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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"writing architecture"”.
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Drawing blood : writing architecture at the Old Slave Lodge
The intent of this design dissertation was to set off on a journey of exploration and experimentation that would open itself up to unexpected or surprising results. With no expected result, this inductive process of research would hopefully result in a design investigation that was rich and …
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An updatable three-dimensional display via direct optical fringe writing of computer - generated holographic stereograms in photorefractive polymer
… display based on the direct fringe writing of computer-generated holographic gratings into a novel photorefractive polymer. The photorefractive polymer in question has been developed by Nitto Denko Technical Corporation and has many attractive properties for the 3-D display …
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Meaning, action and place in the work of Álvaro Siza: an adapted application of Paul Ricoeur's theory of narrative hermeneutics within Hans-Georg Gadamer's ontological framework
Architecture plays a fundamental role in how those that inhabit it both understand and relate to the world. Architectural practice that is conscious of this role has the potential to support the inhabiter’s negotiation of their relationship to the larger socio-cultural reality. This thesis aims to …
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Postwar British Fictions of Inhabitation
… Rather, both house fictions. For Smithson, the writing of books and the planning of buildings was both a way of being in the world and a way of taking it apart and putting it back together. The question of where to dwell, and the search for an ideal location where the self could flourish, …