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Red Stone, Invisible Legacy: Goan Aesthetics In Charles Correa's Design, Vishvesh Prabhakar Kandolkar, R. Benedito Ferrão
Red Stone, Invisible Legacy: Goan Aesthetics In Charles Correa's Design, Vishvesh Prabhakar Kandolkar, R. Benedito Ferrão
Arts & Sciences Articles
Excerpt from publication: "The obituary for Charles Correa (1930-2015) in the New York Times hails him as an ''American trained" architect, who reached "deep into India's past for inspiration in producing work that is notable for its imagination and breadth."1 Of course, Correa's design practice drew from "Indian" traditions, including the use of the mandala, a sacred geometric configuration associated with Buddhism. The visibility of mandalas in the architect's designs questions the alignment of his legacy with an Indianness that can only be understood as heralding a mythic Hindu past..."
The Cult Of The Nymphs: Identity, Ritual, And Womanhood In Ancient Greece, Ivana Genov
The Cult Of The Nymphs: Identity, Ritual, And Womanhood In Ancient Greece, Ivana Genov
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Examining archeological and epigraphic evidence in its historical context, in this thesis I explore the Cult of the Nymphs venerated across ancient Greek poleis. I analyze the nymph’s profound cultural and historical impact that is often overlooked in the study of ancient Greece. Nymphs were female deities thought to embody ecological sites, such as fountains and springs, and became fundamental to polis identity. Their locations were often central to city plans, and their faces, depicted on coinage, became representative of the city itself. In the community, nymphs were integral to rituals for major life events, most often in the lives …
The Architecture Of Clothing: Notions Of Public And Private Space, Savannah Orsak
The Architecture Of Clothing: Notions Of Public And Private Space, Savannah Orsak
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Space, as defined as a three dimensional extent in which objects and events have relative position and direction, is conversely bound through clothing, architecture, and other margins that organize humanhood for everyday purpose. Continually, clothing imposes and extends itself into everyday experiences and dictates notions of interaction between both people and objects. In this written body of work, my intention is to explore public and private spatial influences within clothing and the ways in which these influences can be curated to reflect and evoke notions of interaction and identity. Following three related studies on space, form, and curation, a survey …
Asking For Forgiveness: Negotiating The Creation Of Memory Through Public Memorialization, Alyssa Castronuovo
Asking For Forgiveness: Negotiating The Creation Of Memory Through Public Memorialization, Alyssa Castronuovo
Undergraduate Honors Theses
The practice of spatializing culture, or “examining space through theories of embodiment, discourse translocality, and effect,” localizes the global and separates hegemonic narratives of space from how it is actually utilized by the people who interact with it. Setha Low argues that this perspective is especially useful to the anthropologist committed to challenging the discipline’s historically eurocentric approach to studying culture. She writes that a spatial focus “[draws] on the strengths of studying people in situ, producing rich and nuanced sociospatial understandings.” This project began with an interest in theorists such as Edward Soja, Michel de Certeau, and Henri Lefebvre, …
"Epic Poems In Bronze": Confederate Memorialization And The Old South's Reckoning With Modernity In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Grace Ford-Dirks
"Epic Poems In Bronze": Confederate Memorialization And The Old South's Reckoning With Modernity In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Grace Ford-Dirks
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Scholars of the American South generally end their studies of Confederate memorization just before World War 1. Because of a decline in the number of physical monuments and memorials to the Confederacy dedicated in the years immediately following the war, scholars appear to regard the interwar era as a period separate from the Lost Cause movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. However, to fully understand the complexity of developing Southern identities in the modern age, it is essential to expand traditional definitions of Confederate memorialization and the time period in which it is studied. This paper explores …
Capitalist Architecture In A Posthumanist World, Lindsay Garcia
Capitalist Architecture In A Posthumanist World, Lindsay Garcia
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
An Enslaved Landscape: The Virginia Plantation At The End Of The Seventeenth Century, David Arthur Brown
An Enslaved Landscape: The Virginia Plantation At The End Of The Seventeenth Century, David Arthur Brown
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Lewis Burwell II designed Fairfield plantation in Gloucester County to be the most sophisticated and successful architectural and agricultural effort in late seventeenth-century Virginia. He envisioned a physical framework with the intent to control the world around him so that he might profit from growing tobacco, while raising his family's status to the highest in the colony through the display of wealth and knowledge and the enslavement of both Africans and the natural surroundings. The landscape he envisioned contrasted with those of the enslaved Africans he purchased and put to work in the fields and buildings surrounding his '1694 brick …
Towns In Mind: Urban Plans, Political Culture, And Empire In The Colonial Chesapeake, 1607--1722, Paul Philip Musselwhite
Towns In Mind: Urban Plans, Political Culture, And Empire In The Colonial Chesapeake, 1607--1722, Paul Philip Musselwhite
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This dissertation charts the contested political and cultural meaning of urbanization in the emerging plantation societies of Virginia and Maryland. Scholars have long asserted that Chesapeake planters' desire for lucre led them to patent huge tracts of land, disperse across the landscape, and completely dismiss urban development. However, through 17 pieces of legislation, colonists, governors, and London administrators actually encouraged towns in the Chesapeake through the seventeenth century. Despite the environmental and agricultural constraints of tidewater tobacco, both colonies wrestled with a perceived need for towns, which consistently appeared to represent the best means to engineer the region's political economy …
The Preservation And Deconstruction Of Hawaii Plantation Style Architecture: A Iea, Waipahu, And Ewa, Jessica Margaret Way
The Preservation And Deconstruction Of Hawaii Plantation Style Architecture: A Iea, Waipahu, And Ewa, Jessica Margaret Way
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"More Than Shelter": Community, Identity, And Spatial Politics In San Francisco Public Housing, 1938--2000, Amy L. Howard
"More Than Shelter": Community, Identity, And Spatial Politics In San Francisco Public Housing, 1938--2000, Amy L. Howard
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
During the second half of the twentieth century, scholars and journalists documented the failures of the public housing program in the United States with a range of studies focusing on the Midwest and East. Problems such as displacement, criminal activity, high vacancy rates, racial segregation, and the isolation of tenants informed critiques of federally-subsidized housing for low-income families. These aspects contributed to the national image of "the projects" as high-rise ghettos, populated primarily by African Americans, and located in run-down areas. Public housing with its position at the crossroads of national, state, and local politics and policies as well as …
Domestic Brick Architecture In Williamsburg: A Comparative Study Of Eighteenth-Century Brick Houses In Williamsburg, Annapolis, And Charleston, Andrew Craig Barry
Domestic Brick Architecture In Williamsburg: A Comparative Study Of Eighteenth-Century Brick Houses In Williamsburg, Annapolis, And Charleston, Andrew Craig Barry
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
New Deal Housing On The Virginia Peninsula: Challenging Jim Crow Paternalism At Swantown And Aberdeen Gardens, Frederick James Carroll
New Deal Housing On The Virginia Peninsula: Challenging Jim Crow Paternalism At Swantown And Aberdeen Gardens, Frederick James Carroll
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Forts Of The Chieftains: A Study Of Vernacular, Classical, And Renaissance Influence On Defensible Town And Villa Plans In 17th-Century Virginia, Charles Thomas Hodges
Forts Of The Chieftains: A Study Of Vernacular, Classical, And Renaissance Influence On Defensible Town And Villa Plans In 17th-Century Virginia, Charles Thomas Hodges
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Colonial Williamsburg's Slave Auction Re-Enactment: Controversy, African American History And Public Memory, Erin Krutko Devlin
Colonial Williamsburg's Slave Auction Re-Enactment: Controversy, African American History And Public Memory, Erin Krutko Devlin
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Creole Gumbo: Ingredients For Maintaining Creole Identity At Laura Plantation, Katherine W. Schupp
Creole Gumbo: Ingredients For Maintaining Creole Identity At Laura Plantation, Katherine W. Schupp
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Domestic Brick Architecture In Early Colonial Virginia, Douglas E. Ross
Domestic Brick Architecture In Early Colonial Virginia, Douglas E. Ross
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
African American History At Colonial Williamsburg, Nicole Carroll
African American History At Colonial Williamsburg, Nicole Carroll
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The John Page House Site: A N Example Of The Increase In Domestic Brick Architecture In Seventeenth-Century Tidewater Virginia, Dwayne Webster Pickett
The John Page House Site: A N Example Of The Increase In Domestic Brick Architecture In Seventeenth-Century Tidewater Virginia, Dwayne Webster Pickett
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Fort Hill: A Representative Of The Structural And Social Hierarchy And Harmony Of Greek Revival Architecture, Beth Ann Spiryson Mcpherson
Fort Hill: A Representative Of The Structural And Social Hierarchy And Harmony Of Greek Revival Architecture, Beth Ann Spiryson Mcpherson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Town Planning And Architecture On Eighteenth Century St Eustatius, Dana Elizabeth Triplett
Town Planning And Architecture On Eighteenth Century St Eustatius, Dana Elizabeth Triplett
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Social And Economic Aspects Of Eighteenth-Century Housing On The Northern Neck Of Virginia, Camille Wells
Social And Economic Aspects Of Eighteenth-Century Housing On The Northern Neck Of Virginia, Camille Wells
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This study is an attempt to discern what eighteenth-century houses--their forms, dimensions, internal organization, and external settings--have to contribute to scholarly understanding of colonial Virginia's society, economy, and culture.;Historic Virginia houses usually were built more recently than traditional scholars and popular writers have supposed, and standing eighteenth-century houses are, almost without exception, far larger and finer than the dwellings most colonial Virginians inhabited. Yet even lightly constructed and shabbily finished houses stood at the center of a complex of buildings where most of the planter's household and agricultural work was performed. Thus eighteenth-century Virginia houses were more mundane and unpretentious …
Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect Of An Age, Alexander O. Boulton
Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect Of An Age, Alexander O. Boulton
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Willoughby-Baylor House: Form And Symbol, Stephanie Mary Keenan
The Willoughby-Baylor House: Form And Symbol, Stephanie Mary Keenan
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Costumes Of The Past: The First Virginia And The Authenticity Of Historical Reenacting, Barry Scott Lovell
The Costumes Of The Past: The First Virginia And The Authenticity Of Historical Reenacting, Barry Scott Lovell
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Architecture Of Slavery: Art, Language, And Society In Early Virginia, Alexander Ormond Boulton
The Architecture Of Slavery: Art, Language, And Society In Early Virginia, Alexander Ormond Boulton
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Inspired by the concept of culture as expressed in the work of Claude Levi-Strauss, this dissertation traces the roots of modern perceptions of slavery and race by analyzing three sites each of which is associated with a distinct cultural pattern and social ideology. The first, Penshurst in Kent England is described as feudal, organic, vernacular, and popular. The second, Westover in tidewater Virginia is classical, rational, and elite. Thomas Jefferson's Monticello in the Virginia piedmont, the third site, is described as romantic, liberal, and bourgeois. It is only at this third site, the locus for a distinctly modern family type, …
The Quaker Influence On Nantucket Architecture: A Case Study, Anne Elizabeth Gaeta
The Quaker Influence On Nantucket Architecture: A Case Study, Anne Elizabeth Gaeta
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Architectural Style On St Eustatius, Suzanne Lee Sanders
Architectural Style On St Eustatius, Suzanne Lee Sanders
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Planning And Development Of Two Moravian Congregation Towns: Salem, North Carolina And Gracehill, Northern Ireland, Christopher E. Hendricks
The Planning And Development Of Two Moravian Congregation Towns: Salem, North Carolina And Gracehill, Northern Ireland, Christopher E. Hendricks
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Seminar For Historical Administration: Companion To Change, William Joseph Tramposch
The Seminar For Historical Administration: Companion To Change, William Joseph Tramposch
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Churchyard Enclosure Around The Elizabeth City Parish Church Of 1728: With Systemic And Proxemic Considerations, Anne W. H. Garland
The Churchyard Enclosure Around The Elizabeth City Parish Church Of 1728: With Systemic And Proxemic Considerations, Anne W. H. Garland
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.