Dissertations / Theses: 'New York Singer Building'

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Cubol, Eliseo Magsambol. "Building Urban Resilience in New York City." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1628516458046903.

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Fenske, Gail. "The "Skyscraper problem" and the city beautiful : the Woolworth Building." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/14037.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1988.
Includes bibliographical references.
The "skyscraper problem" challenged the thought and practice of civic designers and architects prior to World War I. It referred to the incompatibility of City Beautiful principles with economically propelled land development, and to the contradiction between the notion of architecture as an art and the skyscraper's programmatic and technical requirements. Civic designers in New York had difficulty accommodating the skyscraper in their large-scale plans. They also found that it intruded on their vision for the business street, hindered their attempts to plan City Hall Park as New York's civic center, and created a chaotic skyline. Bruce Price, Louis Sullivan, Thomas Hastings, Cyrus L.W. Eidlitz, and other architects suggested alternative proposals for subjecting the skyscraper to the constraints of design . Prior to the design of the Woolworth Building, however, architectural critics did not unanimously endorse any single approach. Frank Woolworth chose a site for his proposed headquarters at the intersection of City Hall Park, New York's civic center, with lower Broadway, the spine of its business district . Woolworth commissioned Cass Gilbert to design the Woolworth Building in 1910. Gilbert shared the City Beautiful vision of McKim, Mead & White and Daniel Burnham. He also accepted the skyscraper's pragmatic requirements. Woolworth intended his headquarters to function as a speculative office building, but also to look like a civic institution. The imagery of a civic institution would represent the capitol of his commercial "empire" as well as display his civic-mindedness, wealth, and cosmopolitanism. The Woolworth Building's siting at New York's civic center, its composition, its arcade, and its sculptural and mural decoration identified it with the prevailing concept of the civic building. The soaring vertical piers of its exterior recalled Gilbert's earlier design for the West Street Building, which was influenced by the functionalist ideas of Louis Sullivan. The Woolworth Building convinced critics that a suitable architectural expression could be found for the skyscraper. Zoning reformers regarded it as a benign skyscraper. Contemporary observers attuned to City Beautiful aesthetic principles thought that the Woolworth Building strengthened the order and image of New York's civic center and enhanced the view of the city from afar.
by Gail Fenske.
Ph.D.

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Gogan, Paul Clark. "The architecture and planning of a tall building." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53319.

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Nalin, Emma R. "Building Relationships between a Free Clinic and Its Donors." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1404598/.

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This thesis presents qualitative research conducted in summer 2017 at the Finger Lakes Free Clinic, which provides free medical and holistic care to people without insurance in upstate New York. The primary goal of this research was to strengthen the relationship between a free clinic and its donors by gathering donor concerns and perceptions regarding federal healthcare policy. Data from 32 interviews with donors, staff, board members, and volunteers, along with 100 hours of participant observation revealed that donors to this clinic were concerned about the potential impact of Congressional healthcare reform yet did not consider federal policy a strong influence on their donations. Rather, donors cited dedication to local giving and personal connections with the clinic as their primary motivations. These motivations suggest the value of viewing the clinic-donor relationship as a relationship of reciprocity. From this framework, the research identifies opportunities for the clinic to reciprocate donor generosity while expanding services in response to a growing need. Insights from the research will guide the clinic's response to federal policy changes and support the clinic's vision of becoming a national model for integrative care.

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Glynn, Thomas Peter. "Books in the public sphere New York libraries and the culture-building enterprise, 1754-1904 /." Auburn, Ala., 2005. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2005%20Summer/doctoral/GLYNN_THOMAS_49.pdf.

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Calhoun, Marie Elizabeth. "Path and Place." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53059.

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“Path and Place” is the design of an ‘infill’ building, primarily residential, on a vacant site in New York City. The central concern was an attempt to satisfy the elusive criteria for a home as a special place. Secondarily, it was important enhance the community with a lively place. Emphasis was placed on access to outdoor areas such as the courtyards, roof gardens, and balconies. ln these areas. it is possible to have a range of interaction among residents and neighbors. One may be an observer of the public scene, or a participant in a shared garden, or a shopper in a public market. The scale of the project is compatible with mid-rise apartment buildings surrounding the site. The structure reflects that it is built over a railroad cut which runs at an angle to the street grid. Construction is of repetitive pre-cast concrete load-bearing walls and concrete slab floors. Double-thick walls are used not only to carry utilities, but to separate one residential unit from another both physically and symbolically. There are 56 apartments varying in size from studio to large work/live units. The ground floor areas contain shops, a restaurant and a retail greenhouse. A second building is planned for the adjacent vacant site, to function as a research facility for urban agriculture. Both buildings contain courtyards—the residential one open and the research facility’s covered—which encourage pedestrian circulation from one main street to another. The roofs are used as gardens for the residents and the research facility.
Master of Architecture

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Coulter, Andi. "Urban Circuitry| Community Building through Noise in Downtown New York City 1973-1981." Thesis, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10930761.

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Since the release of Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain over twenty years ago there has been a veritable boon of musical oral histories. It seems that no major city nor music movement can be verified without this poly-vocal description of their past. These stories told by the people who lived them offer a useful compendium to both academic scholarship and music journalism which have previously shaped the narrative of rock history. However, absent in many of these historical accounts is a consideration of both audience reception and the sound itself.

Conversely, musicological histories focus their studies on music as central object; one impervious to social factors. In this dissertation I want to unshackle both music as static composition as well as the unilateral directionality of sound to audience. That music, specifically noise, is not a concretized reverberation but instead a transmittable force or energy. I look at how audiences and the bands themselves shape and are shaped by music’s affective charge allowing the experience of live music to become a collaboration that opens up new possibilities for selfhood and relationality. Beginning with the affective quality of noise in Suicide in the early 1970s, there is an examination about how live noise creates communal intimacy. The history of this philosophy of noise is then traces through the No Wave scene in the late 1970s through the mutant disco movement of the 1980s. These band’s atonality is in fact a polytonality in their music reflecting the polytonality of their community. Finally, this dissertation extends No Wave’s history from one characterized as a niche and nihilistic musical footnote to one that speaks to a collective intimacy dependent on live performance and space. The import of the No Wave bands is not found in the noisy sound of future disciples of dissonance, but instead in the cross-pollinated club scene in downtown New York City in the 1980s.

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Huang, Chu-Jun Debbie 1969. "Art, entertainment and commodities : eroded boundaries in a mixed-use building in SoHo, New York." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67514.

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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1998.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-74).
SoHo, in New York City, is a neighborhood with an intense mixture of diverse activities. However, its character is changing as more shops are moving in and forcing existing galleries out of their street level spaces or out of the neighborhood altogether. This project proposes a mixed-use building on an infill site in SoHo that condenses a mix of programs currently dispersed throughout the neighborhood and puts them into a single building. By integrating these diverse programs into a single design, the project confronts contemporary questions about the distinctions between art, entertainment and commodity. Within the thesis, unified modes of display, programmatic and spatial overlaps, and visual sequences are the means of architecturally eroding these boundaries.
by Chu-Jun Huang.
M.Arch.

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Radusinovic, Nemanja. "Building as a metaphor for a gateway : what determines its success?" Virtual Press, 1999. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1154777.

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As the research part of my thesis work, I had the opportunity to be involved in the Manhattan Ferry Terminal design undertaken by the New York City firm Schwartz Architects. Being a gateway to Manhattan, the Whitehall Ferry Terminal's psychological impact consists of elements that invoke a notion of arrival in people. An analysis of historical gateway examples from Ancient to Modern times shows their similarity with the architectural symbols used in the design. Those macro symbols of the gate are the metaphors of Edge, Destination, Gathering, Information, Flow and Lights. The analysis of macro elements led to a discovery of the micro architectural factors used in the smaller scale of the Ferry Terminal design. The analysis has provided several conclusions:1. In the design process, the architect uses a knowledge-base to choose architecturalelements that will support the symbolic message of a structure built on a specific site. 2. The number of these elements is infinite and the architect uses his or her experienceto choose the most appropriate elements that will support the intended message.3. Both overall and detailed analyses in the design process are oriented to produce thedesired impression of gateway.4. Comparison of historical examples and elements used in Whitehall Ferry Terminal design shows that impressions created by architecture are constant throughout history and always executed using contemporary technology.
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Segerström, Rebecka. "Building a Water-Energy Nexus Modelling Tool for New York City : Development of a NYC WaterMARKAL model." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Globala energisystem, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-163114.

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Increasing demands for energy and water from a growing urban population challenges resource availability and infrastructure capacity in cities worldwide. Planning for infrastructure systems development to meet growing demands has traditionally been done separately, not regarding that these systems are in many aspects interlinked. New York City has well developed systems for supplying these basic needs, but they are among the oldest in the country and may not suffice the needs of a growing population. Meanwhile, ambitious city-planning documents recognize opportunities for holistic planning focused on resource efficiency and long-term sustainability. This thesis aims to develop a foundation for quantitative modelling of how water and energy consumption may be affected by political decisions in New York City. The MARKAL (MARKet ALlocation) framework, commonly used to model long-term energy systems developments, is expanded to include the NYC’s water system. Relevant water system technologies are quantified with economic parameters, energy input and greenhouse gas emissions to give an as realistic as possible description of the entire water system. When combined with the existing MARKAL-model over NYC's energy system, the test runs of the model clearly shows impacts on energy consumption from water system regulations. These preliminary results are not applicable to support urban policy-making at this stage. However, with further development of the model as well as improvements in data quality it is perceived that this integrated water-energy model has the potential to become a powerful decision support tool for joint planning of water and energy systems developments in New York City. This Master thesis has been conducted in collaboration with the Energy Policy and Technology Analysis Group of the Sustainable Energy Technologies Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory, U.S.A.

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Heneghan, Jessie L. (Jessie Lee). "Building resiliency or holding off the inevitable? climate adaptation on a dense barrier island in New York." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111384.

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Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2017.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 68-70).
Finishing the hottest year on record, which happens to be the third hottest year in a row, climate change at this point is indisputable. The need to adapt to a changing climate has become increasingly apparent in low-lying coastal towns and cities as the impacts from climate change including more frequent and powerful storms and rising sea levels intensify. The question of how small, dense, and highly vulnerable coastal communities stay in place, adapt, and build resiliency remains for the most part unanswered. This paper aims to shed light on this topic by employing a mixed method research design incorporating qualitative and observational methods in the analysis of climate adaptation planning on the barrier island of Long Beach, NY five years after Hurricane Sandy left the island devastated. Relying on theories of ecological resiliency that call to mind a 'safe-to-fail' approach rather than engineering resiliency's 'fail-safe' mentality, I look at climate adaptation plans and projects on the barrier island through the conceptual framework of creating systems that anticipate and strategically design for failure through redundancy of functions, connectivity, multifunctionality, adaptive planning, and bio and social diversity. I found that several challenges and obstacles stand in the way of achieving resiliency for the barrier island, including funding gaps, strict permitting processes, entrenched 'home rule', lack of coordination regionally, environmental justice and equity concerns, and the design of resource allocation, among others. Resiliency planning in this context of separate, 'one-off' small adaptation projects within strict municipality boundaries, delayed by permitting and funding issues, can be seen as 'too little, too late'. However, based on my analysis, I make recommendations for a regional approach to resiliency, whereby the various governing bodies of the island together devise a plan for the entire island as one landmass and natural ecology. This new regional entity would be in a position to consider a plan for strategic retreat of those most vulnerable socioeconomically from the places most susceptible to storm surge and sea level rise to safer ground within the same island, as well as to pursue other feasible approaches to creating resiliency for the barrier island of Long Beach.
by Jessie L. Heneghan.
M.C.P.

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BARIOGLIO, CATERINA. "America on an Avenue. Visioni urbane e strategie immobiliari sulla Sixth Avenue a New York (1940-1965)." Doctoral thesis, Politecnico di Torino, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11583/2652277.

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Nello studio delle trasformazioni architettoniche e urbane che incidono sul tessuto di Manhattan nel corso del Novecento, la Avenue offre una dimensione privilegiata per indagare il ruolo di tali processi nel riorganizzare gerarchie, ridefinire rapporti, e redistribuire valori – non solo economici - tra le maglie della griglia. Il presente lavoro di tesi si propone di ricostruire la storia e riflettere sulle dinamiche di trasformazione di un settore urbano nel cuore del Central Business District di Midtown, che comprende isolati e architetture con diretto affaccio su un'asse: la Sixth Avenue. Definita da Robert Stern come la strada più rappresentativa dell'urbanistica moderna in territorio americano, la Sesta, in particolare il tratto nord che attraversa Midtown, compreso tra 40th e 59th strada su cui si concentra la tesi, è una antologia che raccoglie immaginari e piani urbani, molti dei quali rimasti sulla carta, elaborati in continuità con un dibattito erede del New Deal e degli anni di guerra, e progetti di speculative skyscrapers, costruiti come estensione del distretto commerciale negli anni del boom. Concentrandosi sul periodo compreso tra gli anni Quaranta fino ai primi anni Sessanta, il caso studio della Sixth Avenue permette di indagare la confluenza di politiche, capitali e pianificazione urbana, tra gli anni di guerra e i primi anni della Guerra Fredda, con uno sguardo rivolto agli interessi immobiliari nell'area di Midtown e alla complessa rete di soggetti pubblici, semi-pubblici e privati che prende parte ai processi decisionali nella produzione dello spazio urbano. L'arco temporale adottato nella tesi riflette quindi una scelta di carattere interpretativo, che ha come primo obiettivo l'esplorazione di continuità e discontinuità tra gli anni successivi al New Deal e il periodo postbellico, attraverso la lettura di immaginari, piani e cantieri che intervengono nella progettazione della città alla scala urbana. Nel lavoro di tesi si pone una speciale attenzione alle resistenze e ai cambiamenti di valori e di contenuti nel dibattito intorno alla trasformazione della Avenue, abbracciando una tesi storiografica che interpreta la Seconda Guerra Mondiale non come una parentesi chiusa, ma piuttosto come un acceleratore di processi anche per la teoria e la pratica architettonica. Attraverso un incrocio e confronto tra fonti di diversa natura e consistenza il tentativo della tesi è di costruire una prima storia urbana sulla nascita della Avenue of the Americas, volta a colmare una lacuna su una sezione della città ancora poco esplorata dalla storiografia di settore. Inserendosi tra gli studi sull'architettura e l'urbanistica sulla città nordamericana del Ventesimo secolo, con riferimento al caso newyorkese, il lavoro si colloca in una dimensione intermedia tra lo studio della pianificazione e le indagini sul costruito: la tesi si sforza di connettere la produzione di immaginari, le strategie patrimoniali, la progettazione architettonica e la produzione normativa, con una specifica attenzione al rapporto tra la scala della città e quello dell’indagine sulle architetture, anche autoriali, che in quel contesto si sono costruite.

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FOLEY, BRENT T. "CREATING HEALTHY BUILDINGS." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1083042438.

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Pede, Timothy. "Exploring Relationships Between Building And Transportation Energy Use Of Residents In U.S. Metropolitan Regions." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2014. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/314.

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There is much potential to decrease energy consumption in the U.S. by encouraging compact, centralized development. Although many studies have examined the extent to which built environment and demographic factors are related to household energy use, few have considered both building and transportation energy together. We hypothesized that residents living further from city centers, or urban cores, consume more energy for both purposes than their inner city counterparts, resulting in a direct relationship between building and transportation energy usage. This hypothesis was tested with two case studies. The first focused on New York City. Annual building energy per unit of parcels, or tax lots, containing large multi-family structures was compared to the daily transportation energy use per household of traffic analysis zones (TAZs) (estimated with a regional travel demand model). Transportation energy showed a strong spatial pattern, with distance to urban core explaining 63% of variation in consumption. Building energy use was randomly distributed, resulting in a weak negative correlation with transportation energy. However, both correlation with distance to urban core and transportation energy became significant and positive when portion of detached single-family units for TAZs was used as a proxy for building energy. Structural equation models (SEMs) revealed a direct relationship between log lot depth and both uses of energy, and inverse relationship between portion of attached housing units and transportation energy. This supports the notion that sprawling development increases both the building and transportation energy consumption of households. For the second analysis, annual building and automobile energy use per household were estimated for block groups across the 50 most populous U.S. metropolitan regions with Esri Consumer Expenditure Data. Both forms of energy consumption per household were lowest in inner cities and increased at greater distances from urban cores. Although there may be some error in estimates from modeled expenditure data, characteristics associated with lower energy use, such as portion of attached housing units and commuters that utilize transit or pedestrian modes, were negatively correlated with distance to urban core. Overall, this work suggests there are spatial patterns to household energy consumption, with households further from urban cores using more building and transportation energy. There is the greatest gain in efficiency to be had by suburban residents.

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Clarke, Suzanna. "Being Isadora." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2003. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/15797/1/Suzanna_Clarke_Thesis.pdf.

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Being Isadora is a story of possession. Isadora Duncan, the founder of modern dance, was an intensely creative, free-spirited woman. Her life experiences early last century were as fascinating and tragic as her achievements. In New York in 1985, Isadora's last surviving pupil and adopted daughter, ninety-year old Anna Duncan, is searching for a way to fulfill a long held promise. Isadora wished to control the way she was remembered and had made Anna promise that any remaining film of her dancing would be destroyed. But one film survives and Anna is running out of time to find it. A young Australian journalist, Tamsin Doyle, attends a dance class at the Isadora Duncan Studio and meets Anna, unknowingly becoming part of the quest. Initially the stories of Isadora and Tamsin run parallel, then as Tamsin gets to know Anna, she becomes immersed in a dream world of dramatic incidents from Isadora's life. The dreams become waking experiences and she fears her will is gradually being taken over. She ends up in places - in fact other countries - that she had no intention of being, pursuing an agenda that is not her own. In the second part of the book, she finds herself in Russia, where Isadora lived after the Revolution. She meets and falls in love with Vladimir, the grandson of Isadora's former dance collaborator. Unable to prevent herself being possessed while visiting the school Isadora founded, Tamsin is arrested by the authorities. A Russian KGB officer has his own plans and abducts her, keeping her prisoner in a dacha outside Moscow. He shows her a film of herself dancing and then the surviving film of Isadora. The two are almost identical and a dramatic climax ensues. Themes in the book explore the nature of memory and how it is influenced by photographic and filmic record, love and loss and the way patterns repeat in people's lives in an attempt to change outcomes.

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Clarke, Suzanna. "Being Isadora." Queensland University of Technology, 2003. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/15797/.

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Being Isadora is a story of possession. Isadora Duncan, the founder of modern dance, was an intensely creative, free-spirited woman. Her life experiences early last century were as fascinating and tragic as her achievements. In New York in 1985, Isadora's last surviving pupil and adopted daughter, ninety-year old Anna Duncan, is searching for a way to fulfill a long held promise. Isadora wished to control the way she was remembered and had made Anna promise that any remaining film of her dancing would be destroyed. But one film survives and Anna is running out of time to find it. A young Australian journalist, Tamsin Doyle, attends a dance class at the Isadora Duncan Studio and meets Anna, unknowingly becoming part of the quest. Initially the stories of Isadora and Tamsin run parallel, then as Tamsin gets to know Anna, she becomes immersed in a dream world of dramatic incidents from Isadora's life. The dreams become waking experiences and she fears her will is gradually being taken over. She ends up in places - in fact other countries - that she had no intention of being, pursuing an agenda that is not her own. In the second part of the book, she finds herself in Russia, where Isadora lived after the Revolution. She meets and falls in love with Vladimir, the grandson of Isadora's former dance collaborator. Unable to prevent herself being possessed while visiting the school Isadora founded, Tamsin is arrested by the authorities. A Russian KGB officer has his own plans and abducts her, keeping her prisoner in a dacha outside Moscow. He shows her a film of herself dancing and then the surviving film of Isadora. The two are almost identical and a dramatic climax ensues. Themes in the book explore the nature of memory and how it is influenced by photographic and filmic record, love and loss and the way patterns repeat in people's lives in an attempt to change outcomes.

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Janak, Haidee N. "Three State-run Green Building Programs: A Comparative Case Study Analysis and Assessment." Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/337/.

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Macedo, Wesley. "PS1 / MoMA-PS1: a transformação de um edifício em espaço expositivo de arte." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16138/tde-29102015-094943/.

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A pesquisa aborda o movimento dos espaços alternativos de arte contemporânea observado em Nova Iorque (EUA), nas décadas de 1960 e 1970, com foco no PS1 lnstitute of Contemporary Ar/, inaugurado em 1976. Embora sua criação abarque características latentes do modelo dos espaços alternativos, logo indicou uma progressão inevitável rumo à institucionalização desses espaços, cujos padrões administrativos se afastaram de suas concepções e ideias mais experimentais. Ainda que alguns autores classifiquem o PS1 como antimuseu\", não tardou para que este centro de arte contemporânea fosse incorporado ao tradicional Museu de Arte Moderna de Nova Iorque - MoMA-NY. Com isso, o PS1 adentra o mainstream da arte sob o título de MoMA-PS1, oficialmente em 2010. A abordagem discorre sobre o objeto de estudo como resultado de manifestações artísticas que contribuem na mudança de convenções estabelecidas no sistema da arte. Essas manifestações incluem a prática de apropriação da arquitetura como tema da criação artística. Assim, este trabalho contribui para fomentar novas interpretações na análise crítica do projeto de arquitetura para espaços expositivos de arte, instalados em edifícios não projetados para um fim museológico.
The research addresses the movement of alternative spaces for contemporary art seen in New York (USA), in the 1960s and 1970s, focusing on the PS11nstitute of Contemporary Art, opened in 1976. Though his creation comprises /atent characteristics of the model of the alternative spaces, soon it indicated an inevitable progresswn bound for the institutionalization of these spaces, whose administrative standards have drifted away from their conceptions and more experimental ideas. Even though some authors c!assify the PS1 as \"antimuseum \", soon this contemporary art center was incorporated into the traditional Museum of Modem Art of New York- MoMA-NY. Thus, the PS 1 enters the mainstream of art under the title of MoMA-PS1, officially in 201 O. The approach discusses the object of study as a result of artistic events that contribute to the change of conventions established in the art system. These events include the practice of architecture appropriation as theme for artistic creation. 7his work contributes to fostering new interpretations on critica/ analysis of the architectural project for exhibition spaces of art instal/ed in buildings not designed for Museum purpose.

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Elkan, Daniel Acosta. "The Colonia Next Door: Puerto Ricans in the Harlem Community, 1917-1948." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1505772980183977.

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Wood, Alexander. "Building the Metropolis: Architecture, Building, and Labor in New York City, 1880-1935." Thesis, 2020. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-bf2y-5482.

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The growth of New York City between the 1880s and the 1930s produced a remarkable building boom that reshaped the landscape of the city. In these years the city acquired its modern skyline, many of its civic monuments, and much of the housing its residents live in today. The development of new architectural styles, building materials, and construction methods in this period also introduced profound changes in the way buildings were produced. The soaring demand for new construction stimulated the rise of new kinds of architecture, building, and contracting firms, revitalized the building trades, and transformed the city’s building industry. This dissertation explores the building of the city from the perspective of those who were engaged in its production to shed new light on the history of the city. Focusing on the creation of some of the city’s most important buildings, it traces the efforts of architects, builders, and workers to the shape the building process as it became increasingly industrialized. While architects, general contracting companies, and subcontractors exercised growing authority within the building industry, construction ultimately depended upon skilled building craftsmen. Thanks to their collective action, workers successfully fought to maintain the integrity of their trades and exert control over their work. Over time, architects, building employers, and workers established cooperative agreements which helped to stabilize a volatile industry. This study contains five chapters that examine the work of leading New York architects as a window onto the transformation of building practice over half a century. Using the records of architecture firms, building trade publications, and municipal records, it documents the changing character of the building industry in a period of rapid urban growth, technological change, and industrial conflict. By looking at the making of buildings as a form of production, it reframes architectural history around the conflicts that shaped the building process between the late nineteenth century and the Great Depression.

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Flood, Lauren Elizabeth. "Building and Becoming: DIY Music Technology in New York and Berlin." Thesis, 2016. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8W95918.

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This dissertation addresses the convergence of ethics, labor, aesthetics, cultural citizenship, and the circulation of knowledge among experimental electronic instrument builders in New York City and Berlin. This loosely connected group of musician-inventors engages in what I call “DIY music technology” due to their shared do-it-yourself ethos and their use of emerging and repurposed technologies, which allow for new understandings of musical invention. My ethnography follows a constellation of self-described hackers, “makers,” sound and noise artists, circuit benders, avant-garde/experimental musicians, and underground rock bands through these two cities, exploring how they push the limits of what “music” and “instruments” can encompass, while forming local, transnational, and virtual networks based on shared interests in electronics tinkering and independent sound production. This fieldwork is supplemented with inquiries into the construction of “DIY” as a category of invention, labor, and citizenship, through which I trace the term’s creative and commercial tensions from the emergence of hobbyism as a form of productive leisure to the prevailing discourse of punk rock to its adoption by the recent Maker Movement. I argue that the cultivation of the self as a “productive” cultural citizen—which I liken to a state of “permanent prototyping”—is central to my interlocutors’ activities, through which sound, self, and instrument are continually remade. I build upon the idea of “technoaesthetics” (Masco 2006) to connect the inner workings of musical machines with the personal transformations of DIY music technologists as inventors fuse their aural imaginaries with industrial, biological, environmental, and sometimes even magical imagery. Integral to these personal transformations is a challenge to corporate approaches to musical instrument making and selling, though this stance is often strained when commercial success is achieved. Synthesizing interdisciplinary perspectives from ethno/musicology, anthropology, and science and technology studies, I demonstrate that DIY music technologists forge a distinctive sense of self and citizenship that critiques, yet remains a cornerstone of, artistic production and experience in a post-digital “Maker Age.”

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Murphy, Brian Phillips. "Empire state building : interests, institutions, and the formation of states and parties in New York, 1783-1845 /." 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3312156.

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Teal, Orion. "Building a Better World: Youth, Radicalism, and the Politics of Space in New York City, 1945-1965." Diss., 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/5562.

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According to conventional wisdom, the period of intense antiradicalism that followed World War II effectively drove all radical activity underground by the early 1950s, severing the intergenerational connection between the "Old Left" of the Great Depression era and the "New Left" of the 1960s. Building a Better World revises this narrative by examining how radical activists in New York City carved out space for young people's participation in leftwing political culture between 1945 and 1965. Contrary to most studies of the postwar Red Scare that focus on the Left's decline, this study tells a story of survival. Despite concerted efforts by social critics and governmental officials to curtail radicals' political influence among the young, radicals maintained a surprisingly robust radical social world centered in summer camps, private schools, youth groups, cultural organizations, union halls, and homes throughout New York City and its environs. In these spaces, youth continued to absorb a radical worldview that celebrated the labor movement, decolonization struggles, and African Americans' quest for freedom, while forwarding a biting critique of American capitalism. This process of intergenerational transmission would not have been possible without access to social space and an ever-evolving interpretation of radical values responsive to changes in political culture and demographics. Building a Better World relies on extensive archival research, print material, visual sources, and original oral histories to document this hidden history. In so doing, the dissertation significantly revises our understanding of the American Left, the history of American childhood, spatial change in New York City, and the evolution of political, ethnic, and racial identities in modern American history.

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Graham-Jones, Brian Clay Hunter Christopher. "The fractal nature of lightning an investigation of the fractal relationship of the structure of lightning to terrain /." 2006. http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07082006-194027.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Florida State University, 2006.
Advisor: Christopher Hunter, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Mathematics. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 26, 2006). Document formatted into pages; contains ix, 122 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

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