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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"urban architecture"”.
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Needs and goals in urban architecture.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1971. B.Arch.
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Natural Forms: Stimuli For Urban Architecture
… of Arlington, which generated numerous layers of urban form.
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Urban Architecture: Differentiation from Street to Sky
… a building can play in a city; especially within urban condition. How a building could actually react and respond to certain human perceptions and functions as an element of a city has become a significant issue. From place to place, the city mutates in several different phases, such as usage, …
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Unnamed modernisms : national ideologies and historical imaginaries in Beirut's urban architecture
… series of historiographic approaches to memory, architecture, and urbanism. This dissertation argues that a critical approach to the city in this context has to come to terms with the omissions that constitute its history and the ambiguities of its multiple political locations. It contends that …
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Self sufficient urban architecture: reducing reliance on traditional sources for basic necessities
… and self-sufficient living, architects and urban planners have discovered numerous examples of such communities located outside urban areas. However, the principles of sustainable living can also be effectively applied within urban environments. The objective of this project is to explore …
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Contextualism and fragmentation : a dualistic guideline to the design of urban architecture
… in understanding the process of making an urban building in a given context. How can one design a new urban building who might effectively exist in a state of identifiable isolation while also has the adequate physical, social, and symbolic connection to the context at large? For this …
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Life in the City: Housing, History and the Supermarket, an Episode in Urban Architecture
… as a response to a proposal to construct a suburban style grocery store and surface parking lot in the middle of an existing residential neighborhood, including the substantial demolition and 'strip-mall' conversion of a historic theater located on the Washington, DC site. The Thesis evolved as …
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Urban housing
… Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture, urban architecture requires a clear division between public and private. In this case, a desire for privacy when living so closely together inspires the idea to articulate the places of the private realm. Furthermore, such tight places …
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Movement and the neighborhood fabric as the generators for an urban elementary school
… stimulation can both organize a viable piece of urban architecture and guide the development of a better learning environment.
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Collaborative process and the transformation of the urban environment : wall, street, and scaffolding on Massachusetts Avenue in Boston
… to make in cities. More generally: how can urban dwellers re-engage with urban architecture in a meaningful and vital way? In response to these questions it is proposed that architects must help to define ways that people can directly collaborate in experiments to redefine their environment. …
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Talking in circles : representing place and situation in an online social environment
… research in areas ranging from sociology to urban architecture, directed at finding bases for the design of capabilities that are useful and engaging in the context of computer support for distributed multiparty communication. The result of this research is Talking in Circles, a graphical …
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Density Reconsidered
… seeks to reconsider aspects of high density in urban architecture, exemplified in a site in Hong Kong, where currently urban housing, temple, commercial, office and other structures coexist. While a very high density of urban housing is in place, it does not consider qualities of living such as …
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City-Car : optimizing vehicle and urban efficiencies through a shared adaptive platform
… put into studying both current vehicles and urban architecture, in order to understand how their relationship could advance contextual awareness, social interaction, and efficient allocation of resources. Through support of General Motors and Gehry Partners, a multidisciplinary team of …
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Utopic Déjà Vu: The Power of the Public Hallucination in the UAE
… of national history and historiography, urban architecture, government policy, critical theory, and my own artwork, we will explore a new mechanism for understanding time and space in the city of the future, as well as the ethics and aesthetics that it propagates
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Vertical Village : towards a new typology of high-density low-income urban housing
Apocalyptic global urbanization is old news. For generations statistically supported oracles have warned against the rising tide of rapid urban growth, one must only casually search the keywords "urban slum" on Goggle to witness the physical manifestation of these abstract predictions across the …
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"Indigenous" -- "Vernacular" : negotiating an American history for modernism through the lens of the architectural exhibition
… and critics sought to legitimate American architecture through the construction of a linear ancestry which placed the beginnings of modernism in the nineteenth century, on American soil. Victorian-era revivalism complicated this thread, but it also served as the impetus for a revision of …
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Reappraising the New Jersey Turnpike : tactical interventions in urbanism
… to weaken and decay. As cracks have formed, urban architecture now has opportunity to create tactical interventions that both patch the system and challenge its modernist underpinnings. In a sense, design for the Turnpike of today should provide the traveler--who is literally and …
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The desert city within : notions about urban form for Phoenix, Arizona
… form of definition, in the absence of a physical urbanity that speaks of identity, character and community. This thesis is about making the "crossroads" where people communicate with one another. The need to provide shade to allow pedestrians to partiCipate in the life of the city is an essential …
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Inbetween spaces: investigation of materials in contrast
Urbanity ls the use of the in-between spaces; use of every available lot, every square inch of space.
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I. M. Pei, William Zeckendorf, and the Architecture of Urban Renewal
… Zeckendorf and their twelve-year partnership in urban renewal. William Zeckendorf (1905-1976) was the most ambitious real estate developer in the United States in the 1950s, with an outsize personality and larger-than-life plans. Unlike most developers of the era, Zeckendorf believed that quality …
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