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Legnér, Mattias. "Perceptions of the Built Environment in Stockholm, c. 1750-1800." Högskolan på Gotland, Institutionen för kultur, energi och miljö, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hgo:diva-827.
Full textBraden, April. "Urban Suburb: How The Built Environment Influences Class Identity." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1605112902730577.
Full textGraves, Lauren Catherine. "NAVIGATING THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT: READING BERENICE ABBOTT’S CHANGING NEW YORK." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2016. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/397656.
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My thesis seeks to broaden the framework of conversation surrounding Berenice Abbott’s Changing New York. Much scholarship regarding Changing New York has focused on the individual photographs, examined and analyzed as independent of the meticulously arranged whole. My thesis considers the complete photo book, and how the curated pages work together to create a sort of guide of the city. Also, it has been continually noted that Abbott was a member of many artistic circles in New York City in the early 1930s, but little has been written analyzing how these relationships affected her artistic eye. Building on the scholarship of art historian Terri Weissman, my thesis contextualizes Abbott’s working environment to demonstrate how Abbott’s particular adherence to documentary photography allowed her to transcribe the urban metamorphosis. Turning to the scholarship of Peter Barr, I expand on his ideas regarding Abbott’s artistic relationship to the architectural and urban planning theories of Lewis Mumford and Henry-Russell Hitchcock. Abbott appropriated both Mumford and Hitchcock’s theories on the linear trajectory of architecture, selecting and composing her imagery to fashion for the viewer a decipherable sense of the built city. Within my thesis I sought to link contemporary ideas of the after-image proposed by Juan Ramon Resina to Abbott’s chronicling project. By using this framework I hope to show how Abbott’s photographs are still relevant to understanding the ever-changing New York City.
Temple University--Theses
Steinert, Anne Delano. "Standing Right Here: The Built Environment as a Tool for Historical Inquiry." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1613686270648078.
Full textAugustyn-Clark, Jayson. "Between memory and history: the restoration of Tulbagh as cultural signifier." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25261.
Full textSipley, Tristan Hardy 1980. "Second nature: Literature, capital and the built environment, 1848--1938." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10911.
Full textThis dissertation examines transatlantic, and especially American, literary responses to urban and industrial change from the 1840s through the 1930s. It combines cultural materialist theory with environmental history in order to investigate the interrelationship of literature, economy, and biophysical systems. In lieu of a traditional ecocritical focus on wilderness preservation and the accompanying literary mode of nature writing, I bring attention to reforms of the "built environment" and to the related category of social problem fiction, including narratives of documentary realism, urban naturalism, and politically-oriented utopianism. The novels and short stories of Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, Rebecca Harding Davis, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and Mike Gold offer an alternative history of environmental writing, one that foregrounds the interaction between nature and labor. Through a strategy of "literal reading" I connect the representation of particular environments in the work of these authors to the historical situation of actual spaces, including the western Massachusetts forest of Melville's "Tartarus of Maids," the Virginia factory town of Davis's Iron Mills, the Midwestern hinterland of Sinclair's The Jungle, and the New York City ghetto of Gold's Jews without Money. Even as these texts foreground the class basis of environmental hazard, they simultaneously display an ambivalence toward the physical world, wavering between pastoral celebrations and gothic vilifications of nature, and condemning ecological destruction even as they naturalize the very socio-economic forces responsible for such calamity. Following Raymond Williams, I argue that these contradictory treatments of nature have a basis in the historical relationship between capitalist society and the material world. Fiction struggles to contain or resolve its implication in the very culture that destroys the land base it celebrates. Thus, the formal fissures and the anxious eruptions of nature in fiction relate dialectically to the contradictory position of the ecosystem itself within the regime of industrial capital. However, for all of this ambivalence, transatlantic social reform fiction of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century provides a model for an environmentally-oriented critical realist aesthetic, an aesthetic that retains suspicion toward representational transparency, and yet simultaneously asserts the didactic, ethical, and political functions of literature.
Committee in charge: William Rossi, Chairperson, English; Henry Wonham, Member, English; Enrique Lima, Member, English; Louise Westling, Member, English; John Foster, Outside Member, Sociology
Williams, Nicholas Philip. "Carbon management and the historic built environment in Wales." Thesis, Bangor University, 2016. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/carbon-management-and-the-historic-built-environment-in-wales(be4a871f-cf60-432a-99f0-1df60da0cb23).html.
Full textCarlson, Heidi Julia. "The built environment and material culture of Ireland in the 1641 Depositions, 1600-1654." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/269316.
Full textAl-Nakib, Farah. "Kuwait City : urbanisation, the built environment and the urban experience before and after oil (1716-1986)." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.655743.
Full textFerriss, Lori (Lori E. ). "Environmental and cultural sustainability In the built environment : an evaluation of LEED for historic preservation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61550.
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Preservation of buildings is an important process for both cultural and environmental sustainability. Buildings are frequently demolished and rebuilt long before necessitated by structural or material deterioration, wasting both materials and energy. Preservation can be seen as the ultimate form of recycling; it allows existing buildings to be updated and retrofitted for continued use, optimizing the longevity of the structure while protecting its cultural significance. Currently, there is a lack of motivation and regulation for choosing preservation over new construction. The LEED guidelines give only a small number of points for building reuse, and frequently historic restrictions interfere with measures that would produce the same types of energy savings seen in new construction. This project will use several case studies, including the preservation of Pier A in New York City's Battery Park, as examples of contemporary restoration projects that have received or are anticipating LEED ratings. I will look at these projects in the context of current LEED guidelines and proposed future revisions to investigate how the LEED system addresses issues regarding preservation, and how they could be improved to encourage more sustainable renovation practices.
by Lori Ferriss.
M.Eng.
Alho, Carlos Alberto de Assuncao. "Authenticity criteria for the conservation of historic places." Thesis, University of Salford, 2000. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/26519/.
Full textLow, Sui Pheng. "Strategic development of the built environment through international construction, quality and productivity management." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2012. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3614/.
Full textWhitney, Marilyn Corson. "A History of the Professionalization of Interior Design: Viewed Through Three Case Studies of the Process of Licensure." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29412.
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Kardas, Aysegul. "Transformation Of The Ottoman Built Environment In The Nineteenth Century In Anatolia: The Case Of Tokat." Master's thesis, METU, 2011. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613743/index.pdf.
Full textElsmore, Ian Douglas. "Configuring conservation : an actor-network theory approach to studying the historic built environment." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2008. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/6130/.
Full textUsher, R. "Constructing Irishness : nationalism, archaeology and the historic built environment in an independent state." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 2014. http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/116/.
Full textScurr, Michael John. "Contemporary interventions in historic fabric: context and authenticity in the work of Gabriel Fagan." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11229.
Full textSimon, Jesse. "Images of the built landscape in the later Roman world." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e86a09f5-a1da-4ac0-8051-ba7fca36c16e.
Full textPhilip, Loudine. "The historic built environment and a sense of place : Jagersfontein : a mining town in the Free State , South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13163.
Full textThe primary purpose of this study is to determine the degree to which the historic built environment plays a role in the establishment of a Sense of Place in the South African context with its diverse population and complex political history. The underlying rationale for this focus is that a strong connection between a Sense of Place and the historic built environment has the potential to translate to a strong motivation for its preservation. The focus in this research is on a single case, a historic diamond mining town in the Free State Province of South Africa, dating to 1869, with a rich and diverse history. The research was conducted employing a multi-paradigmatic approach grounded in Phenomenology and Psychometrics.
Chatzoglou, Afroditi. "Heritage and the built environment : the case study of the living historic city of Athens, Greece." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.708707.
Full textStergiou, Stavroula. "The concept of the avant-garde in twentieth and twenty-first century architecture : history, theory, criticism." Thesis, Kingston University, 2014. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/32215/.
Full textEl-Gowhary, Hatem Yousry. "Culture, behaviour and urban open space : a study of environmental behaviour in residential areas, with special refrence to Alexandria, Egypt." Thesis, Kingston University, 2005. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/20218/.
Full textFisher, Fiona Elizabeth. "In public, in private : design and modernisation in the London public house, 1872-1902." Thesis, Kingston University, 2007. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/20220/.
Full textIoannidou, Ersi. "The (Existez-) minimum dwelling." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.441258.
Full textBodin, Anders. "Helgo Zettervalls arkitektur." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Arkitekturens historia och teori, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-206814.
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Ahmad, Tauseef. "A study of changes occuring in valuable aspects of the built environment of the core areas of historic settlements in Pakistan." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.245541.
Full textWheaton, Pat. "High style and society : class, taste and modernity in British interwar decorating." Thesis, Kingston University, 2011. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/24563/.
Full textLiu, Jinyi. "Zhang Yuan (1885-1919): Constructing a Public Garden in Cosmopolitan Shanghai." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1493889997657783.
Full textMoreno, Christopher. "A Case for Building Conservation in a Modern Society: Bear Down Gym." The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/584145.
Full textIncreasing demand for new construction has made the building sector responsible for approximately 43 percent of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the United States. Building conservation, an intervention strategy that refurbishes an existing building without compromising its architectural integrity, is a response to the population’s current infatuation with the new and now that has desensitized modern culture to the past, while surfacing one’s responsibilities to future generations. The focus of this study will be on the University of Arizona’s Bear Down Gym. Through a historical and architectural evaluation, this report makes a case for the rehabilitation of Bear Down Gym in respect to the Secretary of Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation.
Harris, Houston. "Connecting Communities: Comparison of sidewalk characteristics and connectivity in existing Tucson neighborhoods." The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/608639.
Full textSidewalk fragmentation in Tucson is the result of City Code Ordinance 25-12 that places the responsibility of sidewalk installation and maintenance on property owner. However, with an average household income 27% below the national average and 25% of Tucson residents living below poverty level sidewalk fragmentation has become a pedestrian safety concern. By using Google Earth to measure the percentage of paved, unpaved and not present sidewalks in four historic communities in central Tucson; this study found a directly proportional relationship between the length of time the neighborhood has been listed as a historic community and the percentage of paved sidewalks within the neighborhood.
L'Official, Pete Thomas. "Urban Legends: The South Bronx in Representation and Ruin." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:13065024.
Full textRosa, Brian. "Beneath the arches : re-appropriating the spaces of infrastructure in Manchester." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2014. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/beneath-the-arches-reappropriating-the-spaces-of-infrastructure-in-manchester(333f6f40-4f4f-4689-ab2f-0019fff88ede).html.
Full textWest, Shaun Eric. "Investigating Early Village Community Formation and Development at Kolomoki (9ER1)." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6602.
Full textAdair, Matthew Bailey. "Suburbanization of the City: An examination of the built environment characteristics and social life of German Village, a historic urban neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492702928076232.
Full textTate, Alan. "Typology and built environment." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.556064.
Full textBowring, Jacky. "Institutionalising the picturesque: the discourse of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects." Lincoln University, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10182/667.
Full textWeeks, Eric C. "Memory and Meaning: Constructed Commemoration in a Nation's Capital City." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1353549838.
Full textHampton, Paul. "Influencing the undergraduate built environment curricula through stakeholder understandings of built environment employability skills." Thesis, Middlesex University, 2016. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/21270/.
Full textWang, Qi. "Towards the built environment linguistics." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2008. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/10508/.
Full textCorominas, Vivian Valverde. "Os desafios para proteção do patrimônio histórico edificado no Brasil: estudo de caso do programa 'alegra centro 'em Santos/SP." Universidade Católica de Santos, 2017. http://biblioteca.unisantos.br:8181/handle/tede/4121.
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This thesis tried to analyze the challenges for the protection of historical heritage built in Brazil taking into account the Program of revitalization of the central area of the Municipality of Santos/SP, called ¿Alegra Centro¿. The objective was to demystify the negative conception that institute called in Brazil as ¿tombamento¿ as gained over the years. For this approached the evolution of the concept of property right until to the social function of the city. In this sense, it was demonstrated that the architectural heritage is inserted in the Artificial Environment deserving an environmental protection, emphasizing that there are no people without identity. Therefore a protection of cultural heritage built aims to guarantee the dignity of the human person. Under the focus of International Law, the thesis succinctly addresses some of the International Conventions that protect cultural heritage, as well as the evolution of the concept of protection of monuments to the protection of urban sets through the analysis of Heritage Letters. At the national level, was studied the Law n. 25, of 1937, which deals with the protection of cultural heritage in the country, creating the institute of ¿tombamento¿. Thus was analyzed the jurisprudential of the main discussions involving the theme. In the analysis of the case study, the question of the revitalization of the central area of Santos / SP was investigated in order to determine if the incentives provided by the legislation were sufficient to promote the intended transformation, as well as whether the gentrification process was carried out. It was also treated the possibility of coexistence between the right to housing and the right to culture or whether in the collision of these rights, one prevails over the other. In order to reach the proposed objectives, the deductive method was used, through a general analysis of the legislation to protect the historical heritage, as well as the case study, using the bibliographic resources to confirm or refute the premises launched in this qualitative research.
A dissertação em questão visou analisar os desafios para a proteção do patrimônio histórico edificado no Brasil, levando-se em consideração o Programa de revitalização da área central do Município de Santos/SP, denominado ¿Alegra Centro¿. Objetivou-se desmistificar a concepção negativa que o instituto do tombamento ganhou ao longo dos anos. Para tanto, abordou-se desde a evolução do conceito de direito de propriedade até a função social da cidade. Demonstrou-se que o patrimônio arquitetônico está inserido no Meio Ambiente Artificial, merecendo a tutela ambiental, ressaltando que não existe povo sem identidade de modo que a proteção do patrimônio cultural edificado visa garantir a dignidade da pessoa humana. Sob o foco do Direito Internacional, o trabalho abordou sucintamente alguns Pactos Internacionais que tutelam o patrimônio cultural, assim como a evolução do conceito de proteção dos monumentos para proteção dos conjuntos urbanos, por meio da análise das Cartas Patrimoniais. No âmbito nacional, estudou-se o Decreto-Lei n. 25, de 1937, que trata da tutela do patrimônio cultural no País, criando o instituto do tombamento. Assim, procedeu-se à análise jurisprudencial das principais discussões envolvendo o tema. Na análise do estudo de caso, foi abordada a questão da revitalização da área central de Santos/SP no sentido de apurar se os incentivos constantes da legislação foram suficientes para promoção da transformação pretendida, bem como se houve o processo de gentrificação. Abordou-se ainda a possibilidade ou não de coexistência entre o direito à moradia e o direito à cultura. Para alcançar os objetivos propostos, utilizou-se do método dedutivo, por meio de análise geral da legislação de proteção do patrimônio histórico edificado, bem como do estudo de caso, utilizando-se ainda os recursos bibliográficos para confirmar ou refutar as premissas lançadas nesta pesquisa qualitativa.
Langdon, Paul. "Built environment education : a curriculum paradigm." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=40377.
Full textThere is a fundamental need for more comprehensive curriculum planning in built environment education. The goal of this research is to develop a curriculum paradigm that can be used to create curriculum plans and instructional designs for built environment education as part of the art class in secondary schools.
The built environment content of this curriculum paradigm is based on the active investigation of the students' internal world with all its different perceptions and lived experience and how this affects their understanding of the greater built environment. Through a more intense investigation of the greater built environment, the students will then analyze the effect that this environment has on their own perceptions and living habits. By developing a more conscious understanding of the built environment, the students will be better equipped to make informed decisions on how to better adapt to or change their environment.
A guiding principle for the curriculum paradigm was to ensure that the introduction of a new subject area, such as built environment education, into art education curriculum involved processes of creativity and discovery along with self-reflective and participatory action for both the teacher and students. To be effective, the content material must not only be accessible through the traditional modes of academic literature research but also made valid through observation, reflection and interaction with the particular built environment of the teacher and students themselves.
Vigilance and active participation in the process of urban change are vital. These changes can only be effective and enduring if we acknowledge the capacity of the built environment to enrich our lives as private and communal beings.
One of the essential goals of this curriculum paradigm is to capture the excitement and potential that the built environment offers as a pervasive agent for understanding and celebrating constructed past, present and future.
Norberg, Peter. "Microclimate measurements in the built environment." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Built Environment, 1998. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-2717.
Full textSurface moisture plays an important role in thedeterioration of building surfaces. The extent and duration ofsurface moisture is generally impossible to predictfrommeteorological data and consequently direct measurement ofthis quantity is essential,e.g. using the WETCORR method. Thismethod has been developed in Scandinaviaduring the past 25years. From the beginning it was intended for measurementsofinstantaneous atmospheric corrosion rates and TOW (time ofwetness) using corrodingelectrolytic cells. Over the past 15years the method has been extended tomeasurements of surfacemoisture and TOW on building materials in general. To thatend amodified measuring concept has gradually been developed,including an inertelectrolytic cell with electrodes of gold(Au). More recently, the method has also been applied tomeasurements of moisture content (MC) in various materialsusingmodifications of the traditional pin-type electrodes.
This thesis summarises various measurement projects thathave involved theWETCORR method during the past 10 years. Someprojects are entirely focused on the method as such, some aremore concerned with the interaction between themoisture sensorand the environment. In some cases attempts are made tocorrelate TOW with corrosion.
The limitations of the ISO 9223 standard for estimating TOW(RH>80%, T>0°C) isclearly illustrated. Theshortcomings of the ISO standard become evident in climateswith sub-zero temperatures, in environments with significantdeposition of pollutantsand salt, and in situations where theexchange of radiation between building surfaces and thesurrounding environment creates large temperature differenceswhich in turnmay either promote or inhibit condensation.
A generalised definition of TOW based on the conductivity ofthe surface electrolyterather than the thickness of themoisture film is proposed. The modified TOW is called time ofconduction or time of corrosion, (TOC). Strict measurement ofTOC requiresthe use of an inert electrolytic sensor andexcitation by AC or pulsed DC withreversing of the polarity.This is different from the present WETCORR technique.Theadoption of the TOC concept opens up the possibility ofdividing time into "wet" and"dry" periods. This is believed tofacilitate for the development of dose-responsefunctions basedon the real physical/chemical processes occurring on materialsurfacesrather than on a parametric approach.
The WETCORR technique has proven to be very useful also formeasurements of MCin wood, a measurement concept called INWOOD.The general principles andtheoretical considerations for woodmoisture measurements are reviewed, includingthe derivation ofsemi-empirical relationships describing the dependence ofresistivity on MC, temperature and dry density of wood. Thesame technique should be possible to use with almost any porousbuilding material.
Ünal, Burak. "Sustainable Development of Istanbul Built Environment." Thesis, KTH, Fastigheter och byggande, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-147658.
Full textIial-Awad, Ahmad Salmeh. "Stratified flow in the built environment." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/14350.
Full textSherman, Sandra Anne. "Healing effects of the built environment." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3321036.
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Nuño, Manuel. "Photocatalytic coatings in the built environment." Thesis, University of Bath, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.687320.
Full textRahman, Suraiyati. "Heritage tourism and the built environment." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2012. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3350/.
Full textMcIntosh, Simon Charles. "Wind energy for the built environment." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2009. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/252153.
Full textDunbar, Susan C. "Built to last : designing for a referential continuity in the built environment." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65675.
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This thesis is about exploring a way of understanding, designing and building architecture which acknowledges that we are a part of a world which is always changing and becoming, without denying or forgetting the past, and still fulfilling the needs and potentials of the present. It is about continuing the collective understanding of how we relate to an evolving built environment. Current trends in commercial architecture tend to build neutral spaces which are then sold as a commodity to be filled with whatever use the consumer desires, rather than building for specific needs as they are required. This has contributed to a lack of definition in the cumulative built environment which has reduced the information available as a reference for evaluating and interpreting one's surroundings in ways which enrich and further its potential use. What I am proposing to explore are some issues of design that respond to a specific site, which will be able to meet the long-term concerns of growth and/or change in use and technology, while providing a referential continuity; a continuity in the understanding of how a building and its surroundings have evolved. As change is an inevitable fact of existence, designing with that as a goal is redundant and leads only to an undefined, passive building as opposed to a more specific definition which positively influences how it is inhabited. The analysis of existing buildings which have been renovated generates some basic principles about the qualities which seem to endow a structure with the capacity to be reinterpreted without losing its initial character in the existing environment. These principles will then be applied to the design of a new building as an illustration of how buildings which are not designed for the possibility of multiple inhabitations over time, need not be neutral in their organization, but may actually contribute substantially to their surroundings and their interpretation.
by Susan C. Dunbar.
M.Arch.
Barnaby, Alice. "Light touches : cultural practices of illumination, London 1780-1840." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/3037.
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