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Wiped Clean, Elizabeth H. Hunter Jan 2017

Wiped Clean, Elizabeth H. Hunter

Theses and Dissertations

It seems that all forms of pain, quotidian and monumental, are catalogued in the same muted and inaccessible space in our memory. In my installation Wiped Clean, I question whether human capacity to externalize physical trauma is aided by a the physical design of our institutions. I examine the architectures and structural mechanisms that mediate traumatic and intimate experiences with our bodies, and explore the potential of self-formation within these conditions.


Evans, Tattnall, Toombs Counties Historic Resources Survey, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Jan 2017

Evans, Tattnall, Toombs Counties Historic Resources Survey, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

Finding Aids

This collection consists of ten volumes containing surveys of historic buildings and resources in three Georgia counties (Evans, Tattnall, Toombs) circa 1970.

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Ua1f Wku Buildings & Grounds, Wku Archives Jan 2017

Ua1f Wku Buildings & Grounds, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Records

Bibliography of sources regarding buildings, construction and the WKU campus.


Percy H. Perkins, Jr. Architectural Drawings, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Jan 2017

Percy H. Perkins, Jr. Architectural Drawings, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

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This collection consists of materials relating to author and gemologist Percy H. Perkins. Materials span 1923 to 1985, and consist of architecture drawings for various significant buildings in southeast Georgia, including a six room schoolhouse in Claxton, GA, Pembroke State Bank, the Stadium & Athletic Field for Morris Brown College, the Women's Dormitory School for Officers’ Training at The Salvation Army Headquarters, Bacon County Elementary School, Claxton High School, and Evans County Training School.

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Reimagining Lalehzar Street, Sara Khorshidifard Dec 2016

Reimagining Lalehzar Street, Sara Khorshidifard

Sara Khorshidifard

Abandoned buildings are premium assets for reclamation, innovation, and urban growth. Such opportunities
exist in Tehran’s oldest downtown corridor of Lalehzar. Lalehzar was Tehran’s first modern street in the early twentieth century. Toward the middle of the century, Lalehzar became the country’s hub for cinema and theatre goers. This important street today is a dilapidated shopping district that contains Iran’s main retail corridor for electrical appliances. Lalehzar’s decline is mostly a result of its close-down as an entertainment ward between the 1950s and 1970s. The street currently houses numerous rundown, boarded-up, and empty buildings. The jewels of Lalehzar’s buildings are …