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Full-Text Articles in Architecture
Isolate To A Controllable Space, Simone Frances
Isolate To A Controllable Space, Simone Frances
MFA Thesis Exhibit Catalogs
Centered around the public arena of institutional architecture and its impact on the social being, in this recent work, entitled, Isolate to a Controllable Space, I focus on questions such as how do public environments work to sustain and reiterate meaning through our own sense of where we should be, or where we are permitted to be. I use photography to approach questions that ask how do systems and infrastructures obtain functionality through our participation; acknowledging that systems are conductors of the personal and participatory process of identification and categorization.
Climate In Architecture: Revision Of Early Origins, Ursula Anna Freire Castro
Climate In Architecture: Revision Of Early Origins, Ursula Anna Freire Castro
Latin American Studies ETDs
This dissertation expands the comprehension of the history of climate in architecture by examining the evolution of the architectural meanings, uses, representations, and simulations of climate between 1800 and the present by means of a historical critical analysis of two scientific artifacts that attempted to model climate for the first time in the fields of geography and architecture. The Naturgemälde (1799 – Alexander von Humboldt) was a type of infographic image that simulated conceptually climate as a global system. The Climatron (1954 – Victor Olgyay) was a laboratory machine that physically simulated climate to test building scaled-models.
Primary data was …
Paper Presented At The National Council Of Preservation Education Conference, Samuel E. Sisneros
Paper Presented At The National Council Of Preservation Education Conference, Samuel E. Sisneros
University Libraries & Learning Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications
Historic preservation’s principles and practices directly correlate and support the charge of librarians and archivists to provide resources for the public and contribute to scholarship and community building. This paper, presented at the National Council of Preservation Education conference in Denver, Colorado (Oct. 10-12, 2019), will discuss the research methodologies, historical context and preservation issues of a recovery project of an historic site in New Mexico.
Belén Plaza Vieja And Colonial Church Preservation And Interpretive Plan, Samuel Sisneros
Belén Plaza Vieja And Colonial Church Preservation And Interpretive Plan, Samuel Sisneros
University Libraries & Learning Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications
The vision and mission of the Belén Plaza Vieja Preservation Committee is to recover the buried and forgotten history of the town of Belén’s first church and plaza and recreate to some extent the “Plaza Vieja” site to be a vibrant social and educational destination so that local community members and visitors can discover and reclaim this important historical treasure as a vibrant social and spiritual space. It is hoped that this preservation and interpretive plan serves to inform the Belén Plaza Vieja Colonial Church site property owners and stakeholders of possible options and strategies towards a coordinated effort to …