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Ton, That Minh Tu. "Preserving Architectural Decisions through Architectural Patterns." Thesis, Lorient, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014LORIS340/document.
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Les décisions architecturales ont émergé comme un moyen important pour maintenir la qualité de l’architecture pendant sa évolution. L’une des décisions les plus importantes faite par architecte sont celles à propos des approches de conception, à savoir des patrons ou des styles architecturales. La structure de ce genre de décision donne la possibilité d’être contrôlée automatiquement. Dans la littérature, il existe quelques travaux sur la vérification automatique de la violation des décisions architecturales. Dans cette thèse, nous montrons que ces travaux ne permettent pas de détecter toutes les violations possibles. Pour les compléter, nous proposons une approche qui i) décrit les patrons architecturaux qui contiennent la définition de la décision architecturale, ii) intègre les décisions architecturales au modèle architectural et iii) automatise la vérification de la conformité de la décision architecturale. Notre approche est implémentée en utilisant EMF et ses technologies accompagnées. Nous avons montré la possibilité de formaliser tous les patrons structuraux. A travers de deux expérimentes, nous avons montré que les décisions architecturales sont bien expliquées et toutes les violations sont détectées. Les systèmes logiciels composables sont prouvés capable de supporter l’adaptation aux nouvelles exigences grâce à leur flexibilité. Une méthode typique pour composer ces systèmes est de sélectionner et combiner des patrons qui adressent aux exigences de qualité attendues. Plusieurs propositions ont montré l’intérêt de la composition de patron. En revanche, l’un des défauts de ces propositions est la vaporisation de l’information de composition qui conduit au problème de la traçabilité et la reconstructibilité des patrons. Cette thèse a pour but de réserver le statut première classe aux opérateurs de composition pour stocker l’information de composition. L’approche est implémentée dans un outil et une étude empirique a été aussi conduite pour souligner ses intérêtsArchitectural decisions have emerged as a means to maintain the quality of the architecture during its evolution. One of the most important decisions made by architects are those about the design approach such as the use of patterns or styles in the architecture. The structural nature of this type of decisions give them the potential to be controlled systematically. In the literature, there are some works on the automation of architectural decision violation checking. In this thesis we show that these works do not allow to detect all possible architectural decision violations.To solve this problem we propose an approach which: i) describes architectural patterns that hold the architectural decision definition, ii) integrates architectural decisions into an architectural model and, iii) automates the architectural decision conformance checking. The approach is implemented using Eclipse Modeling Framework and its accompanying technologies. Starting from well-known architectural patterns, we show that we can formalize all those related to the structural aspect. Through two experiments, we show that architectural decisions are well explained and all of their violations are detected. Composable software systems have been proved to support the adaptation to new requirements thanks to their flexibility. A typical method of composable software development is to select and combine a number of patterns that address the expected quality requirements. A lot of work have shown the interest of pattern composition. Nevertheless, one of the shortcomings of these work is the vaporization of composition information which leads to the problem of traceability and reconstructability of patterns. This thesis also proposes to give first- class status to pattern merging operators to facilitate the preservation of composition information. The approach is tool-supported and an empirical study has also been conducted to highlight its interests
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Boonzaaier, Johann H. "Nurturing architecture : shifting conventional architectural approaches towards regenerative architecture." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/53344.
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The natural world consists of incredibly complex and integrated systems. Ecosystems and biodiversity all work cohesively to sustainably maintain the basis of our very existence on the planet. These interrelationships form the foundation of all living things and have zero impact on the natural environment. Mankind hugely influences natural systems through its introduction of technological systems . This influence is traceable to the unsustainable extraction of natural resources, which became wide-spread in the industrial era.
Since the start of the industrial era, city borders have rapidly expanded often leaving the inner-city decentralized. Such expansion has made its mark on the central business district of Pretoria, where natural voids have been created in the city fabric. The environment in the CBD, through the impact of human activities, is in a state of decay, which is a threat to the very existence of the ecological environment.
Architecture needs to return to its roots and find a spatial condition to co-exist with the natural realm in a regenerative manner. Thus utilizing nature s ability to solve problems that we currently struggle with. This dissertation focuses on regenerative architecture. The ecological environment, and certain insects in particular, provides us with countless solutions. Unfortunately, we sometimes mistake the innovation and services of insects as the aggravation of pests. The proposed program therefore centers on the research of these insects and on learning what they can provide for the greater good of humanity s future; a future where humans and nature have a mutually beneficial relationship.
This project also taps into the closed-loop-system of the regenerative theory in which, nothing is seen as a single entity, but rather as a system where anything is beneficial and interrelates to everything. This theory can only strengthen and densify Pretoria s inner city, filling the voids with systems and contributing positively towards the regeneration of resources.Mini Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2015.
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Grundström, Oskar, and Theo Storesund. "Autotelic Architecture : A collection of architectural stories." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-146327.
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• Autotelic Architecture is a collection of buildings with architectural stories. • The buildings included are described with black line drawings on white paper and a supplementary text. The drawings have been stripped down to only show walls, pillars, stairs, ramps and significant objects. Together the drawing and the text describes what story is told in the building through its architectural elements. • The reason to include a building in the collection is our recognition of a story within it. • All of the buildings in the collection have been built. • Each of the buildings in the collection hold a story thought of as relevant, communicated with spaces and objects. The relevance is based on an incomplete set of attributes, indicating a strong architectural story. • The buildings are categorized in different themes. For example, the theme of labyrinths describe buildings that are of a maze like nature, schizophrenic describe buildings with multiple logics and nothingness describe buildings appearing to be almost nothing. One building can be part of several themes, and the number of themes is not fixed. • The intention is to visualize the nature of the architectural story and to provide a conceptual inventory for further development of architectural stories. We believe that from telling stories with only the configuration of a buildings physical conditions there arises a direct intellectual stimulation which adds poetic depth to the building. • This book argues that the poetical aspects of architecture has a purpose in itself and should take precedence over the technical aspects. • This book is not a manual and can therefore not be seen as dogmatic or as a recipe for architecture. It is a body of strong architectural stories that deserve to be noted and shared. • This book does not take a stand against other forms of architecture, it simply proposes a language of designing that is both serious and happy, both literal and tentative, both enigmatic and real.• Autotelisk Arkitektur är en samling av byggnader med arkitektoniska berättelser. • Byggnaderna är beskrivna med hjälp av planer och text. Planerna har blivit reducerade för att enbart visa väggar, pelare, trappor, ramper och signifikanta objekt. Tillsammans beskriver planen och texten den berättelse byggnaden berättar genom sina arkitektoniska element. • Alla byggnader i samlingen har byggts. • Byggnaderna är kategoriserade i olika teman. En byggnad kan vara part av flera teman och antalet teman är inte fast. • Intentionen är att visualisera arkitektoniska berättelser och tillgängliggöra en konceptuell inventering för vidare utveckling av arkitektoniska berättelser. Vi tror att genom att berätta historier genom enbart en byggnads rumsliga konfiguration uppstår det en intellektuell stimulering vilket skapar poetiskt djup i en byggnad. • Boken föreslår ett formgivningsspråk som är både seriöst och glatt, både bokstavligt och sökande, både enigmatiskt och verkligt.
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Dean, Craig Franklin. "Form + order: investigations into architecture + the architectural." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/52116.
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The process of the architect involves the contradictory yet coexisting realms of form and order, the soul and the intellect, the nondiscursive and the literal.
Meaning can be found in both worlds. The rational and linguistic manifests itself in the architectural; architecture, however, expresses ideas as art and reveals that which is verbally ineffable.Master of Architecture
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Shastri, Devdutt. "Dance of architecture : choreographic and architectural movement." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.584890.
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The aim of this thesis is to develop a theoretical framework that is based on the body and on the theme of Movement, for the analysis, interpretation and creation of Architecture. My research pro poses that Movement rather than Form may be the way forward for Architecture. A theory that is based on the experience and perception of Movement, requires a Movement-focused re-search of Architecture, and is furthered by examining the discipline that is primarily concerned with the design of human movement in space, namely Choreography. My central argument, therefore, is that there is sufficient commonality between the process of creating Architecture and that of Choreography to warrant examining principles of the latter, to advance our knowledge of the former. The term 'movement' can conjure different associations and so it is necessary to define the scope of the term as it pertains to the research at hand. This study identifies five treatments of Movement: Pictorially Affective, Literal, Animated, Choreographed and Ex pressed, which are subsets of three broad categories based on the movement of: 1 - people in space: P, A, C 2 - the building (actual) : L 3 - the building (implied) : E The thesis a) critiques the historiography of Architecture from a movement-themed perspective, and provides a brief over view of Choreographic theories about Movement, b) uses photographs, video and other digital media as tools to analyse both Architecture and dance Choreography, interpreting the treatment of Movement in Architecture, according to P/L/A/C/E and, lastly, c) the thesis explores a syncretic approach towards the making of a movement-based Architecture, informed by Choreography. Video capture and editing are among several methods explored in order to study the design of movement in an architectural con text, evidence of which is presented on an accompanying DVD.
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Bāo, Chén. "Écrire l'idée [Xie Yi] : entre l'écriture idéographique et l'écriture architecturale." Phd thesis, Université Toulouse le Mirail - Toulouse II, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00736206.
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Un bâtiment ne parle pas, mais il communique d'une autre manière des messages qui sont le reflet des idées des architectes. Si l'architecture est un langage, si elle est une " écriture d'idées ", alors comment rendre l'idée visible ? Comment peut-on, dans un sens métaphorique, faire parler un bâtiment ? Nous proposons alors une hypothèse analogique : " Si le bâtiment parlait alors il parlerait chinois ". Cette hypothèse oriente nos recherches vers l'étude des rapports entre langage architectural et langage naturel. À l'intérieur de ce champ interdisciplinaire, l'écriture graphique et idéographique chinoise devient notre objet référentiel. Les caractères chinois unifient la forme et le sens en même temps, ils proposent une figuration des idées fondée sur le système idéographique. De par sa logique combinatoire et ses procédés rhétoriques, le processus de figuration des caractères chinois est un processus de transformation de formes simples vers des formes complexes, passant de significations limitées à des significations riches. Ce processus de conception de caractères montre également une série de schèmes idéographiques qui pourrait constituer un système méthodologique de sémantisation pour la représentation architecturale. Ainsi, l'écriture idéographique et l'écriture architecturale, pris comme deux processus de figuration peuvent parallèlement se comparer, et l'écriture idéographique pourrait proposer un outil conceptuel pour l'écriture architecturale. Il s'agit d'examiner un nouveau modèle linguistique qui pourrait être utile pour la conception de l'architecture contemporaine.
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Pickersgill, Robert Sean, and sean pickersgill@unisa edu au. "Architecture and Horror: Analogical Explorations in Architectural Design." RMIT University. Architecture and Design, 2009. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20090525.162052.
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This thesis examines the relationship between the practice of architectural design and the media through which it is represented. It makes a consistent critical appraisal of the philosophical presumptions under which architectural theory is made, in particular, the relationship between theories of expression and representation. The thesis presents seven distinct projects by the author which developmentally explore the degree to which architecture is able to represent the sublime - in particular through the concept of horror. In this instance horror emerges as a category of excess that supervenes the uses of the term in the genres of film and literary studies. Within the thesis horror describes an (impossible) objective for representation The thesis argues that the environment within which these philosophical questions of 'effect' may most resonantly be explored is, ultimately, digital media. The author draws on contemporary commentary by Jacques Derrida and Georges Bataille, in particular Derrida's discussion of the Parergon and contemporary discussion of l'informe, the informal to support these arguments. It is within the apparently 'real' environments of virtual reality that the presentation of the mise-en-scene of horror may be explored. Immersive digital environments, it is argued, provide an appropriate level of freedom and direction for the exploration of the spatial experience of the abyss. The thesis concludes by presenting observations on the antinomy of aspirations that any materialist theory of architectural practice must attend to when working within digital media.
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Kwon, Kyoung Eun 1974. "Filmic architecture : on motion perspective in architectural synthesis." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/28326.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2004.Includes bibliographical references (p. 82-83).
This thesis is an inquiry into the potential of film as an extended perspective defined by the sequential juxtaposition of images. Based on the notion that linear perspective in Renaissance architecture was used as a formal tool for the poetic imagination, it is assumed that motion perspective used as a design tool would have a formative influence on the architectural design process and thence, on the final product, architectural space and the sequence of spaces. The project uses film theory as the conceptual framework from which to gain a better understanding of the fourth dimension (time) in the creation of architecture. Cinematic camera movements, which already have a syntax or patterned language are modified for defining specific geometries in the creation of built space. The program consists of a housing block and community center in East Boston, offering a variety of spatial types for experimentation. In the primary analysis, the site is observed through a series of camera sequences. In the design process these camera movements are used to generate a spatial geometry based on the relationship between camera and filmed space. For instance, the housing has a layered spatial configuration corresponding to the tracking shot used in the site analysis. Computer generated motion graphics (4-D motion perspective) are used in each step of conceptual design. A dialectic of observation and form-generation with camera sequences are repeated throughout the building using the syntax of other movie-based sequences. The thesis demonstrates the potential of cinematographic sequencing in architectural design, moving beyond the three-dimensional scenography of traditional perspective.
by Kyoung Eun Kwon.
Titles from disk: Forest of light -- Jungle steps -- East Boston Project.
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Kattein, J. "The Architecture Chronicle : diary of an architectural practice." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2009. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/18941/.
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Most books on architecture start when a building is completed, carefully editing out any evidence of the design and production process. As a result, architecture is often seen as a product rather than a process. The Architecture Chronicle is about architecture as a practice. It has two parts. The book Blur: the Making of Nothing, by Diller and Scofidio, has informed the format of part one. Blur book reports on the design and construction process of Blur building from initial design ideas to the completion of the building. Part one is a diary reporting on the realisation of five stage sets and one urban intervention realised over a period of four years, starting on 16 December 2003. The diary is intercepted by references that are, where appropriate, carefully integrated in the overall design. The book Delirious New York: A retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan, by Rem Koolhaas, tells the story of the building of New York with the author taking on the role of a ‘ghost writer’1, putting into perspective the ‘mountains of evidence’2 to discover patterns, methodologies and strategies. Part two is such a ‘retroactive manifesto’3, mining the projects in the diary for strategies that re-appear and fortify throughout The Architecture Chronicle. In his book Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture, Adrian Forty observes that the pre-Renaissance architect worked on the building site amongst other tradesmen in an environment of dispersed authorship. It was his ability to draw and to write, acquired during the Italian Renaissance, that allowed the architect to remove himself from the site of construction and to upgrade his status from anonymous craftsman amongst others to artistic creator. New procurement methods have changed the role of the architect in contemporary construction projects. To minimise liability, and as a result of the increased specialisation of building professionals, contemporary buildings are designed by a design team. This threatens the status of the architect as artistic creator. Today, the architect operates once again in an environment of dispersed authorship as a member of the design team working alongside other design professionals. Drawings are more often produced by visualisers, engineers and sub-contractors than by architects while text is more often written by surveyors or specifiers. To maintain his status as artisitc creator, the architect in The Architecture Chronicle takes on three distinct characters. The architect-inventor challenges conventions and questions the social status quo. The architect-activist transgresses the boundary of the profession and enters the construction process. The architect-arbitrator engages the audience to realise the ambitious project. The Architecture Chronicle concludes that the contemporary architect still draws and writes, but that it is often the architect’s ability to engage and direct that asserts his or her status. To assert his or her status in the design team, the architect’s ability to talk and to act is more important than his or her ability to draw and write.
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Whitmire, Derrick. "Architecture as Theater; Creating a Vital Architectural Narrative." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337950009.
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Chase, Davis William. "Architectural design principles as evidenced in Gothic architecture." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53714.
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Three specific architectural design principles are identified and documented through a study of gothic architecture.
The comparative method is used to show progressive change in gothic architecture and to illustrate how these design principles are evident in this change.Master of Science
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Sung, Li-wen. "Decoding Chinese Classical Architecture for Contemporary Architectural Design - With Special Reference to Modern Architectural Development in Taiwan." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/40260.
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This research began with an exploration of the phenomenon of cultural conflict and fusion in the process of architectural modernization in Taiwan. It will examine the impact of modern and contemporary theories on the practice of architecture of the island. It will then seek out the essence of Chinese classical architecture in order to develop an approach for the development of the future Chinese/Taiwanese architecture. In addition, the findings of the study could serve as a reference for scholars who would pursue historical and theoretical studies of in the subject, or for architects who are seeking design concepts to enhance their projects.
The study utilizes an interpretive-historical methodology. It emphasizes that researchers should investigate social phenomena within broader and more complex contexts of what to uncover the underlying cultural factors. To highlight their significance, the author will pursue a hypothetic project to examine and demonstrate the meaningfulness and applicability of the concepts learned from the research.
Efforts were made to discover ways in which Taiwanese and Chinese architectural culture can deal with foreign influences, such that it will be able to enjoy the benefits of modernization while maintaining its unique character and identity. Moreover, it will attempt to uncover ways in which Chinese architecture can in fact influence the global contemporary architectural culture. Finally, it is hoped that this work will produce a useful reference for students, scholars and architects who wish to develop design projects that reflect and celebrate regional cultures.Ph. D.
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Kunawong, Chalay. "The study of responses to architectural exteriors by architectural and non-architectural students /." The Ohio State University, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487265143146413.
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Salim, Faida Noori. "The Impact of Globalisation on Architecture and Architectural Ethics." Thesis, University of Auckland, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/6358.
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The development of globalisation, both economically and financially, has promoted the flow of both information and people. Globalisation is also seen as an outcome of communication technology and the development of the Internet and this is subsequently encouraging international interdependence and the compression of time and space. This thesis is devoted to answering the question: in what way does the impact of globalisation affect the role of architecture, and how should it be interpreted ethically? It argues that the ethical evaluation of the role of architecture should be linked to architecture's natural ethical ability to form a relationship with a culture. Nevertheless, in modernity, cultural identity is closely linked to national identity and because both are by nature unstable, the result is the formation of unstable relationships and the creation of dilemmas for the ethical role of architecture. There are four important trajectories that affect the ability of architecture to form a relationship with a national-cultural identity and its formation process; those trajectories are: the physical nature of the region, materials and methods of construction, belief system(s), and memory. Under the impact of social and cultural diversity, technology, industry, and forgetfulness, all four trajectories are challenged and severely undermined. Because of the increase in information flow, advancements in communication technology and greater mobility of goods and people, the global culture is advancing its version of homogenisation. Challenges, on the other hand, are constantly being presented through the need for change and the dynamic nature of modern nations. These are exhibited in two processes: innovation/stabilisation and innovation/transformation, and also in the two dynamics of: interpretation/reinterpretation and differentiation/integration. Today, iconic type of architecture and celebrity architects lead the innovation/transformation process, and the 'ordinary' practice of architecture leads the innovation/stabilisation process using the differentiation/integration dynamic. Architectural theory, on the other hand, advances the use of the interpretation/reinterpretation dynamic in architecture, which helps to destabilise meaning in architectural language that, when transformed to real world architecture, can result in alienating the physical horizons of cities and thus in the alienation of people.Note: Thesis now published as a book. The Impact of Globalisation on Architecture and Architectural Ethics / Faida Noori Salim. Published: The Constructed Environment, 2011. http://theconstructedenvironment.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.226/prod.2
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Marchman, Granger Hansell 1962. "Architectural displacements : the supplemental condition of site and architecture." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/22346.
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Woo, Wing-tat Alfred, and 胡榮達. "Deconstructing the Faculty of Architecture: the architectural school 2001." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31984939.
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Woo, Wing-tat Alfred. "Deconstructing the Faculty of Architecture : the architectural school 2001 /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25953175.
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Zografos, Stamatios. "Architecture and fire : an archival approach to architectural conservation." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2012. http://research.gold.ac.uk/8596/.
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The aim of this thesis is to develop an alternative conceptual understanding of architectural conservation, which overcomes inherent problems and paradoxes that its current theory and practice is commonly associated with. To achieve this, I explore conservation through the interdisciplinary approach of archival theory arguing that listed buildings comprise the official archivisation of architecture. Through Henri Bergson’s philosophy, however, I explain that archives are also sites of forgetting thus the function of conservation appears problematic. I, therefore, re‐examine the fundamental relationship between architecture and memory by focusing on the memory of fire, as it is an element that is present from the birth until the death of architecture. Fire and its conflicting nature of temporality inform also the philosophical methodology of this research; I employ the philosophy of Gaston Bachelard who is known for his psychoanalytic work on fire, memory and fragmented time, and the philosophy of a theoretical opponent, Henri Bergson, who is famous for his work on memory and temporal continuity. Based on both philosophers, I first explore architectural evolution in regards to how buildings absorb fire, spanning from the flames of the ancient hearth to contemporary architecture, and then look into the critical moment of architectural evolution, which is its destruction by fire. Through this study, I comment on architecture in archival terms arguing that it carries with it either a reduced or a complete memory of its entire past, thus making the function of conservation fundamentally redundant. Finally, I develop a psychoanalytic approach to conservation based on Jacques Derrida’s understanding according to which archives are associated with the Freudian unconscious, and argue that conservation can result in the repression of the death drive unless the latter is sublimated. This implies that conservation policy must be adjusted accordingly to allow destruction to be part of the agenda.
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Mohamed-Ahmed, Ashraf. "Proposition d'une méthode mixte d'évaluation de l'Incidence des média sur le processus de conception architecturale." Thesis, Université Laval, 2013. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2013/29560/29560.pdf.
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La thèse traite de l'incidence des media d'aide à la conception sur le processus de conception architecturale. Plus spécifiquement, en se basant sur une littérature multidisciplinaire, l’objectif de la thèse est d’analyser l’incidence de trois media, utilisés traditionnellement dans les milieux académique et professionnel, soit l’esquisse à main levée, la maquette et le logiciel de conception assistée par ordinateur (ici, Sketch-UP 7.0) sur le concepteur, le processus de conception architecturale et de la qualité des projets générés. 35 étudiants en architecture ont participé à cette étude. Une méthodologie d’évaluation mixte de cette incidence est proposée, soit d’une part des mesures quantitatives pour évaluer les capacités visuo-spatiales des étudiants-concepteurs (tests psychométriques), la gestion de leur charge cognitive (tâche secondaire) lors du processus de conception et d’autre part, des mesures qualitatives de la gestion de la charge cognitive (questionnaire du NASATLX) et de la qualité des projets générés (évaluation consensuelle d’experts). Les résultats n’ont pas permis de montrer de différence significative entre les media concernant les deux mesures de la charge cognitive, ainsi que pour la qualité des projets générés. De plus, aucune corrélation n’a été établie entre la charge cognitive et la qualité des projets.The thesis discusses the impact of design media upon architectural design. Based on a multidisciplinary literature revue, the objective of the thesis is to analyze the impact of three media, namely the freehand sketch, the physical model and the software (here, Sketch-UP 7.0) on architectural design. 35 students in architecture have participated in the study. A mixed evaluation methodology is proposed to evaluate the impact, namely quantitative measures of visual-spatial abilities (psychometric test), and the cognitive load management (secondary task technique) during the design, and also qualitative measures to evaluate the cognitive load management (NASATLX) and the quality of projects generated (consensual assessment technique). The results show no significant statistical difference between the three media for the cognitive load management, and the project quality. Furthermore, no correlation was found between the cognitive load management and the project quality.
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Richard, Thomas. "Prolégomènes à une herméneutique existentielle des antéformes architecturales." Thesis, Lyon, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020LYSE3002.
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Dans l’historiographie contemporaine, le déconstructivisme constitue un moment significatif d’une expression négative de la forme. En effet, la morphologie architecturale met en vue une recomposition à partir d’une décomposition : elle affirme et présente un processus de négation. Comment comprendre ces formes architecturales paradoxales qui expriment leur propre abolition et quelles sont les différentes manifestations de cette négativité morphologique dans l’architecture contemporaine ? En effet, bien que se défendant de toute attention à la forme, les architectures qualifiées de non-rhétoriques par l’historien J. Lucan (A. Lacaton & J.-P. Vassal, OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen etc.), en cherchant précisément à faire disparaître toute expressivité morphologique, ne participent-elles pas d’une même visée que le déconstructivisme, lequel opère ce retrait de la forme de manière explicite ?Une première partie de cette recherche se propose d’explorer différentes approches d’architectes et de philosophes qui ont consacré une partie ou l’ensemble de leurs travaux à l’imagination et à la poïétique des formes : J. Lucan, D. Guibert, D. Raynaud, E. Cassirer, G. Bachelard, G. Durand. Dans une deuxième partie, dans le sillage de l’œuvre d’H. Maldiney qui établit un parallèle entre Art et existence, j’inscris ma recherche dans une herméneutique existentielle de ces formes négatives que j’ai nommées : antéformes. Mon hypothèse s’attache à proposer qu’au fondement négatif de notre rapport au monde répond une mise en forme négative des morphologies architecturales. En attaquant leur propre forme, c’est-à-dire le sens de la mise en forme proprement dite, les antéformes posent la question de ce qui fonde leur existence et y répondent en projetant dans l’objet une manière de se rapporter au monde. Certains concepteurs contemporains donnent à voir en partie et projettent à leur insu leur propre expérience vécue et désirante de la quête cherchante de forme qui les habite lors de la conception. Dans cette recherche, je suggère ainsi d’établir une analogie entre l’état poïétique et l’expression d’une forme négativée de l’œuvre. En outre, je m’emploie à repérer, proposer et articuler dans une architectonique des antéformes, différentes modalités de néantisation de la forme architecturale pouvant correspondre à des styles ou orientations de la présence proposés par le philosophe. Je développe ainsi des schèmes stylistiques fondés sur des tendances pulsionnelles ou qualités énergétiques tensives. Enfin, je propose que les antéformes expriment un ça-voir poïétique de la crise qui les fondent, les émotivent, et témoignent de cette épreuve surmontée. Il s’agit ici de réactiver la double implication originaire du verbe poïen : à la fois accomplissement et novation. Tout travail poïétique, en tant qu’il demeure porté par une exigence de singularité, implique l’imprévisibilité de l’objet qui émergera de son processus de conception. Les antéformes sont un appel à concevoir au sens plein du terme tout autant qu’un appel à un rapport propre (authentique) à l’existence ; lequel s’envisage, non comme un Moi ou un cogito qui se pose, mais comme le processus d’individuation d’un Soi. Celui-ci ne peut exister sans un travail incessant de désindividuation préalable dont les antéformes sont le témoignage. L’acte poïétique invite, non à choisir parmi des possibles préalables, mais précisément à engendrer sa propre forme d’être au mondeIn contemporary historiography, deconstructivism is a significant moment in a negative expression of form. Indeed, architectural morphology puts forward a recomposition from a decomposition: it affirms and presents a process of negation. How can we understand these paradoxical architectural forms that express their own destruction? What are the different manifestations of this morphological negativity in contemporary architecture? Although defending themselves from any attention to forms, architectures described as non-rhetorical by the historian J. Lucan (A. Lacaton - J.-P. Vassal, OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen, etc.), by seeking precisely to remove all morphological expressiveness, would they not participate, like deconstructivism, which removes forms explicitly? First, we explore different approaches of architects and philosophers, such as J. Lucan, D. Guibert, D. Raynaud, E. Cassirer, G. Bachelard, G. Durand, who devoted some or all of their work to the imagination and the poïetics. Second, in the spirit of H. Maldiney, which draws a parallel between Art and existence, I build my work on the existential hermeneutics of these negative forms, which I have named: antéformes. My hypothesis is that the negative basis of our relationship to the world responds to a negative shaping of architectural morphologies. By attacking their own form, that is to say the manner in which they are shaped, the antéformes question their own existence and respond to it by projecting into the object a way of relating to the world. Some contemporary designers partially reveal and project their own experience of searching for the form, that drives them during conception.In this research, I suggest an analogy between the poietic state and the expression of a negative form of the work. Besides, I work to identify, propose and articulate in an architectonic of the antéformes, different aspects of the nothingness of the architectural form that may correspond to styles or orientations of presence proposed by philosophers. I thus develop stylistic schemes based on drive tendencies or tensile energy qualities. Finally, I propose that the antéformes express a poietic sense of crisis that melts them, emotes them, and testifies to this experience.The aim here is to reactivate the dual implication originating from the poien verb : at once accomplishment and novation. Any poetic work, as it remains driven by a requirement of singularity, implies the unpredictability of the object that will emerge from its design process. The antéformes are a call to conceive in the full sense of the word as well as a call for a proper (authentic) relationship to existence; which sees itself, not as the emerge of the self or cogito, but as the process of individuation of a Self. This one can not exist without an incessant work of preliminary désindividuation for which antéformes are the testimony. The poietic act invites, not to choose among possible prerequisites, but precisely to generate its own form of being in the world
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Jarvis, Dale Gilbert. "Architectural change and architectural meaning in Moravian Labrador." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ62391.pdf.
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Horton, Ian. "The Foreign Architectural Book Society and architectural elitism." Thesis, Open University, 2000. http://oro.open.ac.uk/58057/.
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This study investigates the Foreign Architectural Book Society [F.A.B.S.] and its members from its foundation in 1859 through to the 1930s. Particular attention is given to the second generation of F.A.B.S. members, active between 1890 and 1920, who shared scholarly interests apparent in the architectural values they promoted in publications and their own buildings. In this period these F.A.B.S. members also occupied positions of power within the profession and influenced their contemporaries by encoding Beaux-Arts values in a reformed architectural education system. These developments are analysed using certain aspects of elite theory: this highlights the protectionist aspects of this education system and explains the survival into the 1930s of architectural values promoted by F.A.B.S. members. The F.A.B.S. was founded with the intention of internally circulating foreign architectural books and this study examines how the society operated. The functioning of the F.A.B.S. is analysed in relation to other societies its members joined, establishing their high social standing and a network of scholarly organisations through which architectural values were formed. An analysis of publications and buildings by the second generation of F.A.B.S. members reveals the fact that they promoted two architectural styles, Neo-Wrenaissance and Monumental Classicism. It is argued that Wren's influence was central to the formation of the values embodied in these styles. In the case of the Neo- Wrenaissance it is shown that this is a more appropriate term to describe works usually noted as examples of Neo-Georgian architecture. When examining Monumental Classicism it is noted that F.A.B.S. members used Beaux-Arts compositional devices, as encoded in architectural education, but promoted it as a national style by invoking the example of Wren. In conclusion it was argued that F.A.B.S. members encoded these stylistic values in the reformed architectural education system and this partially explains how the outmoded values of the Neo-Wrenaissance and Monumental Classicism managed to survive as valid stylistic options until the end of the 1930s.
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Dahal, Abhinav, and Azal Saheb. "Architectural Agents." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, fysik och matematik, DFM, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-13817.
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In a complex and ever changing software environment, controlling and coordinating asoftware system's architecture and its components have become an almost an impossibletask. It takes a lot of effort from a developer and even then it is not a foolproof plan. In thisMasters thesis, we introduce Architectural Agents. Architectural agents are specializedconfigurable components. They are the key elements that make a software environmentself-adaptive. Should there be any problem in the software, the architectural agents havingmonitored the software architecture can know which component is having the problem andfix it.This thesis aims towards making software self-adaptive by using Architectural Agents.This can be achieved by combining two frameworks namely, Prism-MW and JADE. Eachof these frameworks have their own property that contribute towards achieving the goal ofthe thesis. Prism-MW decomposes a software into separate and easily manageablecomponents. JADE on the other hand, creates agents. Combining these two frameworksmeans using the agents to control the software components. This will make the softwareenvironment self-adaptive.We support our claims and theories by practically proving them.
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Newton, Mathew. "Architectural Footnotes." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-228514.
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In this work I have been looking at three small everyday sites that can tell big and unexpected stories of how we live together. These sites appear unremarkable at first glance, but on a second look are filled with contradictions and conflicts of interest. I speculate that these marginalised sites operate like “architectural footnotes” helping break the tempo, rhythm and tone of the city while expanding the scope of the narrative beyond the local and specific reading. I’m interested in how we can make sense of the city and critique it in a meaningful way when it appears so fragmented and seems impossible to define in single terms. I have been testing different approaches ranging from surveying, counting, measuring and mapping, to model making, interviews, drawing, film-making and texts. I have been interested in how these diverse methods can help me understand the city in different ways and what they do when used together.In part one: A Fence I investigate a trend towards the increasing enclosure of private courtyard/gardens and the severing of established pathways that are incredibly important for navigating the area. This led to questioning how ground-floor habitation, different forms of tenure, and regulation, affects public access and passage in the area.In part two: A Drinking Fountain I attempted to map the defunct drinking fountains in Stockholm and trace the origin of their (ubiquitous) design. Instead of finding fountains, however, I found a vacuum of responsibility, and questions were raised around why some infrastructures are more important than others and how shared/societal needs seem to have been increasingly privatised. In part three: Some Planting I looked at a recently built area of “urban-community-farming” in the middle of local park. Here tensions between the public, private and common are brought to the fore, questioning how attempts towards more local and participatory democratic processes affect rights of access to, and use of, public spaces, around flexibility and durability, and how we balance short term demands with long term visions.When seen together these “footnotes” can describe a trend towards withdrawal of the state and municipality through the dismantling of infrastructures, deregulation and outsourcing, resulting in an increasingly individualistic and privatised city. This is perhaps unsurprising in itself, but the work that comes out of these sites has helped reveal (to me at least) some of the surprising ways in which this has happened and continues to do so (albeit in different forms) and how this affects the ways in which we inhabit the everyday city.
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Doichev, Nickola. "Architectural tales." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53417.
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“Images haunt… Images are not quite ideas, they are stiller than that, with less implication outside themselves. And they are not myth, they do not have that explanatory power; they are nearer to pure story. Nor are they always metaphors; they do not say this is that, they this is. In the nineteenth century one would have said that what compelled about them was a sense of the eternal. And it is something like that, some feeling in the arrest of the image that what perishes and what lasts forever have been brought into conjunction, and accompanying that sensation is a feeling of release from the self.”
Robert HassMaster of Architecture
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Дядечко, Алла Миколаївна, Алла Николаевна Дядечко, Alla Mykolaivna Diadechko, and V. Sulim. "Architectural visualization." Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2008. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/16040.
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Welch, Jeffery D. "Architectural Elegance." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1409065637.
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Stantchev, Vladimir. "Architectural translucency." Berlin GITO, 2008. http://d-nb.info/989956504/04.
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Poe, Rachel. "Architectural insomnia." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2017. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5603.
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My artistic practice addresses issues of how memory shapes our identity and how to use memory in order to better understand our perspective. Through the construction of liminal space I reflect upon the subconscious and conscious mind. These images address issues of identity and how longing and nostalgia affect the human psyche. Through photographs of sculptures, paintings and light installations I address the architectural spaces in the world around me as catalysts.
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Kimball, Tim. "Architectural Symbiosis." Scholar Commons, 2010. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1682.
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The world is facing two fundamental problems. The first problem is a rapidly increasing demand for energy. The second problem is increasing greenhouse gas emissions that are directly resulting from our energy consumption. The primary greenhouse gas in question here is carbon dioxide produced from the burning of fossil fuels. It has been demonstrated through scientific articles and studies that carbon dioxide is directly linked to rising atmospheric temperatures. Buildings represent a significant percentage of this CO2 production.
Many architectural theses and treatises have been written advocating architecture that is more energy efficient and which uses sustainable materials and processes as necessary steps towards solving the global warming crisis.
With the threat of global warming looming, everyday architecture must go through a transformation. Sustainable buildings should not be limited to rarefied architectural gems. Instead, sustainable architecture should become a commonplace condition in the built environment. In order to achieve this, we need sustainable architecture that not only addresses the environmental issues but also pays for itself and pays the building owner for taking on such a task.
To answer this need, I intend to design a mixed-use multifamily building that exists in the environment as a living system. As all living things, it must function utilizing the resources available in that environment. It must have a practical and economically viable on-site energy production and storage methodology that is environmentally benign and takes advantage of freely available natural resources. It must react to changes in the environment to better manage its resources and it must be able to store resources for later use. Lastly, it should foster sustainable living practices of its occupants.
By building in this way, architecture can take on a new role as symbiant rather than parasite in the environment, producing its own pollution free energy and clean water. Each building acts as a life support system for its inhabitants but is also part of a macro scale biosphere. If resources are managed carefully, an exportable energy surplus can be generated representing an economic benefit to the owner. This provides an economic directive to adopt sustainable practices.
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Ozer, Emre. "Architectural and Compiler Issues for Tolerating Latencies in Horizontal Architectures." NCSU, 2001. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-20010904-132307.
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This dissertation presents a new architecture model named Weld for horizontal architectures such as VLIW and EPIC. Weld integrates speculative multithreading support into a VLIW/EPIC processor to hide run-time latency effects that cannot be determined by the compiler. Also, it proposes a hardware technique called operation welding that merges operations from different threads to utilize the hardware resources more efficiently. Hardware contexts such as program counters and the fetch units are duplicated to support multithreading. Also, a dual-thread Weld architecture is isolated and analyzed for cost/performance purposes within the general Weld architecture. The dual-thread Weld model supports one main thread and one speculative thread running simultaneously in a VLIW/EPIC processor with a register file and a fetch unit per thread. The cost/performance impact of the dual-thread Weld model, which includes analysis of migrating the disambiguation hardware to the compiler and the sensitivity analysis to the variation of branch misprediction and second-level cache miss penalties, is examined further.
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Gamble, Carl Jeffrey. "Design time detection of architectural mismatches in service oriented architectures." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/1241.
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Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a software component paradigm that has the potential to allow for exible systems that are loosely coupled to each other. They are discoverable entities that may be bound to at run time by a client who is able to use the service correctly by referring to the service's description documents. Assumptions often have to be made in any design process if the problem domain is not fully speci ed. If those decisions are about the software architecture of that component and it is inserted into a system with di ering and incompatible assumptions then we say that an architectural mismatch exists. Architectural styles are a form of software reuse. They can simply be used by referring to a name such as \client-server" or \pipe and lter", where these names may conjure up topologies and expected properties in the architects mind. They can also however be more rigorously de ned given the right software environment. This can lead to a vocabulary of elements in the system, de ned properties of those elements along with rules and analysis to either show correctness of an implementation or reveal some emergent property of the whole. SOA includes a requirement that the service components make available descriptions of themselves, indicating how they are to be used. With this in mind and assuming we have a suitable description of the client application it should be the case that we can detect architectural mismatches when designing a new system. Here designing can range from organising a set of existing components into a novel con guration through to devising an entirely new set of components for an SOA. This work investigates the above statement using Web Services as the SOA implementation and found that, to a degree, the above statement is true. The only element of description required for a web service is the Web Service Description Language (WSDL) document and this does indeed allow the detection of a small number of mismatches when represented using our minimal web service architectural style. However from the literature we nd that the above mismatches are only a subset of those that we argue should be detectable. In response to this we produce an enhanced web service architectural style containing properties and analysis supporting the detection of this more complete set of mismatches and demonstrate its e ectiveness against a number of case studies.
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Komez, Esin. "On Urban Architecture: Urban Architectural Strategies In Three Examplary Cases." Master's thesis, METU, 2009. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12610765/index.pdf.
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The term &ldquourban architecture&rdquo
has different meanings and is open to many interpretations. This thesis aims to highlight and further elaborate some definitions of &ldquo
urban architecture&rdquo
in which it is mainly characterized as architecture in the urban context. The Second Volume of Harvard Architecture Review on &ldquo
Urban Architecture&rdquo
is referred as a main source in discussing the content of the term. The concept of &ldquo
urban architecture&rdquo
can be identified in several theoretical contributions to the field of architecture. In this context, the themes &ldquo
urban artifact&rdquo
developed by Aldo Rossi and &ldquo
urbatecture&rdquo
developed by Bruno Zevi, are discussed in relation to &ldquo
urban architecture&rdquo
. In order to further clarify the concept, its relation to the fields of urban design, urbanism, and landscape urbanism is investigated. While it is distinguished from these fields, &ldquo
urban architecture&rdquo
is defined as an alternative architectural design approach and not as a new field. As an approach to architectural design that operates in an expanded field including landscape design and urbanism, &ldquo
urban architecture&rdquo
points to some strategies that allow to integrate works of architecture into their urban settings. Following this conceptual elaboration, the thesis aims at exploring the design strategies that characterize urban architecture. In this context, strategies related with landscape, infrastructure, and urban field are identified. The strategies based on these themes and their tools of operation are discussed through three case studies that cover Olympic Sculpture Park for the Seattle Art Museum, Kunsthal, and Borneo and Sporenburg.
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Kaliniak, Piotr. "Migration of a Chosen Architectural Pattern to Service Oriented Architecture." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för datavetenskap och kommunikation, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-4892.
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Context: Several examples of successful migrations of systems to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) are presented in the literature. Some of the approaches also try to structure the process of migration to SOA. The reported migration attempts underline the role of architecture of migrated system, but they do not explore the architectural patterns applied in architecture of migrated systems while proper usage of patterns may simplify and improve quality of migration. Objectives: This work is aimed at elaborating guidelines that support migration from a system that is based on a chosen architectural pattern towards a system based on Service Oriented Architecture. Methods: Literature review is used as a basic method in the initial steps of the research, that is during investigation of existing techniques of migration to SOA, establishing procedure for selection of the migrated pattern and identifying building blocks of the target architecture. Results of the literature reviews are further analyzed in order to select the migrated architectural pattern and to elaborate the target architecture. The guidelines for migration are the result of the synthesis of the analyzed information. Results: The migration is realized as a translation between two pattern languages: the first pattern language describes the chosen architectural pattern–Model–View–Controller and the second pattern language describes SOA target architecture, expressed using SOA architectural patterns. The translation is defined by a set of migration guidelines. The approach is also illustrated with migrating an example student project. Conclusion: The study shows that the usage of an architectural pattern during migration allows to define the migration in a simple, structured and precise way using guidelines that represent a set of subsequent well defined steps that should be applied in order to migrate a specific type of legacy system.
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Wigley, Mark. "Jacques Derrida and architecture the deconstructive possibilities of architectural discourse /." Online version, 1986. http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/29991.
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Olshavsky, Peter. "Questions concerning architectural machines: or 'pataphysics in early modern architecture." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=110410.
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The primary contention of this study is that there are ways to orient architecture other than technological concerns. By studying the nature of architectural machines and their changes through history, their reduction to instrumental and aesthetic concerns is shown to be problematic. These aspects have dominated architectural thinking and making since modernity; however, this history also shows the limits and possibilities of these technological concerns. But modernism has not been homogeneous. During this period, the literary and theatrical works of Alfred Jarry and his science of pataphysics offered a significant approach to engage and resist the machine. His work challenged technological practices through the machine itself. I explore this relative to the human will, knowledge, and creative practices. Modernist architectural machines by Pierre Chareau, Eileen Gray, and Paul Nelson are then studied with respect to this intentionality. Ultimately, these works attempted in various ways to reconcile poetics and ethics in the design of pataphysical machines for living in.La thèse principale de cette étude est qu'il existe d'autres façons d'orienter l'architecture en dehors des préoccupations technologiques. Par l'étude de la nature et les modifications aux machines architecturales dans l'histoire, leur réduction à des préoccupations instrumentales et esthétiques se révèle être problématique. Puisque la modernité, ces aspects ont dominé le domaine de l'architecture. Cependant, cette histoire montre aussi les limites et les possibilités de ces préoccupations technologiques. Mais le modernisme n'est pas homogène. Durant cette période, les œuvres littéraires et théâtrales d'Alfred Jarry et sa science de la pataphysique offre une approche profonde à s'engager et à résister à la machine. Son travail défit pratiques technologiques à travers la machine elle-même. L'étude explore ce rapport à la volonté, la connaissance humaine et des pratiques créatives. Cette intentionnalité est également découverte et étudiée dans certaines machines architecturales modernistes de Pierre Chareau, Eileen Gray, et Paul Nelson. Finalement, tous ces «solutions imaginaires» tentative de réconcilier la poétique et l'éthique en la conception de machines pataphysiques à habiter.
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Kauffman, Jordan Scott. "Drawing on architecture : the socioaesthetics of architectural drawings, 1970-1990." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97376.
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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, February 2015.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-422).
This dissertation examines a period in the late twentieth century when architectural drawings provoked a profound re-evaluation of architecture. It does so through novel research of the individuals, galleries, institutions, and events-and the networks that originated therefrom-that drove this reappraisal by shifting the perception of architectural drawings. During the 1970s and 1980s, for the first time, architectural drawings became more than an instrument for building. Prior to this period, except for scattered instances, buildings were considered to be the goal of architectural practice; architectural drawings were viewed simply as a means to an end. However, through a confluence of factors architectural drawings emerged from this marginal role. Drawings attained autonomy from the architectural process and were ultimately perceived as aesthetic artifacts in and of themselves. No attention has been given to this shift, and recovering this period's forgotten history reveals a rich and complex tapestry. Research unearths interrelated individuals, galleries, institutions, and events outside of practice that impacted the perception of architectural drawings during this period. This reveals the uniqueness of this period, for at no other time was debate generated in the same way, since at no other time did the necessary structures exist to support this change. During this period, architectural drawings became the driving force of architectural debate, not for what architects put in them, but for what others asked them to be and saw in them. Through exhibitions that emphasized drawings in and of themselves, through collectors and galleries, through the development of a market for architectural drawings, and through the interrelation of these, all of which this work reconstructs for the first time, the role and perception of drawings fell between and among aesthetic, artistic, architectural, commercial, conceptual, cultural, and historical understandings. It was this shifting that drove questioning during this period of nearly all facets of architecture.
by Jordan Scott Kauffman.
Ph. D.
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Pan, Rong. "ARCHITECTURAL EXPRESSIONS: CASE STUDY AND DESIGN DEVELOPMENT OF MUSEUM ARCHITECTURE." The University of Arizona, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/555244.
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Kline, Erin. "Ceramic Architecture: Showcasing a Forgotten Architectural Medium Through Recycled Rubble." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1491305761415643.
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Boyacıoğlu, Bilgen Erkarslan Özlem. "The construction of turkish modern architecture in architectural history writing/." [s.l.]: [s.n.], 2003. http://library.iyte.edu.tr/tezler/master/mimarlik/T000289.rar.
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Zimmermann, Olaf. "An architectural decision modeling framework for service oriented architecture design." Berlin dissertation.de, 2009. http://d-nb.info/994960557/04.
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HOXHA, Keti. "Exploring Multi-Sensoriality in Architecture: Architectural Experience in Visual Deprivation." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Ferrara, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11392/2488185.
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Architecture is a nonverbal language that provides multi-sensorial experiences, which involves the collaboration of the sensorial and perceptual experience. It is a tool for transmitting emotions and psychological effects through atmospheres created by configurations, elements, characteristics and shapes. Throughout years, architecture has been a product of focusing in form, aesthetic properties, function and technology, leaving aside the importance of the involvement of all senses as a contribution in designing architecture.In architectural practice, vision is considered as the main sense of creating spaces and aesthetics of the buildings, leaving aside other sensorial modalities. This is a result of the considerable amount of sensorial information obtained by vision, which shifts perceptual attention to visual information preventing experience from other sense modalities. As a result, architecture tends to be considered a visual discipline, while being concerned with the aesthetic quality and visual harmony between composing element in the search of beauty.One of the main concerns of the research is analysing the multi-sensorial nature of perceptual signals obtained by the architectural environment and the effects on human’s consciousness. In response to this concern, it is required to obtain further analysis concerning the understanding of perception in spatial design. Such concern is addressed to a target group, which experiences architecture by not considering sight as the main perceptual means for spatial exploration and orientation. There is insufficient interchange of theoretical knowledge concerning the use of instruments that support the interests of visual impairments in architectural design. The perspective of the visually impaired could provide the knowledge of a different conscious level of exploring architectural spaces, which can be used further as not a typical perceptual model to be considered by architects when designing spaces. The research aims to provide knowledge for developing design parameters for people with reduced sensorial activities, which in fact are not taken in consideration during the architectural design process. Even when these spaces are designed, the method is through the use of guidelines, which in fact are standard architectural solutions that do not take in consideration their perceptual experiences. Their ways of perceiving space can become the starting point for the discipline of architecture to learn how to perceive space from another perspective point of view.L’architettura è un linguaggio non verbale in grado di fornire esperienze multisensoriali, le quali mettono in collaborazione sia la componente sensoriale che quella percettiva. Attraverso l’atmosfera creata dalla combinazione dei suoi elementi, delle sue forme, e delle sue caratteristiche intrinseche, l’architettura si configura quale strumento per la trasmissione di emozioni ed in grado di scatenare precisi effetti psicologici. Tuttavia, durante gli anni, essa è stata sempre interpretata solamente attraverso le sue proprietà formali, estetiche, funzionali e tecnologiche, tralasciando la sua capacità di attivare ciascuno dei sensi umani al fine che anch’essi vengano consideranti parte integrante del processo progettuale. Nella disciplina architettonica, la vista è spesso stata considerata il senso più importante nella genesi spaziale ed estetica degli edifici, anche a causa dello scarso interesse che è stato rivolto verso alle altre modalità percettive. La motivazione di ciò risiede nel gran numero di informazioni che siamo in grado di captare attraverso la vista; una quantità tale da aver spostato la nostra attenzione percettiva verso i dati visivi piuttosto che su quelli provenienti da altri sensi. A conferma di ciò, l’architettura tende ad essere considerata una disciplina ‘visiva’, interessata alla ricerca di una determinata qualità ed armonia estetica tramite una continua indagine della bellezza insita nella composizione delle sue forme.Una delle principali investigazioni che questa ricerca si propone è l’analisi della natura multisensoriale degli stimoli percettivi provenienti dallo spazio architettonico e dei loro effetti sulla coscienza umana. Al fine di ciò, è necessario dapprima interrogarsi sul senso concetto stesso di ‘percezione’ in relazione alla progettazione dello spazio. Per rispondere a questo interrogativo, si è deciso di rivolgere prendere in considerazione uno specifico gruppo, quello dei non vedenti, che vive lo spazio architettonico non utilizzando la vista come principale strumento di esplorazione e orientamento. Partendo dalla constatazione che non esista un adeguato background teorico riguardo l’uso di specifici strumenti che possano favorire la componente esperienziale dei non vedenti in relazione allo spazio architettonico, proprio la loro condizione è in grado di fornire una nuova consapevolezza riguardo le modalità di esplorazione di tale spazio da poter utilizzare successivamente quale modello percettivo al servizio degli architetti come vero e proprio strumento progettualeQuesta ricerca ha quindi l’obiettivo di ricercare specifici parametri progettuali da prendere in esame nella progettazione dedicata ad individui affetti da percezione sensoriale ridotta che molto spesso non sono tenuti in considerazione nei processi architettonici. Anche quando gli spazi sono ‘pensati’ per queste persone, gli unici riferimenti a disposizione sono una serie di linee guida che altro non sono che una serie di soluzioni standard completamente separate da una qualsiasi componente percettiva od esperienziale.Al contrario, proprio il modo in cui questi individui percepiscono lo spazio può rappresentare il punto di partenza per far sì che anche la disciplina architettonica possa interrogarsi su quest’ultimo possa essere compreso proprio partendo da un punto di vista completamente differente. Questa dissertazione non vuole rivolgersi solo ad uno specifico pubblico, quello degli affetti da disabilità visiva, ma prende in considerazione tutti i fruitori degli spazi architettonici al fine da offrire loro luoghi più accessibili e ricchi di esperienze multisensoriali. Per far ciò, la ricerca si propone di oltrepassare la convinzione che sia solo la vista a guidare il processo progettuale e che l’architettura stessa si offra a molteplici modalità di lettura sensoriale.
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Davidson, Bradley Ross. "Poetic intent in architectural design." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23392.
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Yuen, Siu-hei Lawrence. "Sustainability refines architecture : a demonstration project in Wanchai /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25947278.
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Ng, Kal, and 吳家龍. "Architectural cinema: a theory of practice for digital architectural animation." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B4308574X.
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Purwono, Eko. "Inquiring into architectural texts : towards an interpretation of architectural knowledge." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/14497.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1989.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 74-78).
An investigation was carried out on the contents of the architectural texts in order to illuminate written architectural knowledge. The thesis takes as its case study the required reading list for Introduction to Architecture course at Yale College, Yale University, a mandatory course for undergraduate students majoring in architecture . This course, given at a school with a liberal arts education program, lists more readings than do any other similar courses given at other schools surveyed for this thesis. In this undergraduate course, the texts are used as background information for the students t o draw upon in order to do their assignments. The texts used for the course range widely, from a first-century treatise to articles published in the eighties. They represent a continuous development of architectural thought throughout the history of architecture. Yet the reading list exclude several major theoretical works of architecture. The examination of the texts shows that they are primarily theoretical,and expose different proper ties and principles of architecture and attitudes towards architects and architecture . Some of the texts contradicts with each other, others are in agreement. Very few of the texts are concerned with the practical knowledge of architecture. Humanistic, populist approaches, as exemplified by several texts written by previous faculty members of the school, seem to dominate the themes of the readings. The list does not attempt to include classical works written by non-architect authors.
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Ng, Kal. "Architectural cinema a theory of practice for digital architectural animation /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B4308574X.
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Matteson, Matthew Benjamin. "Between architectures : institutionalization and architectural discourse in early twentieth-century Poland." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/93015.
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Thesis: Ph. D. in Architecture: History and Theory of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2014.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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This dissertation explores the development by architects in interwar Poland of new epistemological approaches responsive to the challenges of modernity and modernization in the early twentieth century. It probes the establishment of institutional structures in higher education, publishing, and corporate life, investigating their development in relation to concomitant evolution of discourses around the role of history, architectural pedagogy, the social role of the architect, and the legal status of the architecture profession - crucial matters at the limen between the romantically glorified past and gloriously hopeful future. I argue that the robust intellectual currency ultimately shared among architects across the newly reconstituted Polish state facilitated challenges to long-standing narratives of romantic nationalism thus paving the way for a reconstruction of collective identity and consequently sophisticated contributions to cultural modernity and economic modernization. Presenting this largely untold story contributes to reevaluation of the genesis, development, and impacts of modernist culture in ostensibly peripheral locals, such as Central Europe, revealing these phenomena to be more pluralistic and nuanced than canonical historiography of modernism suggests. I present the construction of this institutional and epistemological armature as a process in three phases, with a segment of the developing network taking the leading role in each. Chapter one provides historical context and outlines a model of theory change developed by Ludwik Fleck in which social forces with particular historical contours are embodied in institutions crucial to the development of characteristic "thought styles" underlying the persistence of unique "thought collectives." Chapter two explores the newly formed Department of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology, showing how its faculty and students worked to form themselves into an intellectual community reimagining the historical and aesthetic foundations of Polish architecture. Chapter 3 addresses strategies for communication deployed in Polish architectural journals, where the articulation of a disciplinary identity for architecture as professionalized occupation, cultural phenomenon, and intellectual project was presented for both practitioners and a broader public. The final chapter focuses on architects' negotiation of conflicts both internally between generational groups and externally against peer engineers in the marketplace to formalize the corporate and legal organization of their profession.
by Matthew Benjamin Matteson.
Ph. D. in Architecture: History and Theory of Architecture
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Crenshaw, Andrew. "The architectural image Finnegans Wake and the text of drawing." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23013.
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Scalzo, Julia. "Street architecture, nineteenth-century urban buildings and the British architectural profession." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape2/PQDD_0020/NQ53735.pdf.
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