Architectural contextualism in the twentieth century, with particular reference to the architects E. Fay Jones and John Carl Warnecke

A study of the importance, elements and techniques of architectural contextualism. Contextual architecture is here defined as architecture that creates relationships with its specific site or its broader physical or visual environment. This study posits the comprehensive definition of architectural contextualism on multiple levels: denotatively, connotatively, historically, philosophically, and in its aspects of critical regionalism. American architects adept at the practice of architectural contextualism during the mid-twentieth century offer principles and techniques. These architects are John Carl Warnecke, E. Fay Jones, and George White and others. This research has yielded the systematic, comprehensive definition of contextualism, a set of metrics which can be used as a basis of design and aid in the evaluation of the degree to which a building or set of buildings and their landscape are contextually congruent.

Department dc:contributor.department

Architecture

Grantor dc:publisher

Georgia Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2005

Author dc:creator

• Wolford, Jane N.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Lewcock, Ronald B.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Craig, Robert
• Galloway, Thomas
• Peponis, John

• Visual environments
• Discrete elements
• Critical regionalism
• Architectural contextualism
• Contextual buildings
• Organic aesthetics
• Metrics

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1853/7082

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.gatech.edu:1853/7082