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Spatial Negotiations In A Commercial City: The Red Sea Port Of Mocha, Yemen During The First Half Of The Eighteenth Century, Nancy Um Jun 2003

Spatial Negotiations In A Commercial City: The Red Sea Port Of Mocha, Yemen During The First Half Of The Eighteenth Century, Nancy Um

Art History Faculty Scholarship

The city of Mocha in Yemen was one of the most important Red Sea ports of the early modern Arab world, handling the trade of spices, textiles, metals, local aromatics and coffee beans. This essay examines the urban structures that governed the needs and practices of merchants in the city during the first half of the eighteenth century. Drawing on contemporary Arabic chronicles, archival European trade documents, historical photographs, and field work in the city, it documents the conspicuous absence of a network of public trade structures, like the urban khan, the expected locus for trade in an Arab city …


A Cluster And Spatial Analysis Of Ceremonial Architecture At Late Postclassic Mayapan, Timothy W. Pugh Jan 2003

A Cluster And Spatial Analysis Of Ceremonial Architecture At Late Postclassic Mayapan, Timothy W. Pugh

Timothy W Pugh

No abstract provided.


The Exemplary Center Of The Late Postclassic Kowoj Maya, Timothy W. Pugh Jan 2003

The Exemplary Center Of The Late Postclassic Kowoj Maya, Timothy W. Pugh

Timothy W Pugh

No abstract provided.


El Cerro De Las Balsas Y El Chinchorro: Una Aproximación A La Arqueología Del Poblamiento Prehistórico E Ibérico En La Albufereta De Alicante., Pablo Rosser Jan 2003

El Cerro De Las Balsas Y El Chinchorro: Una Aproximación A La Arqueología Del Poblamiento Prehistórico E Ibérico En La Albufereta De Alicante., Pablo Rosser

pablo rosser

PABLO ROSSER, J. ELAYI, J.M. PÉREZ BURGOS. Estudio amplio de las intervenciones arqueológicas realizadas en el Cerro de las Balsas / Tossal de les Basses, Albufereta, Alicante. Monográfico nº 2, de la Revista LQNT.


Architect Nikola Dobrović—A Member Of The Heroic Generation, Jelena Bogdanović Jan 2003

Architect Nikola Dobrović—A Member Of The Heroic Generation, Jelena Bogdanović

Jelena Bogdanović

The modern movement in the 1920s and 1930s, called the "heroic period" of architecture, was considered a catalyst of the New World. The architectural manifest proclaimed in Vers une architecture by Le Corbusier (1923) asserted the techno-scientific industrial character of the age and announced social revolution as an experiment and epithet of modernism: a democracy where everything is relative, where the machine does the work, where science sets the course for society. Serbian architect Nikola Dobrovic (1897–1967) was educated in Prague and Budapest, and both cities were avant-garde centers at that time. As early as June 1930, in Hat Bouwbedrijf, …


Instituting Exclusiveness: Modern Lebanese Architects And Their Society, Marwan Ghandour Jan 2003

Instituting Exclusiveness: Modern Lebanese Architects And Their Society, Marwan Ghandour

Marwan Ghandour

No abstract provided.


Mary Colter: Southwestern Architect And Innovator Of Indigenous Style, Carissa Massey Jan 2003

Mary Colter: Southwestern Architect And Innovator Of Indigenous Style, Carissa Massey

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Mary Colter was an architect who contributed to the regional styles of the American Southwest. Her methods and habits, both as collector and creator, set her apart from her contemporaries as an individual who fervently valued indigenous art and culture. She thoroughly researched Southwestern cultures and used their architectural forms and methods of construction as inspiration for her architecture for tourists. Colter honored Southwestern traditions through her careful research and attention to detail. She was an architect who was passionate about her work and who designed buildings that were and are aesthetically potent. Colter’s unique works, their intimate relationships with …


The Architecture Of Charter Oak Temple, Luiselle Rivera Jan 2003

The Architecture Of Charter Oak Temple, Luiselle Rivera

Hartford Studies Collection: Papers by Students and Faculty

No abstract provided.


The Vietnam Memorial: A Postmodern Reflection, Jonathan Boelkins Jan 2003

The Vietnam Memorial: A Postmodern Reflection, Jonathan Boelkins

Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal

Complex in its cultural significance and entanglements, the Vietnam War is an event that continues to reverberate with social dissonance. The Vietnam Memorial (Maya Lin) sustains multiple, often oppositional, debates surrounding the Vietnam War. The Vietnam Memorial: A Postmodern Reflection examines the significance of the memorial with regard to American cultural history. The physical experience of the memorial-the decisive yet subtle geometry, the polished black marble, the chronological listing of names, and the scarring of the ground plane-is described with particular focus on the bond between material and social "reflection." This paper utilizes the Vietnam Memorial to discuss architecture's ability …


Dar Islam Mosque, Albuquerque, New Mexico Studio Design Project, Melissa Harlan Jan 2003

Dar Islam Mosque, Albuquerque, New Mexico Studio Design Project, Melissa Harlan

Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal

In historically Muslim countries, mosques take the prescribed form of a large hall with adjacent courtyard, minaret(s), and ornately decorated entrance portal. With Islam's spread to the United States, the mosque no longer takes this form, due to construction and technological conventions, as well as the diminished economic will of the religious community. The design for the Dar Islam Mosque in Albuquerque, New Mexico takes a position of difference in response to the current debate in the Muslim community over historicism versus contextualism of mosques, where the individual's response to the space is primary, with emphasis placed on disconnecting from …


The Sanctuary Of Apollo Hypoakraios And Imperial Athens, Peter Nulton Dec 2002

The Sanctuary Of Apollo Hypoakraios And Imperial Athens, Peter Nulton

Peter E. Nulton Ph.D.

The Cave Sanctuary of Apollo on the North Slope of the Acropolis at Athens was investigated in 1896-97 and produced a rich collection of inscriptions relating to the cult. These inscriptions are published in full for the first time in this work. The author discusses the history of the cult. Far from being of great antiquity as readers of Euripides' "Ion" have long assumed, the cult was instituted in the time of Augustus when "The Athenians thought it fitting that their archons swear an oath that upheld tradition in connection to Apollo Patroos, but simultaneously honored their 'new Apollo'", the …


Interview: Stan Allen *88, Rebuilding America, Ludmilla Pavlova-Gillham, Eric Lubell Dec 2002

Interview: Stan Allen *88, Rebuilding America, Ludmilla Pavlova-Gillham, Eric Lubell

Ludmilla D Pavlova

Interview with Stan Allen, Dean of the Princeton University School of Architecture, discussing why Princeton is so well represented among the finalists for the World Trade Center competition and how the University and its faculty has influenced architecture and architectural discourse.


Prehistoric Modernity: The Architecture Of Frank Gehry, Ian Rae Dec 2002

Prehistoric Modernity: The Architecture Of Frank Gehry, Ian Rae

Ian Rae

No abstract provided.


Instituting Exclusiveness: Modern Lebanese Architects And Their Society, Marwan Ghandour Dec 2002

Instituting Exclusiveness: Modern Lebanese Architects And Their Society, Marwan Ghandour

Marwan Ghandour

No abstract provided.