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Vergeer, Pieter (author)
The close relationship of architecture with power caused it to play an important role in the Cold War conflict between the capitalist West and socialist East side of Berlin after World War Two. This research investigates how architecture was used as an expression of political ideology in the public architecture of Hermann Henselmann and Hans...
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Formsma, Annebel (author)
In this history thesis, the role and use of daylight within modernist architecture is explained. Daylight differs not only throughout the day, but also in lattitude. This causes a different approach to the organization and shaping of a building, which is dependent on geography, culture and climate. On the basis of a comparative study, the...
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Lund, Alexia Marie (author)
The building regulations that shape today’s standards of modern architecture have a remarkable historic background that may often be overlooked. What some young architects may perceive as guidelines that are constraining to the design process, are in fact the result of decades of activism for a more inclusive built environment. While...
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Hagen, Anouk (author)
Religion is in decline and spirituality starts to take on a more prominent role instead. Although there are abundant religious spaces, this shift did not cause a development in architecture yet. Libraries have similar qualities to religious spaces, like the sense of community and the feeling of retreat, so it is interesting to research how this...
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Kypriotakis-Weijers, Alex (author)
This paper will outline the connections between videogames and architecture as a form of representing and experiencing physical or digital space and their potential in participatory design. By analyzing communicative and expressive patterns in the videogame community I attempt to find links between architects, game developers and gamers. The...
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Klimi, Myrto (author)
The fragmented urban landscape of the metropolitan area of Athen and Piraeus with its local specificities is strongly related to demographic flows. The arrival of more than 220.000 refugees in the metropolitan area of Athens and Piraeus after the Asia Minor Catastrophe and the population exchange that followed the Treaty of Lausanne posed the...
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Omastka, Agnieszka (author)
The dissertation The Relationship between Christo’s Artworks investigates and discusses the couple Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s artistic work, who created large-scale projects that use their existing surroundings — architectural or natural. The thesis begins by examining the historical context, which briefly explains the project’s essential...
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Englmann, Elena (author)
Sep Ruf (1908-1982) was one of the most significant architects of German post-war modernism and played a key role in the rebuilding of several cities after World War II, particularly Munich. Along with other German modernist architects and supporters of the New Building movement, Ruf sought to initiate an intellectual renewal of architecture as...
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de Roos, Simone (author), Kanters, Mark (author), van der Hagen, Joep (author), van der Ent, Nils (author), Buis, Lisanne (author), Draisma, Max (author), Hartmeyer, Lea (author), Kaletkina, Anna (author)
What long ago started as a small fishing village, seeking refuge from the Romans, slowly evolved into the city of Venice that we know today. With its unique location came unique problems, most of which were related to the interplay between Venice and its lagoon. By severe measures in the past it has continued to withstand the test of time. <br/...
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Han, Jing (author)
This paper studies the color application in architecture during the 20th century by Le Corbusier and Luis Barragan through a thorough analysis of case studies such as Cité Frugès, Unité d’Habitation, Casa Gilardi, and the Chapel for the Capuchinas, as well as relevant literature reviews. It then explores how color affects users’ perception of a...
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Forsman, P.J. (author), Gies, Valentin (author), Le, D.H.N.T. (author), Tao, Ronnie (author)
The Caritas Psychiatric Center (PC Caritas) in Melle, Belgium, is a clinic campus consisting of about a dozen buildings embedded into a park. Sint Jozef, named after the priest Petrus Jozef Triest from Gent, Belgium, is one of the remaining villas built in 1908 and centrally located on the campus. It was initially used as a treatment center for...
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Lewandowska, Julka (author)
Aliyah, the great Jewish migration resulting from popularization of Zionism, brought end to the Jewish diaspora in the form, in which it was known before. The massive migration brought large numbers of new settlers to the area of Palestine with the aim of (re)creating their country – Israel. A new country required new infrastructure,...
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van de Kamp, Jan Bart (author)
Research about church architecture in the past few centuries mainly focussed on reuse. In the past few years, the focus of a lot of church communities has shifted towards reconnecting with society. Architectural research about this topic in church context is still lacking. This is an opportunity for more research, since the physical built...
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Andruszkiewicz, Paweł (author)
This history thesis aims to answer the question of how the development of modern tourism has affected the identity of Scheveningen at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The study is based on the analysis of predefined components of the identity of a place, based on research in the field of sociology, modern tourism and identity, as well as...
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Lubera, Oskar (author)
The Second Republic of Poland (1918-1939) was hopeful of rebuilding the nation. The country regained its independence after 123 years and got shaped by newly distributed borders in the Treaty of Riga. Following, 35% of the population identified themselves as ethnic minorities (14% Ukrainians, 10% Jews, 3% Belarusians and 2% Germans). The...
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Saâdi, Skander (author)
By establishing a phenomenological frame, this research paper demonstrates that the feeling of alienation towards the modern built environment originates from the failure of this built environment to allow man to identify himself with his own human condition, abstract ideas and natural environment. The study focuses on materials as primary...
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Martinez-Millana, Elena (author)
Pasados-presentes para un contexto afectivo: Catálogo de la exposición. Conjuntos empáticos. Serie: Inéditos. Madrid, España, Fundación Montemadrid 2021. ISBN: 978-84-09-30740-1
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Havik, K.M. (author), Gabrielsson, Catharina (author), Jobst, Marko (author), Frichot, Helene (author)
Sense in Translation: Essays on the Bilingual Body presents a series of thematically related essays on the subject of language, translation and the body. It weaves together ideas derived from phenomenology, science and linguistics with the author’s own experience as a bilingual writer and architect. Rabourdin’s engagement with the writings of...
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Bracken, G. (author)
This article discusses three recently published books examining the cities of East Asia. The first, Southeast Asia’s Modern Architecture: Questions of Translation, Epistemology and Power (2019), edited by Jiat-Hwee Chang and Imran bin Tajudeen,1 “explores the histories of Southeast Asia’s architecture and built environment in the twentieth...
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Dai, Hanqing (author), Dai, Wenqing (author), Zhang, Wanlu (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Guo, Ruiqian (author)
The natural design and coupling of biological structures are the root of realizing the high strength, toughness, and unique functional properties of biomaterials. Advanced architecture design is applied to many materials, including metal materials, inorganic nonmetallic materials, polymer materials, and so on. To improve the performance of...
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