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Radicalization Of The Spectacle: Fostering Free Artistic Expression Through Architecture, Mackenzie Lubin
Radicalization Of The Spectacle: Fostering Free Artistic Expression Through Architecture, Mackenzie Lubin
Architecture Senior Theses
My thesis, entitled Radicalization of the Spectacle, explores the intersection between the urban conditions of New York City, Times Square, and the notion of radicalization. The term ‘radicalization’ refers to an extreme change in worldly affairs. This term is critical in understanding my view of architecture, as it suggests architecture must formatively react to changes in culture, climate, politics, etc. Moreover, the term ‘radical’ is aggressively progressive and favors social reform performance, adding an urgency for new ideas to form. Secondly, the term ‘Spectacle’ refers to a visually and spatially arresting event that is dramatic in occurrence. The act of …
Compact Community, Abdulrazzak Alanjari
Compact Community, Abdulrazzak Alanjari
Architecture Thesis Prep
Small and compact spaces achieve a certain lightness
and “smallness” that large-scale architecture obviously
cannot achieve. The contention for my thesis is to explicitly
study the obsession with the large in Kuwait and
reasons for it, which might include climate, expanses of
land, and rapid oil industry development. By doing so,
a new typology for small spaces can be introduced in
Kuwait City and integrated into Al Sawaber Residential
community, the site, by expanding on certain elements
unique to the foreign labor communities and formally
creating spaces for that community, since they tend to
live with so little (space, luxuries, …
The Spatial Pattern Of Upper Income Class Residential Location In Rio De Janerio, Brazil, Regina Bienenstein Zoninsein
The Spatial Pattern Of Upper Income Class Residential Location In Rio De Janerio, Brazil, Regina Bienenstein Zoninsein
Architecture Master Theses
This study is about the residential location of the upper-income class in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It focuses on the spatial pattern of this location and its relationship with the characteristics of the natural environment and the availability of public services and facilities.
It shows that Rio de Janeiro's spatial structure up to the nineteenth century was similar to the Latin American Colonial Model: the city developed around the main plaza which concentrated the elite class.
During the nineteenth century, the first elite settlements were formed outside the city center in a spatial pattern which approximated to Hoyt's Sector Model: …
Historicism And Morphology Of City Form, Kermit J. Lee Jr
Historicism And Morphology Of City Form, Kermit J. Lee Jr
School of Architecture - All Scholarship
Kermit Lee presents ideas about Urban design, relating the historic practice to contemporary times.
Urbanism - Toward A More Humanized Environment, Norman Pressman
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.