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Zones Of Entanglement: Nigeria's Real And Imagined Compounds, Joseph Godlewski

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

This article is part of TDSR, Volume XXVII, Number II, 2017

From the article abstract: This article examines the architectural and discursive configurations of traditional walled compounds in Nigeria. It begins by discussing the spatial and social organization of compounds in different regions of the country, focusing on the impermanent structures of the Èfik in and around the southeastern port city of Old Calabar. It then examines archival evidence to highlight the ways that compounds have been rhetorically constructed by European observers and post-independence scholars. It concludes that a more productive reading results from understanding the compound as a zone …

Complicated Agency, Brian Lonsway

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

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Formerly Urban: Projecting Rust Belt Futures, Mark Robbins, Stephanie Miner, Nancy Cantor, Julia Czerniak, Darren Petrucci, Jane Wolff, Mclain Clutter, Hunter Morrison, Damon Rich, Toni L. Griffin, Don Mitchell

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

A two-day conference on the benefits of creating urbanity in weak-market cities gathers twenty-one international experts in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design, as well as planning, policy, finance, economics, and real estate development. Participants share strategies for cities whose urban character has devolved radically due to economic, demographic, and physical change - cities that are now considered "formerly urban."

Design And Technology Workshops 2006|2010, Mark D. Linder

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

Design and technology workshops are a key feature to the Syracuse Architecture M.Arch 1 program. All first and second year students and their faculty participate in these two-day events that reinforce the need to integrate all aspects of the core curriculum.

The Experience Of A Lifestyle, Brian Lonsway

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

This essay traces the evolution of themed environment design from theme parks to a series of new architectural types – Urban Entertainment Destinations, Lifestyle Enhancement Centers, and Lifestyle Villages – as a chronicle of spatial mediation from urban décor to urban design technique. Culled partly through semiotic deconstruction and partly through ethnographic investigation, this history examines the environmental design techniques employed in these spaces in order to better understand the relationship of design practice to the cultural practices of work and leisure.

From spatialized branding strategies to the neo-urbanist configurations of location-based entertainment, leisure/entertainment ventures use these narratively motivated techniques …

Thesis Awards 1998-1999, Syracuse University

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

This small publication is a record of the noteable thesis projects from 1998-1999.

The Dichotomy Between Technology And Architecture, Charles E. Croom

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

Croom presents an article dealing with technology and its affect and implications in the field of architectural design.

Urbanism - Toward A More Humanized Environment, Norman Pressman

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

Pressman discusses the nature of urban environments and the implications for Human interaction and occupation within them.

Change And The Environment, Mark L. Moseman

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

Moseman deals with consciously imposed environmental change relative to particular areas of social science theory and methodology. He also deals with the role of that person who investigates and instigates change relative to the social and physical environment.

Aspects Of Order And Chaos For The Cityscape, Nickolaos A. Rombos

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

Rombos explores the qualities of experience, specifically within urban contexts, aiming to define those factors which affect through visual perception and human behavior. within his inquiry of the type of experience.