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Teacher In The Spotlight, Beverly Stout

Lake Union Herald

No abstract provided.

Proclamations, National Monuments, And The Scope Of Judicial Review Under The Antiquities Act Of 1906, Roberto Iraola

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

No abstract provided.

Cooperative Conservation: Increasing Capacity Through Community Partnerships: Cultural Site Stewardship Program: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending September 30, 2004, Margaret N. Rees

Cultural Site Stewardship Program

Although the task agreement formally commenced June 30, 2004, the agreement was not fully executed by both parties until July 22, 2004. Since that date, UNLV met with the Interagency Cultural Resources Team on July 23, 2004. Bobbie Antonich, Government Technical Representative for the National Park Service, and Nancy Flagg, Director of the UNLV Public Lands Initiative, brought the team up-to-date on the status of the task agreement, UNLV’s role in fulfilling the agreement.

Contributors, Historic Huntsville Foundation

The Historic Huntsville Quarterly

No abstract provided.

An Artifact Of Time And Place, Diane Ellis

The Historic Huntsville Quarterly

No abstract provided.

From The Preservation Coordinatior, Leslie Tucker

The Historic Huntsville Quarterly

No abstract provided.

The Russel Erskine Hotel, David Bowman

The Historic Huntsville Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Living At The Hotel: Childhood Memories, Margaret Anne Goldsmith

The Historic Huntsville Quarterly

No abstract provided.

From Stamp Licker To President: My Career With The Russel Erskine Hotel, Eleanor Newman Hutchens

The Historic Huntsville Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Transition Years, Patricia H. Ryan

The Historic Huntsville Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Historic Renovation Of The Russel Erskine, David C. Greenberg

The Historic Huntsville Quarterly

No abstract provided.

The New Russel Erskine, Mike Holbrook

The Historic Huntsville Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Historic Huntsville Quarterly Of Local Architecture And Preservation: The Russel Erskine Hotel, Vol.30, No.3 - 4, Fall - Winter 2004, Historic Huntsville Foundation

The Historic Huntsville Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Masscap And The Caa Role In Advocating For Change, Joseph Diamond

New England Journal of Public Policy

Cites the efforts of the Massachusetts Association for Community Action Inc. and community action agencies (CCA) to alleviate poverty in the state. Programs offered by CCAs that aim to improve the quality of life of low income people; Efforts of the organization to call for changes in federal and state policies directed to the poor; Details of several initiatives assisted by the organization; Support for the adoption of the Massachusetts Self-Sufficiency Standard.

Community Action In Massachusetts, Jim Canavan

New England Journal of Public Policy

Evaluates the contribution of community action agencies (CCA) in alleviating poverty in Massachusetts from its creation during the term of former U.S. President Lyndon Johnson until 2004. Description of the programs to the poor offered by CCAs; Operation of CCAs across the state; Affordable housing offered by the CCAs.

Bridge Deck Replacement For Minimum Expected Cost Under Multiple Reliability Constraints, Mark G. Stewart, Allen C. Estes, Dan M. Frangopol

Architectural Engineering

The present paper investigates the effect of limit state selection (strength versus serviceability) on bridge deck life-cycle costs and thus on optimal repair strategies. Such a comparison may then help determine whether safety or functionality (or both) are important criteria when optimizing bridge life-cycle performance and costs. The structural element under consideration is a reinforced concrete bridge deck; namely, a State Highway Bridge in Colorado. Two limit states are considered: ultimate strength and serviceability. The exceedence of either of the limit states considered herein will result in deck replacement; namely, if the reliability index falls below a target reliability index …

Producing Knowledge Through Architecture, Noel Brady

Articles

Interview with Foreign Office Architects.

Industry Clusters And Economic Development: A Learning Resource, Edward J. Feser

Edward J Feser

One of the most widely discussed issues in community and economic development today is the role of industry clusters as engines of regional growth and development. Many communities are undertaking cluster studies or initiating cluster planning exercises as a way to organize development strategies to promote key local economic strengths or to shore up identified weaknesses. A large consulting industry has emerged to serve governments’ interest in clusters and the research literature on the topic is growing rapidly. At the same time, some analysts have likened clusters to another economic development fad that will eventually be supplanted by the next …

Landmark Report (Vol. 24, No. 1), Kentucky Library Research Collections

Landmark Report

Newsletter published by the Landmark Association; this local group advocates the preservation, protection and maintenance of architectural, cultural and archaeological resources in Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky.

Bs News

Building Services Engineering

No abstract provided.

En Busca De La Ciudad Perdida, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

En septiembre de 1993, Felipe Burbano en aquel entonces Director del Diario HOY, tuvo la gentileza de invitarme a participar en el periódico. No dudé respecto del honor que me hacía, así como tampoco de la importancia que revestía el trascender con algunas opiniones especializadas a nivel masivo.

Pero nunca me imaginé el significado real de la propuesta hasta cuando empecé a redactar los primeros artículos. Sin duda, sentir el "estrés" de la periodicidad semanal dominar la exigencia temática y asumir la responsabilidad de la opinión me tomaron su tiempo. Incluso hoy luego de un año sigo por la senda …

Bs News

Building Services Engineering

No abstract provided.

Intertwining, Alyson Laun

Masters Theses

From Vitruvius’ Ten Books on Architecture to Wagner’s conception of the Gesamkunstwerk, many would agree that each area of art should influence the others. By narrowing my study to the relationship of architecture and music, I will explore in depth how music can directly influence the design, in form and experience, of architecture.
There are two ways to understand the interactions of music and architecture. The analogical is concerned with the artist’s intention and technical procedure. Often, we think of the Pythagorean philosophy concerning the mathematical relationships that both music and architecture employ. These include, but are not limited to, …

Weaving: Redesigning The Post Colonial Town Through African Cultural Traditions, Henry Walela Musangi

Masters Theses

“They [Africans] look upon their native arts and crafts primarily as the ‘locus’ of their national consciousness. In spite of a violent urge for the new, for progress and for high living standards, more and more of their valuable, innate culture and customs now are being reflected upon in new light, finding their own voice in the form of a new, healthy and surprisingly expressive art.”

“The ‘new’ is cleansed from any cliché imitating a style.

The ‘new’ does not evolve from cheap modernism.

The ‘new’ functions according to the climate and the situation.

The ‘new’ proves to have an …

Generation Of Architectural Form: Standardization And Adaptation, Sungmo Park

Masters Theses

“The form of an object is a diagram of forces; in this sense, at least, that from it we can judge or deduce the forces that are acting or have acted upon it; in this strict and particular sense, it is a diagram.” –D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, On Growth and Form

Throughout architectural history, architects have made efforts to develop a diversity and efficiency of form to adapt to the natural environment. A prominent issue that has developed from this is what are the factors that have influenced and become form generators?

D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, in On Growth and Form, …

Vision In Architecture, Sabrina Russell

Masters Theses

The way in which people see and perceive things varies with each individual. Although, it is possible to focus the individuals attention in a particular way causing them to have various perceptions of the same view. The gaze is an element that has been studied and analyzed in numerous medias. Each medium has found a way to manipulate or control the individuals gaze making it possible to convey a meaning or feeling through the use of this technique (see figure 1). In having some control over the gaze of the onlooker designs can be formulated that best stimulate the attention …

Putting The Pieces Together: Engaging The Part To Create The Whole, Matthew Paul Johnson

Masters Theses

Architecture shapes and defines the spaces of our everyday life yet we rarely pay any attention to it. The fact that we are not engaged with our surroundings has been called by some an atrophy of experience caused by technology and, more specifically, by the ever expanding ability to reproduce and distribute images and information on a massive scale.

For some, such as Walter Benjamin, this atrophy of experience is related to the decay of what Benjamin calls the ‘aura’ of a work of art. The aura is what allows us as human beings to connect and relate to the …

Building Perceptions, Andrew Michael Parks

Masters Theses

Throughout the histories of modern architecture and modern landscape design, two distinct yet broad schools of thought have existed: the intellectual, or rational, and the experiential, or empirical. Intellectual works require a previously acquired knowledge of the analogy, symbol or representation which was used to rationalize each design move. By contrast, in experiential works, human emotions and senses are realized and are given hierarchical precedence in the thought processes of design. The current growth of both techniques of presentation and representation via digital technology as a generative means of creating architecture has taken the inhabitants out of the design process …

Mutualism In Architecture: An Architecture Of The In-Between, Vivian Ann Workman

Masters Theses

Architecture is a system of complex relationships. Embodied within architecture are ideas concerning built and natural form and how these two types of form interact to produce what we define as architecture. Built form without natural form is building. Natural form without building is landscape. It is this in-between area where architecture lies. Mutualism is a process by which two seemingly opposite organisms interact in such a way as to benefit one another. It is through this approach that architecture can aspire to be more than a building.

Mutualistic architecture, by its very nature, is a holistic system with the …

Towards An Architecture Of Engagement, Cassius Merrill Moter Iv

Masters Theses

Architecture of experience transforms the user of a building into an active participant of architecture, reawakening the user to the built environment. The prevalence of architecture as a sign for the purpose of commodification has in part led to a “state of distraction” (Benjamin) that needs to be refocused to make more valuable constructs.

To make this transformation one must become, according to Rainer Rilke, “as fully conscious as possible of our existence.” Our lives are experienced in culturally constructed space, both physical and conceptual, yet based in the extramental. It is not merely a mental projection; it is based …