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An Extension Of Mcguire's Inoculation Theory T8 Controversial Topics, Michele S. Roberts

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to investigate the extension of McGuire's inoculation theory to controversial topics. It was assumed that the employment of controversial topics would reverse the conditions described as obtaining with the employment of cultural truisms. McGuire's first study on the inoculation theory was used as a paradigm, and three hypotheses were investigated: Hypothesis One: A supportive treatment will be superior to a refutational treatment in conferring resistance to persuasion. Hypothesis Two: An active participation in developing defenses will increase the amount of immunity conferred. Hypothesis Three: There is an interactive effect between the type of defense …

The Interior Lighting Design Process, Bruce Anthony Cutler

Architecture and Planning ETDs

Interior lighting is one facet of architectural design which deserves attention. Practically all activities for which a building is designed require illumination. Lighting is used also as an aid for expressing those archi­tectural forms designed by the architect. Therefore, the architect should be provided with recommendations on how to proceed with an interior lighting design process. Such guidelines are helpful in aiding the architect to furnish an overall lighting design concept. Many technical procedures are refined by a consulting electrical engineer. The basic areas of the lighting design process which the architect should consider are: illumination for task performance, the …

Design Recommendations For Environmental Control In Greenhouses, George E. Montgomery Jr.

Architecture and Planning ETDs

Architecture, in one of its more basic attributes, may be defined as man's attempts to create a differential barrier between the spaces set aside for certain specific functions and the untempered environment. In the design of this barrier, passage to and from the protected space would be allowed to certain elements of the environment, while other factors would be either retained or excluded. While these efforts were directed toward providing differential barriers between himself and his environment, man carried a useful set of gauges for the determination of the adequacy of the barriers within his own senses. When he was …

A Multi-Service Center For The Elderly, Simeon Hyde Jr.

Architecture and Planning ETDs

Thesis consists of two parts, each representing a different process: (1) development of a building program for use by the City of Albuquerque and (2) development of an architectural design on the basis of that program.

Part one of the thesis first examines, under the heading “Background,” the problems of elderly persons and presents the rationale for construction of a centralized service facility. Next, under “Goals,” are discussed the general social purposes, specific functional objectives, aesthetic aims, and practical constraints of the building program. The following section, “Site,” describes the building site already chosen by the city and points out …

Renovation As A Partial Solution To Housing Problems In Old Quito, Ecuador, Oswaldo Cesar MiñO

Architecture and Planning ETDs

Quito has no distinct marginal belt, or barrio, section within the city. Rather, there are tugurios (or poor) living throughout the city, with higher concentrations in the historical city center of Quito. This historical center is rich in culture and history, as seen especially in its attractive colonial-style buildings. However, these buildings are being neglected at present and are losing their charm and historical value because they belong to the tugurio. The author feels it is impor­tant to preserve the historical relevance and charm of the old city center and at the same time provide adequate housing for those in …

Living Museum Environment: A Program For Architectural Design, Terrance J. Cisco

Architecture and Planning ETDs

Museums are a social sanctuary containing images of man's past, present and future. The task of collecting, conserving and exhibiting artifacts is the primary function of a museum. The artifacts will then be inherited by future generations so that they, too, may understand their place in the scheme of social evolution. The interpretation of the requirements of a physical plant for a museum and the creation of a unique design, which will enhance the life and experience of the visitor, is the subject of this thesis.

Museums depend upon good administration, adequate funding, well-engineered exhibit design and a sympathetic physical …

An Architectural Educational Approach Based On The Awareness Of Oneself In One's Environment, Gregory Tyler Hicks

Architecture and Planning ETDs

This thesis presents an architectural educational approach based on the awareness of oneself in one's environment. It is an awareness-based, existential and experiential approach to architecture. It draws upon the works of Gestalt Therapy and Confluent Education, an educational adaptation and application of Gestalt Therapy. It is presented in four chapters:

I. An Introduction;

II. An Analysis Of Gestalt Therapy;

III. An Educational Approach Based On Gestalt Therapy;

IV. An Architectural Seminar Based On The Awareness Of Oneself In One's Environment.

This thesis states architectural education can be improved by using educational methods which integrate student's intellectual capacities with their …

John Gaw Meem: His Style Development And Residential Architecture Between 1924 And 1940, John C. Mcnary

Architecture and Planning ETDs

This thesis examines the cause and development of the Spanish Pueblo Revival or Santa Fe style of architecture, and the involvement of one of the most active and influential proponents of that movement, John Gaw Meem. The thesis is divided into four parts. The first part presents a biographical background. The second part analyzes the development of the Spanish Pueblo Revival, and Meem’s entry and subsequent involvement in that movement. His style philosophy is made evident through his writings and his public buildings. Also noted is the influence of the Modern movement, and Meem’s response to its precepts. The third …

Course Manual Development For Construction Drafting Lab/Theory I At Albuquerque Technical-Vocational Institute, Marc A. Giaccardo

Architecture and Planning ETDs

This thesis discusses the steps leading to the development of a course manual for teaching basic drafting skills, related to residential projects, in the Construction Drafting Lab/Theory I course at Albuquerque Technical-Vocational Institute. The format of this development was or­ganized within the methodology used in teaching by objectives and the procedures of programmed instruction.

Using the general methodology of teaching by objectives the thesis defines the five specific areas of application, related to development of the manual, which are: target population, job description, course pre­requisites, task development and course objectives. The thesis applies the five specific areas of research and …

A Master Plan For The Thousand Islands Shipyard Museum, Daniel Eric Mossien

Architecture and Planning ETDs

This thesis is a master plan for the Thousand Islands Shipyard Museum in Clayton, New York. The museum is a young and fairly small freshwater antique boat museum, the only one of its kind in the country dealing specifically with small boats. The thesis is divided into two distinct parts which are classified as books. Book One involves the research and analysis that is the basis for the master plan itself. It deals with both the Village of Clayton, the macro environment, and the Shipyard Museum, the micro environment. Book One, Research and Analysis, is incorporated into the thesis to …

The Legal Implications Of Solar Rights Resulting From The Use Of Solar Energy Systems, Felix A. Rodriguez

Architecture and Planning ETDs

The problem treated in this paper is the simple act of one neighbor shading another neighbor's solar energy system. Such systems are capital intensive and a homeowner will invest a significant sum of money in solar collectors. What can the homeowner do? If solar heating and cooling is to be widely used, legislative bodies will have to address the problems that will arise from serious collector shading in our urban areas. At least three pertinent questions arise from this problem. 1) Does the homeowner have a right to the sunshine that is blocked by his neighbor's building or tree? 2) …

Facilitating Architectural Design: An Analysis Of Selected Approaches To Architectural Programming, John Peter Petronis

Architecture and Planning ETDs

This work surveys and compares four approaches of design methodology: (1) Traditional Design; (2) Systematic Design; (3) Design utilizing the Patterns by Christopher Alexander; and (4) The Second Generation of Design Methodology as defined by Horst Rittel; with the aim of determining methods to facilitate and improve the results of the design activity. Of the four, the explicit and argumentative design process offered by Horst Rittel provides the best opportunity by which to initiate meaningful change. The author, by means of case studies, offers his experience in developing and utilizing Direct, Indirect and Informal Group Argumentative Design Processes that fulfill …

Applicability Of Using Native Plant Species For Highway Planting In Utah, Richard Llewellyn Carlson

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This study had two goals: first, to establish a need to use native plant materials for planting and revegetation of highway right of ways in Utah; and secondly, to develop a list of potential native plants suitable for highway planting in Utah.

To accomplish these two goals, three steps were completed. Correspondence was exchanged with officials of other state highway departments to determine their attitudes concerning the use of native plants for highway planting. Second, a case study was completed on two sections of the Interstate Highway system in the Weber-Davis area of Utah. This was done to document the …

Plant Material Information Needs Of Landscape Architects And Horticulturists In The Intermountain Region, Kenneth Raleigh Brooks

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The landscape plant materials informational needs of planting designers were evaluated in a historical and contemporary context. It was found that plant designers need to know about the environmental and cultural adaptation, landscape value and use, and commercial availability of the plant materials that they use.

Surveys of regional plant materials experts and nursery inventories were made to determine which plants should be included in a reference text. The climate of the region is also identified and compared to other parts of the country.

Plant materials reference books were reviewed to see if they provided this information for plants grown …

An Urban Park Design For A Neighborhood Environment In Logan, Utah, Carol Mayor-Reed

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

My continued professional and personal interest in the functions and design of public parks influenced me to generate a project theses that explores various aspects of a park's development. My intent is summarized as follows:

1. investigation of social and physical aspects of public spaces in the urban environment

2. generation of a realistic project program based on the needs and desires of the specific user groups for a case study park site

3. application of a design methodology to the case study park site

4. development of a site design that meets program requirements

5. production of the working …

The Imgrid Computer System For Land Use Studies: Testing And Documentation For Utah State University, Walter Donald Bremer

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This paper is the result of the adaptation and testing of the IMGRID Programming System acquired from Harvard University, for land use studies in the Department Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at Utah State University. The system utilizes rectangular coordinate grid cell data for storage and analysis, and is now in operation on the Burroughs B 6700 computer system.

The operation of Utah State IMGRID is documented here to reflect the types of analyses which are currently performed in this region, and examples provided to demonstrate the system to graduate students and others who are interested in land use analysis. …

Society, Consciousness, And Planning, Thomas Allen Dutton

Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design Theses & Dissertations

This thesis is concerned with the issues of social injustice and suffering and how they might be overcome through social change. The intent is to examine critically the role of urban planning within contemporary society. So that this may be accomplished effectively, the inquiry is not as much concerned with the fundamentals of planning proper, as it is an attempt to understand the processes particular to the social order, with special scrutiny to the relationship between science, technology, and the economic system. This focus of study is necessary in order to become more acquainted with the nature of the institutional …

An Architectural Answer To A New Format For Education, Nicholas C. Markovich

Architecture and Planning ETDs

Architecture should be a physical response to the needs and requirements of human beings. It can enhance and compliment the functional, aesthetic and mental re­quirements for those it's intended to serve. This architectural response comes, usually, in answer to a philosophy or fulfills a method of purpose. This thesis is a study of educational philosophies and alternative educational philosophies for the future. A viable alternative for the future is chosen and applied to a prototypical architectural solution.

In this paper, research is done, to gather know­ledge of the background of various societies' attitudes toward education. This author studies what directions …

Demystifying Social Science Research: A Handbook For Environmental Designers, Min Kantrowitz

Architecture and Planning ETDs

The basic concept underlying this thesis is that architects and planners can and should utilize social science research in design. The fields of environmental design and behavioral research share interest in human behavior and the context in which it occurs. Knwoledge relating to the interaction between environment and behavior should be mutually comprehensible.

This thesis approaches this problem by developing a useful handbook for environmental designers which will enable them to read and understand research which is relevant to the design projects with which they may be involved. The thesis consists of several sections, with the actual handbook constituting the …

Problems Of Community Museum, Peter Velez

Masters Theses

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The Development Of Graphic Tools For The Calculation Of Solar Radiation, Edward Mazria

Architecture and Planning ETDs

World-wide dwindling energy resources have provided the incentive to use solar energy systems to supply a major portion of a building’s heating requirements. In order to understand and be responsive to the effects of the sun on the location and design of solar systems, it is necessary to know at any moment the sun's position in the sky and energy intensity on a given surface. The Cylindrical sun chart, developed in this thesis, provides a simple and convenient way to accurately predict the sun's movement across the sky from any point in the continental United States. By plotting obstructions directly …

Approaches To Albuquerque's Frankitecture: A Mass Architecture For Seminars On The Urban Environment, John D. Smith

Architecture and Planning ETDs

Frankitecture is an architecture of franchised retail outlets for hamburgers, doughnuts, gasoline, and so on, in an automobile­oriented environment. Separately owned buildings have an identical and profitable image. Frankitecture structures ordinary strip elements, but has come to dominate the strip economically and architecturally. It affects the way we perceive architecture in automobile-oriented cities such as Albuquerque. Since frankitecture has implications for the design, construction, use, reuse, and abandonment of buildings, it is of interest to students of the city. It is noteworthy for its accessibility in cities such as Albuquerque, and students as well as other citizens have a wealth …

Solar Heating In Self-Help Building, Jay Gilbert Davis

Architecture and Planning ETDs

This thesis details the construction of three solar heating projects for the benefit of the literate New Mexican builder reading at about the seventh grade reading level as established by the Rutgers Readability Test. The theory of solar heating is presented at intervals in the text for the alert. However, it is assumed that the reader will be a New Mexican, for whom solar heating is so entirely practical that theory can generally be displaced in favor of rules of thumb. No subtle trade-offs are needed in New Mexico. We have sun (insolation) when we need heat (cold periods). Our …

Building Failures: Case Studies, Tipton T. Omohundro

Architecture and Planning ETDs

This thesis is an investigation into the causes of various incidents of building failure and structural collapse. The work includes failures of design, construction, supervision, and control of building projects. In addition to partial and total structural collapses, cases of settlement, deflection, and disintegration are also included in the discussion of building failures. The format of the thesis is a series of case studies of buildings in New Mexico and elsewhere that have, for a variety of reasons, developed problems of this nature. While the focus of its concern is with building failures within the metropolitan area of Albuquerque, the …

Asarco El Paso: An International Pollution Problem, Gerald W. Phillips

Architecture and Planning ETDs

The purpose of this investigation was to study an important international environmental pollution problem. The ASARCO Smelter, the subject of this thesis, was the center of a lawsuit brought by the City of El Paso and the State of Texas. The suit was brought for violations of air standards, including atmospheric lead pollution, in February, 1972. The events surrounding the air quality problem and the results of the trial are dealt with in detail. The growing problem of lead pollution has created an interest in research on lead absorption. The ASARCO Smelter case allowed a large study group of children, …

An Overview Of The Potential Of Solar Radiation As An Energy Source For Residential Heating In Northern Utah, Peter A. Koenig

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Americans across the nation are showing an increased awareness of the problems caused by the rapid and uncontrolled growth our country has undergone over the last fifty years. It is apparent to most that we can no longer abuse our natural resources as if they were inexhaustable. In the last few years, there has been a specific concern for prices, consumption, and energy conservation. These real concerns are moving us towards a reconsideration of our living habits that will certainly affect the future of residential planning and site design.

Comprehensive Health Planning In Utah: An Organizational Analysis Of Environmental Health Planning, Marsha J. Lee

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The purpose of this study is to delineate the role of a Utah State comprehensive health planning agency in environmental health planning. The scope and nature of environmental health planning was researched thus defining the data base. Secondary information sources and informal interviews were used as sources for data about the existing situations in Utah which affect the organization of environmental health planning. The analysis of existing situational was presented in five sections: Goals for Environmental Health Planning; Intergovernmental Planning Coordination in Utah; Multicounty Health Districts in Utah; Utah State Agencies Having Responsibilities Related to Environmental Health; and Implications of …

A Study Of The Planned Unit Development And Its Application To A Site In Cache Valley, Margaret Ann Mullins

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

The thesis proposed deals with the design of a Planned Unit Development on a site located in Cache Valley. Included in the study is research of existing PUDs, determining the aspects in which they are successful and those in which they are unsuccessful. Analysis of a site with respect to physical characteristics and aesthetic characteristics will be undertaken with previously compiled data. Thirdly, the given program will be analyzed with respect to the land uses included and their compatibility to the site. The conclusion of the thesis will be the completed master plan, with additional schematic drawings illustrating and analyzing …

The Energy Crisis: An Architectural Challenge, Peer Gerlach

Architecture and Planning ETDs

The depleting reserves of natural resources and energy and their escalating cost have vitalized serious interest in conservation. Perhaps one of the nation's most sensitive economic indicators is the building industry, which has been deeply affected by the energy crisis.

While numerous procedures for conserving energy and materials in buildings exist, correct implementation of these methods is the real issue. It is therefore essential that the architect, together with allied professionals, plan buildings as efficiently as possible, if the future of this vital industry is to be secured.

Consequently the following study is intended to serve as a guide for …

Environmental Implications Of Residential Development In Albuquerque, Joyce Gross Costello

Architecture and Planning ETDs

The development of a great urban environment is an incremental process. The main hypothesis of this thesis is that development can have adverse environmental impacts but these effects can be avoided or minimized through thoughtful design.

In particular, the thesis addresses the environmental aspects of residential development in the Albuquerque area. The emphasis is on natural resources rather than socio­economic factors.

The thesis serves as an environmental guidebook for such development in the following respects:

Since the National Environmental Policy Act was passed, a few guidelines have been developed on how to prepare an environmental impact statement. The first chapter …