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Putting the User First? A pioneering Scottish experiment in architectural research [PDF]
This article traces the story of a unique Scottish experiment in Modernist architectural research in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s: the Architecture Research Unit of Edinburgh University, one of the leaders in the UK's post-war efforts to expand the ...
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Embodied Contradictions and Post-Industrial Built Environments
In October of 2004, the Museo de Medicina Laboral (Museum of Labor Medicine), opened to the public in Real del Monte, State of Hidalgo, Mexico. The museum, located on the grounds of what had been the Hospital Minero (Mining Hospital), was a building ...
Benjamin A. Bross
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3D Data Processing Toward Maintenance and Conservation. The Integrated Digital Documentation of Casa de Vidro [PDF]
During the last decade, 3D integrated surveys and BIM modelling procedures have greatly improved the overall knowledge on some Brazilian Modernist buildings.
Balzani, M, Maietti, F, Rossato, L
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Meta‐Virtuality: Strategies of Disembeddedness in Virtual Interiorities
ABSTRACT To reclaim their seat in the rapidly growing market of virtual space, designers of the built environment can benefit from reevaluating theories that see the virtual as a mere extension/reflection of the physical. By claiming ontological autonomy from external worlds, the virtual is liberated from the hegemonic control of the physical.
Vahid Vahdat
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Geospatial analysis and living urban geometry [PDF]
This essay outlines how to incorporate morphological rules within the exigencies of our technological age. We propose using the current evolution of GIS (Geographical Information Systems) technologies beyond their original representational domain ...
A.B. Jacobs +27 more
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Hellenic by Design: H.D., Architecture, and Future Modernism
Modernist poet H.D. saw ancient Greek words as portals and gates to new ways of writing. Her Imagist poems often push against the medium of the printed page, taking on qualities of Classical artifacts and modernist paintings.
Marsha Bryant, Charlie Hailey
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Beyond modernist masters: contemporary architecture in Latin America
Carlos Alberto Torres Tovar
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Rounded Edges: Modernism and Architectural Dialogue in Ho Chi Minh City
It is widely considered that there is no critical mass of architecture in a homogeneous style in Ho Chi Minh City, in contrast to Hanoi. This essay seeks to establish Ho Chi Minh City’s architectural heritage as a significant one, by arguing that the ...
H. Hazel Hahn
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Le Nouveau Jardin Pittoresque: ethics, aesthetics and garden design in Belgium (1913-1940) [PDF]
Le Nouveau Jardin Pittoresque (The New Picturesque Garden) association was founded in 1913 to ‘renew and popularize garden art’ in Belgium. Originally, the emancipation of the lower classes was put forward as an important task; the association acted as a
Notteboom, Bruno
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The study of the relationship of climate and indoor thermal environments in architecture is essential to understand the inhabitants׳ sensory perception.
Ignacio Requena-Ruiz
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