Browsing by Subject "Architecture"
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A New Approach to Digitizing Cultural Heritage: Constructing Immersive VR Experiences of Traditional Huizhou Architecture
(2023)Vernacular architectural studies are an integral part of the world’s cultural heritage research. Compared with other tangible or intangible cultural heritage, the physical properties of vernacular architecture and ... -
A Virtual Museum of Architecture: Creating an Alternative Visitor Experience
(2022)Although an integral part of art historical studies, authentic experiences of architecture have been excluded from the cathedrals of cultural objects, art museums. The built forms can seldomly fit into the doors of museums ... -
Applying GIS to the Logistics of Material Transportation for Constructing the Baths of Caracalla in Rome
(2017)The purpose of this thesis is to visualize the economic system (supply, production, and transportation) and the logistics of the movement of marble in the Roman Empire in an effort to better understand the larger system ... -
Architecture and the Performance of Citizenship in a Global City: Singapore, 1965-2015
(2019)In this dissertation, I present the ways in which architecture was used to perform citizenship in post-colonial Singapore from 1965-2015. During the first fifty years of independence, architects, alongside other artists ... -
Architectures of Aliveness: Building Beyond Gravity
(2015)In the context of today's global mobility, information, bodies and goods are circulating across the globe, and even further into outer space. However, we face a paradox: the more we move, the more we become sedentary. The ... -
Building the Good Life: Architecture and Politics
(2010)This dissertation examines the relationship between architecture and democratic politics in late-modernity. It identifies the refusal of architects to consider the political dimensions of their work following the failures ... -
Designing Community: Architecture, Race and Democracy in American Life Writing, 1900-‐‑1950
(2017)The turn of the nineteenth to twentieth century saw unprecedented growth and change in the demographics of United States urban environs. Not only did U.S. cities grow bigger, they grew increasingly multicultural and multiracial. ... -
Friars in the City: Mendicant Architecture and Pious Practice in Medieval Verona, c. 1220-c. 1375
(2010)This dissertation explores how the combination of pious practice, economic activity, and religious poverty shaped the architecture of the mendicants in medieval Verona. It also examines how the presence of the friars affected ... -
Immersive Projection: A Case Study on the Duke Chapel Interior
(2018)In my thesis, I explore the potential of projection mapping for storytelling by using Duke Chapel interior as an example. Through the investigation of what filmmaker Frederick Backer calls “Projectionism,” I focus on the ... -
Modeling Ambiguity: An Analysis of the Paris Temple
(2019)The Paris Temple is a monument that has been lost since the start of the 19th century. This thesis aims to digitally reconstruct this monument in a new virtual environment in order to explore the value of digital modeling ... -
Modernity, Sanitation and the Public Bath: Berlin, 1896-1933, as Archetype
(2007-12-14)This dissertation documents and analyzes the architecture of the working-class bathhouse - its emergence in the nineteenth-century and revision and continued elaboration in the twentieth. It is a case study that examines ... -
Political Postmodernisms: Architecture in Chile and Poland, 1970-1990
(2018)“Political Postmodernisms” argues that postmodern architecture can be radically rethought by examining its manifestations in Chile and Poland in the 1970s and 1980s. Postmodern architecture tends to be understood as politically ... -
The Architectural History of Beverley Minster, 721-c. 1370
(2011)This dissertation is the first architectural history devoted to Beverley Minster, a large and ambitious Gothic church located in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Beverley is one of the most important medieval buildings in ... -
The Cartography of Hong Kong Urban Space: Living and Walking in the Cinematic Cityscapes of Fruit Chan and Ann Hui
(2021)Hong Kong has long been ensnared in the problems of limited housing and soaring land prices, which renders its physical space one of the most visible criteria embodying its social inequalities. Regarding space as an overarching ...
