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The Case For Reparations And The Path To Reclaiming Lost Community 2023 Sneapa, New Haven, Ct Friday, October 6 Providence Cultural Equity Initiative, Edgar Adams, Brian Hendrickson, Donald King, Raymond Two Hawks Watson

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

The Case for Reparations and the Path to Reclaiming Lost Community.

Equitable Renewal: Reclamation + Repair, Edgar Adams

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

Reparations are one crucial means of acknowledging the irreparable harm done to BIPOC populations since the colonization of this country. Providence Rhode Island is one of several cities that have begun the difficult process of confronting the impacts of spatial injustice. By focusing on the Urban Renewal programs of the 50’s and 60’s, reparations programs offer an opportunity to examine the role of the planning and architecture professions in blindly perpetuating the racist policies that, coupled with discriminatory real estate and lending practices, are responsible for our current landscape of inequality. Without a clearer accounting for the lasting impacts of …

An Architecture Of Cracks, Debris, Junkspace, And The Alethosphere, John Shannon Hendrix

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

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Diagrams Of Desire: Psychoanalysis In Architecture, John Shannon Hendrix

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

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Idealism And Psychoanalysis In Architecture, John Shannon Hendrix

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Metapsychology And Metaphysics Of The Self, John Shannon Hendrix

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Crease: Synchronous Gait By Minimizing Actuation Through Folded Geometry, Olga Mesa, Saurabh Mhatre, Dan Aukes

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

The Age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution promises the integration and synergy of disciplines to arrive at meaningful and comprehensive solutions. As computation and fabrication methods become pervasive, they present platforms for communication. Value exists in diverse disciplines bringing their approach to a common conversation, proposing demands, and potentials in response to entrenched challenges. Robotics has expanded recently as computational analysis, and digital fabrication methods are more accurate and reliable. Advances in functional microelectromechanical components have resulted in the design of new robots presenting alternatives to traditional ambulatory robots. However, most examples are the result of intense computational analysis necessitating …

Re-Grounding Newport The Climate Of Urban Design Rudc 2020 Austin Tx, Edgar Adams

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

This presentation uses a Graduate Design Studio as a medium to to discuss how to integrate broad based systems thinking into Architecture and Urban Design curricula. Coastal Resilience was interrogated using various lenses to arrive at solutions that integrated marine ecology, transit, landscape, and urban design to revitalize the Central Waterfront and reconnect it to the harbor. This connection was severed with the introduction of America's Cup Blvd. as part of a 1960's urban renewal plan that preferenced tourism, retail and parking over the integrated and mixed use environment that it replaced. The presentation begins with a preface discussing Colin …

Theories Of Perception In Renaissance Humanism, John Shannon Hendrix

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

The hypostases of being consist of the terrestrial world of corporeal forms, dense, intertwined and in shadow; then the rationalization of the corporeal forms in the angelic mind; and finally the resolution of the forms in their absolute archetypal unity. The hypostases of being are modelled in the Universal Figure of Nicolas Cusanus, with the three figures of body, soul and mind inscribed in each of the three levels of the hierarchy, containing the nine choruses of Pseudo-Dionysius in the celestial hierarchies, representing the structure of the universe, as illustrated in a diagram, “Quator dictarum Monadum Schematica explicatio,” in Kircher’s …

Philosophy Of Perception In Hegel, John Shannon Hendrix

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

According to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel in the Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics (The Introduction to Hegel’s Philosophy of Fine Art, 1886), beauty in art is a higher beauty than that of nature, because beauty in art is a product of the mind, or spirit, the intellectual rather than the sensory. In the Symposium of Plato, when the initiate learns to love all beautiful bodies rather than just one body, to “pursue the beauty of form” (210) rather than the beauty of the body, to turn away from the “low and small-minded slav-ery” of love for the beauty of a body, …

Jacques Lacan And Language, John Shannon Hendrix

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

According to Jacques Marie Emile Lacan in Écrits, the metonymic chain in language produces signification at a point which is the “anchoring point,” the point de capiton or button hole, which occurs retroactively, after the phrase is completed, and is the point at which the network of signifiers in the metonymic chain corresponds to a network of signifiers in the concept, the idea of mouth or river, for example, and thus accomplishes signification.

The Imaginary And Symbolic Of Jacques Lacan, John Shannon Hendrix

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

The principal categories of Lacanian psychoanalysis in the structuring of the psyche are the imaginary, the symbolic, and the real. The imaginary (imaginaire) refers to perceived or imagined images in conscious and unconscious thought, sensible and intelligible forms; picture thinking (Vorstellung), dream images or manifest content, and conscious ego in discursive thought. The symbolic (symbolique) refers to the signifying order, signifiers, in language, which determine the subject; it refers to the unconscious, and the intellectual, the logos endiathetos and the logos prophorikos. It is the relation between the imaginary and symbolic in conscious and …

The Other Of Jacques Lacan, John Shannon Hendrix

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

Language in the symbolic of Lacan is defined by the Other, which is the “intersubjectivity of the ‘we’ that it assumes,” as described in Écrits. The subject enters language in relationship to the other in perception, the per-ceived object or person, as recognized by the other. As described by Lacan, “What constitutes me as subject is my question. In order to be recognized by the other, I utter what was only in view of what will be [the future ante-rior of what I shall have been for what I am in the process of becoming].”

Language And Perception In Plotinus, John Shannon Hendrix

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

I will argue that in the thought of Plotinus, how we perceive the world around us is determined by how we use language.

Robert Grosseteste: Optics And Perception, John Shannon Hendrix

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

In De Luce seu de inchoatione formarum, the treatise on light written between 1225 and 1228, Grosseteste explains that light is the first corporeal form, the origin of matter.

Immanuel Kant: Philosophy Of Perception, John Shannon Hendrix

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

In an early treatise, Attempt to Introduce the Concept of Negative Magnitudes into Philosophy (Versuch, den Begriff der negative Grössen in die Weltweisheit einzuführen, 1763), Immanuel Kant developed a theory about thoughts that are fleeting, negated or cancelled, obscured or darkened. As certain thoughts become clearer, the other thoughts become less clear and more obscured (Verdunkelt). Kant’s concept was influenced by the petites perceptions of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. He invoked Leibniz in establishing that only a small portion of the representations which occur in the soul, as the result of sense perception, are clear and enduring.

The Dream Work Of Sigmund Freud, John Shannon Hendrix

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

There are many correspondences between Freudian metapsychology and Plotinian metaphysics. Many of Freud’s ideas seem to be rooted in classical philosophy, although acknowledgement is rarely given. Plotinus is a fruitful source for understanding how the mind works. For Freud, unconscious words become conscious images, and unconscious images become conscious words, but these processes do not happen independently of each other. They are wrapped up in a dialectical process that is better understood by reading Plotinus.

The Real And The Gaze Of Jacques Lacan, John Shannon Hendrix

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

The third category of the psyche in Lacanian psychoanalysis is the real (réel), which is neither imaginary nor symbolic in conscious or unconscious thought, and which is inaccessible to psychoanalysis itself. The real is not reality in either a conceptual or phenomenological sense, which is the symbolic and the imaginary: it is only proposed as an algebraic concept, as it cannot be conceived.

Finding Common Ground: Smart Growth And Affordable Housing, Edgar Adams, Brian Boisvert, Fenton Bradley

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

Low and Moderate Income (LMI) housing is an integral part of Smart Growth planning; however growth boundaries, taken alone, can constrain the supply of available land driving up housing costs. In many states, with more integrated growth management plans, these costs are made up for by incentives for more compact and integrated housing within well served, mixed use town and village centers; however, in Rhode Island the absence of real incentives and the slow pace of local reforms to outdated and exclusionary zoning policies has created some tension between Smart Growth and LMI housing advocates.

In PART I of this …

"Eureka Valley (Castro) Historic Context Statement", Adopted By The San Francisco Historic Preservation Commission December 2017, Elaine B. Stiles, Eureka Valley Neighborhood Association

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

The place San Franciscans know as Eureka Valley has had many names since its first settlement by Europeans in the mid nineteenth century: Rancho San Miguel, Horner’s Addition, Most Holy Redeemer Parish, “the Sunny Heart of San Francisco,” and most recently, The Castro.1 Two hundred and forty years ago, the valley was a hinterland to the Mission Dolores settlement and then part of a large Mexican rancho. Over the course of less than fifty years in the late nineteenth century, Eureka Valley went from a rural fringe area of agricultural and industrial production to one of the city’s burgeoning streetcar …

Tropic Architecture, John Shannon Hendrix

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

Mannerist architects in the Cinquecento created what can be called “tropic architecture.” They set out to break the rules of classical architecture, but the rule-breaking was done systematically, by applying rhetorical tropes, or figures of speech, to architectural composition, the four most common being metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony. According to Paul Oskar Kristeller, rhetoric was an important basis of Renaissance humanism. Students learned tropes and other figures of speech from well-circulated classical texts such as the Rhetorica ad Herennium and Quintilian’s Institutio oratorio. Examples of tropic devices can be found in works such as Giulio Romano’s Palazzo del …

Plotinus And The Artistic Imagination, John Shannon Hendrix

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

In the thought of Plotinus, the imagination is responsible for the apprehension of the activity of Intellect. If creativity in the arts involves an exercise of the imagination, the image-making power that links sense perception to noetic thought and the nous poietikos, the poetic or creative intellect, then the arts exercise the apprehension of intellectual activity. According to John Dillon in “Plotinus and the Transcendental Imagination,” Plotinus’ conception of the imagination led to the formulation of the imagination as a basis of artistic creativity. In Plotinus, imagination operates on several different levels: it produces images in sense perception, it …

Finding Common Ground Pt. Ii Growth Centers And Affordable Housing In Rhode Island, Edgar Adams, Brian Boisvert, Fenton Bradley, Bradley Shapiro, Ben Winschel

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

This is a full report of the research and GIS mapping analysis for communities in Rhode Island that are outside of the state's Urban Service Boundary (areas served by water and sewer infrastructure). “Finding Common Ground Part I explored the rural Growth Centers in the State in order to begin to establish some basis for measuring their potential and relative performance according to the goals of Land Use 2025. Part II examines the relationship between smart growth and affordable (LMI) housing policies. This report was recognized by the Office of Statewide Planning and the RI Chapter of the American Planning …

Unconscious Thought In Peripatetic Philosophy, John Shannon Hendrix

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

In Aristotle’s De anima 3.5, the relation between intellect and thought, and between thought and object, is not accessible to discursive or conscious thought; an understanding of the relation requires nous, intuitive or “unconscious” thought. The “active” intellect is accessible to discursive reason only sporadically. “Mind does not think intermittently” (De anima 430a10–25): mind is always thinking, consciously and unconsciously. Alexander of Aphrodisias saw the active intellect as transcendent in relation to the material intellect. The thought which is an object of thought is immaterial, or unconscious. In his De intellectu (108), there must be something at work …

Plotinus: The First Philosopher Of The Unconscious, John Shannon Hendrix

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

Plotinus is sometimes referred to as “the first philosopher of the unconscious.” In his 1960 essay “Consciousness and Unconsciousness in Plotinus,” Hans Rudolph Schwyzer called Plotinus “the discoverer of the unconscious.” What exactly was Plotinus’ unconscious? In the Enneads, Plotinus asks about soul and intellect: “Why then…do we not consciously grasp them…? For not everything which is in the soul is immediately perceptible” (V.1.12.1–15).[i] In the De anima of Aristotle, “Mind does not think intermittently” (430a10–25).[ii]We cannot remember eternal mind in us, because passive mind is perishable. Is the productive or active intelligence in our mind …

A New Architecture For Man: The Modular, Prefabricated Buildings Of Ernest J. Kump, Jr., Selections From The Ernest Kump Collection, Environmental Design Archives, University Of California, Berkeley, Elaine B. Stiles

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Neoplatonism And English Gothic Architecture, John Shannon Hendrix

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

A letter written by Robert Grosseteste, the first chancellor of Oxford University and later Bishop of Lincoln from 1235 to 1253, illustrates the role that Neoplatonism played in the creative process of the architect in the Middle Ages. The letter was written from Oxford in around 1200, to Master Adam Rufus, a former student. According to Grosseteste, “It is said that the design is the model to which the craftsman looks to make his handiwork, in imitation of it and in its likeness.” Grosseteste’s letter exhibits a familiarity with the Enneads of Plotinus, which Grosseteste probably was not able to …

Finding Common Ground Part I: Understanding Growth Centers In Rhode Island, Edgar Adams, Brian Boisvert

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

Abstract: A successful Growth Management strategy must seek to find "Common Ground" between the needs of growing communities and the natural environment that supports them, between the past and the future and between the desires for social and environmental justice. In short, they seek a more sustainable way forward. 2011 marks the five-year anniversary of the introduction of Rhode Island's Land Use 2025 State Guide Plan. With this plan, Rhode Island adopted a hybrid solution to address the needs of the unique range of Urban, Suburban and Rural communities within its borders. Urban and suburban communities were accommodated within a …

Topological Theory In Bioconstructivism, John Shannon Hendrix

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

In the essay “Landscapes of Change: Boccioni’s Stati d’animo as a General Theory of Models,” in Assemblage 19, 1992, Sanford Kwinter proposed a number of theoretical models which could be applied to computer-generated forms in Bioconstructivism. These included topological theory, epigenesis, the epigenetic landscape, morphogenesis, catastrophe and catastrophe theory. Topological theory entails transformational events or deformations in nature which introduce discontinuities into the evolution of a system. Epigenesis entails the generation of smooth landscapes, in waves or the surface of the earth, for example, formed by complex underlying topological interactions. The epigenetic landscape is the smooth forms of relief which …

Leon Battista Alberti And The Concept Of Lineament, John Shannon Hendrix

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

A core idea in the architectural theory of Leon Battista Alberti, as expressed in the De re aedificatoria, is the distinction between “lineament,” the line in the mind of the architect, and “matter,” the material presence of the building. This distinction plays a key role in architectural design throughout the history of Western architecture. As Le Corbusier would say in the twentieth century, “architecture is a product of the mind.” The distinction between mind and matter can be found in Vitruvius, in the distinction between “that which signifies and that which is signified”; at the Accademia di San Luca …