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Du, Preez Jaco Andries. "Understanding the architect in enterprise architecture : the Daedulus Instrument for architects". Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/57172.
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With numerous enterprise architecture management (EAM) methodologies, frameworks,
and tools, there is still no universally accepted standard on what Enterprise Architecture
(EA) really means to practicing architects. Traditionally practitioners concentrated on
specific aspects of EA, such as tools, repositories, components and frameworks. However,
little attention was given to the architect, who completes this trio of system perspectives
(people, process & technology). This thesis reports on the research findings from multiple
studies that investigated diverse factors and attributes that are associated with enterprise
architects; the belief systems of enterprise architects as they pertain to enterprise
architecture and enterprise architecture management; the behavioural styles of enterprise
architects which they follow within their socio-technical environment, as well as enterprise
architect profiles, representing a specific enterprise architect viewpoint. The enterprise
architect belief systems affect the worldview and ultimately the school of thought of the
practicing architect. Similarly, the role and competency of enterprise architects operating
within their working environment affects their behavioural style.
This thesis made use of design science research as a foundational strategy, making use of
various research methodologies including a systemic literature review and qualitative
surveys and the use of the framework for the evaluation of design science research (FEDS).
The design science research strategy allowed for the development of the design artefact as
well as its technology-based implementation, the Daedalus Instrument for Architects (DIA).
DIA can be used in conjunction with existing EA frameworks and methodologies, such as The
Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) for the understanding of architects on why
they operate and perform architectural designs in the way they do. The findings may assist
enterprise architects and EA stakeholders concerned with having the right calibre of person
acting as an enterprise architect fulfilling a specific architecture function within an EA team
or EA practice.
Keywords: Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Management, Enterprise
Architect, EA Factors, Architect Attributes, EA Schools of thought, Architect Belief Systems,
Architect Styles, Architect Behavioural Styles, Architect Profiles, Architect Viewpoints,
Architect Archetypes, Daedalus Instrument, Daedalus Instrument for Architects, DIA, EA,
EAM, TOGAF.Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2016.
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Hambraeus, Victorson Mattias. "After the Architects". Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-159201.
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Developed from a desire to explore alternative ways of addressing aspects of architecture, the project After the Architects tells the story of the KTH School of Architecture building through the eyes of me - one of its many users. The project consists of a film, an exhibition and a hand book with mental excercises. Investigating the tools we have at hands as architects in the context of storytelling as a mean of communication, I wanted to dissect the many layers of interpretation and experiences a building consists of. It is often said that the core of a building is what it does and how it does this. Since buildings, rooms and spaces are experienced differently by everyone, I think the active use of subjectivity is the best way of approaching this theme. The KTH School of Architecture building has been my second home for five years. It has hosted architecture education since 1970, but after the summer of 2015, it is entering a new phase as the school is moving to a new building. Therefore, as a student leaving the building, I’m using my subjectivity as a tool for investigating the relationship between the course of time, the school building, and myself. Which effects and stories has it staged over the years and how has the building affected me, on an intellectual-, as well as on a personal level? Some of the themes I’ve been working with are; the aspects of time, memories and nostalgia, the different roles of a building, spaces as references, and the interplay between perspective, interpretation and meaning.Sprunget ur en önskan att undersöka alternativa sätt att diskutera arkitektoniska aspekter skildrar projektet After the Architects historien om KTH arkitekturskolans byggnad sett genom mina ögon i egenskap av en av dess många användare. Projektet består av en film, en utställning och en handbok med tankeövningar. Genom att använda mig av formen av historieberättande vill jag belysa den mängd av lager av tolkningar och upplevelser som en byggnad skapar förutsättningar för. Det sägs att kärnan i vad en byggnad är består av det den gör och hur den gör detta. Eftersom vi upplever byggnader, rum och platser på olika sätt anser jag att en aktiv användning av det subjektiva perspektivet är det bästa sättet att ta sig an detta ämne. KTHs Arkitekturskola har varit mitt andra hem de senaste fem åren. Sedan 1970 har det inrymt arkitekturutbildningen i Stockholm, men efter vårterminen 2015 går byggnaden in i en ny fas, då skolverksamheten flyttar till en ny byggnad. I egenskap av en student som lämnar byggnaden använder jag mig av min subjektivitet som ett analysverktyg för att undersöka relationen mellan tidens gång, byggnaden och mig själv. Vilka upplevelser och historier har den iscensatt genom åren och hur har byggnaden påverkat mig; både på ett intellektuellt- och på ett känslomässigt plan? Några av de teman jag arbetat med är: tiden & byggnaden, minnen & nostalgi, byggnadens olika roller, platser som referenser, och sambandet mellan perspektiv, tolkning och meningsskapande.
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Hill, Jonathan. "Creative users, illegal architects". Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.312161.
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The central message of this thesis is that architecture is made by use and by design. To use a building is to alter it, by for example physically transforming it, using it in unexpected ways, or conceiving of it anew. The user can be passive, reactive or creative, whatever the character of the space he or she inhabits, but space can affect use, and each design suggests a certain user. Questioning the binary opposition of the architect and the user this thesis proposes a third entity: the creative user who can also be an 'illegal architect'. As a design strategy which recognises the creative role of the user in formulating architecture, it proposes a theory of montage in which the gaps are as important as the fragments. In contrast to traditional theories of montage, the 'montage of gaps' aims not to shock but to remain unresolved, to be remade by each user.
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BATISTA, ANTONIO JOSE DE SENA. "ARCHITECTS WITHOUT HALO: THE ACTION OF M.M.M. ROBERTO AND HENRIQUE MINDLIN ASSOCIATED ARCHITECTS". PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2013. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=34834@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROA historiografia da Arquitetura Moderna Brasileira tende a privilegiar a construção de uma coerência ficcional que determina grupos aos quais todos arquitetos atuantes naquele período são anexados. No entanto, uma análise mais detalhada traz à tona a existência de múltiplas formas de ação que não concorrem para tal unidade fictícia. Dentre eles estão os arquitetos que trabalham prioritariamente para o mercado da construção civil, que lhes impõe regras, meios, relações econômicas, que contaminam seu modo de operação projetual. Essa tese busca, através da análise de dois escritórios de arquitetura cariocas – MMMRoberto e Henrique Mindlin Arquitetos Associados - perceber de que maneiras as imposições do mercado alteram a obra de tais escritórios, fazendo-os adquirir características de concepção de projeto e de organização funcional que os torne distintos de outros escritórios atuantes no mesmo período.
The historiography of Brazilian Modern Architecture tends to favor the construction of a fictional coherence; determining groups to which all architects that have worked in that period are attached to. However, a more detailed analysis brings to light the existence of multiple forms of action that do not compete for this fictitious unity. Among them, architects who work primarily for the construction market, which imposes rules, resources, economic relations, that contaminate their modus operandi. This thesis tries to determinate by the analyses of two modern architectural offices – MMMRoberto and Henrique Mindlin Arquitetos Associados - in which ways the market impositions do change the work of these architectural firms, leading them to acquire different design characteristics and organizational methods.
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Kemper, Steven Thomas. "STRAIGHT, CURVING, COLORFUL: THREE ARCHITECTS". Connect to this title online, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1150983131.
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Thesis (M.M.)--Bowling Green State University, 2006.Document formatted into pages; contains 1 score (vii, 27 p.) For clarinet in B♭ and violoncello, with computer for live electronic processing and pre-recorded sounds.
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Corroto, Carla. "Constructing architects : a critical ethnography". The Ohio State University, 1996. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1240236778.
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Harley-McClaskey, Deborah. "Faculty as Architects of Engagement". Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2008. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4713.
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Ruso, Anita. "Les architectes au service de la République de Raguse de 1667 à 1808 et leurs impacts sur l’art de bâtir de la ville de Dubrovnik". Thesis, Paris, EPHE, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016EPHE4098.
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Après le séisme qui frappa la région de la République de Raguse en 1667, Dubrovnik (ancienne Raguse), sa ville capitale, connut une forte immigration architecturale d’origine romaine et, dans un seul cas, vénitienne, principalement composée d’ingénieurs et d’architectes. Après avoir tenté de retracer l’histoire des relations artistiques et diplomatiques entre la République de Raguse et les Etats de la péninsule apennine, qui remontent au XIIIe siècle mais qui connurent leur apogée après le grand séisme de 1667, cette étude se penche sur le rôle des architectes étrangers dans le cadre de l'administration publique de la République de Raguse et sur l’impact qu'ils eurent sur l'architecture de la ville. Malgré le fait qu'un bureau officiel des architectes n'existait pas au sein des institutions publiques, nous pouvons retracer les comportements habituels du commanditaire, le Sénat de la République, dans le processus du recrutement des architectes étrangers. Ainsi, les mêmes modèles de coopération entre les architectes et le commanditaire, répétés au cours des siècles, témoignent d'un système stable, traditionnel, qui resta inchangé jusqu'à la fin de la République en 1808. Dans cette recherche, l’accent a été mis sur l'architecture représentative de la ville de Raguse ainsi que sur tous les chantiers qui étaient sous le contrôle de la République. Enfin, les migrations artistiques entre Rome et Raguse durant la deuxième moitié du seicento et pendant le settecento furent mises en parallèle en suivant le même phénomène qui eut lieu dans la ville de La Valette en Malte et dans la région Val di Noto en SicileAfter the earthquake that struck the region of the Republic of Ragusa in 1667, Dubrovnik (formerly Ragusa), its main city, experienced a strong architectural immigration of Roman origins (and in only one case, Venetian). After attempting to trace the history of artistic and diplomatic relations between the Republic of Ragusa and the authorities of different states of the Apennine peninsula which reached their peak after the great earthquake of 1667, this study examines the role of foreign architects in the context of public administration of the Republic of Ragusa and the influence they had on the architecture of the city. Although the architects did not have their formal office within public institutions, the usual behavior of the Senate of the Republic in the process of recruitment of foreign architects shows us that same patterns of cooperation between architects and sponsor were repeated over the centuries. Therefore, we use them as strong evidences that show a stable and traditional system, which remained unchanged until the end of the Republic in 1808. In this research, the focus was on the representative architecture of the city of Ragusa and on all building sites which were under the control of the Republic. Finally, artistic migrations between Rome and Ragusa in the second half of seicento and during settecento were compared with the same phenomenon that took place between the city of Valletta in Malta and Rome and between the region Val di Noto in Sicily and Rome
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Carnell, Monique Marie. "The life and works of Maritime architect J. C. Dumaresq (1840-1906)". Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1993. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq23851.pdf.
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Boatright, Jessica Berman. "Planners, architects and landscape architects designing New Orleans : disciplinary differences in developing the unified plan". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39930.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2007.Includes bibliographical references (p. 140-146).
Designing cities is a complex proposition. Planners, architects and landscape architects all center their practice on aspects of this proposition. As such, their respective disciplines share the realm of urban design. This thesis attempts to understand how professionals from these three groups work as urban designers by testing the hypothesis that professional training and affiliation dictates distinct differences in how urban plans are developed by planners, architects or landscape architects. Relying on the American educational and professional associations for each discipline, the thesis proposes three spectra to contrast the disciplines: The Role of Process, Understanding of Physical Space, and Ultimate Goals. These spectra are applied to cases studies of Unified New Orleans Plan recovery plan development in three of New Orleans' 13 planning districts. The cases focus on the professional staff for each district, which include one planning firm, one architecture firm and one landscape architecture firm. The cases demonstrate predictive connections between planning training and concepts and the planning firm's performance and architecture training and concepts and the architecture firm's performance.
(cont.) There is less predictive evidence in the case of landscape architecture. The challenges of using a quasi-experimental design, coupled with the intensely complex nature of working in a post-disaster environment in New Orleans, limit the conclusive value of the findings. However, there is a strong enough apparent correlation between the initial predictions and what actually occurred in the cases to warrant further exploration of the hypothesis. As long as planners, architects and landscape architects continue to share the practice of urban design, increasing our understanding about their unique approaches to this work will support greater efficiencies in local projects and a more rigorous and fruitful tradition of city design overall.
by Jessica Berman Boatright.
M.C.P.
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Wang, Haoyu. "Mainland architects in Hong Kong after 1949 a bifurcated history of modern chinese architecture /". Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2008. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B40887935.
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Tucker, Lisa Marie Schwarz Benyamin. "Architects and the design of ordinary single-family houses in the United States the American Institute of Architects and the Architects' Small House Service Bureau /". Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/6626.
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Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on Feb 25, 2010). The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Dissertation advisor: Dr. Benyamin Schwarz. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Van, Loo Anne. "Un architecte belge au coeur de l'Allemagne wilhelminienne: Henry van de Velde 1900-1917". Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/212625.
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Thompson, Robert Francis. "Management of architects within architectural businesses". Thesis, University of Salford, 2002. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/26943/.
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The management of architects within architectural businesses has been identified as an issue influencing the future behaviour of architectural practices. This work goes on to develop and apply a qualitative model (based on systems theory) which enables deeper research into architects' businesses. The modelling of goals at strategic, management and individual levels in the firm are introduced into a Case Study Series. The results are analysed and presented in the form of a social efficiency map. The thesis explores the modelling of multiple goal- seeking behaviour within firms. The work justifies behaviour at individual level using a fulfilment model (explaining personality as based on a single force toward growth and actualisation). Existing models of business behaviour are used to explain business behaviour at management and strategic levels in the firm. A rigorous selection of firms included in the series of Case Studies is undertaken. This enables a process of contrast comparison and replication. Initially this work builds on research by the RIBA (undertaken in 1993) and the RIBA's findings from their Case Studies of traditional, muitidisciplinary, named, and commercial architectural business. This is the basis for the propositions examined in this research. The research concludes by comparing the results of the Social Efficiency Map by triangulation with questionnaires and a technique of participant as observer (using an vnopportunistic method of sampling) to strengthen the findings. The model proves effective in capturing the 'world view 1 of architects, based on propositions developed from the RIBA study and those emerging from the Case Studies Series. The implications are applied in the wider sense of the construction industry entire. The systems theory model is extended to facilitate discussion. Recommendations are made regarding the wider problem of 'perceptions' by firms in the construction industry and the permeability of these firms towards change introduced into this wider environment described.
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Fischer, James Karl. "Professional sacrifice : architects, ethics and advertising". Thesis, Open University, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.411258.
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Wellme, Martin. "Architects working agile : Methods and challenges". Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-253046.
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Enterprise Architecture (EA) is a discipline which is used for describing and designing anorganisation's infrastructure and business processes. Agile methods are known for providingflexibility and adaptability in software development but can be applied to other areas as well.Nowadays, almost all aspects of a business should advance quickly which creates new challengesthat did exist before and the agile way of working is very suitable these situations. This thesis looksinto the challenges employees currently face when working with EA and how agile methods can beused to solve these issues.To investigate this, 19 interviews have been done at an international manufacturer where itsemployees were asked about how they work, which agile practices they use and the challenges theyface. The results of those interviews are presented statistically and compared to the literature reviewas well as two additional interviews done outside of the company in order to find agile methods thatcould be possible solutions to the company's challenges.The interviews showed that the employees already work agile with most of them working iterative,incremental and implementing changes based on feedback from the business which are allprominent agile methods. A few challenges which can be solved through agile were found, one ofthose is better project prioritisation found in Kanban to solve the lack of resources. Another practiceis to have forums, inspired by SAFe ART, between different roles to address the lack ofcoordination and contact between them. The location of the EA office was a challenge which couldbe solved through a non-agile way, by moving it away from the IT department and closer to thebusiness or alternatively move it higher up within the IT organisation.Enterprise arkitektur (EA) är en disciplin som används för att beskriva och designa en organisationsinfrastruktur och affärsprocesses. Agila metoder är kända för att ge flexibilitet ochanpassningsförmåga inom mjukvaruutveckling men kan också användas inom andra områden. Inuläget ska nästan alla aspekter av ett företag ska gå snabbt vilket skapar nya utmaningar och detagila arbetssättet är mycket lämpligt för dessa situationer. Den här avhandlingen undersöker deutmaningar som de anställda möter när de arbetar med EA and hur agila metoder kan användas föratt lösa dessa problem.För att undersöka det här, har 19 intervjuer gjorts hos en internationell tillverkare där deras anställdablivit frågade om hur de arbetar, vilka agila metoder de använder och vilka utmaningar de möter.Resultatet av intervjuerna presenteras statistiskt och jämförs med litteraturstudien samt med tvåytterligare intervjuer som har gjorts utanför företaget för att hitta agila metoder som kan varamöjliga lösningar till företagets problem.Intervjuerna visade att de anställda redan arbetar agilt med de flesta av dem arbetar iterativt,inkrementellt and implementerar förändringar baserat på feedback från verksamheten som alla äruppmärksamma agila metoder. Några av utmaningarna kan lösas med hjälp av agila metoder, en avdem är en bättre prioritering av projekt som finns i Kanban för att lösa bristen på resurser. En annanmetod är att ha forum, inspirerade av SAFe ART, mellan olika roller för att åtgärda bristen påkoordination och kontakt mellan dem. Placeringen av EA-kontoret var en utmaning som kundelösas på ett icke-agilt sätt, genom att flytta det bort från IT-avdelningen och närmare verksamheteneller alternativt flytta det högre upp inom IT-organisationen.
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Decommer, Maxime. "Les architectes au travail : les conditions d'apparition, d'évolution et d'uniformisation des lieux et des structures d'activités des architectes, 1795-1940". Thesis, Paris Est, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PEST1014.
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De la libéralisation des métiers lors de la Révolution à la fondation de l'ordre des architectes en 1940, le milieu de l'architecture est traversé d'actions, de débats et de combats tendant à l'institutionnalisation de la profession d'architecte. Ce long processus, visant la réglementation de l'accès à la profession et l'obtention du monopole sur l'architecture à partir de la définition et de l'affirmation d'une identité sociale et professionnelle unique de l'architecte, est marqué par plusieurs étapes inhérentes au processus de professionnalisation, parmi lesquelles la revendication de l'exercice d'un travail, l'établissement d'écoles de formation, la constitution d'associations professionnelles ou encore la promulgation d'un code de déontologie. La détermination des règles d'activités constitue également un jalon du mécanisme, influant au jour le jour sur l'évolution des modalités de la pratique des architectes. Si plusieurs travaux de recherche ont déjà été consacrés à l'histoire de la profession d'architecte, peu ont traité l'histoire de la détermination de ces règles d'activité et, conséquemment, celle de l'organisation du travail des architectes. À partir de l'étude des lieux et des structures d'activités communément nommées « agences » par les architectes, ce travail ambitionne d'interroger sur le temps long la réciprocité des apports du processus d'institutionnalisation de la profession et de la définition des règles d'activités des architectes. Notre hypothèse générale pose que les grandes forces actives dans le processus d'institutionnalisation de la profession – telles l'État agissant comme maître d'ouvrage public, les grands maîtres d'ouvrages privés nés de la révolution industrielle, les associations corporatistes ou encore l'École des Beaux-Arts – ont, tout en reconnaissant à certains individus le statut, le rôle et parfois anachroniquement le « titre » d'architecte, également influencé, voire codifié, les modes, les conditions et les méthodes de travail des acteurs du milieu qu'elles légitimaient. En reconstituant l'histoire du terme « agence », c'est donc également celle d'un groupe professionnel que nous retraçons. Dans une première partie, les origines du mot « agence », employé dès la fin du XVIIIe siècle et tout au long du XIXe par l'État pour définir les structures d'activité des maîtres d'œuvre répondant à la commande publique, révèlent la force du pouvoir étatique sur la pratique des architectes, à partir notamment de la normalisation de l'acte de la construction ; l'agence des travaux publics apparaît comme un instrument d'homogénéisation. Dans une deuxième partie, la diffusion du modèle d'organisation du travail des architectes conçu par l'État au cours du XIXe siècle aux services publics décentralisés et spécialisés d'architecture, ainsi que sa reprise par certaines compagnies privées d'investisseurs de la révolution industrielle, illustre la transmission de méthodes à divers sous-groupes de la profession. Dans une troisième partie, après l'adoption du code Guadet en 1895 par les associations professionnelles, texte fondateur de l'affirmation de l'exercice libéral, les influences du marché et de la commande sur l'évolution des agences sont observées et expliquent l'introduction et le développement de l'exercice salarié et en association dans la profession d'architecteFrom the liberalization of professions during the French Revolution to the foundation of the Order of Architects in 1940, the architectural world has been confronted to actions, debates and fights, which led to institutionalizing the profession of architect. This long process aimed at the regulation of access to the job and at the monopolization on architecture, through the definition and affirmation of a unique social and professional identity of the architect. It is made of several steps, all inherent in the professionalization process: the claim to a working activity, the establishment of training schools, the creation of professional associations, or the promulgation of a deontology code. The establishing of working rules is also a milestone to this process, influencing day by day the evolution of architects' practices. Already some research have been done in the general history of the profession of architect, but only a few have considered the history of these working rules, and, thus, of the working organization of architects. This research starts from the study of the places and structures, commonly called “offices” (agence) by the architects. It aims at questioning in the long run the reciprocal relation between the institutionalization of the profession and the definition of the working rules of the architects. The general hypothesis is the following: the active forces in the process of institutionalization of the profession – such as the State acting as a public sector contractor, the private sector big contractors born out of the industrial revolution, the corporate associations, the School of Fine Arts – have on the one hand given the status, role and, sometimes in an anachronistic way, the title of “architect”, and on the other hand influenced, even codified, the working conditions and methods of the actors they were legitimating. By reconstituting the history of the term “office”, this research also reconstructs the history of a profession. In a first part, we show that the word “office” has been used from the end of the 18th century and all along the 19th century by the State, in order to define the structures of activity of the project managers dealing with public procurement. This shows the strength of the state power on the architects' practices, through the normalization of the building process. The public works administration appears to be a tool of standardization. In a second part, the pattern for organizing the work of architects, designed by the State during the 19th century, is generalized to the decentralized and specialized architectural public services. It is also used by some private investment companies during the industrial revolution. This illustrates the transmission of methods to different sub-branches of the profession. In a third part, we start from the adoption of the Guadet code in 1895, a seminal text about liberal professions. We show how the growing influences of market and command on offices explain the introduction and development of the salaried and associational employment
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Nikolic, Slavica N. "Image and architecture : is what you expect what you get?" Virtual Press, 2000. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1191715.
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The profession of architecture is passing through challenging times. Technological progress and a rapidly changing society have brought confusion into the profession regarding the self-image of architects and the image of architects from the viewpoint of clients and the public. This has a concomitant echo within the images communicated by the built environment; buildings do not always perform the importance of human benefits among the economical, technological or expressionistic advantages.Throughout history, the image of architects reflected the position of the profession in a particular time and place. Architects carried with them the tags of genius, God creators, heroes, etc. The more recent history of architecture has brought changes in the practice and services that architecture offers. Differentiation of the building and design aspects of practice was the result of the growing complexity of the building market. The new aspects of the practice have been followed by a corresponding confusion regarding the images of the profession.Architects in North America today are experiencing the declining power of the profession; the public cannot clearly recognize the role of architecture and its extensible possibilities within society; and clients are less blindly trustful of the genius of the architect and are more specific in defining their goals. In addition, the marketable image cf a building has grown in demand, further prompted by signature architecture popularity on the one side and the profit oriented building market on the other. This diminishes human benefits - such as contextual, environmental and functional demands, to a name few - that architecture, as a social practice, should provide.The hypothesis proposed by this paper is that the declining power and shaken authority of the architectural profession produce the possibility of a manipulation by those who perceive buildings as a market product which in turn significantly threatens human values and the quality of life.In order to better understand the problems that are facing the profession the author conducted a one-year, full-time internship employment in a New York City based architecture & interior design firm, observing in particular the architect-client relationship and the design process itself. This paper analyzes present conditions in architectural practice concerning issues such as the images which society and the profession itself hold of architecture, how these images influence the physical environment that architects are creating, especially the relationships that are making possible the misinterpretations of these images.The most important issues that this research reveals relate to perceptions about the role of the architects in the building process and in the society. perceptions which consequently frame the possibilities of architectural practice. The everyday professional practice of architecture is influenced by a variety of factors and participants, which together tend t,-; limit architects to a singular and specific position, thus rendering them vulnerable to control the building process and the final product.Department of Architecture
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Massanari, Adrienne Lynne. "In context : information architects, politics, and interdisciplinarity /". Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6193.
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Poirier, Desmond. "Skate parks : a guide for landscape architects". Thesis, Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/954.
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Garrido, Joseph Vicent Soler. "Analogue VLSI architects for multiantenna wireless systems". Thesis, University of Bristol, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.495777.
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Mihalik, Aaron D. (Aaron Daniel) 1980. "VISTA : a visualization tool for computer architects". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/28449.
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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2004.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 54-55).
As computer architectures continue to grow in complexity, software developers and hardware engineers cope with the increasing complexity by developing proprietary applications, simulations and tool sets to understand the behavior of these complex systems. Although the field of information visualization is leading to powerful applications in many areas, information visualization applications for computer architecture development are either tightly coupled with a specific architecture or target a wide range of computer system data. This thesis introduces the Visualization Tool for Computer Architects (VISTA) Environment. The VISTA Environment is an extensible and modular information visualization environment for hardware engineers, software developers and educators to visualize data from a variety of computer architecture simulations at different levels of abstraction. The VISTA Environment leverages common attributes in simulation data, computer architecture visualizations, and computer architecture development methods to create a powerful information visualization environment to aid in designing, understanding and communicating complex computer architectures.
by Aaron D. Mihalik.
M.Eng.
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Craft, Stephen Paul. "Stronger : the architects of a new intelligence". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76137.
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Thesis (S.M. in Science Writing)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, Graduate Program in Science Writing, 2012.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 57-62).
The modem world is awash in technology, little of which amazes like artificial intelligence. Siri speaks to us out of our iPhones. Google answers our every question. Watson, IBM's Jeopardy!-playing supercomputer, is popularly perceived as a hair's breadth from Arthur C. Clarke's HAL 9000. But the truth of the matter is that all these technologies are far more artificial than they are intelligent. They are designed to give an impression of intelligence, a ruse at which many of them succeed. But none of them begins to approach the all-purpose intelligence of even a human child. Siri and Watson and Google and all other existing AI is what researchers refer to as "narrow" -adept at one task only. But there is a small community of scientists who are working toward "strong" AI: a synthetic intelligence as flexible, as adaptable, and as genuinely intelligent as any human being. Strong AI is an innately interdisciplinary effort at the intersection of neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and computer science, among others. Each of these fields is coming to understand the challenge in its own way, and each has its champions. Little is clear. Few agree on how best to build strong AL, and none can foresee its consequences. But one thing is certain: in constructing this new intelligence we will take our cues from an understanding of the human mind. And so the quest for strong AI ultimately becomes the quest to understand ourselves.
by Stephen Paul Craft.
S.M.in Science Writing
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Salamy, Virginia McGrath. "Healing gardens : design guidelines for landscape architects /". Connect to this title online, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1094842637.
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Tessmann, Oliver. "Collaborative design procedures for architects and engineers". Norderstedt : Books on Demand, 2008. http://d-nb.info/994900066/34.
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Birnudóttir, Sigurðardóttir Júlía. "Practicing creativity : Landscape architects make future Stockholm". Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Socialantropologiska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-147539.
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Green urban spaces are a vigorous part in cities development, all over the world (Swanwick, Dunnet, & Wooley, 2003). These spaces are persistently constructed and negotiated over a creative process, which includes a network of actors, such as clients, designers, constructors, and users. This thesis addresses this process - with a case study of landscape architects in Stockholm, and their practice of creativity. The landscape architects present one group of actors involved in the process, where they design urban spaces for the future through their creative work. It begins with a mental image, an idea, and ends with a built site, a designed space. In reference to practice theory (Ortner, 1984 and 2006) and the biosocial becomings approach (Ingold, 2013), I analyze how creativity as a practice is socially produced by history, culture and power, through the biosocial growth of the creative agent, the landscape architect. Referring to Hallam and Ingold ́s definition (2007, p. 3), I understand creative practice as an improvisational process. I argue that creativity is accumulated, i.e. a becoming practice amongst becoming creative agents. While investigating the practice of creativity through a traditional participant observation, I primarily focus on sounds, where I listen to the practice, and use it as a method of collecting empirical data. With that method, I enrich the registration of sensor impressions (Borneman & Hammoudi, 2009, p. 19) during my fieldwork, providing a sonic dimension to the knowledge of creative practice amongst landscape architects.
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Buslig, Aileen Laura Suzanne 1966. "Architects' and laypeople's perceptions of interaction environments". Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278031.
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This study was conducted to explore the influence of architecture on emotions and communication. Correlations were proposed between dimensions of affect (pleasure, arousal, dominance) and communication (formality, warmth, privacy, familiarity, constraint, psychological distance) in interaction environments. Hypotheses also proposed that affective and communicative responses would differ for architectural styles as well as for architects and laypeople. Three contemporary styles of architecture (Modern Traditionalism, Deconstructivism, and Post-Modernism) were depicted in photographs of houses. Using written self-report measures, architects and laypeople rated their affective responses and expectations for communication in stimulus houses. Hypotheses were partially confirmed for correlations between affect and communication dimensions. Results also confirmed that different architectural styles are perceived differently in terms of affect response and expectations for communication. No differences, however, were found between architects' and laypeople's perceptions of architecture. Implications of the findings were discussed concerning the impact of architectural style on human communication and behavior.
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Madani, Nejad Kayvan. "Curvilinearity in architecture: emotional effect of curvilinear forms in interior design". Texas A&M University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/5750.
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People are becoming more aware of the relationships between the built
environment and their physical and psychological well-being. This has encouraged
numerous studies in the field of environment and behavior, and effects of architecture,
urban design and architectural form on human response. In the realm of architectural
form, some professionals, from "signature" architects to environmental and organic
designers, are strong advocates of free-flowing curvilinear forms. They assume that the
use of curvilinear forms is sympathetic to the body, mind and spirit, although there is
little empirical research to confirm this claim. There is also little research on the topic of
signature / star architects and their design methods.
The purpose of this multi-method study was to investigate the emotional effects
of curvilinear forms in interior architectural settings. The research involved qualitative
and quantitative methodologies. In the qualitative phase, twelve signature architects,
known for their use of curvilinear forms, were interviewed to examine the reasons and
processes by which they applied curvature in their work. They were also asked to talk
about their design process. In the quantitative phase, two modified interior residential
views were ranked on their emotional load by 230 non-architect and 75 architect students in card-sorting tasks. In each view, architectural forms gradually changed from
fully rectilinear to fully curvilinear.
The data from both phases of the research was analyzed. The dissertation
concludes by discussing (a) factors that separate signature architects from others (b) how
signature architects design (c) how and why designers utilize curvature in the built
environment, and (d) different emotional responses of designers and non-designers in
response to curvature in architectural settings. In general, quantitative data indicates that
non-architects show significant positive response to curvilinear architectural forms. Nonarchitects
found curvilinear forms to be pleasant, elevating and reducing stress. The
strongest relationship was recorded between curvature and feminine qualities of
architectural space, which was shared by both architects and non-architects.
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Noël, Natalie. "Material selection by architects for green building design". Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/42166.
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Green architecture is an increasingly lucrative segment of the building industry, which has created a market opportunity for construction materials that successfully promote themselves as green. To identify avenues for improving the marketing of wood products, it has become critical to understand what architects, the foremost specifiers of building materials, look for in the green materials they select. This research examines the factors that influence architects in their choice of materials for green building design, to determine if current practice in green architecture is changing designer preferences for building materials and product attributes. The project also aims to establish the degree to which architects consider wood as a suitable material for green building construction.
In 2009, a web-based questionnaire was designed to obtain firsthand feedback from a random sample of 220 North-American architects. Respondents were asked to compare green building design to conventional building design, with respect to material selection criteria and priorities.
Results showed that material selection remains largely attribute-based, as indicated by the strong influence of LEED, and the low use of decisional software to assist in the evaluation of product environmental performance. Respondents revealed that the local availability of materials was rated much more important for green building design than for conventional buildings design, and that durability, quantified health impacts, and salvaged/recycled content, were considered the most useful information items when specifying materials destined for green buildings. Wood products were prized for their renewability, and viewed as having the potential to reduce the environmental footprint of green buildings. Contrary to popular belief, the majority of architects indicated that following LEED certification guidelines did not hinder the use of wood products for, and in at least a third of cases, architects actually specified more wood products for non-structural components, finishings and furnishings. Though embodied energy and carbon were not currently perceived as the most useful environmental product information items, architects predicted that future material selection criteria would include improved and comparable product performance data, with priority conceded to low energy, low carbon, and health-safe materials.
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Stevens, Sarah. "Automated glazed facades : occupant responses and architects rationales". Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325292.
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Buchtová, Zuzana. "Rozvoj obchodních aktivit společnosti Adam Rujbr Architects s.r.o". Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-241418.
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This theses treats the question of business activities development of the company Adam Rujbr Architects s.r.o.. The company provides a complex range or architectural services including design and engineering and their aim is to be a respected, reliable and comprehensive service supplier. Based on analyses of the relevant company business information I have suggested a solution of further company development. My proposal includes suggestion of collateral business activities using a franchising model for run network of a multipurpose apartments.
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Luck, Rachael. "Analysing talk-in-interaction between architects and users". Thesis, University of Reading, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.443937.
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Parissien, Steven. "The careers of Roger and Robert Morris, architects". Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670324.
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Nikoli, Maria. "SOUNDMAT : A Sonic and Kinesthetic Tool for Architects". Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-43353.
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This thesis project aims to bring together knowledge and methods from embodied interaction design in order to help architects expand their current repertoire of sketching tools and methods. As argued by Bernard Tschumi (1996) and Juhani Pallasmaa (2012), architecture is a sight-dominated design field, and architects are faced with the paradox of having to design embodied, multisensory experiences with visual means and from a disembodied perspective. Situated in the genre of physical computing, the outcome of this thesis is the prototype of a sensor-based tool for sketching with sound and kinesthesia. The prototype is primarily targeted to architects, but may also be of interest to professionals from other fields who are involved in space-making, such as interaction designers, artists, scenographers, and interior designers, among others. The findings of this thesis intend to contribute to the field of interaction design, and especially the subfield of embodied interaction. This thesis addresses the aforementioned problem domain, which was first identified when I practiced the profession of architecture, and then further understood during this project, namely during literature review and user research. Building upon three main areas of theory, this project finds its grounding in embodied interaction theory, phenomenological concepts, as well as a contemporary view of the soma as a united self of mind and body. Fieldwork was a very important part of the process, and methods such as interviews, surveys, and cultural proves were employed to ground the project in user research. Ideation mainly consisted of sketching with embodied methods. Lastly, the user testing of a Wizard-of-Oz prototype was essential in assessing and evaluating the final design.
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Seddon, Robert Craig. "The changing role of the architect in the building process". Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1995. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25947436.
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Suvanajata, Rapit. "Relations in architectural space : designs and effects in space of the traditional Thai houses and temples". Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2001. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1317698/.
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What makes the space in a piece of architecture intelligible for us is the fundamental question of this thesis. Architects and users of buildings are the sources and the receptors of this intelligibility and therefore are the two points of view used in the research. There are many discussions and theories that focus on either the architects' or the users' concepts of architectural space but few focus on both and an even smaller proportion examine the relations between them. To this end, the thesis investigates the relation of intelligibility of space known by architects in the design process and the one that exists in the architectural reality known by the users of the buildings. This thesis sees this relation as the connection between the abstraction and reality of architecture. It is proposed that this connection in space consists of four dimensions: structural, experiential, functional and architectural element dimensions which form different relations in different pieces of architecture in different socio-cultural contexts. In this way, the research relates abstract properties with their reality in built forms through on-site observation and participation in activities inside the selected buildings in Thailand. The analysis shows that some relations appear to be regularities in most architecture whilst others are specific to the twelve selected Thai houses and temples. These relations are realised in architectural space by both architects and users of the buildings therefore they are designs and effects which can be configured via three levels in a relation; that is, 1) inside each dimension, 2) between dimensions and 3) among relations of all dimensions. it is in the third level that a relation represents a full description of the architectural reality in a space in the form of a relational syntax in which the design and effect of a space are simultaneously comprehended. Consequently, relational syntaxes become the instruments that can be seen and used as design strategies in the process of designing or analysing buildings. Through the analytical and descriptive characters of relational syntax, a deep understanding of architectural space is reached between the architects and the users; that is, the design is seen as the effects of the actual uses in buildings and vice versa.
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Waldron, Andrew M. "Irving Grossman, 1954-1964, a young architect's response within Modernism". Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0004/MQ43297.pdf.
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Chand, Inglis Megha. "Reimagining tradition : the Sompura hereditary temple architects of Gujarat". Thesis, Cardiff University, 2016. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/94669/.
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By examining the shifting working practices of the Sompura community of hereditary temple architects of western India my thesis argues that the nature of their work culture invested in their architectural and textual production is far more critical, innovative, heterogeneous and fluid than how it is portrayed in post-colonial knowledge located within the disciplinary bounds of architecture and art history. Through unchartered empirical investigation, which uses ‘cultural translation’ as a framework for analysis, the thesis highlights their creative negotiations and struggles with modernity between the late 19th and early 21st - century. Whether it is modern historical consciousness, notions of ‘antiquity’, nationalist ideas of hereditary craftsmen and tradition, changing patronage, global economy or technology, the Sompuras in their concrete and ‘present’ practices, translate all these as well as their long architectural lineage in specific inviolable modes. These query notions of a ‘fossilised’ tradition viewed through historical frameworks; the agency of ‘ritual’ untouched by capitalist processes and binary oppositions such as ‘east vs west’ or ‘traditional vs modern’. The publications of Narmadashankar M. Sompura (1883-1956) and P.O. Sompura (1896-1978), are analysed as transformations of both modern notions of antiquity and history and indigenous practices. The restoration of medieval ruins of Ranakpur and Dilwara temples in the early and mid-twentieth century by master builder Amritlal Mulshankar Trivedi (1910-2005) are explored as negotiations with western European ideas of history and conservation. The contingent relations between practice and codified knowledges are explored through oral histories concerning transnational case studies in the UK, whereas a variety of qualities and affects are seen as transforming capitalist processes and relations in modern carving factories, deploying a range of hand intensive, machine and digital technologies for a global dispersal. The thesis uses a variety of extra disciplinary methodologies such as oral history, close reading of family archives, along with a range of architecture and texts by the Sompuras and their medieval ancestors. It demonstrates that the Sompuras, believed to be carriers of a dynamic architectural tradition, have creatively and dynamically negotiated change by translating and transforming both their pre-existing cultures of work, as well as modern and global paradigms.
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Tessmann, Oliver [Verfasser]. "Collaborative design procedures for architects and engineers / Oliver Tessmann". Norderstedt : Books on Demand, 2008. http://d-nb.info/994900066/34.
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Berman, Richard Andrew. "The architects of eighteenth century English freemasonry, 1720-1740". Thesis, University of Exeter, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/2999.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
Following the appointment of its first aristocratic Grand Masters in the 1720s and in the wake of its connections to the scientific Enlightenment, ‘Free and Accepted’ Masonry rapidly became part of Britain’s national profile and the largest and arguably the most influential of Britain’s extensive clubs and societies. The new organisation did not evolve naturally from the mediaeval guilds and religious orders that pre-dated it, but was reconfigured radically by a largely self-appointed inner core. Freemasonry became a vehicle for the expression and transmission of the political and religious views of those at its centre, and for the scientific Enlightenment concepts that they championed. The ‘Craft’ also offered a channel through which many sought to realise personal aspirations: social, intellectual and financial. Through an examination of relevant primary and secondary documentary evidence, this thesis seeks to contribute to a broader understanding of contemporary English political and social culture, and to explore the manner in which Freemasonry became a mechanism that promoted the interests of the Hanoverian establishment and connected and bound a number of élite metropolitan and provincial figures. A range of networks centred on the aristocracy, parliament, the magistracy and the learned and professional societies are studied, and key individuals instrumental in spreading and consolidating the Masonic message identified. The thesis also explores the role of Freemasonry in the development of the scientific Enlightenment. The evidence suggests that Freemasonry should be recognised not only as the most prominent of the many eighteenth century fraternal organisations, but also as a significant cultural vector and a compelling component of the social, economic, scientific and political transformation then in progress.
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Fenton, Clive B. "Appleton's architects : building the University of Edinburgh (1949-65)". Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/4057.
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The thesis examines and explains the background events to the architecture of the University of Edinburgh during the years 1949-65, when Sir Edward Appleton was the Principal. The four books that constitute the thesis each take different perspectives on the progress of the post-war expansion project. Appleton had to reconcile Edinburgh's policy to reintegrate dispersed University departments within the city-centre with a rapid and unprecedented and expansion in higher education. Selection of sites was the subject of a prolonged and heated debate, which is related in Book One. Aided by a formidable array of architectural talent, Appleton persuaded the local and national authorities that the controversial George Square development, in tandem with a separate suburban site for science expansion, would produce the most desirable outcome. The second book discusses the style of architecture that was produced, looking at the pre-war background of the Edinburgh School architects: William Kininmonth, Basil Spence, Robert Matthew and Alan Reiach. The influences are traced to Scandinavia and the architects' preoccupation with cultural nationalism. These factors combined with the ethos of reconstruction and the City's ambitions for cultural regeneration to create architecture with a resonance particular to its time and place. How, and why, this is regarded as Festival Style is explained. The academic and social objectives of the Universities, as directed by Humanists and Christians in influential positions, were crucial to the architectural outcome, and these are investigated in Book Three. A large amenity centre was planned for the University area and an important purpose-built halls-of-residence development achieved at a site near the city-centre in consequence of this. Edinburgh's own tradition, emanating from Patrick Geddes, played a significant part in the development of residences and student amenities, particularly the rehabilitation of a large 17th century building in the heart of the Old Town. Finally, in Book Four, the relationships between the architects and the theoretical antipathies they encountered are considered. The University provided a forum for interaction between the architects, with Matthew emerging as the dominant figure, advising Appleton on architecture and planning, and ultimately setting up a University Department of Architecture. For him, the University project was part of a social mission and architecture its tool. Kininmonth, the first post-war architect to the University, was displaced by Matthew's arrival. Spence's approach to urban design was crucial in the realisation of the George Square project, and yet he too was replaced when that was achieved. All of these architects encountered the dichotomies of Modernity and Tradition, and Science vs. Art, though with differing responses. Architects and University ultimately experienced the conflict between pragmatism and idealism. Viewed in its context. the achievement of Appleton was remarkable and, as a result, the University of Edinburgh must be considered the most extraordinary patron of architecture of the period.
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Fong, Gordon, e 方國棟. "The business of architecture or how architects market themselves". Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1988. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31264311.
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Fedeski, Michael H. "The environmental performance of buildings : design aid for architects". Thesis, Cardiff University, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.260148.
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Arnaud, Virginie B. (Virginie Blandine). "Quantifying architects' and engineers' use of structural design software". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/82174.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2013.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis. Page 137 blank.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-136).
Both architects and engineers encounter significant barriers and hurdles that compartmentalize both fields and increase the complexity of collaborative design. In addition to little interaction between both fields, software programs are limited in many aspects. That is why the current industry's organization and tools confront engineers and architects with significant challenges. If improvements are made, they would reduce designers' effort and the time spent to overcome these challenges, and would positively impact the quality of their work. Thus, it is necessary to identify problems in current tools and to study the design process to find areas for improvement in design software programs. This paper presents a discussion on the limitations of structural design software and a study on the differences between architects and engineers during the design process through the analysis of the use of a newly developed framework: StructureFIT. This tool was recently developed at MIT and aims to create an interface between both disciplines. In this thesis, a usability study and a questionnaire were specifically designed to gather data from 38 graduate students of architecture and engineering. This material aims to assess users' level of satisfaction with current tools, identify the areas to be improved in current software programs, quantify the differences in designers' practices, and assess StructureFIT. The analysis of findings suggests that users are not fully satisfied with current tools. The reason is that most design tools do not easily foster the exploration of structural alternatives due to lack of user-friendliness, compared to StructureFIT that did meet the users' demands. This work also provides a better understanding of engineers' and architects' respective design approaches as discussed through the analysis of the usability study results. Lastly, StructureFIT does provide a positive design exploration for designers, since the tool enabled users to dramatically improve structural performance while providing a wide diversity of solutions. The richness of generated efficient design solutions is what makes StructureFIT an innovative and promising approach.
by Virginie B. Arnaud.
M.Eng.
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Khan, Nadir Mohammad. "Searching for identity : the approaches of three Pakistani architects". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67394.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1990.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 101-104).
This thesis attempts to deal with some of the major issues relating to Pakistani architecture today as well as the consequent development of an architectural identity. In order to establish the framework for the study various discourses that reflect on the notion of identity have been examined. Due to the lack of an indigenous architectural discourse, and the consequent absence of critically rigorous information on the subject, this work is devoted to augmenting the very limited material available on the state of the architectural profession in Pakistan and to increasing an awareness of the directions that this architecture is presently taking. As a means of furthering an understanding of architecture in Pakistan the first part of this thesis provides some information on the development of architecture in Pakistan both in terms of historical evolution as well as through the development of educational institutions such as The National College of Arts. The rest of the work deals with the existing and emerging 'directions' (in Pakistani architecture) as they are manifested in the projects of several influential architects. The three architects chosen for this study and whose work best represents the current range of architecture in Pakistan are; Habib Fida Ali, one of the most experienced and respected architects in Karachi, who having studied at the Architectural Association is a strong proponent of the modern aesthetic. Habib Fida Ali represents the 'modern' current that runs through Pakistani architecture.
(cont.) Nayyar Ali Dada, an N.C.A. trained architect who has had the opportunity to do a great deal of important work both in Lahore and Islamabad. Nayyar Dada embodies in his work and approach the majority of architecture in Pakistan, which while aspiring towards modernism is affected not only by the living vernacular traditions but also by the fast developing rejectionist attitude towards modernism. Kamil Khan Mumtaz, as he makes quite clear in his book Architecture in Pakistan is a supporter of the "vernacular tradition". Kamil Khan is an architectural practitioner and a noted academic, who was the head of the department of architecture at the National College of Arts, Lahore between the years 1%6-1975. An evaluation of these architects' work is to be undertaken on two levels - a critical analysis of their built work and an understanding of their own attitudes and approaches towards architecture, especially their evaluations of Pakistani architecture. This thesis can only be viewed as an introduction to their work and aims to get others interested in the multifaceted architecture being carried out in Pakistan today. I conclude with some thoughts on the notion of a Pakistani architectural identity and on the question of 'revivalism' which is gaining considerable prominence among influential circles in Pakistan.
by Nadir Mohammad Khan.
M.S.
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Telomen, Christopher. "Landscape Genealogy: A Site Analysis Framework for Landscape Architects". Thesis, University of Oregon, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23812.
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Landscape architects and researchers often try to understand power by relying on allegory or symbology to interpret expressions of authority and ideology in space. This research proposes an interdisciplinary perspective and method based on Michel Foucault’s theories of power relations to empirically analyze the discursive and material power relations in built designs. This new method of daylighting power relations is called landscape genealogy, and is applied to Director Park in Portland, Oregon. Landscape genealogy demonstrates that by charting the shifting objects, subjects, concepts, and strategies of archival discourse and connecting them to the shifting material conditions of a site, landscape researchers can daylight the societal power relations and conditions of possibility that produced a design. The results of this research indicate that landscape genealogy as a method is well-suited to producing defensible analyses of power relations in landscape designs with well-documented discursive and spatial archives.
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Keane, Jondi, e n/a. "Arakawa and Gins: The Practice of Embodied Cognition". Griffith University. School of Arts, 2006. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20070122.165000.
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This thesis will examine the works of artists-turned-architects, Arakawa and Gins in light of current research in the arts and sciences on affect and self-organisation. The aim of their project is to arrive at a 'daily research' in which a person may: 1. observe and learn about the operations of his or her own perception and action; 2. interact (dismantle and re-assemble) the identity boundaries reinforced by the habitual implementation of concept and category. This thesis takes account of multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to embodiment and engages Arakawa and Gins from a practising artist's point of view. Given this practical orientation of the study, the aim is to makes a series of critical reflections on the work of Arakawa and Gins and demonstrate how such an approach brings theory and practice together. Exploration of the central aspects of their processes will prepare a person (researcher or practitioner) to begin a practice that is designed to combine studies of embodiment with the co-evolving relationship of organisms and their surroundings, to form the basis of a practice of embodied cognition. The thesis sets out this investigation into three chapters. In Chapter 1, I propose that the context for Arakawa and Gins' work be understood as the result of multidisciplinary interarticulations and multi-modal approaches to embodied activity. The position they occupy in relation to disciplinary endeavours such as art, architecture, psychology, bio-topology and theoretical physics is a process of constant problematisation, convergence and repositioning. A survey of key writings on Arakawa and Gins demonstrates the complexity of their work and the difficulties authors encounter situating them within a context that adequately addresses the scope of their project. In Chapter 2, I map a series of activities that accrue to form embodied configurations made perceptible by Arakawa and Gins' procedural architecture. These tactics apply to the observational-heuristic stance they take towards the perceptions and actions that constitute a person's identity boundaries as well as the transformational approach they take towards perceptions and actions that construct the material surrounds. I propose that the movements initiated by their architectural procedures become the practice of embodied cognition. That is, the ability to increase awareness and construct the shape of awareness is, at the same time, the ability to observe and learn about the anatomical, physiological basis of cognition. Through Æffective readings and embodied engagements I explore how Arakawa and Gins propose that the distribution of awareness may reconfigure the relationships among the organism-person-surround. The practice that repositions a person in relation to him- or herself, to others, to constructions of knowledge and modes of acquiring knowledge, questions the autonomy of any construct, especially constructs that are historically entrenched such as the organism, art, science or agency in general. In Chapter 3, I argue that by investigating the connection between and across the organism, person and surround, a person must reconsider activities, such as judgment and Reason, as ongoing embodied processes. The implication of such a shift impacts upon everyday practices as well as vocational and professional practices aligned with research and development. Throughout this thesis I argue that tactics of Arakawa and Gins' procedural architecture and the ethics of their reversible destiny project are the most productive way to approach the practical and theoretical inquiry into the contributions that humans can make towards co-constructing the world. The complex and intricate processes that emerge from their work will enhance the quality of life by allowing persons to apply the benefits of research in art and science to everyday actions. By devising procedures for re-entering perception and action, the transition from self-awareness to a practice of embodied cognition acquires a renewed urgency for daily life. Further, I have suggested that Arakawa and Gins' works demonstrates how deliberate recursive action may become a practice of embodied cognition. This occurs in three ways. Firstly, any form of deliberate assessment and coordination of top-down conceptual-analytical processing and bottom-up perceptual processing will open the activities of reasoning, selecting, deciding, and judging to new embodied modes of knowledge acquisition and therefore to unprecedented configurations of value. Secondly, the reconfiguration of what counts as knowledge, from an ontological perspective, impacts upon research processes and the way in which research cultures are situated in relation to communities. Lastly, the practice of embodied cognition sets a new agenda for convergent 'daily research' especially the interaction between art and the 'outside of art' and between third-person science and the science of our own fiction. These practical actions will counteract our commitment to closure on many fronts, both personal and historical, from the education of the senses to the construction of social justice.
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Hays, Johanna A. "Louise Blanchard Bethune architect extraordinaire and first American woman architect, practiced in Buffalo, New York (1881-1905) /". Auburn, Ala., 2007. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/07M%20Dissertations/HAYS_JOHANNA_23.pdf.
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Keane, Jondi. "Arakawa and Gins: The Practice of Embodied Cognition". Thesis, Griffith University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366056.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
This thesis will examine the works of artists-turned-architects, Arakawa and Gins in light of current research in the arts and sciences on affect and self-organisation. The aim of their project is to arrive at a 'daily research' in which a person may: 1. observe and learn about the operations of his or her own perception and action; 2. interact (dismantle and re-assemble) the identity boundaries reinforced by the habitual implementation of concept and category. This thesis takes account of multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to embodiment and engages Arakawa and Gins from a practising artist's point of view. Given this practical orientation of the study, the aim is to makes a series of critical reflections on the work of Arakawa and Gins and demonstrate how such an approach brings theory and practice together. Exploration of the central aspects of their processes will prepare a person (researcher or practitioner) to begin a practice that is designed to combine studies of embodiment with the co-evolving relationship of organisms and their surroundings, to form the basis of a practice of embodied cognition. The thesis sets out this investigation into three chapters. In Chapter 1, I propose that the context for Arakawa and Gins' work be understood as the result of multidisciplinary interarticulations and multi-modal approaches to embodied activity. The position they occupy in relation to disciplinary endeavours such as art, architecture, psychology, bio-topology and theoretical physics is a process of constant problematisation, convergence and repositioning. A survey of key writings on Arakawa and Gins demonstrates the complexity of their work and the difficulties authors encounter situating them within a context that adequately addresses the scope of their project. In Chapter 2, I map a series of activities that accrue to form embodied configurations made perceptible by Arakawa and Gins' procedural architecture. These tactics apply to the observational-heuristic stance they take towards the perceptions and actions that constitute a person's identity boundaries as well as the transformational approach they take towards perceptions and actions that construct the material surrounds. I propose that the movements initiated by their architectural procedures become the practice of embodied cognition. That is, the ability to increase awareness and construct the shape of awareness is, at the same time, the ability to observe and learn about the anatomical, physiological basis of cognition. Through Æffective readings and embodied engagements I explore how Arakawa and Gins propose that the distribution of awareness may reconfigure the relationships among the organism-person-surround. The practice that repositions a person in relation to him- or herself, to others, to constructions of knowledge and modes of acquiring knowledge, questions the autonomy of any construct, especially constructs that are historically entrenched such as the organism, art, science or agency in general. In Chapter 3, I argue that by investigating the connection between and across the organism, person and surround, a person must reconsider activities, such as judgment and Reason, as ongoing embodied processes. The implication of such a shift impacts upon everyday practices as well as vocational and professional practices aligned with research and development. Throughout this thesis I argue that tactics of Arakawa and Gins' procedural architecture and the ethics of their reversible destiny project are the most productive way to approach the practical and theoretical inquiry into the contributions that humans can make towards co-constructing the world. The complex and intricate processes that emerge from their work will enhance the quality of life by allowing persons to apply the benefits of research in art and science to everyday actions. By devising procedures for re-entering perception and action, the transition from self-awareness to a practice of embodied cognition acquires a renewed urgency for daily life. Further, I have suggested that Arakawa and Gins' works demonstrates how deliberate recursive action may become a practice of embodied cognition. This occurs in three ways. Firstly, any form of deliberate assessment and coordination of top-down conceptual-analytical processing and bottom-up perceptual processing will open the activities of reasoning, selecting, deciding, and judging to new embodied modes of knowledge acquisition and therefore to unprecedented configurations of value. Secondly, the reconfiguration of what counts as knowledge, from an ontological perspective, impacts upon research processes and the way in which research cultures are situated in relation to communities. Lastly, the practice of embodied cognition sets a new agenda for convergent 'daily research' especially the interaction between art and the 'outside of art' and between third-person science and the science of our own fiction. These practical actions will counteract our commitment to closure on many fronts, both personal and historical, from the education of the senses to the construction of social justice.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Arts
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Tsoi, Yuk-man Desmond. "An introductory study of the implementation of interdisciplinary design and management for a developer-builder". Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B3678901X.
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