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Failure At Fidenae: Visualization And Analysis Of The Largest Structural Disaster In The Roman World, Rebecca Napolitano Jan 2015

Failure At Fidenae: Visualization And Analysis Of The Largest Structural Disaster In The Roman World, Rebecca Napolitano

Physics, Astronomy and Geophysics Honors Papers

A digital reconstruction of the amphitheater at Fidenae, which collapsed in 27 A.D., was produced as a result of textual, architectural, archaeological, and engineering analysis. Primary literary sources, such as Tacitus and Suetonius, examined in conjunction with proximal archaeological evidence, allowed for the most probable seating capacity and the scale of the amphitheater to be determined. Architectural evidence of other wooden structures found on Trajan’s Column allowed for a most probable projection of a three dimensional model to be created using AutoCAD. With this most probable model determined, engineering analysis was utilized in order to understand the failure at Fidenae …


Concept And Technique: How Traditional Japanese Architecture Can Contribute To Contemporary Sustainable Design Practices, Courtney Angen Jan 2013

Concept And Technique: How Traditional Japanese Architecture Can Contribute To Contemporary Sustainable Design Practices, Courtney Angen

Environmental Studies Honors Papers

No abstract provided.


The Plant Building: Gender, Urban Reform, And Skyscraper Design In New London, Ct, Allison Cahoon Jan 2012

The Plant Building: Gender, Urban Reform, And Skyscraper Design In New London, Ct, Allison Cahoon

Architectural Studies Honors Papers

The City Beautiful and the City Practical movement –a contemporaneous alternative—were architectural and urban planning initiatives that began in the last third of the 19th century as a response to unprecedented urban growth. More specifically, these two movements were conceived as solutions to the “problem” of women on the street as new urban conditions came in conflict with gender ideals as defined by the Victorian separate spheres of masculinity and femininity. Most often, studies about turn of the century urban planning, as it included the Victorian city, the City Beautiful movement, and the City Practical movement, focus on large …


The Spatial Practices Of Privilege, Abigail A. Van Slyck Jun 2011

The Spatial Practices Of Privilege, Abigail A. Van Slyck

Architectural Studies Faculty Publications

The Spatial Practices of Privilege focuses on the children's cottage that stands on the grounds of the Breakers, in Newport, Rhode Island. Designed by Peabody and Stearns in 1886, the cottage was the first of several changes Cornelius Vanderbilt made to the property after he purchased it in 1885. While the main house (designed by Richard Morris Hunt after the first Breakers burned in 1892) has long been interpreted as the architectural reflection of the Vanderbilts' class status, the cottage has been ignored. Bringing together the methodologies of cultural landscape studies, performance theory, and the history of childhood, Abigail A. …


Landscape Architecture, Brendan Kempf Jan 2010

Landscape Architecture, Brendan Kempf

Architectural Studies Integrative Projects

No abstract provided.


Internship With Emeritus Development, Nantucket Ma, Dean Lampe Jan 2010

Internship With Emeritus Development, Nantucket Ma, Dean Lampe

Architectural Studies Integrative Projects

No abstract provided.


New London Main Street: A Comprehensive Downtown Revitalization Program, Natalie Sharp Jan 2010

New London Main Street: A Comprehensive Downtown Revitalization Program, Natalie Sharp

Architectural Studies Integrative Projects

No abstract provided.


The Architecture Of Connecticut College, Thomas Blake Mcdonald Jan 2010

The Architecture Of Connecticut College, Thomas Blake Mcdonald

Architectural Studies Honors Papers

The Connecticut College campus has changed dramatically in the last century. Originally a women’s college design as a series of Gothic quadrangles inspired by the examples of prestigious English universities such as Oxford and Cambridge, development changed course dramatically in the 1920s and 1930s, as inwardly focused designs gave way to a sweeping Campus Green modeled after Thomas Jefferson’s University of Virginia. While the Green continued to serve as the organizing spine of the campus, by the midcentury the College had introduced Modernist buildings to facilitate both coeducation and expanding curriculums. This thesis starts from the premise that these changes …


Architectural Internship With Pearson Composites, Warren Ri, Eleanor Lawson May 2009

Architectural Internship With Pearson Composites, Warren Ri, Eleanor Lawson

Architectural Studies Integrative Projects

No abstract provided.


Old Lyme Historical Society, Old Lyme Ct, Jessica Bender Jan 2009

Old Lyme Historical Society, Old Lyme Ct, Jessica Bender

Architectural Studies Integrative Projects

No abstract provided.


The Lady And The Library Loafer: Gender And Public Space In Victorian America, Abigail A. Van Slyck Jan 1996

The Lady And The Library Loafer: Gender And Public Space In Victorian America, Abigail A. Van Slyck

Architectural Studies Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Bulletin No. 33: Archaeology In The Connecticut College Arboretum, Harold D. Juli, Glenn D. Dreyer Dec 1992

Bulletin No. 33: Archaeology In The Connecticut College Arboretum, Harold D. Juli, Glenn D. Dreyer

Bulletins

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"The Utmost Amount Of Effectiv [Sic] Accommodation": Andrew Carnegie And The Reform Of The American Library, Abigail A. Van Slyck Dec 1991

"The Utmost Amount Of Effectiv [Sic] Accommodation": Andrew Carnegie And The Reform Of The American Library, Abigail A. Van Slyck

Architectural Studies Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.