructures of …
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Frames of Digital Blackness in the Racialized Palimpsest City: Chicago, Illinois and Johannesburg, South Africa
… arc develop novel frameworks, the racialized palimpsest city and syndemic segregation, through which to explore contemporary urban interactions and engagements.
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Exploring theatrical conventions and the application of palimpsest, polyphony, hauntology, and site-specific, through a scenographic lens
… the past. The visual and audible techniques of palimpsest and polyphony, aid in the scenographic construction of sitespecific intervention. Palimpsest, originally located in literature as a way to reuse books and paper, ink would stain the pages which would create a ghostly effect and signify …
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Cinematic Palimpsests: Polysemy and In(ter)dependency in the Spectator Experience
<p><strong> </strong>The model of the cinematic palimpsest helps us to critically reevaluate<strong> </strong>formal aspects of<strong> </strong>film language, relationships between film texts, and the construction of cinematic meaning in conversation with the spectator. Originating in Medieval …
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Architecture and Memory at the Intersection of Transit, the Built Environment, and Placemaking in Tysons, VA
"Palimpsest" noun: palimpsest; plural noun: palimpsests a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain. something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form. My thesis …
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Le motif du palimpseste chez Jean-Luc Lagarce
… Cette thèse de doctorat explore le motif du palimpseste dans l’oeuvre de Jean-Luc Lagarce. Notre premier chapitre s’intéresse au palimpseste pris au sens de réécriture, afin non seulement de signaler cette pratique chez Lagarce, qui adapte de nombreux textes pour la scène de façon officielle …
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Hagia Sophia as a Facture: Originality through Appropriations
… as re-makings that manifest the building as a palimpsest-in-the-becoming. Its originality lies not any of its chronological beginnings but its diachronic facture of interweaved historical, mythical and architectural strata of its remakings through appropriation. The conquest of Constantinople, …
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