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LAWANG SEWU’S MONUMENTALITY ARCHITECTURE
Riset Arsitektur (RISA), 2019 Abstract- Lawang Sewu is a historic cultural heritage building that became one of the leading tourist attractions in Semarang City. The building that was built in 1904 and completed in 1918 has experienced some changes in function and ownership. Lawang Sewu was originally the administrative office of Nederlands-Indische Spoorweg Maatschappij (NIS). NIS
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Monumental Adobe Architecture of the late prehispanic Northern North Coast of Peru
, 1985 Specific construction techniques distinguish the monumental truncated adobe pyramids of the northern North Coast of the Middle through the Late Horizon, from those of earlier periods located in the southern half of the North Coast.
Shimada, Izumi, Cavallaro, Raffael
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Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In Panorama, artist Amie Siegel montaged films made by Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CMNH) staff in the 1930s–1970s when documenting their research expeditions and exhibition projects, along with her own footage shot in the museum. Displayed at Carnegie Museum of Art in 2023–2024, the exhibition made visible the often hidden labors of ...
Deirdre Madeleine Smith
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, 1992 Bouchard Jean-François. Isbell, W. & G. Me Ewan (eds). — Huari Administrative Structure. Prehistoric Monumental Architecture and State Government.. In: Journal de la Société des Américanistes. Tome 78 n°1, 1992. pp.
Bouchard, Jean-François
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The Example of Turkish Monument Architecture: Konya Atatürk Monument
Selçuk Üniversitesi Mühendislik, Bilim ve Teknoloji Dergisi, 2008 During their life times, societies have always wanted to symbolize everything that constantly required remembering or being remembered. That kind of desire to symbolize came out as monuments in the course of time. Monuments have always changed and renewed as with the changing world.
DÜLGERLER, Osman Nuri +1 more
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Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the role of museums in the construction of national identity during the Early Republican Period in Turkey (1923–1950). Drawing on theoretical approaches that interpret museums as spaces in which collective memory and national identity are materially organized and publicly communicated, the study analyzes museums as key ...
Duygu Atalay Şimşek
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Resource Scarcity and Monumental Architecture: Cost Signaling on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Chile
, 2017 Costly signaling theory (CST) explains a variety of elaborate behavioral displays as a consequence of competition over resources when the risk of direct conflict is high.
Davis, Dylan, Lipo, Carl P.
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Ecologization Is Not a Metaphor: Museums in the Web of Life
Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article documents and critiques emerging accounts of museum “ecologization”. Drawing on political ecology, materialist theory, and contemporary museum practice, we challenge dominant frameworks of ecological modernization and advocate for a more critical understanding of museums in the web of life.
Colin Sterling +2 more
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, 2013 ABSTRACT: Monumental architecture is reservoir of memories which can stand as symbol of the cities and even countries with the embedded meaning in their form and operation. This kind of structures can link the past and the future like the rings of a chain. In addition they have the potential to create and support the identity of a nation.
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Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within Aotearoa New Zealand there is a growing body of evidence which shows that embedding cultural elements within student experience is a key contribution to the educational success of Māori and Pasifika students. This article describes how the Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland Art Collection team collaborates with indigenous ...
Nigel Bond +2 more
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