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Polygons, Pillars And Pavilions: Discovering Connections Between Geometry And Architecture, Sean Patrick Madden Mar 2017

Polygons, Pillars And Pavilions: Discovering Connections Between Geometry And Architecture, Sean Patrick Madden

Journal of Catholic Education

Crowning the second semester of geometry, taught within a Catholic middle school, the author's students explored connections between the geometry of regular polygons and architecture of local buildings. They went on to explore how these principles apply famous buildings around the world such as the monuments of Washington, D.C. and the elliptical piazza of Saint Peter's Basilica at Vatican City within Rome, Italy.


When Ivory Towers Were Black: A Story About Race In America's Cities And Universities [Table Of Contents & Introduction], Sharon Egretta Sutton Mar 2017

When Ivory Towers Were Black: A Story About Race In America's Cities And Universities [Table Of Contents & Introduction], Sharon Egretta Sutton

Education

When Ivory Towers Were Black lies at the potent intersection of race, urban development, and higher education. It tells the story of how an unparalleled cohort of ethnic minority students earned degrees from a world-class university. The story takes place in New York City at Columbia University’s School of Architecture and spans a decade of institutional evolution that mirrored the emergence and denouement of the Black Power Movement. Chronicling a surprisingly little-known era in U.S. educational, architectural, and urban history, the book traces an evolutionary arc that begins with an unsettling effort to end Columbia’s exercise of authoritarian power on …


Capturing Their Stories: Collecting Oral Histories From Users Of Segregated Libraries In The South (Presentation For The Southern History Of Education Society Annual Meeting, March 2017), Matthew R. Griffis Mar 2017

Capturing Their Stories: Collecting Oral Histories From Users Of Segregated Libraries In The South (Presentation For The Southern History Of Education Society Annual Meeting, March 2017), Matthew R. Griffis

Publications and Other Resources

From the conference program: "This presentation reviews the progress of a federally-funded, 3-year historical study that explores how segregated Carnegie libraries were used as places of community-making, interaction, and learning for African Americans in the days of Jim Crow. Known then as “Carnegie colored libraries,” these public libraries opened in eight southern states between 1900 and 1925 and were an extension of the well-known library development program funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Some operated for as many as six decades until, by the 1970s, most had closed or were integrated into the library systems of their larger …


Right Here In River City: An Iowa Community At The Prairie School’S Edge [A Review By Klinkowitz Of Frank Lloyd Wright And Mason City: Architectural Heart Of The Prairie, By Roy R. Behrens], Jerome Klinkowitz Mar 2017

Right Here In River City: An Iowa Community At The Prairie School’S Edge [A Review By Klinkowitz Of Frank Lloyd Wright And Mason City: Architectural Heart Of The Prairie, By Roy R. Behrens], Jerome Klinkowitz

UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

Mason City, Iowa hosts the highest concentration of integrated Prairie School architecture in the world. Between 1908 and 1916 coherent groupings of commercial and residential buildings took their place on the quite literal Midwestern prairie as designed by the cream of the crop of young Chicago architects innovating in the direction first proposed by Louis Sullivan. On a corner of the downtown square Frank Lloyd Wright produced a three-part structure that wrapped around the intersection of two principal streets to house a bank, a hotel, and a connecting set of office and retail space. He tossed in a home for …


Points Of View: Herbert Bayer's Exhibition Catalogue For The 1930 Section Allemande, Wallis Miller Jan 2017

Points Of View: Herbert Bayer's Exhibition Catalogue For The 1930 Section Allemande, Wallis Miller

Architecture Faculty Publications

Sigfried Giedion called Herbert Bayer’s exhibition catalogue for the 1930 Section Allemande a “minor typographical masterpiece.” Like similar catalogues, it is inexpensive, provides an inventory list, has an introduction, functions as a guide, and is illustrated. However, the majority of its images are of installations, not their contents. Bayer accommodates the catalogue type for applied arts exhibitions by listing installations as objects, but he confronts the type by showing installations as display contexts that establish points of view, emulating, idealizing and interpreting the experience of the exhibition. By independently constructing ways of seeing and understanding the exhibition, the catalogue resists …


“Mocha: Maritime Architecture On Yemen’S Red Sea Coast.” In ‘Architecture That Fills My Eye’: The Building Heritage Of Yemen. Exh. Cat. Ed. Trevor H.J. Marchand, 60-69. London: Gingko Library, 2017., Nancy Um Jan 2017

“Mocha: Maritime Architecture On Yemen’S Red Sea Coast.” In ‘Architecture That Fills My Eye’: The Building Heritage Of Yemen. Exh. Cat. Ed. Trevor H.J. Marchand, 60-69. London: Gingko Library, 2017., Nancy Um

Art History Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Vierzehnheiligen (1742-1744), Jean-François Bédard Jan 2017

Vierzehnheiligen (1742-1744), Jean-François Bédard

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

This article traces the ways in which competing architectural plans for the Vierzehnheiligen (currently known as the Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers) in Southern Germany evolved from its 1735 until 1744. These changes reflect changing ideas of church architecture and the pragmatic realities of the site.


The "Postmodern Geographies" Of Frank Gehry's Los Angeles, Katherine Shearer Jan 2017

The "Postmodern Geographies" Of Frank Gehry's Los Angeles, Katherine Shearer

Scripps Senior Theses

This thesis examines the ways in which Frank Gehry’s architectural contributions to Los Angeles’ social and built environment have shaped the region’s “postmodern geographies” throughout the 20th and 21st century. Through a focused exploration of three of Gehry’s postmodernist structures in Greater Los Angeles—a house, a library, and a concert hall—this thesis analyses how Gehry and his designs reflected and affected the artistic and socio-spatial development of Los Angeles’ “decidedly postmodern landscape.”


Walter De Maria: Meaningless Work, Amanda Dalla Villa Adams Jan 2017

Walter De Maria: Meaningless Work, Amanda Dalla Villa Adams

Art Inquiries

Book review of Walter De Maria: Meaningless Work, by Jane McFadden.


Monstrous Allure: Polyphemus In Pompeii, Glenda Swan Jan 2017

Monstrous Allure: Polyphemus In Pompeii, Glenda Swan

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


Front Matter Jan 2017

Front Matter

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


Cross Country: The Power Of Place In American Art, 1915-1950, Naomi Slipp Jan 2017

Cross Country: The Power Of Place In American Art, 1915-1950, Naomi Slipp

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


The West Virginia New Deal: Blanche Lazzell’S Mural In Morgantown, Kendall J. Martin Jan 2017

The West Virginia New Deal: Blanche Lazzell’S Mural In Morgantown, Kendall J. Martin

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round So Our Thoughts Can Change Direction, Jordan Amirkhani Jan 2017

Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round So Our Thoughts Can Change Direction, Jordan Amirkhani

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


Drawings For Paintings In The Age Of Rembrandt, Saskia Beranek Jan 2017

Drawings For Paintings In The Age Of Rembrandt, Saskia Beranek

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


Insecurities: Tracing Displacement And Shelter, Elizabeth Berkowitz Jan 2017

Insecurities: Tracing Displacement And Shelter, Elizabeth Berkowitz

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


Arts: A Guide For Conservators, Curators, And The Curious, Kari Rayner Jan 2017

Arts: A Guide For Conservators, Curators, And The Curious, Kari Rayner

Art Inquiries

Book review of Arts: A Guide for Conservators, Curators, and the Curious, by Roy S. Berns.


Artemisia Gentileschi E Il Suo Tempo (Artemisia Gentileschi And Her Times), Marjorie Och Jan 2017

Artemisia Gentileschi E Il Suo Tempo (Artemisia Gentileschi And Her Times), Marjorie Och

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty, Susan Richmond Jan 2017

Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty, Susan Richmond

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


Dispatches, Sunny Spillane Jan 2017

Dispatches, Sunny Spillane

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


Shattered Landscapes: Revolutionary Ruins In The Virginian Watercolors Of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Julia A. Sienkewicz Jan 2017

Shattered Landscapes: Revolutionary Ruins In The Virginian Watercolors Of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Julia A. Sienkewicz

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


An Interview With Eloisa Guanlao, Karissa Bushman Jan 2017

An Interview With Eloisa Guanlao, Karissa Bushman

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


Architecture And Memory In Jacques-Louis David’S Sabine Women, Heidi E. Kraus Jan 2017

Architecture And Memory In Jacques-Louis David’S Sabine Women, Heidi E. Kraus

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


Back Matter Jan 2017

Back Matter

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


American Women Artists, 1935-1970: Gender, Culture, And Politics, Lucy Curzon Jan 2017

American Women Artists, 1935-1970: Gender, Culture, And Politics, Lucy Curzon

Art Inquiries

Book review of American Women Artists, 1935-1970: Gender, Culture, and Politics, edited by Helen Langa and Paula Wisotzki.


After Caravaggio; Caravaggio And The Creation Of Modernity, Donald Schrader Jan 2017

After Caravaggio; Caravaggio And The Creation Of Modernity, Donald Schrader

Art Inquiries

Book review of After Caravaggio, by Michael Fried, and of Caravaggio and the Creation of Modernity, by Troy Thomas.


Art Inquiries, Xvii:2, Full Issue Jan 2017

Art Inquiries, Xvii:2, Full Issue

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


Walking In The City: Koji Nakano’S Reimagining And Re-Sounding Of The Tale Of Genji, Isabella Ramos Jan 2017

Walking In The City: Koji Nakano’S Reimagining And Re-Sounding Of The Tale Of Genji, Isabella Ramos

Scripps Senior Theses

Imagined Sceneries is a work written by composer Dr. Koji Nakano of Burapha University, Thailand for two sopranos, koto, light percussion, narrations, soundscapes recorded in Kyoto, Japan in December 2015, and digital projections of Ebina Masao’s 1953 print series Tale of Genji. Imagined Sceneries’ reimagining and “re-sounding” of Heian Kyoto relies on a balance between what is imagined and what is experienced in performance. Its many elements collectively explore multiple layers of Japanese histories, soundscapes, environments, and sensibilities. Using Michel de Certeau’s concepts of the city, this thesis journeys through Nakano’s imagined spaces.


Schloss Sanssouci (1743-1745), Jean-François Bédard Jan 2017

Schloss Sanssouci (1743-1745), Jean-François Bédard

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

This article is a general overview of Schloss Sanssouci, a summer palace of Fredrick II, King of Prussia. The architect, Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, depended heavily upon Fredrick's idiosyncratic designs, giving Scholoss Sanssouci a unique character.