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A Nation Is A Machine For Capital, Brian J. Nachtrab

EURēCA: Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement

The 21st century has been fraught with deeply impactful inflection points in the trajectory of our nation. These pivotal moments affect varying and at times overlapping aspects of our lives, whether they be cultural, economic, spatial, or otherwise. The timeline of this thesis kicks off with one of these inflection points; the 2010 Supreme Court case Citizens United v. FEC. Effectively opening the door for corporate financial involvement (read: meddling and black-mailing) in the political sphere, the paradigm shift this case brought sets the stage for extrapolation and speculation of an alternate reality; a reality where corporations are the …

Bundesgartenschau Mannheim (1975): Sustainable Urban Development Through A Horticultural Festival, Aubrey Sofia Bader

Haslam Scholars Projects

The purpose of this research was to analyze the success of the 1975 Mannheim Bundesgartenschau (BUGA-MA), a highly visible and popular BUGA then and now, in achieving sustainable development. A BUGA is a German Federal Horticulture Show, but it is not simply a one-time exhibition; it is a full-time commitment to sustainable development in German cities and regions. BUGAs are complex undertakings, involving national and regional players, and they are fine-tuned to the sustainable needs of their respective location and culture. This presentation will outline the key tenets of sustainability addressed by BUGAs and analyze the degree of their success …

Rights Of The Way: Investigations Of Streetness, Mike Lidwin

Haslam Scholars Projects

Current urban planning often valorizes large scale interventions in the city, reducing the complexity of the street into a mere element for beautification, redirection, or compartmentalization. In doing so, urban planning glosses over the impact that small-scale interventions can have in affecting larger urban metabolisms. This project explores architecture’s capacity to reengage public infrastructure with streetness, which describes the underlying quality and latent situations that occur along the street’s contested territory.

Rights of the Way addresses issues of agency. It delights in the possibility that individuals can control access to urban spaces and author public life. It involves corporate space, …

Dual Current: Inseparable Elements In Painting And Architecture (Exhibition Catalogue), Sam Yates, Gabriele Evertz

Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture

Dual Current: Inseparable Elements in Painting and Architecture, curated by Gabriele Evertz, examines the relationship between painting and architecture in a contemporary context through color, shape, and theory.

The artists whose works are featured in this exhibition are: Josef Albers, Matthew Deleget , Peter Dudek, Cris Gianakos, Michelle Grabner, Lynne Harlow, Changha Hwang, Russell Maltz, Rossana Martinez, Kristine Marx, and Manfred Mohr. Their works link three-dimensional space and the picture plane to create radical new forms. Dual Current explores the relationship between painting and architecture, closely intertwined since the Renaissance.

Surrogate Infrastructures: Human Consciousness In The Information Age, Cayce Davis

Haslam Scholars Projects

This project is a study of collective memory in a place and time of intense change, intending to facilitate a conversation about the complexities of remembering and the challenges of humanizing the past in an increasingly fast-paced and consumption-driven world. As it critiques the architectural and anti-spatial precedents of newly suburban Poland, it imagines and exploits alternate narratives for a site that has been heretofore saturated by the singularity of its Holocaust past.

Grappling with the absurdities of history and historiography in Kraków and across the globe, the program takes on a series of infrastructures, imbued with temporal potentials, to …

Selected Projects: The Architecture Of Bruce Mccarty (Exhibition Catalogue), Bruce Mccarty, Sam Yates, Thomas K. Davis, Marleen Kay Davis, Doug Mccarty, Robert Holsaple, Dean J. Almy Iii

Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture

Exhibition catalogue published to accompany the 2004 Ewing Gallery exhibition, Selected Projects: The Architecture of Bruce McCarty.

McCarty (1920 - 2013) was a noted American modern architect who designed many buildings in Knoxville and on the UT Campus. These include the Lawson McGlee LIbrary, the Knoxville City County Building, Clarence Brown Theatre, the University of Tennessee Humanities COmplex and the University of Tennessee Art + Architecture Building.

The Wooden Architecture Of Little Poland (Exhibition Catalogue), Marian Moffett

Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture

This catalogue and exhibition was supported by Grants from the International Research and Exchanges Board (using funding provided by the US Information Agency, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Ford Foundation), and the UTK Faculty Development Fund. It presents research conducted between January and June 1993 on wooden building in the southern districts of Poland in the foothills and ridges of the Carpathian mountains.

The Cantilever Barn In East Tennessee (Exhibition Catalogue), Marian Moffett, Lawrence Wodehouse

Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture

This catalogue is an exploration of the only building type indigenous to East Tennessee. This publication, and the exhibition which it accompanies, represent a preliminary report on the cantilever barn in East Tennessee, based upon field studies conducted over a five-month period in early 1984.

Painting Toward Architecture, Department Of Art

Historical Material

Travelling exhibition from the Miller Company Collection.