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Lee, O.-sze Salina. "Hong Kong Science Park : paradise of communication through the landscape /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25950988.
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Lee, O.-sze Salina, and 李澳思. "Hong Kong Science Park: paradise of communication through the landscape." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31980673.
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Sommerville, Shiona L. "Communicating landscape architecture, a model for interpersonal theories of practice." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ56368.pdf.
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Mo, Jin. "Landscape architectural design and abstract graphic language: an investigation into the use of abstract diagrams as a tool for communication in programming." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53145.
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The goal of this research was to examine the commonality of abstract diagram use in landscape architectural design by meeting the objectives of: (1) developing a use-pattern profile of abstract diagrams for design communication in the programming process, i.e., determine which diagram type is used for the communication of which programmatic design issues by private-practice firms, and (2) determining the perceptions of landscape architects in regard to clarity of understanding, ease of preparation, and frequency of use of these diagrams, also identifying any association between these perceptions.Master of Landscape Architecture
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Gilbert, Gaius F. "No place, like home: a look at nature as artifact and the displacement of place." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=66711.
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The city of Guelph, an element within one of the largest conurbations in North America, the Greater Toronto Area/Greater Golden Horseshoe, is utilized as a metonym of a more general problematic. Certain narratives, logics and instrumental rationalities inform the production of this sprawling polycentric agglomeration forming an almost continuous urban and industrially developed area. Spaces and things within the built landscape, iconic, tropic forms and definitions, recurring presences or absences and 'symptomatic' silences within media and public debate provide a means for addressing discursive productions of Nature and identity in a mapping of the present. This materialist analysis addresses the exchanges and relationships occurring beneath and behind the city's surfaces; the nature and dynamics of the socio-ecological inter-play made manifest by urbanized landscapes and the city's metabolism. Artefacts that involve an engineering of material provide rubrics for considering questions attending spaces, representations, and practices related to urbanization. The basis and topographic implications of meta-schemes created to plan and organize the city, from those of the Canada Company to current Ontario Provincial legislation, is examined. Topography is considered as a material organization within a strategic system employing cybernetic apparatuses and reproductions, consisting of texts/artefacts enrolled into structures of political economy. Intertwining natural, cultural and technological systems, Guelph reveals a practiced urban geography that is a condition and translation of relations effected by global capitalism. The built environment involves conflations of object, image and symbolic space, their practices and principles. Institutional practices and historical relations here shape and impinge upon the biophysical ground. Boundaries and the presences and absences entailed are structured, organized aLa ville de Guelph, un élément dans une des plus grandes agglomérations en Amérique du Nord, la plus grande région de Toronto/une plus grande région du Golden Horseshoe, est utilisé comme un metonym d'un plus général problématique. Les certains récits, les logiques et les rationalités instrumentales informe la production de cette agglomération de polycentric tentaculaire formant un secteur presque continu urbain et industriellement développé. Les espaces et les choses dans le paysage construit, idole, les formes de tropique et les définitions, reproduisant des présences ou des absences et les silences 'symptomatiques' dans les médias et dans le débat public fournissent un moyens pour adresser les productions décousues de Nature et l'identité dans une cartographie du présent. Cette analyse de matérialiste adresse les échanges et les relations arrivant en dessous et derrière les surfaces de la ville; la nature et la dynamique de l'inter-jeu le socio-écologique manifeste fait par les paysages urbanisé et le métabolisme de la ville. Les objets qui impliquent une ingénierie de matériel fournissent des rubriques pour considérer de questions assistant des espaces, les représentations, et les pratiques lié à l'urbanisation. La base et les implications topographiques de meta-arrangements ont créé pour planifier et organiser la ville, de ceux-là de l'Entreprise de Canada à Ontario actuel la législation Provinciale, est examiné. La topographie est considérée comme une organisation matérielle dans un système stratégique employant des appareils et des reproductions cybernétiques, consistant en des textes/objets inscrits dans les structures d'économie politique. Entrelacer les systèmes naturel, culturel et technologique, Guelph révèle une géographie urbaine exercée qui est une condition et une traduction de relations a effectué par le capitalisme global. L'enviro
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Dietzler, Karl Matthew 1970. "Pattern on National Forest Lands: Cultural Landscape History as Evidenced Through the Development of Campgrounds in the Pacific Northwest." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11985.
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xxii, 272 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.)Historic campgrounds on National Forest Service lands are a key location where the public experiences the intersection of natural and cultural resources. In the Pacific Northwest Region, the majority of historic Forest Service campgrounds date from the Civilian Conservation Corps/New Deal era of the 1930s; however, some existed previous to this period. Overall, these campgrounds were envisioned, designed, and evolved in an era of rapid technological change, when increasing industrialization, urbanization, and rural accessibility facilitated a cultural need for both preservation of and accessibility to natural resources. In order to understand how these campgrounds evolved over time, existing campground conditions were documented using a case-study approach, based on historic integrity, range of geographic accessibility, and historical data availability. In order to understand what changes have occurred over time, existing and historic conditions were compared. Based on the results, broad cultural landscape stewardship recommendations are made.
Committee in charge: Robert Z. Melnick, FASLA Chairperson; Donald Peting, Member
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Pierce, Ron D. "A survey methodology written-visual combination assessment." Virtual Press, 1999. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1137654.
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This project proposed methodology that enhances user preference communication, enabling the landscape architect to design spaces which better meet the needs and expectations of the user(s). Semantic and visual preferences were administered to a user core group to determine guidelines that led to a design study master plan that included the design of "outdoor rooms."The advantages and disadvantages of previous written and visual survey methods were reviewed. From this review the proposed methodology was developed and tested. The results showed the users' desires where not predictable more efficient designs were enabled. This method could be used in directing a diverse set of landscape design projects.Department of Landscape Architecture
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Christensen, Kelly Marie. "Wilderness Values, the Environmental Movement and Mission 66." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12188.
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x, 111 p. ； ill. (some col.), mapsMission 66 was a ten-year program that began in 1956 and concluded in 1966, the 50th anniversary of the founding of the National Park Service. The stated goal of Mission 66 was to increase public access and enjoyment of the national parks through a program of development and reconstruction. However, wilderness conservationists and environmentalists criticized the program heavily during its time. This reaction has left Mission 66 with a controversial legacy that reflects negatively on the historical developments of the program. The goal of this thesis is to delve into why Mission 66 was such a controversial program by examining the historic roots of wilderness and environmental thought in the national parks in the United States. It is hoped this study work will provide an important perspective on Mission 66 that can be utilized in the ongoing conversation about Mission 66 and its cultural legacy.
Committee in charge: Dr. Robert Z Melnick, Chair; Hugh C. Miller, Member;
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Velásquez, Paola. "Les images dans la ville de Santiago du Chili : manifestations des activités commerciales et citoyennes." Thesis, Paris Est, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PEST1156.
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Les images dans toute leur diversité, installées dans l'espace urbain composent notre objet d'étude. Ainsi, à partir de l'analyse d'un vaste corpus composé de photographies et de cartes, collectés durant un long période dans le centre-ville de Santiago, l'enjeu est de saisir l'objet image-contexte qui d'après une description cas-à-cas, nous permettra l'analyse de l'image en situation. Dont le but est l'observation du rôle des images dans la construction de l'espace urbain et en tant que composant fondamental de notre environnement quotidien. De ce fait, divers aspects apparaissent peu à peu le long du travail telles que ; la distribution des images en relation au rapport des forces des pouvoirs quelles représentent et dans l'ensemble révèlent les pratiques spatiales du groupe social, de voir comment l'image transforme l'espace et l'espace redéfinit l'image, la relation entre image et architecture, entre la dynamique des images et les dynamiques urbaines et l'irruption des nouvelles technologies dans l'espace urbain. En somme, tout au long de notre travail de recherche nous poursuivons la constitution progressive de l'image en situation en tant qu'objet de terrain et élément essentiel qui façonnera le paysage visuel des villes dans le XXIe siècleImages, in all their diversity, present in the urban environment, form the subject of our study. Thus, with the starting point a vast cache of photographs and cards, collected over a long period in Santiago city-center, the issue involves comprehending the image/context as a whole, a task that, after a case-by-case examination, will allow us to analyze the image as an integral part of its location. The goal, therefore, is the observation of the role of images in the construction of the urban environment and as fundamental components of our everyday surroundings. In this way, various aspects come to the fore throughout the process: the distribution of images relative to the power of the forces they represent reveals, in the whole, the spatial activities of the social group; the way in which the image transforms the space and the space in turn redefines the image; the relationship between image and architecture; between the dynamics of the image and the urban dynamics; and, lastly, the impact of new technologies on the urban landscape. In summation, throughout our research we have followed the progressive existence of location-specific imagery as an object in its own right and an essential element that will shape the visual landscape of cities in the 21st century
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Radley, Diane. "Redefining boundaries." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2005. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-12072005-141431.
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Leung, Siu-sun Philip. "Entertainment landscape architecture." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B3821961X.
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Leung, Siu-sun Philip, and 梁兆燊. "Entertainment landscape architecture." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3821961X.
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Snead, John Peyton. "Deconstruction in landscape architecture." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/40641.
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Smit, Fi. "Landscape architecture and gender." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28144.
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This Dissertation Project is concerned with the meeting of Gender and Landscape Architectural theory, and aims to populate this (as yet) rare interface that requires urgent attention in discourse and practice. The Study is a research paper supporting the Dissertation Project by locating landscape architecture within the discourse on gender, and draws on Cultural Geography, Sociology, Intersectional, De-colonial and Feminist theory to argue that spatial design and the fields that engage with the production of public open space are key in understanding and addressing gender inequality. This is important because the gendered reproduction of space (and specifically, landscape) has tangible and pervasive effects on the access to, activity in, and safety of our public realm. Landscape positionality, the Nature/Culture dualism, Ecofeminism and Landscape theory are aligned in this Study, that engages with a topic that warrants a great deal of further research and development. The gendered experience, most often taking the form of various manifestations of rape culture, is particularly severe and restrictive in South Africa. Public open space is especially important to the struggle for equality and recognition across the hierarchies of privilege and power that stratify our society. Due to the unique intersections of violent constructions of masculinity, heteronormative and cisnormative socio-cultural codes, patriarchal social order, racial and racialised spatial and economic inequality and rape culture, women and gender minorities' movement, autonomy and potentials are severely limited. These spatial realities and socio-cultural inequalities are experienced every day, and they are gaining increased attention worldwide as social movements that include LGBTQI rights, the #MeToo Campaign, 16Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence bring the power and privilege of intersecting systems of oppression to light, where they can be understood, undermined, transformed and dismantled. Fear and the socio-cultural reproductions of the spatial exclusions that patriarchy imposes upon those it "others", is studied through the interviewing of participants about their perceptions of safety, access and activity in public open space. The Study also gives attention to the dearth of landscape architectural theory that recognises gender as a fundamental informant in the practice and theory of the landscape architectural profession. Feminist Landscape architectural theorists are few and far between, and the study argues that the last 50 years of development in the field has functioned in service of the dominant socio-cultural paradigms by knowingly or unknowingly excluding the extremely relevant advances in the fields mentioned above. By polarising the understandings of 'sustainability' and 'ecology' away from the deeply interrelated realms of sociology, philosophy, cultural geography and anthropology, the construction of Landscape architecture as a profession loses its ideological soul - humans. Whether we like it or not, we are architects and designers of spatial realities - both tangible and intangible, as landscape is not just physical elements, but also 'paysage'. As architects we design with nature for the sake and benefit of the whole. And that whole includes homo sapiens - our processes are natural processes, our artefacts are no less valid in Nature than the weathering of a mountain into stones and sand. The distinct forms and the experiences curated within landscape architectural artefacts evoke not only emotional response, but have the ability to transcribe attitudes. What then, is gender-conscious landscape architecture? The Enquiry phase answers this question by using Cristophe Girot's Trace Concepts (Landing, Grounding, Finding) to engage with a process. The literature shows that feminist architecture and landscape architecture is not a style, but a kind of activity - deeply dependent on the agenda that the designer must be constantly aware of - dependent on positionality. There are rather "…feminist ways of looking at and making architecture, but these are based on a certain approach, not a 'recipe'. This approach stems initially from an understanding that our surroundings are not neutral, that there is a relationship between the content of architecture and our … social structure. The Enquiry phase recognizes this way of knowing as a complex and reflexive condition that includes consideration of a multitude of factors, to approach a design with a gender-sensitive lens is to include a much wider range of considerations than gender alone. Attention to the cultural reproduction of space by virtue of a sensitivity to proxemics, by embracing subjectivity as a design strategy, by embarking on site analysis that involves much more that one view or the layering activity from one vantage point (thereby avoiding the danger of a single story) characterises the enquiry phase, that was continuously informed by the theoretical underpinnings of the Study which was written simultaneously. Enquiry involves the grounding of the design process in a site, and the Tafelberg road is chosen for its positionality and unique patterns of use. This site is visited periodically, documented, experienced, consulted and slowly revealed to be a landscape physically and ideologically continuous with its various contexts - geomorphic, historic, ecological, hydrological etc.. The Founding phase has no discernable beginning point, as it includes the spatialisation of the conceptual development in both written/drawn and idea/ imagery form. It involves spatial investigations in model-making, revisiting the site to test ideas, spatial imaginings and experiential design that is guided by concepts such as Contextualising, Sequencing, Conceal and Reveal, Pause and Program and Opening.
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Thwaites, Kevin. "Expressivist landscape architecture : the development of a new conceptual framework for landscape architecture." Thesis, Leeds Beckett University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.301040.
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Limitations in landscape architecture's intellectual underpinning potentially restrict its capability to make places which are conducive to human fulfilment. This is evident as an aesthetic and technical bias in landscape architecture which overlooks experiential dimensions crucial to the achievemenot f human fiflfilment. In responsea new conceptualf ramework is developed ftom the tenets of expressivism; a broad cultural movement with roots in eighteenth century Romanticism. Expressivist landscape architecture affirms a holistic concept of the human-envirorunenrte lationshipa s a philosophical core for landscapea rchitecturea nd includes a reconceptualisationo f landscapea s expressivel andscapep lace; an experientiale ntity defined in terms of an integration of human psychological and emotional functioning and physical space. Developing from Christopher Alexander's theoretical structures, expressivist landscape architecture is made operational by features which stress the primacy of human expressive activity, design as language and the experience of creative participation in the making of expressive landscape places.
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Wu, Jiahua. "Landscape morphology : a comparative study of landscape aesthetics." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1992. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/1851/.
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This research is about landscape aesthetics. Aesthetics is not purely Platonic but a result of human communication with nature which relates to landscape experience and, in turn, reflects and guides the way people appreciate, paint and design. This is an issue of art philosophy and design methodology. To link theory with practice, the relationship between landscape - both painted and designed - and aesthetic thinking is the most important topic discussed throughout the writing. To achieve a relatively complete understanding of landscape aesthetics, the discussion develops with reference to the historical, cultural, philosophical and technical contexts of both the East and the West. Some key issues such as Romanticism of the English School and Tao in Chinese landscape have been chosen as the central objects of attention in the study. The manner of discussion, reason and analysis is one of comparison. Taking into account the roles of philosophy in art and environmental design, 'Landscape Morphology', a systematic study of the language system of landscape art, design and education, is of high value in the area of environmental development, which substantially links the theory with environmental art and design, and foreshadows the future of landscape aesthetic research.
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Conable, Rebecca Agnes. "Baywalk developing landscape memory." FIU Digital Commons, 2004. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2418.
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The primary purpose of this thesis was to investigate the narrative potential in the contours of a site, specifically, in contours shaped by dredge and fill. Contours provide a record of weather, growth and erosion as well as the processes of dredge and fill. In South Florida, our modification of both the coastline and inland swamps document the history of our occupation of the land. The record or memory of this change is often apparent only as an absence. This thesis design exposes the landscape narrative of dredge and fill in Miami's Biscayne Bay through the design of two areas of Baywalk Park along the eastern edge of downtown Miami from Margaret Pace Park to the mouth of the Miami River. The design reveals the historic sequence of dredge and fill on the site.
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Parker, Cola Godden. "Building with landscape." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69321.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1994.Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-139).
All buildings have a relationship with their immediate site and their larger landscape: some buildings simply occupy their site while other buildings define and intensify their landscape. The relationship between building and landscape is important, understandable, and describable. Through analysis of selected buildings and their landscapes and through development of site specific designs, this thesis will develop a methodology that demonstrates that a good building comes from building WITH the landscape, not just ON the landscape.
by Cola Godden Parker.
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Macdonald, Harold Bane. "Landscape furniture house." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/75995.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1988.A house. over there on the cliff. it is very large. the owner must have a lot of cash. right on top of the cliff over the reservoir. seagulls come from the rockport ocean to drink fresh water and sit in the sun. the house does not loom large in their minds. it is irrelevant. the way literature is irrelevant to architecture. the gulls are thinking about fish. even when they fly. twirling gliders. make my day. curving perfect while i swerve ascending. i am free when i ski. but fish are in the quarry. by the cliff. where men look under the curving roof up into the sky.
by Harold Bane Macdonald.
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阮繼增 and Gi-tsun Jimmy Yuen. "Between architecture, landscape, and interior." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31980909.
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Walker, Jason Brian. "Landscape Architecture and Sustainable Development." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32409.
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The purpose of this thesis is to examine the role of sustainable development in Landscape Architecture. From reviewing the literature, a position is developed. The position is that Sustainable Development is an important issue for landscape architects and that there are reasons landscape architects have had limited success in sustainable development. The method of the thesis is derived from assessing a problem of sustainable development and landscape architecture and developing a solution to this problem. The solution is a procedure, not a tool, that landscape architects can use to learn about Sustainable Development and how it applies to landscape architecture. This thesis culminates in the development and application of a Sustainable Development Framework for Landscape Architects. The Framework is a procedure for landscape architects to become informed about sustainable development and how it applies to landscape architecture. For this thesis, the application was applied to the build out of an existing community, Top of the World. The implications of applying this framework are then discussed.Master of Landscape Architecture
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Richter, Sarah Karin. "Grounding Architecture: Reading the Landscape." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/49021.
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Ground, construction, light and weather: all of these elements when compounded create architecture. What is the built? What is the unbuilt? How can we merge the two? How can we architect a future where buildings are so contextually true to their site that the boundary of what was traditionally exterior and interior are one in the same? A building must be rooted in the site, it must be of the ground. It has to be grounded.
The roots of the building must dig deep into the meaning of what the site is, what it was, and what it wants to be. Through careful discernment of these varied layers of ground are, we can begin to understand the levels and layers that take place within a structure.
This thesis strives to ground architecture. The library at Rock Creek Park is nestled into the site, it is of the site, and honest to the site. A building that seems to grow out of Rock Creek Park as it exists in a city, a building that pulls the park into the city, and the city into the park. It is a glimpse of what potential the futures can hold if we, as designers, decide to collaborate, to treat each discipline as a layer of groundwork. A groundwork and foundation that must be laid first and then consciously called to mind to create a strong foundation for the design. This common thread must be kept taut throughout the design process.
The scene of this thesis is set at the corner of P St. and 23rd St. NW in Washington, DC at the berm of Rock Creek Park; at the brink of City and Nature.Master of Architecture
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Yuen, Gi-tsun Jimmy. "Between architecture, landscape, and interior." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B2595183x.
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Havens, William. "Landscape Architecture-Back in Business." College of Agriculture, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/295724.
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Daley, Mark (Mark S. ). "Landscape boogie-woogie." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79023.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1991.Odd-number pages numbered; even number pages blank. Pages 170 and 171 blank.
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The intent of this work was to explore an additive working method as a way to generate building form. It was initiated without any preconceived ideas about the project's final outcome. Instead, it focused on observations, associations, and attitudes of existing experiences and information. Working from the position that "one perception must immediately and directly lead to a further perception," a decisions were made. The design of an elementary school was the vehicle for the process.
by Mark Daley.
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Surla, Sean O'Dell. "Park Park Fabric Landscape: Landscape Systems Give Form to Architecture." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32078.
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Today, throughout the world, we are in the midst of a man-made environmental crisis. We must change how we consume and affect natural resources on the planet if we are to retain its richness of landscapes and biodiversity. It is our job as landscape architects to lead the way in changing the human relationship to natural resource consumption and building.
My thesis asks the question, how can an understanding of landscape as a system give form to architecture? In natural systems nothing is wasted, everything is interconnected and self-sufficient at the same time. How can we model our buildings -- our built landscapes -- after nature? Three natural systems are key components to modeling nature: water, vegetation and energy.
The landscapes that we have constructed for cars exemplify the problems we have ecologically. Cars produce greenhouse gases creating global warming. Highways and parking lots denude the vegetative habitat and lead to excessive water runoff polluting the watersheds. Solving the car problem goes a long way to setting an example for ultimately resolving ecological development issues. Cars are both the epitome of freedom and environmental degradation. Joni Mitchell put it eloquently with "they paved paradise put up a parking lot." My studio project is a mixed use parking facility fabricating the natural systems of water, energy and vegetation in order to mitigate environmental problems as well as resolve the practical necessity of where to put cars in crowded urban centers. Park Park puts the paradise back into the pavement.Master of Landscape Architecture
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Johnson, Daniel B. (Daniel Bryant). "Building, landscape and section." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67406.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1992.Includes bibliographical references (p. 96-97).
All buildings have in their section a relationship to the landscape on which they are sited. Therefore we as inhabitants of these buildings may or may not have a relationship with the landscape. It is the supposition of this thesis that the relationship is important, understandable, and assimilable. Selected buildings and their landscapes were examined to reveal some of these relationships. A notebook where observations, processes, thoughts and works were recorded, was used as a method of inquiry. Finally a design which draws on the assimilated knowledge of the building/landscape relationship is put forward.
by Daniel B. Johnson.
M.Arch.
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Neille, Stephen Robert, and s. neille@curtin edu au. "SPEED_SPACE Architecture, Landscape and Perceptual Horizons." RMIT University. Architecture & Design, 2007. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20090219.142507.
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Developing a new spatial model for generating poetic intelligence in response to the already constructed and degrading landscape. The thesis has a simple inquiry: what innovative architectural spatial models can be developed within, or in response to, the townships and degraded land located along the Perth-Kalgoorlie water pipeline in Western Australia, to help instigate a new poetic intelligence when considering architectural making that has a direct relationship with the landscape that it exists within? The thesis begins and ends with a triad relationship between human perception, architectural idea making, and landscape: it begins with observation, engagement and recording and ends with a generative proposition. The thesis articulates how the complexities of a defined site can be recorded and modelled to bind disparate elements into being and therefore model more accurately the wholeness of perception that often drives architectural thinking. Commencing with the lens provided by the Perth-Kalgoorlie water pipeline, the thesis examines a domain in which architecture, landscape, and human action combine to activate our poetic intelligence. The thesis shows that we feel what we think we see, the visible power of man in nature and, the relentlessness of a middle distance that has been constructed around us. Through critical reflection a tremoring occurs, causing powerful new imaginings. The research attempts to visualise the new landscape and show that we help to degrade what we treasure. This moment or realisation can be framed as an aesthetic moment that causes us to think again. The research, formulated as a progressive, heightening of experience, leads the observer from Rambler's Gallery through commonplace territory pointing out observations along the way and then ultimately winds these commonplace observations together to construct a new presentation of the commonplace. The final exhibition announces a new spatial model for generating poetic intelligence in response to the already developed and degrading landscape. The exhibition creates a Speed_Space that posits and tests the essential theme of the research; it is an act of invention that creates new knowledge (the poetic intelligence). The common link between architecture and landscape in this thesis is that both are understood to have been significantly constructed by the human subject and, that this constructed landscape is a finite system and is all that we have. This thesis, through the evidence embodied in SPEED_SPACE offers a mechanism to demonstrate what gaining architectural experience is like; uncoiling into the world, observing, weakening, moving at the limit and then coiling up moments of experience, knowledge and perception to create a force of the imagination that generates new poetic intelligence as a result being in 'that' world. The new spatial model shows architectural experience, in response to the already constructed and degrading landscape, to be more like a self-made constellation acting as a force of imagination rather than a sequence of facts collected together.
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Turpin, Anthony Joel. "An ambiguity of landscape and architecture." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/21724.
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Thompson, Ian H. "Sources of values in landscape architecture." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.311145.
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Eaton, Marcella. "Philosophy and design in landscape architecture." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/32101.
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Koo, Siu-fung. "Vitalization of Bowen Road landscape design for a scenic path." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25950952.
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Thesis (M.L.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1997.Includes special study report entitled: Aesthetics of paving for areas intended primarily for pedestrian use in Hong Kong. Includes bibliographical references.
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Linton, Cynthia Mayhew. "Claiming the urban industrial landscape." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79962.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1992.Includes bibliographical references (p. 108-109).
This thesis presents a propositIOn about a prevalent urban condition, that of marginal, left over, or disused space. It contends that these spaces, generally viewed as negative attributes by their communities have inherent value, and that appropriate and limited interventions will allow for new appreciation and greater use of these underutilized urban resources. The site explored in the thesis is an area along the Cambridge and Somerville border between Union Square and the McGrath highway. It supports a variety of light industrial uses that first located there because of proximity to the railroad line. The current actiVities that surround this open area of disused rail sidings are scrap yards, auto parts stores, and warehouses. The open character of the site and the location between residential areas of Cambridge and Somerville give it value. Because of its openness and nearness to dense residential areas it has value as a place from which to view the life of the city, to understand the history of the industrial worker in Somerville, and the growth of the city. It is a gathering place for young people, who are drawn to these sites partly because of their "unstructured" nature. The program chosen to activate this site is one which brings together a shop or production facility for bicycle frames with complementary uses, including an instruction area for bike repair, meeting rooms for bicycle groups, and a retail store. Additionally, there is an outdoor component to the program that consists of ramps and other architectural features where bicycle riding can take place unimpeded by automobile traffic. In giving this program architectural form, the layering, the additive quality of the surrounding buildings, and the "randomness" of the total environment are accommodated, and its vitality reinforced. The contention of the thesis is that this new set of uses is sensitive to the site, its natural characteristics, its architectural character and its community's needs. Understanding the landscape and the essential quality of a place is a crucial step in determining appropriate design solutions.
by Cynthia Mayhew Linton.
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Teas, Wendy Ann. "Landscape viewing in metropolitan Boston." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70179.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1990.Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-66).
This thesis recognizes the importance of landscape viewing, especially as a solitary act of contemplation. It suggests the creation of a place from which to gaze upon a vast landscape. It postulates that an observation structure can act as a border between the natural world and the constructed world in order to accentuate their differences and to acknowledge the importance of each. In addition, this thesis shows why Route One next to the Lynn Woods Reservation in Metropolitan Boston is an excellent place for a landscape viewing structure. The resulting design is an observation wall located between Route 1 and the Lynn Woods Reservation in Saugus. It is composed of two parts. The primary structure of the composition is two tall, tapering concrete walls that rise from beneath the ground. The walls curve through the landscape, disappearing and reappearing. Their character is a complement to the contours of the land. The secondary structure is a light wood and steel frame construction. This system supports the act of solitary landscape viewing by providing individual viewing lookouts in conjunction with a gallery space, a small library, and a small kitchen. The design is organized as a series of episodes along a continuous ramp. The interplay of the two construction systems is meant to evoke combined feelings of transience and persistence as well as the contrast that exists between the two types of landscape on either side of the walls.
by Wendy Ann Teas.
M.Arch.
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Haddad, Ma'in Kamal. "Jerash : the landscape, urban space, and architecture." FIU Digital Commons, 1995. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3969.
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The peculiarities of Roman architecture, town planning, and landscape architecture are visible in many of the empire's remaining cities. However, evaluation of the landscapes; and analysis of the urban fabric, spatial compositions, and the concepts and characteristics of its open spaces are missing for Jerash (Gerasa in antiquity) in Jordan. Those missing elements will be discussed in this work, as an example of an urban arrangement that survived through different civilizations in history.
To address the characteristics of the exterior spaces in Jerash, a study of the major concepts of planning in Classical Antiquity will be conducted, followed by a comparative analysis of the quality of space and architectural composition in Jerash. Through intensive investigation of data available for the area under study, the historical method used in this paper illustrates the uniqueness of the site's urban morphology and architectural disposition.
An analysis will be performed to compare the design composition of the landscape, urban fabric, and open space of Jerash as a provincial Roman city with its existing excavated remains. Such an analysis will provide new information about the role these factors and their relationships played in determining the design layout of the city. Information, such as the relationship between void and solid, space shaping, the ground and ceiling, the composition of city elements, the ancient landscapes, and the relationship between the land and architecture, will be acquired.
A computer simulation for a portion of the city will be developed to enable researchers, students and citizens interested in Jordan's past to visualize more clearly what the city looked like in its prime. Such a simulation could result in the revival of the old city of Jerash and help promote its tourism.
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SCHAPKER, ALLISON. "WASTELAND: DESIGNING THE UNSETTLED LANDSCAPE OF WASTE." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1053546215.
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So, Hang-yan Ada. "A temporary landscape recipe to reclaim Hong Kong's lost landscape opportunities /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B38293262.
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Thesis (M. L. A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2007.Title proper from title frame. Includes special report study entitled: From components of temporary structures to integration of vegetation. Also available in printed format.
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Kruger, Aimee Leah. "Ruin[ed] edge[iness] ruined landscape: Inverting and resurfacing the buried ruin with the scarred landscape." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28079.
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This dissertation focuses on the Voortrekker road strip between Salt River Circle and the Black river. It is bounded by the railway lines on the western side, and the Black River and M5 elevated freeway bridge on the eastern side of the strip. The Voortrekker road bridge over the railway line creates a blatant disconnected neighbourly association. The area is currently in a state of decay, plagued by abandoned buildings and crime. Within this focus area I have highlighted 3 key sites of interest, both for their location adjacent to defining natural and man made boundary elements, as well as their state of neglect and ruin or being underutilized. The urban strategy of this project will attempt to uplift and transform this abandoned area by stitching together the two edges of the strip with a pedestrian orientated, contrasting intervention, that inverts the existing ruin, creating a series of relief spaces within this harsh environment. The architectural intervention would address each ruin by inverting them into public space with individual responses and programs, incorporating predominantly a mixed use transport orientated development with housing and rentable spaces above and retail/ market on ground floor. All the sites will use the same technological and structural approach of a light adaptive socially performing structural frame that connects this disconnected, scarred context. The buried, dark and grungy social & material context is thus resurfaced through this light, uplifting, vertical transition. This architectural transition also carefully uses structure and tactility, with walls that grow out of the existing ruined landscape and protect the site. The social user then inhabits this structure and controls or changes their own space to suit their needs within this new vertical spatial framework.
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Powers, Matthew Neal. "Factors in Choosing Landscape Architecture as a Major: A National Student Survey." Thesis, [Blacksburg, Va. : University Libraries, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2000. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05162000-10330027.
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Frontiero, Wendy Ellen, and Margaret Emily Wohl. "Thresholds : landscape, city, and building edges." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73752.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1986.MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-159).
This thesis is a study of edges: the three-dimensional transitions between one kind of place or activity and another. We consider several scales of architecture where these transitions occur in an urban context, using the cities of Bath (England), Beijing (China), and Santa Monica (California) as the basis of discussion. Both verbal and graphic documentation describe our perceptions of the character of edges in those cities, as observed in the patterns of individual pieces and their inter-relationships. From these case studies, we derive generalizations for making edges clear, stimulating, and adaptable. Chapter One, the introduction, states our objectives and our criteria for selecting the study cities and areas of focus within them. It also describes our working method. Chapter Two considers landscape edges: the relatively Ratural spaces found both around the city, at the outer limits of development, and within the city, in the form of parks and public gardens. Chapter Three describes relationships at the city scale between one group of buildings and the next. It includes connections across streets and across urban places. Chapter Four looks at the area where outside space interfaces with the building interior. Fronts, backs, off-street courts. and top building edges are considered. Chapter Five summarizes and assimilates generalities derived from the study, and suggests what might be done next.
by Wendy Ellen Frontiero and Margaret Emily Wohl.
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Buelow, Deborah Ann. "Peripheral memory : New York's forgotten landscape." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59106.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2010."June 2010." Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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Hart Island, New York City's largest public burial ground, reveals an alternate history of the city through the lens of the interment of the abject. Historically, the state has provided for remains not otherwise cared for through what are commonly referred to as "potter's fields" - municipally owned burial grounds for the poor, the friendless, the alien, and the unknown. The location and lack of iconography act to erase the memories of so-called abject members of society rather than preserve them. New York City houses the country's largest of these municipal burial grounds on Hart Island, remotely situated away from the city. The management of these burials is left to the Department of Correction, which daily ships inmates from nearby Riker's Island to bury unknown members of society. Although since 1869 approximately three quarters of a million bodies have been interred there through the penal system, many of New York's inhabitants are not aware of its existence. A major contributing factor to the absence of public knowledge is the lack of information either about the phenomenon of the potter's field or about Hart Island itself. Reference to Hart Island today is limited to on-line curiosity blogs and op-ed columns in the daily newspapers, but even then references are infrequent. Yet the area of the island is equivalent to fifty New York City blocks - a large swath of land to be ignored in a dense urban context. This thesis addresses the landscape of Hart Island, which acts as a depository for identity shaped through memory. Urban landscapes reveal social and cultural biases in their physical characteristics. Identity is made evident through, or paradoxically denied by, these terrains. Hart Island exemplifies one such landscape of negated identity. By looking at the history of Hart Island and its physical relationship to the constructed city, this thesis uncovers socioeconomic disparities that manifest themselves even in death.
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Shin, Taeseop, and Stephan Hernandez. "Making kin : landscape, material and senses." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129849.
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Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, February, 2020Cataloged from student-submitted thesis.
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This project proposes a series of architecture and landscape interventions in the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Koreas. The Korean war divided Korea into North and South. It divided their territories, and in doing so it also divided many of its families. During the seventy years since the war, the number of survivors of these family separations has gradually decreased through natural mortality, with only about 16 percent of those aged 80 or younger remaining as witnesses. In the next decade the memories of family ties across the DMZ may be lost forever. Very recently, in April 2019, the governments of North and South Korea and the U.S. have agreed to implement a new protocol that aims to ease the tension by requiring both countries to destroy all military outposts across the DMZ, and finally allowing the public to visit several places within the DMZ for the first time. The project started with collecting memories of some of the survivors of the war, traveling west to east across the DMZ. Interviews were conducted with members of families separated by the DMZ, and collecting material samples along the DMZ based on their memories. This preliminary research revealed that the landscapes of the DMZ were still triggering memories of their pre-war lives, over 70 years ago. Geography, materials, and other experiential elements figured strongly in the survivors' narratives. This project proposes architectural design for four different sites along the DMZ that are intended to foster new, non-familial kinship across the DMZ and based on our survivors' memories related to the landscape, material and sensory experience.
by Taeseop Shin [and] Stephan Hernandez.
M. Arch.
M.Arch. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture
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von, Wiedersperg Carolina Sophie. "Kyoto art in nature habitat /." Thesis, Montana State University, 2009. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2009/von_wiedersperg/von_WiederspergC0509.pdf.
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The purpose of this thesis is to find architectural solutions which apply the theoretical findings centered around the biophilia hypothesis. The principles resulting from this investigation should help architecture to soften the separated conditions of the natural and the man-made environment. The application of these principles will then result in the design development of an Art in Nature Habitat in Kyoto, Japan.
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Kong, Tak-chun Andy, and 江德進. "Cultural landscape architecture Fanling Wai (Walled village)." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31980806.
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Albans, Alex J. "Site seeing : interpreting site in landscape architecture." Thesis, Birmingham City University, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.695363.
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In landscape architecture, sites are commonly portrayed as being the inspiration behind practitioners’ ideas; lending a sense of legitimacy to projects seeking to connect people and place, and strengthening local identity by ‘coming from the site’. In landscape design theory, a site’s history, genius loci (spirit of place) and its physical and cultural contexts are considered to be highly significant shapers of material form in contemporary landscape architecture. Furthermore, professional practice renders the site survey as an exercise in data-gathering and/or as searching for the site’s ‘je ne sais quoi’. Students are encouraged to conduct these investigations neutrally and objectively before any analysis or interpretation. Such conceptions appear to rob novice designers of the confidence in their own decisions because they presume the site must ‘tell’ them what to do. Primarily benefiting students and early-career practitioners, the thesis challenges established ways of understanding and working with sites, as revealed through the embedded knowledge and expertise of experienced designers. It is an investigation into the circumstances and motivations that shape how landscape architects interpret sites and make design decisions, applicable to education and career-development. A pilot study of 109 award-winning landscape schemes and twenty four in-depth interviews demonstrates how sites are interpreted in light of a complex web of factors and ideas, and not simply ‘known’ through surveys or consulting the genius loci. It shows that the ideas, experience and knowledge brought to each landscape project are key to a landscape architect’s creativity. The study also reveals that sites are interpreted collaboratively, and that stakeholders have very different ideas about sites, all of which can impact working relationships and design decisions. Communication and listening are found to be key factors in professional practice. This research acknowledges the professional importance of the genius loci but reframes it as a name for the process of interpretation and decision-making undertaken by practitioners, based on their skills, knowledge and experience.
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Wong, Ming Fai. "Enterprise architecture landscape in Singapore Government agencies." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/83810.
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Thesis (S.M. in Engineering and Management)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, 2013.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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This paper reports results of a study done to understand the Enterprise Architecture (EA) landscape in Singapore Government Agencies, to gather some best practices in doing EA in these agencies, and to postulate how the Singapore Government might get more value out of EA. Firstly, this paper reviews the EA field on why EA is important and what are some key challenges EA practitioners face. Secondly, this paper reviews and analyzes data from a EA survey of 18 Singapore Government Agencies. The analysis is done by comparing against data from a similar survey collected from over 100 organizations worldwide. In addition, the analysis also draws upon EA research done by MIT's Center for Information System Research. Thirdly, this paper reviews best practices and a case study collected from a subset of the studied Singapore Government Agencies. This paper concludes by rounding up the key findings and hypothesizing that there is a need for stronger inhouse design/architecting capabilities within the Singapore Government.
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Kulkarni, Nitin Y. "Application of expert systems in landscape architecture." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/43899.
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Application of artificial intelligence (Al) has been a topic of interest among researchers for the past decade or more. Years of research in the commercial application of Al, availability of hardware support for Al application and affordability of software and hardware has generated a lot of interest in this field and brought this technology within the reach of micro-computer based users. The commercial impact of AI is due to expert systems (ESs). ES technology is a collection of methods and techniques for constructing human-machine systems with specialized problem solving expertise.
This project explores the application of ESs in landscape architecture by developing a prototype ES and testing implications of its use with designers while working on a hypothetical problem in a studio environment. The development process helps identify the typical difficulties of such an application, to uncover technical problems, and to identify areas needing further research.
The project aims at building an ES that provides very limited preliminary data and design guidelines to initialize the design process and keeps track of the most fundamental issues necessary for planning, thus acting as an expert and assistant simultaneously. The idea is to explore the possibility of applying ESs to facilitate the design process so that designers may concentrate on other important aspects of design which include intuitive judgement about qualitative aspects.
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Lidy, Christopher James. "A Study of Landscape Architecture Design Methods." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31461.
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How do different methods employed by landscape architects impact the design outcome? This paper identifies and defines design methods in landscape architecture that may be classified as part of four internal and external connections and structures categories. Methods are further examined through two design exercises. In the first design exercise, the identified methods are individually applied to the same simple design which is used as a control. The only variable changed is the method used to design. The resulting designs are shown and analyzed. In the second design exercise, three different methods are applied to a complex design. Similar to the first design exercise, all variables are held constant except for the design methods. The resulting design outcomes are shown and analyzed. One conclusion from this work recommends landscape architecture designers use at least one method in each of four categories: 1) Modeling Systems, 2) Interrelationship and Dependencies, 3) Incorporation and Adadaption, and 4) Structure Problems in order to explore complex design issues more thoroughly.Master of Landscape Architecture
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Essig, Brian F. "Constructing the western landscape national park architecture." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/8328.
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Thesis (M.Arch.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2008.Thesis research directed by: School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Architecture. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Kong, Tak-chun Andy. "Cultural landscape architecture Fanling Wai (Walled village)." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25951038.
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