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Tantasavasdi, Chalermwat 1971. "Natural ventilation : design for suburban houses in Thailand." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70306.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1998.Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-95).
Natural Ventilation is the most effective passive cooling design strategy for architecture in hot and humid climates. In Thailand, natural ventilation has been the most essential element in the vernacular architecture such as the traditional house, but has become unused nowadays because of the urbanized conditions in big cities like Bangkok. This thesis explores the potential of using natural ventilation for modern houses by using a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) program. The research investigates the characteristics of Thai houses from the past to the present that climate, culture and technology have influenced. The analysis of the climate data concludes that natural ventilation can be used approximately four months a year to create conditions within the zone of thermal comfort. In a suburban housing project, site planning has a significant impact on the wind pattern and velocity. The simulation results indicate that the wind has better characteristics in the houses with square shapes than those with rectangular shapes. The vegetation around the houses also has some effect on the wind by slightly reducing its speed. Lastly, the prevailing winds from the north and north-northeast have similar wind patterns in a large housing project. The final stage is to design a prototype by using some climatic characteristics from the traditional Thai house. The air movement is inadequate in a house with regular size windows. Therefore, the study tests three more cases with larger windows. The results demonstrate that the maximum size window provides better thermal comfort. Finally, the study finds that the stack effect is negligible. The study shows the possibility to use natural ventilation for the houses in this region. The investigation has developed comprehensive design guidelines for architects. Necessary further research is presented in the end to find more solutions for climate-responsive architecture in today's physical conditions.
by Chalermwat Tantasavasdi.
M.S.
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Bell, John Barry. "Wat Phra Chetuphon : the narratives of form, symbol, and architectural order in the Thai temple." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=102787.
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This thesis strives to uncover the central narrative latent in the forms, symbols, and architectural order of Wat Phra Chetuphon, a major royal temple in Bangkok, and to consider its revelatory significance in relation to the broader question of Thai sacred building. Conventionally Wat Pho's architecture is assumed to follow a fully formed Siamese tradition.1 Though conceived within a newly challenging historical context, and with a novel pedagogic programme, the architecture's symbolic value has been, therefore, treated as largely self evident. Yet surprisingly neither the traditions of Thai sacred architecture nor their specific expression at Wat Pho have been clearly articulated.After outlining the conceptual context the thesis undertakes a detailed examination of the temple's different parts and their arrangement. This descriptive strategy proposes Wat Pho's architecture as the primary document available for study, with its specific forms and experience orienting the supporting textual research. Existing scholarship, canonic Theravada Buddhist texts, Brahmanic mythology and the specificities of Siamese history and culture are brought into the discussion as directed by the architecture's particularities. Those forms such as the bai sema and the chofa, which identify the temple's indigenous character and symbolic potential without, however, having universally accepted meanings, are of particular significance to the argument. Equally the complexities of Wat Pho's plan and its experience are considered in relation to their narrative potential.
This descriptive foundation establishes the facts of the architecture and its associations in order to ground the identification of a range of possible narratives. These are reviewed in relation to the symbolic assumptions regarding the Thai temple and Wat Pho that exist. From this foundation a new essential narrative structure is proposed. Like most of the sacred architecture throughout the region Wat Pho expresses aspects of a Buddhist cosmology. Yet in contrast to a spatial analogue (or map) of the universe centred on Mount Meru prevalent elsewhere, it is argued here that Wat Pho's architecture, and the Thai temple in general, articulates a cosmological understanding through a form of represented event; a mimetic recreation of the Buddha's descent from Tavatimsa heaven where he had gone to preach to his mother and the assembled gods. In conclusion Wat Pho's cosmological vision is placed within its own artistic and historical contexts, exemplary of Thai sacred architecture at the culminating moment of its traditional expression and impending transformation.
1Wat Phra Chetuphon is popularly known as Wat Pho, referencing its earlier name, Wat Photaram, which predated its transformation under the Chakri (Bangkok) dynasty.
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Khanjanusthiti, Pinraj. "Buddhist architecture : meaning and conservation in the context of Thailand." Thesis, University of York, 1996. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/9785/.
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Osiri, Navanath. "Space and rituals in the vernacular architecture of northern Thailand." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.251657.
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Watsantachad, Nuanlak. "A study of laterite used in Khmer architecture in Thailand." Thesis, University of York, 2005. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14072/.
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Pattamasattayasonthi, Ekachai. "Reinventing flexibility : a hybrid paradigm for Thai markets in Bangkok, Thailand." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62884.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2011.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
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This thesis asserts that the current form of the proliferating modernization of Thai markets in terms of economic growth and the incorporation of building technology to improve goods storage, attractive envelope, and shopping environment, is actually neither modern nor sustainable for the Thai socio-economic system. Despite fact that Thai Markets have claimed to be modernized over time, they are merely heavily populated for a few hours each day, and otherwise remain barren. Recent reports of the declining state of the Markets also exhibit the failures of the current model of Thai markets, which avow to be modern yet are not sustainable nor competent, creating bigger crisis in Thai urban culture. My thesis argues that the temporal condition of underutilized space and the declining state of Thai markets are in fact architectural problems that need to be resolved spatially and programmatically. This thesis proposes that a new breed of architecture for Thai markets is conceivable and necessary in order for Thai markets to survive while nurturing the rich urban goods distribution, consumption, and dynamic urban spectacles. This thesis will investigate the possibilities of a new paradigm for Thai markets in Bangkok by hybridization between the Thai markets and street markets to create a model that is rather an ephemeral form of architecture, a new multi-functional space for market vending and urban activities, resulting from the braids of streets networks. This place will become a new civic building type --- which is a cross-breed between street and architecture, landscape and buildings --- to assemble the public around their common needs for commodities, leisure, and interaction.
by Ekachai Pattamasattayasonthi.
M.Arch.
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Laowong, Chiraporn. "Cultural values and living spaces : the exploration of an appropriate housing for Thai families in a contemporary society." Virtual Press, 1999. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1125095.
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This creative project is a study of cultural awareness in architecture. The hypothesis states that architecture is one of many cultural manifestations in a society. One seeking contemporary architecture in a society should explore the idea of contemporary culture in that society. This study aims to point out the relationship of living patterns and living spaces (culture and architecture). Living patterns are influenced by their own cultures and, at the same time, the characteristics of living spaces reflect the aspects of living patterns. To explore contemporary living spaces, cultural issues must be considered.However, culture is dynamic. It is changed by reasons of time, place and people. Even though the tradional cultures in a society continuingly permeate to the next generations, some of them disappear as time, place or people change. Therefore, to study the issue of culture in contemporary society, traditional and new cultures are reckoned with as contemporary families adapt both cultures into their lifestyles.While Thai society has maintained its own unique culture, recently globalization has brought influences of Western ideas into Thailand. These influences are effecting Thai culture and bearing on how housing responds to a changing society.The work is divided into two parts, research and design. To explore the deeper meaning of contemporary living spaces, the research focuses on the importannce of culture to the characteristics of living spaces. It analyzes cultural and social changes that have influenced contemporary Thai families. This cultural analyses confirms that the meaning and design of contemporary living spaces are directly influenced by cultural adjustments.To support the hypothesis and research, a housing project for contemporary Thai families is proposed. It is a schematic design that incorporates the cultural analyses into the design process. The design is a model for organizing cultural information into the design of living spaces.Department of Architecture
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Chirattikalwong, Anawat. "Natural ventilation and solar control : design analysis of suburban Bangkok housing estates." Virtual Press, 2007. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1365783.
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The housing estates boom was and is a result of the Southeast Asia economic growth after the economic crisis between 1997 and 1998. Housing estates, especially in the suburbs of Bangkok, are designed by considering only aesthetics and costs without considering the negative effects that might occur to the occupants and nature. These negative effects lead to the insufficiency energy crisis.Determining how to reduce the energy used and increase the living quality in the building type is the critical question for architects to answer. Redesigning the housing estate using sustainable design concepts, especially with a focus on the natural ventilation and shading device strategies, can lift up the occupants' living quality because such design can provide cross ventilation through the house and solar shading to reduce the heat gain in the house. Not only would such design improvements make houses more comfortable for inhabitants, they also would reduce the energy use.The methodologies of research start with spatial analyses to define the general character of this type of house, then the redesigning of a selected existing house is used to focus on natural ventilation and shading devices design in order to improve the occupants living quality and to reduce the energy used in the house. It is hoped that this project can be the first step for other architects to understand the logic of natural ventilation and shading control design strategies within the realm of sustainability.Department of Architecture
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Tovivich, S. "Architecture for the urban poor, the 'new professionalism' of 'community architects' and the implications for architectural education : reflections on practice from Thailand." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2011. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1306880/.
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Conventional architectural practice and education has long been limited to serving a minority of the world's elite population. This research is interested in extending the boundaries of architectural practice and education. It sets out to explore the role of architects in addressing the emergence and growth of informal settlements which represent the majority of the built environment in most developing countries. It traces the transformation from a providing paradigm to a supporting paradigm in global housing policies for the urban poor which calls for a new role for architects and the architectural profession – the 'architecture of empowerment'. As a contribution to this paradigm shift, the research focuses on architectural design processes 'with' poor urban communities in Thailand as a case study. Reflections on the practice of NHA, CODI and CASE architects are examined and compared through an investigation of the relationship between their values, knowledge and skills, in order to understand not only the challenges faced in their practice, but also the implications for architectural education. The research illustrates that architects, who employ the architectural design process as an empowering tool for community members, work as 'reflective educators' encompassing the professional roles of 'provider', 'supporter' and 'catalyst'. The conditions underlining each role include (1) the architect's personal values, knowledge and skills; (2) organizational policies and supports; and (3) clients' values concerning participation and participatory design process. The research argues that the knowledge and skills of the architect as provider remain important, but not enough to deal effectively with the challenges posed by informal settlements. Also crucial are the new architectural values, knowledge and skills related to the roles of supporter and catalyst which relate respectively, to design to support community members to make their own decisions; and empower them to believe in themselves, collectively act for themselves and reflect on their actions. This calls for a transformation in the power relations between architects and their clients in the design process, and when addressed in an 'alternative architectural education', also calls for a transformation in the power relations between architectural tutors and their students in the classroom and design studio, and the promotion of a reflective educational practice.
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Kazantzoglou, Avraam. "Flexible Architecture System & Topology License Plate Recognition (FAST LPR) and Concept of Operations in Thailand." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2008. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2008/Sept/08Sep%5FKazantzoglou.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S. in Electronic Warfare Systems Engineering and M.A. in Security Studies (Stabilization and Reconstruction))--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2008.Thesis Advisor(s): Sankar, Pat ; McNab, Robert. "September 2008." Description based on title screen as viewed on November 6, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-154). Also available in print.
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Fusinpaiboon, Chomchon. "Modernisation of building : the transplantation of the concept of architecture from Europe to Thailand, 1930-1950s." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/5698/.
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Conventional studies consider the transplantation of Modern Architecture from Europe and North America to non-western contexts as a one-way imposition with little adaptation, if any. This research goes beyond the importation of ‘Modern Architecture’ to Thailand by fundamentally questioning the concept of ‘Architecture’ in Thai society between the 1930s and 1950s when it was transplanted for the first time from Europe to Thailand. By analysing archival materials and case studies in relation to their socio-political contexts, the transplantation of the concept of Architecture from Europe to Thailand is treated as an interactive and non-hierarchical process, involving translation, reinterpretation, and transformation. The thesis argues that the transplantation of the concept of ‘Architecture’ was a systematic yet complex and hybrid process that modernised the traditional concept of ‘building’ as perceived in Thai society. This process reassured the Thai elite that Thailand, the only country in Southeast Asia never to have been colonised by any western power, was a civilised country. At the same time, traditional practices, rituals, and beliefs, related to buildings, were not completely eliminated but were transformed and mingled with ‘Architecture’. Accordingly, the modern concept of ‘Architecture’ modernised the traditional concept of ‘building’ but the latter also indigenised the former in many respects. By examining the transplantation of the concept of ‘Architecture’ previously unknown in Thailand, the thesis questions the complex concept of modernity in architecture even before the presence of the Modern Movement. More broadly, it also questions the dichotomy between western/modern and non-western/traditional in transcultural modern architecture.
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Karnchanaporn, Nuttinee. "Fear as a cultural phenomenon in Thailand with special reference to the spatial relations of domestic architecture." Thesis, Open University, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.412390.
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Suwatcharapinun, Sant. "Spaces of male prostitution : tactics, performativity and gay identities in streets, Go-Go bars and magazines in contemporary Bangkok, Thailand." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2005. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10720/.
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This research explores the spatial practices of male prostitutes meeting gay male clients in various urban environments in Bangkok, Thailand. The research focuses on the male prostitutes’ spatial practices in three meeting places: the streets around Saranrom park, the gay go-go bars in Surawong’s Boys’ Town, and the representations of space in local gay newsletters. Examining the male prostitutes’ spatial practices through ‘tactics’, this research suggests that male prostitutes use the meeting places differently as ways of responding to the ‘strategies’ of gay male clients. This research also suggests that the tactics of male prostitutes can be examined by exploring the relationship between spatial practices and subjectivities. By exploring how specific performative acts constitute male prostitutes’ subjectivities, this research suggests that male prostitutes ‘perform’ homosexuality. This thesis draws upon Judith Butler’s performativity theory as a discursive mode of constituting subjects and Michel de Certeau’s theoretical discussion, specifically spatial practices of ‘strategies’ and ‘tactics’, as a means of differentiating between ‘place’ and ‘space’. Methodologically, this research works in two directions: the first explores how the spatial practices of male prostitution produce ‘gay’ subjectivities in the moment of sexual encounter – arguing that male prostitutes actively reposition themselves as ‘subjects’ rather than ‘objects’ through spatial and sexual practices; and the second examines the social and sexual constitution of space – arguing that ‘places’ are produced as ‘spaces’ through the practices and tactics of male prostitutes. This research aims to make an original contribution to knowledge in four main ways. The first is an exploration of the relationship between de Certeau’s spatial theory of ‘tactics’ and Butler’s concept of ‘performativity’ as a constitution of subjectivity. The second is the use of de Certeau and Butler’s theories to explore three spaces of male prostitution in contemporary Bangkok, Thailand, through observations drawn from interviews, accounts of spatial experience, and discussions of various representations of space. The third is a reconsideration of these theories of performativity and spatial practices in the light of the specific conditions of the case studies in Bangkok. The fourth is the production of new forms of cross-disciplinary knowledge to bring this discussion of tactics, performativity and gay subjectivities in streets, go-go bars and magazines into architectural history and theory, thereby producing new ways of understanding how spaces are produced through encounters and looks.
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Saicharoent, Chaowalid. "The survival of vernacular architecture in a modernizing world : a case study of the Lawa's houses in Mae Chaem, Thailand." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.543806.
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Tansukanun, Pranom. "The connections beyond sacred architecture : an analysis through spatial structures and daily rhythms of the temple grounds in a regional city and a small town in the north of Thailand." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.407069.
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Cavallo, David Paul. "Technological fluency and the art of motorcycle maintenance : emergent design of learning environments." Thesis, Cambridge, Mass. : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://web.media.mit.edu/%7Ecavallo/Thesis-index.pdf.
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Afhandling, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architechture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2000.Findes også på internet (kræver læseprogrammet Acrobat Reader): http://web.media.mit.edu/%7Ecavallo/Thesis-index.pdf. Litteraturhenvisninger s. 239-246.
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Mongkolpradit, Wonchai. "Le bouddhisme dans l'architecture lanna du nord de la Thailande (1296-1558)." Paris, INALCO, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2004INAL0019.
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Ce mémoire a pour objet l’étude des concepts philosophique du Bouddhisme appliqués à l’architecture et repose essentiellement sur les constructions réalisées dans la région du Lanna ancien. Cette étude s’est concentrée sur l’influence qu’ont eu les enseignements du Bouddha sur le développement culturel et social, correspondu avec l’installation de populations immigrées, engendrèrent l’apparition d’une culture bouddhiste spécifique au Lanna. Or ceci n’est pas sans conséquences et est même fondamental dans l'élaboration d’une architecture particulière. Cette étude tente de montrer que l’essence de l’architecture bouddhique du Lanna réside dans la volonté d’établir, par des formes et des symboles, une communication vers l’esprit, qui sont une procession des voies possibles de l’application des préceptes bouddhiques et participent à l’épanouissement spirituel de ceux qui aspirent à atteindre le bouddhéïté. . Les formes architecturales sont donc une partie du processus de développement social, tant au niveau individuel qu’à une plus grande échelle, et se traduisent à tous les niveaux de construction que ce soit une maison, un village, un temple, un palais mais aussi une cité ou un royaume. Bien qu’apparemment ces constructions diffèrent dans leurs formes, toutes ces réalisations ont recours aux mêmes références bouddhiques qui si elles ne sont pas toujours exprimées de la même manière se correspondent néanmoins. Enfin, notre travail vise à mettre en évidence les principes immanents au bouddhisme et tente d’élaborer une théorie qui permettrait d’appliquer ces principes pour créer une forme architecturale adaptée à la société contemporaine. Nous espérons par ce biais apporter une réflexion sur l’architecture qui sera profitable au Lanna, à la Thaïlande et au reste du monde et susciter d’autres travaux qui concrétiseront cette volonté d’adaptation de l’architecture bouddhique au monde actuelThe object of this study is to show the importance of Buddhist philosophical concepts in architecture and more particular in the buildings of the ancient Lanna. First of all, the fundamental Buddhist concepts were presented before showing their importance in the cultural and sociological development, simultaneously with the population migration, blending gave birth to a Buddhist culture specific to Lanna. This is an important point in the creation of a specific architecture. In this study, we tried to show that the core of Buddhist architecture in Lanna resides in the desire to establish a communication to the spirit, through the forms and the symbols, in order to apply Buddhist precept in life and are a way to enhance the spiritual progression of one who wants to attain Buddha. The architectural forms are a part of the social development process that is applied to an individuals scale to a larger scale. They can be seen in all type of construction such as a house, a village, a temple, a palace, but also in a city and a kingdom. The buildings may differ in their forms but they all have the same Buddhist references. Those references may not be explained in the same manner though they all converge to the same concept. This work aims to show the immanent principals of Buddhist philosophy and tries to elaborate a theory that would permit the adaptation of these principles to a new architectural form destined to contemporary society. We hope that it will be benefice to the development of architectural theories that will be profitable to Lanna, Thailand and the rest of the world, but also that it will be followed by other works with more practical implications
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Dusitnanond, Ajaphol. "Developing a Method of Teaching Architectural Project Design: A Case Study of Third Year Studio Project, Faculty of Architecture, Sriburapha University, Thailand." 2007. http://eprints.vu.edu.au/1571/1/Dusitnanond.pdf.
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This research was concerned with an Interactive Evaluation, using an Action Research approach, of the effectiveness of using a Student-Centred Cooperative Approach – as opposed to the more traditional teacher-centred method – in the teaching of a Third Year Architecture subject, ‘Studio Project Design’. The four steps of Action Research – plan, act, observe and reflect – were used to make judgements and recommendations about this new approach. The respondents of this study were forty-six students – of whom twelve were also volunteer participant-interviewees – enrolled in Studio Design, together with three teachers, at the Faculty of Architecture, Sriburapha University, Bangkok, Thailand. A qualitative approach was used to collect and analyse student and staff opinion. The concepts of cooperative learning – including co-operative learning approaches, cooperative instruction, teaching cooperative learning skills, and responses to cooperative learning – were all shown to be relevant in student-centred learning. My Studio Design students and I, jointly, engaged in this research – improving students’ abilities in all components of Studio Design, as well as developing a positive attitude towards design, in general. Most significantly, all students ‘switched on’ to study as a result of the cooperative learning approach used in Studio Project Design. The research was concerned with determining whether or not a Student-Centred Cooperative Approach – which used cooperative and problem-based learning methods – resulted in improved student outcomes. Positive affective outcomes included development of a positive attitude towards design, and an increase in students’ technical and academic competencies that helped them to meet design demands. The outcome was positive. Students increased their learning competencies, enhanced their social skills, were more motivated to study, developed a higher level of interdependence, enjoyed the freedom to think ‘outside the square’, and increased their creativity when exposed to a Student-Centred Approach. To make a Student-Centred Cooperative Approach work more effectively, teachers and administrators within the School of Architecture need to embrace two key elements: first, by seeking to adapt themselves to change by engaging in lifelong learning; second, by undertaking special professional training courses in architecture.
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Gamache, Genevieve. "Between localism and nationalism: two contemporary examples of Thai temple art and architecture in Northern Thailand." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3184.
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This dissertation is about the tension and continuum between localism and nationalism in contemporary Thai Buddhist art and architecture. It deals with two contemporary Buddhist temples as works of art and architecture set into particular spatial relations. In this dissertation I compare two contemporary neo-traditionalist Buddhist temples, Wat Rong Khun and Wat Pa’O Ram Yen, situated near the city of Chiang Rai in northern Thailand. Neo-traditionalism has been identified as an important and relatively standard artistic style in Thailand since the 1970’s.
However, the social anxiety experienced during the 1970’s social uprisings, then following the 1997 Asian financial debacle and more recently during and after the early 21st century yellow and red shirts rallies in Bangkok and Chiang Mai led to a profound reevaluation and reassessment of Thai national identity formation. Many Buddhist, social, ecological and political movements have since either obviously or subtly destabilized the perceived Thai national image. These movements often include, even promote, discourses on localism where Thai nationalism is experienced, questioned and adapted by and for the local community. Yet the art historical discourses on neo-traditionalism still follow a conventional national identity formation and visual propaganda. In this dissertation I analyze how two northern temples promote different national vocabularies, from a centralized and more accepted nationalism, to one where concepts based on localism, such as local knowledge, have the potential to destabilize and reevaluate, national identity, without negating it.
Charlermchai Kostipipat is the mastermind behind Wat Rong Khun’s design and construction. Though this temple seems to differ from other temples in Thailand, I will show how the main emphasis of this neo-traditional monument is to promote and support a more conventional and institutionalized version of national identity. I will show how the visitor’s aesthetic experience emphasizes aspects of Buddhism also promoted by the centralized Thai national identity formation. Most importantly, there is a strong artistic emphasis on the Traiphum Phra Ruang, an important religious text in Thailand.
Wat Pa’O is also the artistic project of another northern Thai artist, this time Somluk Pantiboon, a ceramicist established in the village of Pa’O. The temple of Pa’O is a neo-traditional work because of its use of traditional media, artistic details and monastic conventions. Yet I will show how this artistic architectural project has the potential to destabilize the more conventional understanding of ‘neo-traditionalism.’ For example it promotes different elements of the Thai discourses on localism, including an engaged form of Buddhism focusing on social interactions and an acknowledgement of one’s relation to others at the immediate local level. It also promotes a connectedness with nature, allowing the participant to experience and realize dependent origination by observing and experimenting with nature.
This dissertation shows the complexity of Thai national identity negotiated in two case studies of northern Buddhist art and architecture in a post-1997 financial debacle and current political situation. I hope to have demonstrated that this complexity needs to be taken into account in the artistic discourses on Thai neo-traditionalism.
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Steinbachová, Eva. "Chrámová architektura jako kulturní ohnisko jihovýchodní Asie." Doctoral thesis, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-299569.
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Dissertation thesis "Temple architecture as a cultural core in Southeast Asia" presents the temple architecture of Thailand, Cambodia and Indonesian islands of Java and Bali as a cultural phenomenon which opens possibility to observe Hindu and Buddhists cultural continuity in Southeast Asia. The main focus of the work is in the culturological analysis of the temple architecture as a semiotic system - associated symbols and meanings in close relations, reflecting the ideological foundations of Hindu and Buddhist culture. This study follows the works of orientalists and anthropologists and it extends the Czech bibliography, which traditionally lacks of topics in church architecture of Southeast Asia. This study does not claim to cover the topic in a full universal view. It is guided by an effort to map the issues in culturological terms and help to a deeper understanding of cultural heritage of East Asian culture as part of the cultural heritage of mankind. Keywords: Architecture, Southeast Asia, Buddhism, Hinduism, Java, Bali, Thailand, Cambodia.