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The Plant Building: Gender, Urban Reform, And Skyscraper Design In New London, Ct, Allison Cahoon
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
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. …
The Architecture Of Connecticut College, Thomas Blake Mcdonald
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 …
The Lady And The Library Loafer: Gender And Public Space In Victorian America, Abigail A. Van Slyck
The Lady And The Library Loafer: Gender And Public Space In Victorian America, Abigail A. Van Slyck
Architectural Studies Faculty Publications
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"The Utmost Amount Of Effectiv [Sic] Accommodation": Andrew Carnegie And The Reform Of The American Library, Abigail A. Van Slyck
"The Utmost Amount Of Effectiv [Sic] Accommodation": Andrew Carnegie And The Reform Of The American Library, Abigail A. Van Slyck
Architectural Studies Faculty Publications
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