Dissertations / Theses: 'Architecture and society – Colombia'

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Erlingsson, Maria. "Civil society and peacebuilding in Colombia." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-30084.

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There is a growing interest in how to build sustainable peace in the world, preventing countries from relapsing into violent conflict. Recognising that there are several important peacebuilding actors, this Master thesis takes its point of departure in local civil society actors as a peacebuilding force. For this interpretative qualitative study, Colombia is used as the case of investigation. This is as a result of a renewed interest in the country due to the peace negotiations that were initiated between the Colombian government and the largest guerrilla group in the country, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), in October 2012. Interviews with diverse civil society actors in Colombia were used as primary data, and in addition literary reviews of primary and secondary information have been added to the material. There are diverging views of what peacebuilding means, and one of the research objectives of this thesis is to draw from previous research to build a general framework for what peacebuilding wants to achieve, i.e., identify the international peacebuilding objectives. The second research objective is to compare the seven activities and functions of civil society in peacebuilding, as described by Paffenholz and Spurk in the Comprehensive framework for the analysis of civil society in peacebuilding, to see how the work of civil society in Colombia compares to the international peacebuilding objectives. The research shows that all seven activities and functions of civil society in peacebuilding: protection, monitoring, advocacy and public communication, in-group socialisation, social cohesion, facilitation/mediation, and service delivery, are performed by the interviewed civil society actors. When the activities and functions are compared to the international peacebuilding objectives, the research demonstrates that the peacebuilding activities carried out by civil society adds to the efforts performed by other actors to achieve stability and security, restore political and judicial institutions, address socio-economic dimensions and transform relations. Acknowledging the particular regional dynamics of the Colombian internal armed conflict and recognising the need for local ownership for peacebuilding to be successful, the conclusion drawn is that peacebuilding in Colombia has to be attained at the local, regional as well as national level. The polarisation and distrust between civil society and the state hinders a joint effort to build peace in Colombia, which further complicates the prospects for attaining sustainable peace in the country. Based on the understanding gained from the conducted research, this thesis affirms that peacebuilding must be adapted to the local realities and requires active participation from both government and civil society.

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Stanton, Ian. "The revolutionary process and representations of contemporary society in Colombia." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.323489.

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Garcia, Ferney G. (Ferney Gonzalo). "The supervisory perspective of residential mortgage securitization in Colombia." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66367.

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Londoño-Vega, Patricia. "Religion, culture, and society in Colombia : Medellín and Antioquia, 1850 - 1930 /." Oxford [u.a.] : Clarendon Press, 2002. http://www.gbv.de/dms/sub-hamburg/335816916.pdf.

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Salcedo, Martinez Jorge Enrique. "The history of the Society of Jesus in Colombia, 1844-1861." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c372fda6-366b-4f27-94fb-cf949f6ae706.

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This thesis examines the activity of the Jesuits in Colombia during the nineteenth century; it demonstrates how their return to the country in 1844 became a highly controversial political issue until 1884, when the national government authorized their permanent residence. The Jesuits were established in the country from 1844 to 1850, and then from 1858 to 1861. These two short sojourns generated significant debate between the Conservative and Liberal parties. The first return of the Jesuits coincided with the formation of these two parties and the debate over the separation of Church and State. It was after the Guerra de los Supremos, with the defeat of the Liberal Party and victory for the Conservative Party, that the latter passed a law on mission schools that allowed the return of the Society after its exile during colonial times. The Liberals considered the law of April 1842 to be a tactic used by the Conservatives to empower their political project, and when the Jesuits arrived in the country, the Liberal Party started a campaign against them in Congress and through the press. As the invitation for their return to New Granada had been issued by the Conservative government, Liberals considered them to be allies of the Conservatives and deserving of their political antipathy. The decrees issued regarding the return of the Jesuits clearly stated that they were to be assigned to Colegios de Misiones and Casas de Escala (Rest Residences) in mission territories. The Superior General of the order in Rome and the ecclesiastical authorities in Colombia interpreted the law as justifying the work of the Jesuits in establishing missions among the indigenous people and also in education in general. Eladio Urisarri, the official in Rome in charge of arranging the return of the Jesuits, supported this interpretation, but the latent ambiguity was a continual issue. The thesis analyses these episodes within the context of the republic’s politics and the state of the Colombian Church at the time, and examines the Jesuits’s experiences in Bogotá and the other dioceses where they were present.

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Obregón, Torres Diana. "Struggling against leprosy: physicians, medicine, and society in Colombia, 1880-1940." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/39087.

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Schneider, Julia Drey. "A shift in policy, a shift in peace Colombian civil society peace initiatives (1997-2008) /." Diss., [La Jolla] : University of California, San Diego, 2009. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p1464902.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of California, San Diego, 2009.
Title from first page of PDF file (viewed July 9, 2009). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Includes bibliographical references (p. 86-90).

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Baena, Andrea. "Spaces of arrival : swamp as a terrain of contestation in Cartagena, Colombia." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/121864.

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Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2019
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Page 100 blank.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-83).
This project delves into the aqueous terrain where the arrival of people and water coalesce. Specifically, it explores the shifting landscape of the Virgen Swamp, in the coastal city of Cartagena, Colombia, where there is friction between flows of urban occupation and ecological flows. This friction is most noticeable in the 4km south border where urban occupation has taken over a fringe of approximately 80 meters of what used to be water. This water-people relationship is dialectical; urban occupation triggers the swamp to resist with floods, erosion and contamination. The city of Cartagena is full of stories of displacement and contestation with physical manifestations in the border of the swamp. Arrival neighborhoods at the border face a situation of simultaneous uncertain citizenship and ecologic vulnerability. The mangrove forest bordering the Virgen Swamp has been considered wasteland, and thus a place to be reclaimed by immigrants who find no other space in the city.
This mangrove forest serves as gradient between water and land filtering the water, preventing land erosion and protecting from storm surge. The recession of the swamp's shoreline due to urban development has degraded the once continuous loop of mangrove forest. The re-shaping of the border between water and land has occurred in the form of spontaneous occupation by immigrants and striated interventions led by the city and large private stakeholders in an attempt to solve water-land frictions. This thesis questions the idea of the swamp as a space of unchecked development or hard divisions. Instead, it sees the swamp's relationship to the urban and ecological as one of gradient and fluidity. In response to the transient nature of the urban arrival threshold, the thesis re-imagines an integrated development plan which brings together different stakeholders, proposing placemaking strategies for a space of displacement.
The proposed network of spaces catalyzes community reinforcement and livelihood. The project employs a systemic approach, exploring different scales and temporalities, and proposing design strategies that are both incremental and substantial.
by Andrea Baena.
M. Arch.
M.Arch. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture

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Vargas, Hernando. "Urban settlement and evolution in XIXth century Antioquia, Colombia." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78074.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, and (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1987.
MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH.
Bibliography: leaves 120-133.
by Hernando Vargas.
M.S.
M.C.P.

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Gonzalez, Cesar O. "The use of bamboo in architecture : case study : Old Caldas, Colombia." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape2/PQDD_0029/MQ64113.pdf.

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Cabrales, Eusebio Jose. "Assessment of the Current Status of Informatics in Colombia's Universities and Society." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1991. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278429/.

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This study tries to delineate the paradigms of opinion among Colombian Computer Industrialists with respect to the role of informatics in national development especially (1) their estimation of the performance of the informatics in the modernization process, (2) the perceptions on which this attitude was based, (3) their ability to integrate the informatics instruction into the development process, (4) their ability to establish the need of doctoral programs in informatics into the development process, and (5) their ability to recognize the importance of the network communication as a medium of knowledge exchange among higher education institutions.

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Greene, Aaron Steven Wendel 1978. "FLUX : adaptable architecture for a dynamic society." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/28323.

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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-102).
(cont.) Perhaps a more functional architecture that is kinetic, transformable, capable of disengagement, and reassembly could keep up with the occupants' need to have multiple programs taking place in one space, maintain economy, and alleviate the over use of energy and resources.
Contemporary society is being re-defined by continuous travel and motion, resulting in the collapse of time and space--the origins of globalization, and infinite, never ceasing data transfer; both of which have propelled us into the Information Age. The resulting cultures are hybrid, more complex, and always transforming. As corporations and communities continue to expand and contract, re-locate, emerge, and vanish, their need to be capable of adapting is increasing. On Monday, the client desires a mid-rise building with an open floor plan on all levels. The following Wednesday, his company's stock has gone through the roof and his financial advisors suggest a mixed use facility, with retail space on the lower three levels and ten extra floors of office space. By Friday, his architect will have designed a sky-scrapper. These fast pace changing needs, the various forms of infrastructure that facilitate transfer, and evolving technology confront architects with a major question. Can architecture become flexible, adaptable, and transformable in order to meet the ever-changing demands of contemporary society? Infrastructure permeates every facet of our lives. It allows us to move to here and there, it brings resources, data, and entertainment to our very fingertips. It operates at various scales, and even provides stability within society. The thought of architecture fusing with or becoming like infrastructure is not a new subject matter, theorist have written about it for years. The human species has always been transient, so why the need for a new architecture? Our new technologies have also prompted the degradation of our global environment, and caused the over utilization of various natural resources.
by Aaron Steven Wendel Greene.
M.Arch.

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Fitch, Kristine Louise. "Communicative enactment of interpersonal ideology : personal address in urban Colombian society /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8205.

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Guerrero, Becerra Maria Paula. "Acknowledging linguistic diversity in a multicultural society: the issue of indigenous languages in Colombia." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2015. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/9199/.

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Nowadays, modern society is gradually becoming multicultural. However, only in the last few years awareness on its importance has been raised. In the case of Colombia, multiculturalism has existed since the pre-Columbian period and today there are more than 80 ethnic groups and 65 indigenous languages in the country. The aim of this work is to illustrate the status of indigenous languages in Colombia and to enlighten about the importance of recognizing, protecting and strengthening the use of these native languages. Subsequent to this, it will be point out that linguistic diversity should be considered a resource and not a barrier to achieve unity in diversity. Finally, ethno-education will be presented as an adequate educational program that may guarantee an equal linguistic representation in the country.

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Hendershot, David Lee. "Architecture, meaning, narrative." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23174.

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Vulpi, Valentina. "Architecture, ornament and society in Filarete's Libro Architettonico." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.393321.

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Qaqane, Loyiso. "A chance encounter : architecture in a hybrid society." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5993.

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The aim of the research is to look at a public architecture that recognises the unpredictable nature of the contemporary city. This reality is a great opportunity to create a rich architecture that allows for multiple and varied social encounters and events to occur.

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Söderin, Gudmar. "Dialogue Theatre : Encounter Two Sides of Society." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-135512.

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Pinzon, Latorre Andres Augusto. "The Influence of Courtyards Thermal Comfort Study in Bogota, Colombia." Thesis, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10681398.

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In the last twenty years, there has been a decrease in the quality of social housing projects in Bogotá, in part because private developers have replaced the Colombian government as the main agent. Degradation of social housing has been associated with related sickness of residents due to cold thermal conditions, particularly in children and seniors. In this context, business profitability has played against healthy indoor environments.

A common misconception of building in Bogotá’s mild climate (tropical) is that indoor thermal comfort is not a problem. It is based on the fact that outdoor conditions are relatively constant throughout the year without strong seasons, which in theory make acceptable conditions for thermal comfort of building occupants. Moreover, since residential buildings in Bogotá are naturally ventilated and no have space conditioning, thermal adaptation is expected to be more important.

Previous investigations on thermal comfort in the city have focused on the interaction between the local climate and a particular building configuration, but most have not explored occupants’ perceptions of comfort nor have they investigated how urban form and architectural features such as communal courtyards may influence thermal comfort.

This dissertation aims to better understand occupant perceptions of thermal comfort within the context of environmental conditions, personal adaptability, and urban form in Bogotá. The hypothesis is that an urban fabric that enhances solar access will improve the potential of a building to deliver a satisfactory thermal comfort to its occupants and energy savings in electric lighting. To test this hypothesis, courtyard buildings are explored as a way to connect people with the daily rhythms on their environments and reinterpret these spaces in the scenario of a larger and a denser city.

A multidisciplinary approach is used to address these enquiries, and through a field study thermal comfort is investigated in Bogotá. This methodology integrates knowledge from architecture, psychometrics, and statistics. The field study is performed on two residential projects that represent different urban configurations: the first project is organized in lineal blocks and the second project is organized around a central courtyard.

In total, 75 apartments participate in the study: 37 in the first project and 38 in the second project. Data are collected from them through environmental logging and surveying of residents. Information about temperature, relative humidity, radiant temperature, and light intensity is obtained through monitoring, while information about: thermal sensation, thermal preference, clothing value, and physical activity is obtained through surveys.

Statistical correlations, estimations, comparative tests, and summary statistics are used to analyze the data. These comparisons allow for an investigation of the influence of environmental conditions on occupants’ thermal sensations, the margins of acceptability of residents in multifamily housing, the influence of building features on thermal comfort of real environments, and the influence of courtyards as a solution for problems of comfort and energy consumption.

Key findings include: (1) outdoor climatic conditions (in addition to indoor climatic conditions) were associated with the thermal sensation of residents, suggesting that the indoor and outdoor climates are more connected across the building envelope boundary in these types of buildings that in environmentally controlled buildings; (2) the range of thermal adaptability of residences in these buildings was larger than in environmentally controlled buildings, suggesting that personal choice factors (e.g., choosing to wear more clothing to keep warm) are used to regulate comfort sensations in the absence of more advanced environmental control; and (3) the presence of a large central courtyard increases levels of comfort and also appeared to reduce electricity consumption for lighting.

The comparison suggests that the courtyard typology in multi-family residential buildings can be used to improve thermal comfort in social housing in this climate. Overall, this study offers a key insight into the complex interactions between climate, urban form, architectural design, and human behavior in governing human thermal comfort.

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Gauthier, Erin. "Architecture/Archaeology." This title; PDF viewer required Home page for entire collection, 2008. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.

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Thesis (M.Arch.)--University of Detroit Mercy, 2008.
"28 April, 2008". P. 17-185 contain a reprint of three appendices from: Tales of Five Points : working-class life in nineteenth-century New York / edited by Rebecca Yamin. Includes bibliographical references (p. 218).

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SIWEK, MARK. "ARCHITECTURE OF INTERDEPENDENCE: REINFORCING CONNECTION BETWEEN SOCIETY AND NATURE." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1083353445.

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Dent, Walter C. "Human interaction in a technological society : a photographic essay." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73268.

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Thesis (M.S.V.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1985.
MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 41-43).
Through the advent of technological advancement global communication has been greatly increased. Information can be emitted and received instantaneously through satellite transmission systems. Saturation of the airways continuously bathes the human in video and audio imagery. Dependence on human physical labor has been reduced by the current trend of transporting information rather than materials. Entertainment, Education, Religion, Politics, Commerce and Medicine, are continuously adapting and implementing new technological developments. Technology has created an attitude of increased expectation of instant fulfillment. Social behavior adapts and revises itself with the influx of contemporary mores delivered by the communications medium. If television is the illusion of reality, what is the reality of the illusion? The thesis consists of two parts, (1) a written investigation of observed influences created through communicative technologies and (2) a photographic essay of present and possible attitudes that result from audio/video technological complexity. The photographic essay is not an attempt to document interaction as it "normally" appears in society, but to spot human interaction through a ''surrealistic" approach. The photographic presentation consists of nine (9) images, (8-black and white and 1-color), each approximately 19"x23", hinged between acid-free ragboard and presented under glass. They will be exhibited at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at M.I.T. during the month of January thru mid-March. The thesis book is constructed with the written material in the first section and the photographic essay in the second represented as reduced black and white, photo- screened images accompanied their respective titles and true dimensions.
by Walter C. Dent.
M.S.V.S.

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Danziger, Elon. "Architecture, territory, and society: Two projects for the Veneto." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35018.

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An architectural territory is an area of human settlement that exhibits consistent architectural conditions or elements. In this thesis, three primary aspects of territory are considered: massing patterns, circulation networks, and typological structure. Many European architects work to extend, delimit, and join territories through their architectural interventions. In this way buildings function both as objects in themselves and as linking or delimiting parts in an urban whole. This thesis presents an American's understanding of a typically European approach, gained during a year of study at the Accademia di architettura in Mendrisio, Switzerland. Combining observations of Accademia pedagogy with the presentation of two projects undertaken there, it offers a definition of territory and two territorial discourses. In the first project, located in Padua, the intent is to strengthen the definition of two adjacent territories by means of an interstitial housing and office complex. In the second the territory of a service island at the edge of Venice becomes the primary influence for the form of a rock venue and contemporary cultural center. The social and political territories in a city, powerful forces for architecture, are also discussed in the context of Padua. An aging and shrinking population may not need or want a building typology that interests elite political and economic actors.
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Siwek, Mark. "Architecture of interdependence reinforcing connections between society and nature /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=ucin1083353445.

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Gohar, E. S. "Sudden change, society and urban form." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/32307.

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Mackey, Chris (Christopher William). "Pan climatic humans : shaping thermal habits in an unconditioned society." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/99261.

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Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2015.
Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2015.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-147).
The relationship between people and the thermal environment has a profound impact on lifestyle and culture, influencing what we wear, what spaces we gather around, and how we go about our lives. Yet this relation is often oversimplified in the design of conditioned spaces, assuming occupants have unchanging thermal preferences and no desire to participate in the shaping of a building's microclimates. While we gain a basic satisfaction of thermal need from this simplified view, we lose much by complicating our buildings with HVAC equipment to the point that inhabitants do not understand them, by cellularizing space into bubbles of conditioned air that limit opportunities for continuous communal space, and by having occupants rely on central heating/cooling systems that often require harmful concentrated energy sources, such as fossil fuels. This thesis asks if and how we can design spaces of everyday life that not only satisfy a basic thermal need but also encourage occupant participation in the shaping of microclimates, promote thermally-based social cohesion, and do so using only on passive means. Since the traditional process of evaluating heating/cooling load with an energy model does not hold for unconditioned design, the thesis question requires a new method for exploring design decisions in relation to the thermal environment. Accordingly, research began by developing software to produce high spatial/temporal resolution thermal maps that evaluate design decisions by indicating the parts of a space made warmer or cooler in relation to a seasonal "comfort temperature." With this new means of understanding the thermal environment, several geometric design strategies are tested for two climates - Los Angeles and New York. The tests illustrate that the geometry of a space can have an enormous effect on its thermal habitability once the assumptions of air conditioning and oversimplified occupants are removed. The most powerful of the tested design strategies are used to develop two completely passive urban co-habitation/co-working projects that express and embellish these discovered geometric factors. The designs operate off of a generalizable logic in which the communal, daytime spaces are placed in the areas of a site where they can take advantage of the most powerful and stable thermal strategies while the fringes include less stable, intermittently- occupied, private spaces where occupants can tune the microclimate as they wish. Although this generalizable logic is constant, the two designs illustrate that widely different forms can emerge based on the climate and the tested strategies.
by Chris Mackey.
M. Arch.
S.M.

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Bissaillon, Joseph A. "Transformation adaptive reuse as a response to a disposable society /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1212001817.

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Thesis (Master of Architecture)--University of Cincinnati, 2008.
Advisor: Michael McInturf. Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Feb. 25, 2009). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.

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Quinn, Megan Ruth. "Passive Subversion: Franchised City vs. Found-Object Adaptability: A Media Beacon / Public Dialog Venue in an Abandoned Grain Elevator." Thesis, Montana State University, 2007. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2007/quinn/QuinnM0507.pdf.

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Public space has been integral to city planning since Ancient Greek and Roman civilizations. Greek and Roman governmental structures were based on the idea of people coming together to discuss. The senators were the main speakers in the Forum, but the citizens would gather to listen or contribute. The architecture of this kind of public space was large, open, and able to accommodate everyone willing to attend. Both the Agora in Athens and the Forum in Rome included marketplaces and other public amenities which drew people to the public arena.Â¹ During Ancient Times, public gatherings were the only form of passing on information. Human contact and interaction was necessary, and people gained a civic sense from the live interaction and involvement with their fellow citizens. Everything was live, including entertainment. Live encounters were the media. In Contemporary American Culture, it is not necessary to have live dialog. Communication can be carried across various media, some of which include simultaneous audiovisual conversations. Public space and a civic sense has been lost to electronic media, and shopping space is the remaining public space.Â² Just as the marketplace drew people to the Agora and the Forum, shopping centers today draw people from their homes to common locations. The intent of this thesis is to explore design opportunities that would proactively address contemporary consumer culture. This passive consumer culture has eroded the "civic sense" of the past, and architecture can restore the "civic sense" by structuring opportunities for interaction between people that would not otherwise exist. This thesis will investigate the current situation in American culture, and research ways in which architecture can provide an intermediate venue between the public sense of the past (before electronic media) and the world of consumerism, convenience, and burgeoning technology. The power and efficiency of electronic media makes it a nearly irresistible cultural magnet. It simulates reality and can be combined with the intensity of live dialog and encounters to create a hybrid that will enhance contemporary culture.

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Block, Frida. "KIRUNA LAB : the experimental lab of an evolving society." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-171750.

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Glenn, Daniel J. "The mall society : illusion, exclusion, and control in the urban center." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/74348.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1989.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-145).
Pre-planned, centrally-managed, privatized public space is rapidly replacing the traditional downtowns of our communities and increasingly, the centers of our largest cities--in the form of the shopping mall. This thesis explores some of the powerful implications of this shift: 1) the deepening of a consumer culture; 2) a heightening of socio-economic polarity; and 3) the institutionalization of a new form of subtle, omnipresent, largely consensual control. Three key tools of mall design and private management--illusion, exclusion and control--are examined in case studies of two malls in downtown Boston: the urban mall as megastructure, Copley Place; and the "festival marketplace", Faneuil Hall Marketplace. Then, an exemplar of an illusory, exclusionary and controlled environment is presented: Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Finally, a speculative short story, The Mall Society in 2038,is presented, illustrating the potential society that could develop given the continued mallification of our socio-spatial environment.
Daniel J. Glenn.
M.S.

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Peng, Gang 1967. "Enterprise society : a study of Harbin Measuring & Cutting Tool Works." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69293.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1992.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 113-115).
The Enterprise Society was established under the Socialism system, with planned economy, public ownership of property and equal wealth distribution. Workers are the owners of the factory and the factory is the home of workers. It was the primary form of China's residential settlements built after 1949. After about 40 years of practice, these settlements have shown many special characteristics different from the other residential areas. By using Harbin Measuring & Cutting Tool Works, Inc., a prime factory in China's tool industry, as a case study, this thesis has done an evaluation of this settlement form. Through a study of the organization, quality of social and physical environment inside the enterprise, the thesis analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of enterprise societies in relationship to the changing economic and social backgrounds. The current reform in China is changing the country's economic and ideological structures which are causing many related systems to change. Among the housing in China, a large percentage is operated by big enterprises. Basing on the analysis the thesis concluded by offering some suggestions on housing reform in enterprise societies.
by Gang Peng.
M.S.

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Berardi, Christopher W. (Christopher Walter). "Intellectual property and architecture : how architecture influences intellectual property lock-in." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112005.

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Thesis: Ph. D. in Engineering Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Engineering, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, 2017.
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
"June 2017." Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-247).
Intellectual property lock-in is a wicked problem particularly pervasive under monopsony market structures, such as the Department of Defense (DoD). However, little research exists on the mechanisms of action that induce intellectual property lock-in. This work postulates the conjuncture of architecture and intellectual property is one such mechanism of action and erects a research methodology to investigate this link. This dissertation began with a review of literature, which revealed more research is needed into basic trends or estimates of magnitude for intellectual property lock-in. To quantitatively frame the magnitude of the problem an investigation was conducted into all DoD contracts for the last eight fiscal years to establish bounds. These results were used to formulate a conceptual model of the problem and suggest the concept of intellectual property architecture, which is the conjuncture of architecture and intellectual property. To investigate links between intellectual property architecture and lock-in, an intermediate-N fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis research approach was formulated and executed using 14 DoD software cases representing over 34 million lines of code. The model used three input conditions: high quality technical architecture, accessible intellectual property architecture, and unlimited rights to study the avoidance of lock-in. The fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis concluded intellectual property architecture or unlimited rights were quasi-necessary conditions for the avoidance of lock-in. Additionally the model yielded both a five condition conservative expression and two condition parsimonious expression for sufficient conditions. From those expressions, this research concludes three direct findings. First, intellectual property architecture is an empirically supported mechanism of action for the avoidance of lock-in. Implying, intellectual property architecture, absent any other explanatory conditions, is sufficient to avoid lock-in. Second, the research herein finds evidence to support a novel taxonomy of intellectual property architectures. Allowing practitioners to understand potential trade-offs between architecture and intellectual property lock-in. Third, intellectual property architecture or unlimited rights is a theoretically supported expression for the avoidance of lock-in. This finding implies that as few as two conditions are required to understand whether a case may, or may not, avoid lock-in.
by Christopher W. Berardi.
Ph. D. in Engineering Systems

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Hodgdon, Karen Elizabeth. "The architecture of event." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23738.

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Jiang, Yingying, and 江盈盈. "Open building : a theory of housing for post-industrial society." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/198835.

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Gipas, Mantas. "Desanctified Umeå : The Role of Sacred Space in Contemporary Society." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-133150.

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Fu, Chao-Ching. "Regional heritage and architecture : a critical regionalist approach to a new architecture for Taiwan." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/8372.

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The development of modern architecture, which was first introduced to Taiwan by the Japanese when they occupied the island, has destroyed the identity and continuity of traditional Taiwanese architecture. Modern architecture, with its emphasis on materialistic and technological aspects, is fundamentally different from traditional architecture. The former depends on denying what is essential to the latter. However, modern technology is genuinely international and most people in Taiwan seem to want to enjoy its advantages, such as new methods of building construction, which have offered a better technical solution to many problems than traditional architecture could. However, architecture is not merely a technological product, it is also an embodiment of the worldview of the people of a region. The most important question in the contemporary architectural development of Taiwan is, therefore, to see how modern innovations could be embedded in the regional heritage so as to achieve a new architecture within the parameters of modern referents while maintaining a quality relying on nourishment from regional traditions. The thesis is an inquiry into the prospect of developing such a new architecture for Taiwan, which, it is argued, can be achieved by a Critical Regionalist approach. Critical Regionalism is a concept as well as an approach that attempts to evoke a condition of authenticity in which a new architecture can be consciously originated out of the traditional architectural characteristics of a particular region in order to withstand the domination of Modernism. The contents of the thesis are centred on the following themes: differences between traditional and modern architecture; problems of the contemporary architectural development of Taiwan; the development of Post-Modernism, Alexander's Pattern Language, the Phenomenology of Architecture, and Regionalism in architecture; the dialectics of Critical Regionalism; characteristics of traditional Taiwanese architecture; and the discussion of the regional consciousness in contemporary Taiwanese architecture. Today, society in Taiwan is no longer completely traditional although a number of traditions still survive. People live in a society codified according to two different sets of values and beliefs. The problem of how to preserve the valuable aspects of the regional heritage, including regional architecture, in a situation where tradition is in rapid decline is crucial. It is demonstrated in the thesis that Critical Regionalism presents a possibility that an authentic architecture can be developed out of contradictory elements and sources. In the past, most criticisms of modern architectural development were based on either the purely functional aspects or the style of the building which are only parts of architecture. The Critical Regionalist approach enables both architects and critics to emancipate themselves from such narrow interpretations. With the help of this approach, both architects and critics can now look at architecture from a much broader point of view. The thesis aims to show the way towards this new understanding of architecture.

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Arango, Lievano Lucia. "Evangélisation et précarité dans l'Amérique espagnole : l'architecture sans guildes ni Académies : une histoire culturelle du bâti religieux de la Nouvelle Grenade (Colombie XVIe siècle - XVIIIe siècle)." Phd thesis, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne - Paris I, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01011611.

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Qu'il s'agisse de corporations ou d'Académies, l'existence de circuits de production artistique officiels (ou du moins formellement constitués), fournit à l'historien de l'art une grille de lecture permettant de structurer l'approche avec l'objet à étudier et avec les processus qui ont abouti à sa création. Cela ne se vérifie pas dans toute l'Amérique coloniale même si, paradoxalement, la légitimité du projet politique espagnol se fondait sur le succès de la campagne évangélisatrice et donc sur la mise en place de temples, ce qui théoriquement, devrait se traduire par l'imposition d'un goût officiel à travers de telles institutions. Face à l'impossibilité d'étudier la production artistique de la Nouvelle Grenade (Colombie actuelle) selon une histoire qualitative articulée autour d'un jugement de valeurs (le Beau, le Vrai le Bien), ce travail propose d'aborder le bâti religieux depuis la perspective d'une histoire culturelle. Comme instrument méthodologique nous avons privilégié la recherche heuristique. Délaissée par l'histoire de l'art colonial colombien depuis les années 1980, cette approche qui implique la mise en valeur du patrimoine documentaire, représente pourtant une source très abondante d'informations. Eloignés d'une histoire basée sur l'analyse de la forme et sur sa classification taxonomique, une lecture culturaliste des documents d'archive nous a permis d'approcher la chaîne de production du bâti, depuis la mise en place d'une réglementation jusqu'à la réalisation - ou l'abandon - du projet. Nous avons également identifié les différents acteurs susceptibles d'intervenir dans l'étape de d'invention du projet, en prêtant une attention particulière à leur formation afin de restituer les voies qui ont permis la circulation des idées et du savoir-faire.

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Hallacher, Brett W. "Rethinking social architecture." This title; PDF viewer required. Home page for entire collection, 2006. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.

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Soderberg, Brock A. "Architecture while listening to SDRE." PDF viewer required Home page for entire collection, 2008. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.

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Murphy, Conn. "Society, settlement & status : regional variation in Minoan Neopalatial architecture." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.624573.

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Maudlin, Daniel. "Highland planned villages : the architecture of the British Fisheries Society." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14485.

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The British Fisheries Society, founded in 1786, was a semi-charitable joint stock company, similar to other improvement trusts of the period established to fund the construction of roads, bridges, canals and hospitals. The Society was however unique in the breadth of its ambition to create a chain of complete settlements or villages the length of the northern Scottish coastline from Dornoch on the east to Oban on the west. These new settlements were intended to be fishing stations focussed on the perceived wealth to be gained from the herring fishery. Four settlements were established at Ullapool, Wester Ross, Tobermory, Mull, Lochbay, Skye and Pulteneytown, Wick, Caithness and the specific intention of this thesis has been to examine those four built environments created by the Society. This includes all elements of the building and design process necessary to 'create' a fishing village incorporating town planning, civil engineering, industrial and vernacular buildings as well as 'architecture' by Robert Mylne and Telford. The construction of each village is followed from the design of the street plan, contracting for works through to the design and construction of diverse works such as inns, storehouses, harbours and bridges. Varying circumstance resulting in each settlement developing its own architectural character despite the Society's standardised plans and policies the settlements are also considered within the wider context of planned villages, New Towns ports, and harbours with specific analysis of individual buildings and types such as Robert Mylne's inn at Tobermory.

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McBrien, Brandon James. "Social Architecture: A Study of Society & the Built Environment." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/244434.

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In 2009, the American Community Survey revealed that social equality gaps in the US had reached the highest on record. Never has there been more need for social equality than now, and many experts predict that social divisions are only going to worsen. Furthermore, with the current state of the economy, the amount of resources available to non-profit organizations that attempt to mitigate social inequality has drastically shrunk. Organizations, such as TOMS Shoes, American Apparel, the One Percent, and many others have adopted corporate social responsibility practices into their business model to try to make a positive difference in the world. Currently, there is room in the arena of architecture to do what other industries have done in adopting socially responsible practices. The connection that the built environment and society share can offer a way unique way for architects to begin to promote social sustainability. Alain de Botton, author and philosopher, said society is, "for better or worse, different people in different places. Architecture's task is to render vivid to us who we might ideally be." This observation of the relationship that humanity and the built environment share with one another is one of extraordinary insight and attests to the fact that the built environment has the ability to establish a platform for values that become part of our culture. Botton's words illustrate the underlying premise of this capstone: to discover what architecture should and can be. Architecture for the public good must not merely stimulate but must also inspire and serve. Architecture that achieves both can exist as a beacon of hope for renewed prosperity and social equality. This project seeks to use the shared connection of society and the built environment to offer a unique approach to provide the basic human need of shelter, while simultaneously providing an innovative process for giving back to charitable human service organization. Furthermore, this project seeks to demonstrate that there is a strategic way to design and construct buildings that mitigate the social impact of new construction and, through this process, extend the scope of sustainability beyond energy savings into human equity.

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Stubbs, Jerome D. "A critical reading of Eisenman's "The end of the classical"." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/21661.

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Carrera, Frank D. "In response to place : advancing an architectural theory of regionalism." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23777.

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Stacholy, Lisa J. Konie. "Spatial and visual orders in consumption environments." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23014.

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Yarwood, John R. "Al Muharraq : architecture, urbanism and society in an historic Arabic town." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1988. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2994/.

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Caraher, William R. "Church, society, and the sacred in early christian Greece." The Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1057071172.

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Graves, Linda. "Architecture of place and mythos." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23923.

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Hou, Yi M. Arch Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Engaging public voice in big data society : an on-line participatory design experiment." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103468.

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Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2016.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (page 5).
Should the design of architecture be solely in control by architects? Should we trust the public to let them design with us? These are the core discussion revolves around participatory design, a design approach involves public effort. In theory, this democratic process should results a more responsive and suitable project for users. Although the concept of participatory design works well in theory, but there are constrains that stopped itself from wider application. How can we collect large amount of ideas that can directly lead to a design solution? Will the result have any advantage compare to traditional design process? Building upon historic precedents, my thesis proposes an on-line participatory platform, a new computational tool that allows large number of participants participate into the design process. Each user's desire can be translated into a set of data that represents their preferences on architecture. Then, to extract common patterns from data pool to compute result. The final goal is to calculate an optimized design that will suit most users' desire. Will the public like what they designed collectively? The result will spark an interesting discussion.
by Yi Hou.
M. Arch.

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Afnan, Parviz F. "The "sense of place" its significance, theory and attainment /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1987. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09pha257.pdf.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Architecture and society – Colombia'

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