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Ruhlig, Vanessa Jane. "Colonial architecture as heritage: German colonial architecture in post-colonial Windhoek." Thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/30196.
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The rapid post-Independence development of the city of Windhoek, Namibia; and the ensuing destruction of a substantial number of German colonial buildings in the capital city, prompted speculation as to why these buildings are inadequately protected as heritage – and whether they are, in fact, considered to be heritage.
The study explores the issues pertaining to the presence of German colonial architecture, as artefacts of the German colonial period, within the postcolonial context of Windhoek. The trauma and pain of the Namibian War and genocide (1904 – 1908) are recurring themes in the body of literature on postcolonial Namibia; and this informs a wider discourse on memory. Memory is found to play a crucial role in evoking a sense of both individual and shared ownership, through its capacity to create meaning, which can in turn ascribe value to a place. Memory is also dependent on visual cues for its continued existence, which suggests the importance of colonial architecture as a material prompt to sustain memory. The research therefore investigates the memories and multiple meanings attributable to colonial architecture in this plural society, and how these meanings can be created, or possibly reinvented, through the continued use of these buildings.
The study is based on an assessment of three halls in Windhoek – the Grüner Kranz Hall (1906), the Kaiserkrone Hall (1909), and the Turnhalle (1909; 1912), all designed by the German architect Otto Busch – which illustrates in part, the need for the development of historical building surveys that assess the social values and significances of these contested spaces; and moreover, the potential that these spaces have to support memory work through their continued use.
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Datey, Aparna. "Cultural production and identity in colonial and post-colonial Madras, India." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65460.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1996.Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-195).
All cultural production is a consequence of its context and is infused with meaning and identity. A preoccupation with the visual and symbolic aspects of architectural form and its cultural meaning has led to an increased autonomy of the architectural object. This thesis posits that architectural forms do not have fixed, unchanging and singular meanings, but that they acquire meaning in particular contexts- historical, social, cultural and political. Certain forms or stylistic motifs, acquire, embody or are perceived to represent the identity of a nation or cultural groups within a nation. The confluence of a search for 'Indianness' and the post-modern thought in architecture is a paradoxical aspect of the recognition of the autonomy of architecture. In the contemporary India, the search for a 'Tamil' identity, may be perceived as an attempt to create a distinct, regional identity as opposed to the homogenous and universal national identity. This is similar to the creation of a 'British-Indian' identity as opposed to the western one, by the British, in the last quarter of the 19th century. In this attempt to create a regional identity, the same or similar regional architectural forms and stylistic motifs were the source and precedent to represent both 'Tamil' and 'British-Indian' identity. This would imply that the forms do not have a singular meaning but that they are embodied with meaning and symbolism in particular contexts. This is exemplified by a trans-historical comparison between two colonial and contemporary buildings in Madras, South India. The Post and Telegraph Office, 1875-84 (Architect: Robert Chisholm) and the Law Court, 1889-92 (Architect: Henry Irwin) represent the two trends within 'Indo-Saracenic' architecture. The former draws precedents primarily from local, regional and classical Hindu temple architectural traditions while the latter from the 'Indo-Islamic' Mughal architectural tradition. The Valluvar Kottam Cultural Center, 1976-8 (Architect: P. K. Acharya) and the Kalakshetra Cultural Center, 1980-2 (Architects: Mis. C. R. Narayanarao & Sons) represent the search for an indigenous 'Tamil' architecture. The sources for the former are primarily from the Dravidian style classical Hindu temple architecture of the region while the latter is inspired by the local and regional traditions. Paradoxically, the same or similar forms manifest opposing ideals, and represent colonial and post-colonial identities, respectively.
by Aparna Datey.
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Ross, Douglas E. "Domestic Brick Architecture in Early Colonial Virginia." W&M ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626356.
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Vale, Lawrence J. 1959. "Designing national identity : recent capitols in the post-colonial world." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/14762.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1988.Bibliography: v. 2, leaves 345-361.
While all buildings are a product of social and cultural conditions, the architecture of national capitals raises especially complicated questions about power and identity. The architecture of a national capitol, as the seat of government within a national capital, is often a continuation of politics by other means. Part One provides an overview of the "capital city" as a concept, drawing a distinction between "evolved" capitals and "designed " capitals. It investigates the social and geopolitical reasons that under lie the choice of location of several designed capitals built during the last two hundred years. In analyzing each city, the focus is on the relationship between the "capitol" and the rest of the capital. This discussion concludes with an analysis of two ongoing projects-- Abuja, Nigeria and Dodoma, Tanzania-- where the design of new capitals is intimately connected to the search for a post-colonial "national identity." Part Two begins with this concept of "national identity," and stresses that what is put forth by government leaders and their architects as "n ational" most often contains significant biases towards preserving or advancing the hegemony of a politically ascendant group . In cases where an entire new capital is not commissioned, much of these biases can get channeled into the design of a new capitol complex instead. "National Identity," when given architectural representation in a building designed to house a national legislature, is a product of these preferences. Moreover, what is termed "n ational identity" is also closely tied to both "international" identity and to the personal identities of the architects and sponsoring politicians. These issues are discussed in relation to four recently-completed capitol complexes, in Papua New Guinea, Kuwait, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Each national assembly building is a monumental edifice for a fledgling institution. Each has been designed to symbolize a highly plural post-colonial state, but reveals both subnational and supranational strains. Part Three compares and contrasts the spatial and iconographical treatment of cultural pluralism and democratic institutions in each of the four case studies, stressing the limitations of buildings that are either too literal or too abstract. It emphasizes that designers should recognize that these buildings play an ever-changing political role , and that they be conscious of the gap between their clients' (and their own) hegemonic preferences and the more inclusive promises implied by a building that is called a "national" assembly. It stresses that designers be aware of the ways that architectural idealizations may be used not to anticipate some more perfect future order but to mask the severe abuses of power in the present. It concludes with a discussion about how to improve the design of capitols, and offers suggestions for further research.
by Lawrence J. Vale.
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Hobson, Daphne Louise. "The domestic architecture of the earliest British colonies in the American tropics:a study of the houses of the Caribbean Leeward Islands of St. Christopher, Nevis, Antigua and Montserrat. 1624-1726." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/26661.
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This study delineates the domestic architecture of the early colonial period in the American tropics in the first group of British colonies that survived. In 1624, the English made their first permanent settlement on St. Christopher in the Caribbean, then expanded to the neighboring islands of Nevis, Antigua and Montserrat. Of particular interest to this research was what the architecture would reveal regarding how the first settlers adapted to the new island environment, its geography, resources, climate, and people, in the first 100 years. The research involved the examination of manuscripts of the period in archives and collections in the UK, USA and Caribbean. The historical data accumulated was primarily inventories and brief descriptions of houses, business correspondence and a small number of official maps. A key resource was a document listing the losses of buildings and possessions suffered as a result of French raids in 1705-1706. The study views the recorded items not as losses, but instead as proof of what once existed, almost as newly found "treasure", and analyzes the items both qualitatively and quantitatively in order to reveal a clearer picture of daily life for the settlers, from modest farmers to wealthier land owners. The study identified house types, stylistic trends in the houses and their furnishing, patterns of use, and construction methods. The architecture recorded the British colonists' process of adaptation to the unfamiliar environment. The study found that Leeward Islands, in the settler period of English colonization (1624-1726) there was a significant degree of interaction and exchange between the Amerindian and British peoples. In addition, it found correlations with rural houses in the wider American tropical region.
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Saliba, Robert. "Paysage colonial et éclectisme provincial : la formation du Beyrouth résidentiel." Paris 8, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA082394.
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Cette thèse se propose d’analyser et d’interpréter les mutations du paysage résidentiel beyrouthin en contact avec le capitalisme industriel mondial entre le 19e et la première moitié du 20e siècle. Elle s’articule autour du thème de l’éclectisme qui cristallise l’esprit dominant de l’époque et représente un mode de pensée riche en dualismes opposant empirisme et rationalisme, et artisanat et industrialisation, en se nourrissant d’échanges historiques et coloniaux. Comme centre provincial de l’empire ottoman, et plus tard, comme capitale d’une nouvelle nation sous mandat français, Beyrouth est passée par deux périodes de modernisation : la première, s’étendant de 1840 à 1920, produisit un nouveau type d’habitat suburbain alliant savoir-faire local et matériaux importés ; et la seconde, celle de l’entre-deux-guerres, engendra l’immeuble urbain spéculatif, intégrant pluralisme stylistique et innovations techniques. Pour saisir la dynamique de cette évolution au niveau des idéologies et des pratiques, cette thèse développe en premier lieu deux thèmes-clés celui de l’éclectisme endogène qui est l’expression d’une dynamique de transition inscrite dans une continuité historique et culturelle, et celui de l’éclectisme exogène qui exprime un passage imposé et abrupt de la tradition à la modernité. L’accent est mis sur les modes d’assimilation de ces deux phénomènes au niveau esthétique (ch. 1 et 2), et technique (ch. 3 et 4), et ce, dans leur cadre culturel respectif. La deuxième section explore les manifestations de l’éclectisme à travers les paysages résidentiels eux-mêmes en analysant leurs structures urbaines sous-jacentes (ch. 5), leurs modes d’expression (ch. 7, 8 et 9), et les mutations du plan à hall central qui représente la constante morphologique de l’espace domestique (ch. 10 et 11)The purpose of this thesis is to analyze and interpret the formation and transformation of Beirut’s residential townscapes under the impact of capital industrialism between the 19th and the early decades of the 20th century. Eclecticism epitomizes the spirit of this transitional period with its inherent dualisms between empiricism and rationalism, craftsmanship and industrialization, tradition and modernity, while feeding on historical revivalisms and colonial exchange. Beirut went through two periods of modernization, as a provincial center of the Ottoman Empire between 1840 and 1920, and as the capital of a new nation-state between the two world wars under the French Mandate. The first period witnessed the formation of a new type of suburban housing which is a synthesis between local know-how and imported materials from Europe. The second period generated the urban apartment building which integrated stylistic pluralism and western technical innovations. To investigate the dynamics of this evolution, the thesis develops first the key-themes of endogenous eclecticism referring to a transitional process in line with historical and cultural continuity; and exogenous eclecticism or the abrupt and imposed passage between tradition and modernity. Emphasis is on the modes of assimilation of these two phenomena in their respective cultural context, both on the aesthetic level (ch. 1 and 2) and the technical level (ch. 3 and 4). The second section of the thesis explores the manifestations of eclecticism through the analysis of the evolving residential townscapes taking into consideration their underlying urban structures (ch. 5), their modes of expression (ch. 7, 8, and 9), and the mutations of the central hall plan itself which constitutes the permanent morphological feature extending through the whole period of study (ch. 10 and 11)
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Hubbard, Timothy Fletcher, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Towering over all the Italianate Villa in the colonial landscape." Deakin University. School of Architecture and Building, 2003. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20051110.132654.
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The Picturesque aesthetic emerged in the later 18th century, uniting the Sublime and the Beautiful and had its roots in the paintings of Claude Lorrain. In Britain, and in Australia, it came to link art, literature and landscape with architecture. The Picturesque aesthetic informed much of colonial culture which was achieved, in part, through the production and dissemination of architectural pattern books catering for the aspirations of the rising middle classes. This was against a background of political change including democratic reform.
The Italianate villa, codified and promoted in such pattern books, was a particularly successful synthesis of style, form and function. The first Italianate villa in England, Cronkhill (1803) by John Nash contains all the ingredients which were essential to the model and had a deeper meaning. Deepdene (from 1807) by Thomas Hope gave the model further impetus. The works of Charles Barry and others in a second generation confirmed the model's acceptability. In Britain, its public status peaked with Osborne House (from 1845), Queen Victoria's Italianate villa on the Isle of Wight, Robert Kerr used a vignette of Osborne House on the title page of his sophisticated and influential pattern book, The Gentleman's House (1864,1871). It was one of many books, including those of J.C, Loudon and AJ. Downing, current in colonial Victoria. The latter authors and horticulturists were themselves villa dwellers with libraries and orchards, two criteria for the true villa lifestyle.
Situation and a sense of retreat were the two further criteria for the villa lifestyle. As the new colony of Victoria blossomed between 1851 and 1891, the Italianate villa, its garden setting and its landscape siting captured the tenor of the times. Melbourne, the capital was a rich manufacturing metropolis with a productive hinterland and international markets. The people enjoyed a prosperity and lifestyle which they wished to display. Those who had a position in society were keen to demonstrate and protect it. Those with aspirations attempted to provide the evidence necessary for such acceptance, The model matured and became ubiquitous. Its evolution can be traced through a series of increasingly complicated rural and suburban examples, a process which modernist historians have dismissed as a decadent decline. These villas, in fact, demonstrate an increasingly sophisticated retreat by merchants from the Town and by graziers from the Country. In both town and country, the towers of villas mark territory newly acquired. The same claim was often made in humbler situations.
Government House, Melbourne (from 1871), a splendid Italianate villa and arguably finer than Osborne House, was set in a cultivated landscape and towered above all It incorporated the four criteria and, in addition, claimed its domain, focused authority and established the colony's social status. It symbolised ancient notions of democracy and idealism but with a modem appreciation for the informal and domestic. Government House in Melbourne is the epitome of the Italianate villa in the colonial landscape and is the climax of the Picturesque aesthetic in Victoria.
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Hobson, Daphne Louise. "The domestic architecture of the earliest British colonies in the American tropics a study of the houses of the Caribbean Leeward Islands of St. Christopher, Nevis, Antigua and Montserrat : 1624-1726 /." Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/26661.
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Thesis (Ph.D)--Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008.Committee Chair: Lewcock, Ronald; Committee Member: Bafna, Sonit; Committee Member: Dowling, Elizabeth; Committee Member: Edwards, Jay D.; Committee Member: Nelson, Louis. Part of the SMARTech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Collection.
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Phookan, Nandinee. "Rethinking New Delhi : design studies on the densification of a colonial city." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76867.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1987.Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-80).
New Delhi, the capital of the British Raj in India, forms with the Mughal walled city of Shahjahanabad, the core of a city that has grown tenfold in the forty years since Independence, from 700,000 in 1947, to 7.5 million today. Tremendous disparities characterize this core comprising of what was the 'native city' and the 'colonial city'. The foremost of these is that of density, which is about 350 persons per acre in Shahjahanabad compared to 20 to 25 persons per acre in colonial Delhi. This thesis questions the validity of this bipolarity and the continued existence of a suburban environment in the heart of the city through a series of design studies on the densification of the colonial city. It deals with urban form and its implications. While the stated goal of the Master Plan has been to achieve a more equitable distribution of densities in this core, the reasons for densification, who it is to benefit, and its formal expression as presented in urban design proposals for the area, are often contradictory. The thesis demonstrates an alternative approach that attempts to address these issues within the scope of a purely formal study. It draws on precedents of urban form that already exist in the context of Delhi : that of Shahjahanabad and the colonial city which contains within its suburban environment, traces of another urban tradition.
Nandinee Phookan.
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Epstein, Clarence. "Church architecture in Montreal during the British-colonial period, 1760-1860." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22194.
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The French-colonial trading town of Montreal underwent a remarkable transformation from 1760 to 1860. Following the British conquest of New France, the powers vested to Catholic missionary orders were assumed by a Protestant administration. Given the diversity of settlers who were forced to live side by side in the more densely populated urban areas of the colony, ecclesiastical design became a vehicle for the expression of national and denominational identities. By examining church production in Montreal during the period, those cultural imperatives inscribed by French, English, Scottish, Irish and American denominations become apparent. The assimilation of building traditions resulting from the interaction of communities was critical in determining the eclectic architectural character of Canada's first metropolis.
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OUSMANOU, ZOURMBA. "Colonial Built Remains in Douala (Cameroon): Approaches to the Enhancement of Dissonant Heritage." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Genova, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11567/1057913.
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Douala is a Cameroonian city located on the banks of the Wouri River, that experienced various economic, social, and spatial evolution due to the succession of colonial systems: German protectorate from 1884 to 1916, Franco-British condominium from 1916 to 1919, Mandate then Trusteeship regimes under the French supervision from 1919 to 1960. These Successive colonial systems have reshaped the urban space of Douala, through numerous projects and town planning initiatives. Some of these urban projects have been designed on the basis of massive expropriation of local populations, as well as urban segregation, for reasons of so-called hygiene. Urban construction and architectural forms in colonial Douala were conceived to impose Western hegemony. True support of power, colonial architecture in Douala reflects antagonistic urban initiatives, opposing the locals to the German and then French administration. Some of these buildings bear memories of forced labour, assassinations, racism, the imposition of cultural values, whips, and other inhuman and humiliating treatment that colonial administrators inflicted on local populations. On the other hand, within the former colonial powers in the postcolonial context, the imperial past in Cameroon is often equated with a glorious past of empire, which arouses nostalgia contrary to the difficult and painful tendencies of colonial memories in Africa. It is in this logic that the colonial past is subjected to selective oblivion, and idealisation aiming at its polishing. In this regard, the colonial buildings in Douala are the object of memory tensions that complexify their enhancement.
Colonial memory discrepancies can be explained by the dissonant heritage approach, theorised to highlight the tensions likely to affect the enhancement of historic sites in relation to atrocities. These are the sites of painful memories, with which various interest groups recognise linkages. The paradigm of Dissonant Heritage that emerged in the 1990s, inspired various other concepts in the study of heritage and heritage tourism, among which Difficult Heritage and Rejected Heritage. These evolving concepts recall the different possibilities to inspire from the Dissonant heritage, with a view to enhancing historical sites. In this logic, heritagisation models have emerged and inspired a specific heritage model applied to colonial built remains.
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Ahmad, A. Ghafar Bin. "Conservation of British colonial buildings built between 1800 and 1930 in Malaysia." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1994. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14730/.
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conservation in the United Kingdom and to develop possibilities of transferring them to the context of British colonial buildings in Malaysia. It is axiomatic, based on visits to and observations of a large number of buildings in Malaysia and the United Kingdom, that there are many similarities between the British colonial buildings built between 1800 and 1930 in Malaysia and those built in the same period of time in the United Kingdom; in terms of style, building materials, detailing, function and construction. Like many other countries in which building conservation seems a fairly new practice, Malaysia faces problems in dealing with the issues of historic buildings. The present legislation for historic buildings is not sufficient nor suitable, to protect such buildings from being demolished and destroyed. There is also no suitable system for discovering and recording the British colonial buildings in the country. Another aspect is lack of technical knowledge in repairing and maintaining historic buildings. An introductory chapter explains further these problems besides describing the British colonial architecture and the present situation of building conservation in Malaysia. The thesis is divided into five parts. Part One, deals with legislation, examines the scope of building conservation, reasons for conservation, tenninology, recording and listing buildings; and also some case law in regard to building conservation in the United Kingdom. Part Two looks upon philosophical attitudes of some organizations dealing with building conservation in the United Kingdom and Malaysia. Part Three includes a study of methodology which covers saving historic buildings, systems for discovering and recording, data of British colonial buildings, the use of building materials and common defects; and methods and techniques of building maintenance. Part Four presents and analyses case studies of building conservation in the United Kingdom and Malaysia. Several buildings have been selected to compare their changes of use and methods of renovation. Part Five provides conclusions and recommendations for the improvement of the British colonial buildings in Malaysia.
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Blair, Anna Kate. "City full of dreams : colonial spaces and modernity in interwar Paris." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/269939.
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This dissertation examines the role of modern design, architecture, and concepts in sites that linked Paris with France’s colonial empire in the interwar period. I argue that the colonies were a significant part of modern life in Paris, with efforts made to promote the use of colonial materials and motifs and regular attention to the colonies shown by the popular and architectural press. I look at the Grande Mosquée de Paris, colonial pavilions and themes in the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts décoratifs et industriels modernes, sections of the 1931 Exposition Coloniale featuring modern design and technology, the Musée Permanent des Colonies at the Palais de la Porte Dorée, and ways in which Parisian design and planning shaped the experiences of tourists in the colonies. I trace a cultural history of these spaces, examining their documentation and reception in the contemporary press, the role of modern architecture as a site for anti-colonial protest, and the relationship between sites representing the colonies and modern literature. This dissertation shows, through examination of colonial spaces and their representation in the media, that design and architecture served as a means of locating and fixing French identity both temporally and spatially.
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Hebble, John. "The Vassall-Craigie-Longfellow House of 1759: From Colonial America to the Colonial Revival and Beyond." VCU Scholars Compass, 2014. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/603.
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The Longfellow House in Cambridge, Massachusetts is one of America’s best known historic homes. Built in 1759 by Major John Vassall, the grand house exemplified Colonial English tastes and was at the center of a cycle of Colonial Royalist mansions. After the American Revolution, however, the house quickly became a symbol of American patriotism. Occupants ranging from General George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow each added to the legacy of the house. Early in the nineteenth century, the Longfellow House’s distyle portico- pavilion traveled to Canterbury, Connecticut, becoming a colloquial house-type. Aided by its connection to General Washington and its appearance in two World’s Fairs, the house gained further popularity around the American Centennial. This thesis provides the most expansive history of the house’s impact on American architecture to date and is the first to connect the house to both the Greenhouse at Mount Vernon and Connecticut’s “Canterbury Style.”
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Lee, Chibli Jose Arturo. "Transitions between town and metropolis : planning strategies for development and conservation of colonial Zacatecas." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68317.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1996.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 61-64).
This thesis examines the planning strategies critical for the conservation and development of cities full of historic, traditional and cultural value. The colonial city of Zacatecas in central Mexico, was chosen for this study because of its large and considerably well preserved historic center, and because, as a state capital city and primary city in its region, Zacatecas endures intense development pressures which transform it from a colonial town into a Mexican metropolis. As the urban population of Zacatecas grows, and urban pressures erode its historic center, it becomes crucial to tie government efforts and policies not only to the solution of urban problems in this area, but also to the conservation and development of those districts that give form and have an effect on the urban heritage of the city. This thesis, therefore, focuses on the urban pressures, institutions and regulatory frameworks that affect the historic center and those districts immediately around it, and identifies which government actions are critical to promote their development while ensuring the conservation of the historic, cultural, and traditional elements of their unique urban environment.
by Jose Arturo Lee Chabil.
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Lee, Hyun Kyung. "Dealing with difficult heritage : South Korea's responses to Japanese colonial occupation architecture." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.709101.
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Ali, Zuraini Md. "British colonial and post-colonial attitudes to architecture and heritage conservation in Malaysia, with reference to the works of Mubin Sheppard." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.577551.
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Malaysia, after more than fifty years as an independent nation, is one of the most progressive countries in architectural development in South East Asia. In the last three decades, a conscious appreciation of architectural conservation has been established in the country. This study aims to provide a framework for the history and development of the architectural conservation movement in Malaysia, since a large vacuum exists in this area. Using the historical interpretive method, a qualitative examination of case studies and leading prominent personnel has provided historical documentation and useful insights. This thesis attempts to give a chronological account of the development and origins of Malaysian architectural conservation efforts, with particular reference to the role of the late Tan Sri Mubin Sheppard, catalyst and leading promoter of conservation activities, who became the focus of this research. Thus, Sheppard's contribution to the fledgling heritage conservation movement is examined against the background of the establishment and involvement of government agencies, primarily the Museums Department under the British Empire from the 1880s till the newly-implemented National Heritage Act 2005. The research starts with a brief review of Sheppard's life - in particular, his work in Malaya (later Malaysia), followed by a literature review of the historical survey of conservation organisations in the United Kingdom (the British colonial motherland) to see the influence of past events and conservation practices at the time. This thesis then examines Sheppard's contributions to notable Governmental agencies. i.e. the Department of Museums (DoM). and Non-Governmental Organisations. namely the Malayan (later Malaysian) Historical Society (MHS) and Budan Warisan Malaysia (BWM or The Heritage of Malaysia Trust). The major sources of information include accessible reports. relevant newspaper articles and journal collections in the archives and libraries in Malaysia and the United Kingdom, and in particular. documents belonging Sheppard in the National Archives of Malaysia, the University of Cambridge Library and the National Archives in the UK. Studies on selected conservation projects that Sheppard participated in (notably Istana Ampang Tinggi. Masjid Kampong Laut and Istana Tengku Nik), interviews and correspondence with individuals from organisations Sheppard was involved with (MHS, DoM and BWM) and visits to the sites were conducted. The research has been partly limited by bureaucratic restrictions and the confidentiality of materials available in Malaysia. The findings from this research give a new perspective and provide new knowledge on architectural conservation in the country and delineate a significant historical path for others to follow in understanding the crucial issues and challenges faced by those who carried out conservation projects in the early years in Malaysia.
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Boldt, Janine Yorimoto. "The Art of Plantation Authority: Domestic Portraiture in Colonial Virginia." W&M ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1530192717.
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This dissertation critically examines the political and social significance of colonial portraiture by focusing on domestic portraits commissioned for Virginians between the mid-seventeenth century and 1775. Portraiture was a site where colonial and imperial identity was negotiated and expressed. Portraits also supported the construction of social relationships through the acts of representation, erasure, and reception. Chapter one focuses on portraits painted in England for Virginians before ca. 1735 and the use of English portrait conventions to suit the political needs of colonists and to express visions of themselves as agents of empire. This chapter reveals some of the ways Virginians used portraits to engage in transatlantic politics and social networks. Chapter two uncovers the regional preferences for expressing elite, community values centered around gender and family before 1770 in portraits of men, women, and children. It argues that portrait collections had dynastic purposes and visualized women as sexual beings and men as masters over colonial and female nature. Chapter three discusses the influence that enslaved Africans had on portraits of Virginians throughout the colonial period. It argues that the physical presence of enslaved people as audiences caused colonists to erase them from portraiture in order to construct and enforce a plantation complex system of visuality. Planters also disavowed the realities of slavery to emphasize their British civility. The last chapter uncovers the rapid changes in portraiture in the 1770s as colonists and artists confronted imperial crises and responded in diverse ways. The fracturing of gentry planter cohesion and the greater availability of artists changed portraiture in the colony. Virginians left behind the conventionalized nature of portraiture from earlier decades and many began including messages of resistance to imperial policy and partaking in pan-colonial modes of representation. This dissertation combines archival research with visual analysis to shed light on portraiture from a region typically overlooked by art historians. By focusing on a specific region over a long period of time, this project emphasizes the varied and important roles that portraits played in shaping colonial culture and society.
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White, Stephanie. "Postwar Canadian architecture, the colonial, the modern and the national project in Alberta." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape2/PQDD_0022/NQ48736.pdf.
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Mnyila, Desmond. "Dominion: architecture as a symbol of authority in the Eastern Cape Colonial Frontier." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/4256.
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My mini thesis is an exploration of architecture as part of the landscape of Grahamstown and how ideas of dominion and subordination of the non- white citizens of this town were asserted or communicated through space. I concur with theories about architectural buildings as objects that express power and reinforce power relations in any given society. Markus (1993) goes into great lengths to explain how buildings are primarily about power and town planning is a means of control. The area under consideration is very rich in history especially during the period that interested me which is the nineteenth century as this was a period of the establishment of Grahamstown, firstly, as a military establishment and then as a small town serving as a residential area for the British Settlers who arrived in 1820. Throughout the mini thesis I have unpacked the nature of power itself by referring to Njoh (2009) who refers to different categories of the use and especially the abuse or demonstration of power. It wouldn’t do justice to an area as rich in history as the area which is now referred to as the Albany to not dwell into some of the events that were played out here, some of which had consequences and implications for the rest of South Africa. After 1820, the town developed as more buildings of domestic houses, churches, houses of officials, prisons and schools were built. In the thesis I unpack the different architectural styles like the Georgian, Victorian and Cape Dutch styles that formed a significant part of this small town. I draw attention to the ideas of dominion that Njoh elucidates, which were played out in the building of the town architectural structures. Architecture demonstrated British might and power through the imposition of British and European architectural styles on an African landscape. The sheer magnitude of the buildings, I argue, was carefully planned and the use of durable materials, often stones that were imported from abroad, was a carefully orchestrated move to demonstrate British wealth and power through intimidation and seduction. Thomas Baines was one of the artists who spent some time in Grahamstown and made a series of the landscape of this town. My interest in Baines for purposes of this thesis is the manner in which he represented Grahamstown and how he was propagator of British imperialism under the guise of ‘spreading civilisation’ among the ‘back ward’ inhabitants of this continent. My painting practice is influenced by and responds to the vacant land theory especially Baines’ works which were executed to present a Grahamstown as a purely British town ‘emptying’ it of all traces of non- British non- European dwellings or citizens. My practice brings back the layers of history that I have witnessed and the painting surface is slowly built up with water metaphorically destroying the solid structures that were built in the nineteenth century in Grahamstown. As a person who has lived through apartheid and a new dispensation in South Africa, this is reflected in my paintings with a tension between aesthetically pleasing painting styles and disturbing rough surface textures. Anselm Kiefer is the artist who has influenced my work in the manner of working he prefers and also in his tendency to look back at past periods in history.
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Calado, Margarida 1947. "Arte e sociedade na época de D. João V." Phd thesis, Instituições portuguesas -- UNL-Universidade Nova de Lisboa -- FCSH-Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas -- -Departamento de História da Arte, 1995. http://dited.bn.pt:80/29841.
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Malik, Hala Bashir. "Enabling and inhibiting urban development : a case study of Lahore Improvement Trust as a late colonial institution." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/91409.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2014.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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This thesis examines the Lahore Improvement Trust in relation to the urban development of the city of Lahore in mid-twentieth century. LIT was responsible for most major urban development in the city from 1936 up until 1975, when it metamorphosed into the Lahore Development Authority. However, its impact on Lahore's urban history is surprisingly under-recognized, and this may be due to the relative failure of the body itself in delivering a large part of its mandate, despite being responsible for major morphological changes in the city. The formation of LIT, like other Improvement Trusts in India, was based on a real need for planned urban development of a rapidly expanding city. This thesis argues that the structure of such a body was, however, based on conceptual frameworks that were introduced in India by numerous different British institutions, with the aim of either 'testing out' or for furthering a particular colonial agenda. These inherent structural beliefs were carried through numerous cycles of 'reform' before being applied onto the Improvement Trust network which, this study argues, followed a strict path dependent paradigm in a late colonial institution such as LIT. Using the annual reports of LIT, I show that this was evident in the modus operandi of the body, to the point that despite being able to implement individual projects that can be considered successful to a certain extent, it failed to develop or implement a coherent urban vision. Projects under LIT were fragmented instances in the larger urban morphology of the city, which failed to respond to the more pressing problems in the city. Its failure to register itself as a viable body was further exacerbated by the body's incapability to deal with issues such as housing shortage in the city. This was particularly evident in the face of a major shock as Partition in 1947. A huge influx of migrants from East Punjab and riots within the city that caused major infrastructural damage within the city meant that the deficit of the body carried itself exponentially beyond the event of Partition in 1947. That the Trust exhibited institutional inertia well beyond the Partition in its mode of operating explains the weak progress it made beyond that event, and its eventual dissolution into Lahore Development Authority in 1975. Hence, while most projects implemented by the Trust were moderately successful, the lack of a holistic urban plan, a result of both structural (internal) and situational (external) problems, was where LIT failed to deliver causing it to leave an ineffectual mark on Lahore's urban history.
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Demerdash, Nancy Nabeel Aly. "Mapping myths of the medina : French colonial urbanism, Oriental brandscapes and the politics of tourism in Marrakesh." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49723.
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Before the French Protectorate of Morocco was established in 1912, Marrakesh was both a major trading node in North Africa and one of the royal cities in Morocco. Yet as the number of colonists surged and the pieds noirs population settled in the ville nouvelle, Marrakesh's native inhabitants were relegated to the medina. The French mission civilisatrice bolstered segregationist aims and in the process, manufactured a Moroccan cultural heritage (in contradistinction to the preservation of a French heritage) that served to lure potential emigrants. With its burgeoning tourism industry, this colonial binarization of the urban layout and demography lives on in Marrakesh, resulting in the creation of a medina that is still marketed through an orientalizing lens, heralded as little more than an exotic spectacle. This study seeks to understand the contrived makings of a Moroccan cultural heritage, embodied in the monolithic medina, with respect to urban form. But the colonial constructs of old are far from obsolete; these myths of the medina are being adopted, appropriated, and reinvented by the current Moroccan Ministry of Tourism and its partners to satisfy foreign demand. Consumed in the form of what I call an "Oriental brandscape," Marrakesh is framed and famed to promise hedonistic pleasures. Such perpetuated representational tropes actually materialize the oriental fantasy for the consumer; consequently, Marrakesh has become more of a product than place. This study attempts to highlight that the modem manifestations of Moroccan cultural heritage are not discrete from its colonial constructions.
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Johnson, Patrick. "Vengeance with Mercy: Changing Traditions and Traditional Practices of Colonial Yamasees." W&M ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1530192790.
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This dissertation argues that colonial Yamasee communities moved hundreds of miles throughout the present-day Southeastern United States, often to gain influence, and maintained traditions such as names they more closely associated with their ethnicity and authority than ceramics. Self-identification by Yamasees in censuses, speeches, and letters for a century and archaeological evidence from multiple towns allows me to analyze multiple expressions of their identity. their rich rhetoric demonstrates the mechanics of authority—they dictated terms to Europeans and other Native Americans by balancing between, in their words, vengeance and mercy. I focus on a letter and tattoo from a warrior called Caesar Augustus who justified his valor and the writings of a diplomat named andres Escudero who justified retribution. Combined, these and other leaders demonstrate the flexibility in their offices of authority. their political rhetoric—both ritual speech understood throughout the region as well as their specific titles and town names—demonstrates continuities between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. In addition, multiple movements of Yamasee communities across hundreds of miles demonstrates their agency and connections to their neighbors. These movements allowed Yamasees to dictate terms to Europeans and maintain town names, signs, and rhetoric for centuries. However, as a result of these community movements, Yamasees adopted the ceramic traditions of their neighbors. Considering the authority and ethnicity of Yamasees in their own words allows analysis of continuity and change in Yamasee landscapes of ceramic practice in Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida. More specifically, I analyzed materials from my own excavations at Mission San Antonio de Punta Rasa in Pensacola, Florida as well as assemblages excavated by the City of St. Augustine Archaeology Program and in South Carolina by Brockington and Associates. I quantify the extent to which Yamasees adopted the ceramic practices of their neighbors, including Guale, Mocama, Timucua, Apalachee, and Creek Indians. In a sense, this material flexibility reflects the very mobility and social connections that allowed them to maintain geopolitical influence. However, given their authority in Spanish documents and at times invisibility in the archaeological record, Yamasees show only indirect connections between authority and daily ceramic practice. Further, these ceramic practices, as well as Yamasee multilingualism, represent hybrid practices between multiple Native American groups rather than the influence of Europeans.
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Gonçalves, Giovana de Godoi 1981. "Uma interpretação computacional do "De re aedificatoria" para igrejas históricas brasileiras." [s.n.], 2015. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/258034.
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Orientador: Maria Gabriela Caffarena CelaniTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Civil, Arquitetura e Urbanismo
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Resumo: Este trabalho insere-se em uma pesquisa internacional denominada Alberti Digital, cujo objetivo é investigar a influência do Tratado De re Aedificatoria de Leon Batistta Alberti na arquitetura do séc. XVI e XVII em Portugal e em suas colônias. Apesar de diversos autores portugueses afirmarem que o Renascimento não teria tido implicações na arquitetura portuguesa, o professor Mario Krüger defende a hipótese segundo a qual esse movimento teria efetivamente existido. Assim, esta tese tem como objetivo apoiar a hipótese de Kruger, investigando a influência do tratado de Alberti na arquitetura colonial brasileira. O corpus de análise inicial é composto por duas igrejas construídas pelos jesuítas no Brasil nos séculos XVI e XVII, apontadas por diversos autores como sendo as que teriam influenciado diversas construções posteriores. Após a realização de levantamentos históricos e gráficos, o método analítico utilizado foi o mesmo adotado pelos demais pesquisadores do projeto Alberti Digital, que se baseia na Gramática da Forma, um formalismo desenvolvido por Stiny e Gips (1972). Após a identificação de regras de composição no texto de Alberti, essas regras foram aplicadas de modo a criar derivações para composições ideais albertianas. Em seguida, o mesmo foi feito para gerar as plantas e volumetrias das igrejas brasileiras selecionadas. A comparação das derivações albertianas com as das igrejas brasileiras permitiu verificar a semelhança no processo compositivo de ambos os casos. Espera-se que esta análise lógico-matemática do tratado de Alberti confira um novo olhar a essa importante obra. Tradicionalmente, as análises do livro têm se restringido a questões relativas às proporções e a aspectos retóricos e filosóficos. A contribuição pretendida deste trabalho é no sentido de identificar na obra de Alberti um sofisticado processo de projeto sistemático, baseado em regras, o que contribuiu para a disseminação de sua linguagem arquitetônica
Abstract: This work is part of an international research called Digital Alberti, whose aim is to investigate the influence of the Treaty In re Aedificatoria of Leon Alberti in Batistta century architecture. Sixteenth and seventeenth in Portugal and its colonies. Although several Portuguese authors state that the Renaissance would not have had implications in Portuguese architecture, Professor Mario Krüger supports the hypothesis that this move would actually existed. Thus, this thesis aims to support the hypothesis Kruger, investigating the influence of the treaty of Alberti in the Brazilian colonial architecture. The analysis corpus consists of two churches built by the Jesuits in Brazil in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, described by many authors as that would have influenced many later buildings. After conducting historical and graphic survey, the analytical method used was the same adopted by other researchers Alberti Digital project, which is based on the shape gramar, a formalism developed by Stiny and Gips (1972). After identifying the composition of the text Alberti rules, these rules have been applied to create leads to optimal compositions albertianas. Then it was made to generate volumetric plants and the selected state churches. Comparison of albertianas leads with the Brazilian church has shown the similarity in the compositional process of both cases. It is expected that this logical-mathematical analysis of the treaty of Alberti check out a new look to this important work. Traditionally, the book analyzes have been restricted to issues related to the proportions and the rhetorical and philosophical aspects. The intended contribution of this work is to identify the work of Alberti a sophisticated process of systematic project, based on rules, which contributed to the spread of its architectural language
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Arquitetura, Tecnologia e Cidade
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Chamoun, Chaton Smedra. "Set in Stone: Power Mediation through French Colonial Architecture in Lebanon’s Majlis an-Nuwwab." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22903.
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This thesis will provide an analysis of the current Parliament building in Beirut, which is called Majlis an-Nuwwab, and was built by the French colonial state that ruled over Lebanon. It will examine to what extent it has theoretically contributed to the mediation of the French colonial power over Lebanon, through the analytical framework provided by Njoh and Bigon, along with a theoretical framework offered by Kim Dovey. The data was obtained first-hand during a ten-day visit to the city of Beirut, employing primary observation and is in the form of personally obtained photographs of the object of analysis, namely Lebanon’s Parliament building. Further, this research has been conducted due to the lack of academic discussion and literature regarding the relationship between colonial power structures and colonial architecture in the Middle East.In accordance to the analytical and theoretical framework, this study demonstrates that Lebanon’s Parliament building, along with its urban context, can theoretically be understood as operating as the mediator for military, cultural and socio-psychological power as the most prominent ones. Additionally, traits of economic and politico-administrative power were also found to be theoretically mediated through the designs of the Parliament building, although not to the same extent as the previously mentioned powers.
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Yamali, Namtip. "Exotic Settlements through Compromise: The Interpretation of the Western Diplomatic Compounds in Siam, 1855 to WW II." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1584016028637727.
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Lukezic, Craig. "The Effect of Soils on Settlement Location in Colonial Tidewater, Virginia." W&M ScholarWorks, 1986. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625336.
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Loo, Y. M. "City of the non-descript : post-colonial architecture and urban space in Kuala Lumpur." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2009. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/18916/.
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This PhD challenges existing understandings of post-colonial architecture and urban space by including the contestations of ethnic minority in the nation-building process. It takes Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia, as its primary site of investigation. The thesis challenges conceptions of the colonial/post-colonial city which focus on giving voice to the once-colonized nation through binary construction of colonizer/colonized, and yet keeping the ethnic minority groups in the shadow of the nation. In particular, by including the voice of the Malaysian Chinese in the nation-building, this study contests the conception of national identity and decolonisation in Malaysia and seeks to be a political project of resistance to hegemonic construction of race, culture, identity and space. The thesis has two major lines of inquiry. First, it examines how racialisation has taken shape in colonial and post-colonial state architectural projects in the city of Kuala Lumpur and new capital city of Putrajaya, which represents national identity and signifies cultural dominance of the Malays, while marginalising the Chinese. Second, it traces the spatial negotiation and contestation of the Chinese community. The PhD examines how the Chinese used their marginal urban spaces – such as the Kuala Lumpur Chinese Cemetery and Chinatown – in order to negotiate their cultural identity and to contest the contemporary nationalism and multiculturalism.
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Jamieson, Ross W. "The Potential for Colonial Period Archaeology in La Libertad, Peru." W&M ScholarWorks, 1990. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625578.
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Marie, Yannick Michel. "Le Jardin des Pamplemousses: A case study into the role of botanical gardens in post-colonial Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27899.
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The Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden of Mauritius, commonly known as "Le Jardin des Pamplemousses" was founded during the French occupation in 1770. Then it was the first tropical botanical garden in the world in addition to being the first botanical garden in the southern hemisphere. "Pamplemousses" has been acclaimed for its wide collection of palms and spices, which have fascinated tourists and locals for centuries. However, the value of this botanical garden that was once a pearl of the Indian Ocean has depleted. The garden shows traces of neglect accumulated over decades, which has resulted in a typically negative reputation locally. The botanical garden is a unique landscape typology. Primarily it can be understood as a natural theatre where items are collected and exhibited and secondarily as a laboratory where new techniques are explored. Today botanical gardens are faced with new challenges as the environmental crisis reaches new proportions. Furthermore, Le Jardin des Pamplemousses, established under French rule, is also confronted by the challenges that arise from its colonial identity in post-colonial Africa. The 'botanical' and 'post-colonial' can therefore be understood as the 2 main identities of the garden - ones that should be interrogated symbiotically in order to uncover the garden's development and future. This Research Project is an investigation of the past role, current state and envisioned future responsibility of Le Jardin des Pamplemousses based on a critical interrogation of its botanical onus and its colonial legacy. The investigation is supported by an inventory of the botanical gardens of Africa which acts as a contextualizing benchmark study, a literary review, in addition to specialized and public interviews carried out on site which aim to unpack the contemporary perception of the garden, and finally a mapping exercise which facilitates an assessment and evaluation of the present state of the garden. The Research Project condenses and resolves this information to allow for an informed interrogation of the future of Le Jardin des Pamplemousses, both as a botanical garden and as a remnant of colonial infrastructure in post-colonial Africa.
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Mallick, Bhaswar. "Agency of Labor Resistance in Nineteenth Century India: Significance of Bulandshahr and F.S. Growse’s Account." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1543581416769978.
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Combary, Daniel. "Ouagadougou : héritage colonial, habitat et texture urbaine." Aix-Marseille 1, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1998AIX1A040.
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Ouagadougou, capitale de l'ancien empire mossi est devenue capitale de la republique de haute-volta (burkina faso) apres l'independance des pays de l'afrique de l'ouest. Aux lendemains des independances cette ville n'avait aucune infrastructure solide pouvant lui assurer un developpement harmo, nieux. Il n'empeche qu'elle s'est mise a attirer une population assez importante de l'arriere-pays. Cette attirance provoquant un accrois, sement demographique et spatial difficile a maitriser. Au debut des annees 80 de nouvelles orientations politiques ont permis une planification plus ou moins efficace de la ville avec une serie de renovation, de restruturation et de reformes foncieres.
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Nair, Stella E. "¿"Neoinca" o colonial? la "muerte" de la arquitectura inca y otros paradigmas." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2012. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/113360.
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"Neo-Inca" or Colonial? The Death of Inca Architecture and other ParadigmsMost indigenous architectural traditions are believed to have ended abruptly with the European invasion of the Americas. In the Andes, scholars have argued that Inca architecture ceased soon after the arrival of the Spaniards and was rapidly replaced with European models. In this paper, I argue that the perceived death of Inca architecture is a false paradigm based on a variety of factors, such as a split in scholarly disciplines, a lack of scholarship on indigenous post contact architecture, and —most importantly— naming practices that have carried mistaken assumptions about the past. Focusing on Chinchero, the private estate of Thupa ‘Inka, as a case study, this paper demonstrates that Inca architecture continued well after the Spanish invasion.Por lo general, se cree que las tradiciones arquitectónicas indígenas finalizaron bruscamente con la invasión europea de las Américas. En los Andes, los especialistas piensan que la arquitectura inca cesó poco después de la llegada de los españoles y fue reemplazada de manera rápida por modelos europeos. En el presente artículo, la autora plantea que la percepción de la "muerte" de la arquitectura inca es un paradigma falso, cuyo origen se debe a varios factores, tal como la separación en disciplinas académicas, la ausencia de estudios calificados sobre arquitectura indígena posterior a la Conquista, y, sobre todo, las denominaciones modernas, que implican erróneas aseveraciones acerca del pasado. Los trabajos de investigación se concentran en Chinchero, la propiedad privada de Thupa ‘Inka, como un caso en el que se demuestra que la arquitectura inca siguió en existencia después de la invasión española.
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Deb, Lal Nilina. "Building Calcutta : construction trends in the making of the capital of British India, 1880-1911." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/29640.
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Calcutta of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century enjoyed global stature and connections as a consequence of its position within the British Empire as the capital of India. This study of Calcutta’s buildings aims to comprehend the architectural legacy of the period in terms of its construction history. The proposed thesis underlying the research is that Calcutta’s built environment bore witness to the intense traffic of ideas, people and goods characteristic of the era. The significance of the research is two-fold. It enjoys the distinction of being the first attempt to undertake a wide-ranging investigation into the construction history of a city in the Indian subcontinent, and indeed possibly anywhere in the world. Concurrently, the study endeavours to suggest a methodological approach for similar forthcoming studies in India and elsewhere, especially considering that the discipline of construction history is as yet at a nascent stage and such studies are only expected to multiply in number and scope in the coming years. The research effort trains its attention on two key aspects of construction history – human resource and material resource. The former is manifested in investigations into the training and work contexts of the professionals engaged in construction activity, i.e. the engineers and the architects. The latter takes the form of research into source and application of the commonly used construction materials. The methodology employed in the study encompasses a range of disciplines and related sources, especially drawing on architectural, urban, social and economic histories. Addressing the proposed thesis has necessitated directing research efforts towards situating developments in Calcutta in the context of and with reference to the metropolitan milieu. The analysis of the research findings and the conclusions thus drawn have served to corroborate the proposed thesis highlighting the incessant flux distinctive of the construction environment in Calcutta in the period of this study. The dissertation is expected to facilitate an enhanced understanding of Calcutta’s built environment for those entrusted with its care, especially those in the heritage and conservation sector, as well as contribute to the available pool of free knowledge furthering our understanding of human civilization.
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Dantas, George Alexandre Ferreira. "A formação das representações sobre a cidade colonial no Brasil." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/18/18142/tde-30042010-100632/.
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A crítica da cidade colonial foi um dos principais temas nas discussões e justificativas para as reformas e melhoramentos por que passaram muitas cidades na virada para o século XX. Desde aquelas mais importantes administrativa e economicamente nos três primeiros séculos de colonização, como o Rio de Janeiro, Salvador e Recife, até as que pouca relevância tinham na incipiente rede urbana do período colonial, como Natal, a crítica repetiu-se, homogeneamente à primeira vista, nas várias cidades em transformação, independente das particularidades das várias estruturas urbanas e da maior ou menor irregularidade dos seus traçados. Para além da questão sobre a existência ou não de planejamento por parte do colonizador português, esta tese discute como se formaram as representações sobre a cidade colonial no Brasil. Nas trilhas dessa imagem construída amiúde em negativo, aborda-se: a leitura empreendida pelos viajantes estrangeiros no início do século XIX, com ênfase no livro de Henry Koster, Travels in Brazil (1816); a problematização e instrumentalização do tema em meio às formulações higienista e sanitarista sobre a necessidade de reformar e modernizar o espaço urbano ao longo do século XIX; da mesma maneira, no processo de formação do campo disciplinar do urbanismo no Brasil na virada para o século XX; e, a apropriação do tema na constituição da historiografia sobre a arquitetura brasileira. Por fim, tecem-se algumas considerações sobre o texto que seria tomado como o momento fundante dessa representação: o capítulo \"O semeador e o ladrilhador\", de Raízes do Brasil (1936), de Sérgio Buarque de Holanda.The critique of the colonial city was one of the most usual themes on the discussion and justification of reforms and improvement plans targeted at several Brazilian cities in the turn to the twentieth century. The critique was reiterated in a virtually homogeneous fashion all over Brazil, regardless of the specific urban characteristics in each settlement, whether it was being applied to cities that concentrated great administrative and economic importance during the colonial times, such as Rio de Janeiro, Salvador and Recife, or to those that carried little relevance in the colony\'s fledgling urban network, such as Natal. Beyond the issue of whether the Portuguese colonizers were \"planning\" settlements, this thesis discusses how representations on Brazilian colonial cities came to be. As the development of this generally negative image is tracked down, this work explores the images of Brazilian cities forged by foreigner travelers, focusing on Travels in Brazil (1816), by Henry Koster; the theme\'s problematization by physicians and sanitary and polytechnic engineers, for whom the theme of colonial city was instrumental to demand for the urban reforms and modernization they sought over the nineteenth century; the appropriation of this theme during the process of formation of urbanism as a discipline; and in the many texts and books that delineated modern historiography on Brazilian architecture. Finally, some considerations are made on the text that could be considered the foundation for these representations: Sérgio Buarque de Holanda\'s \"O semeador e o ladrilhador\", a chapter from his 1936 work, \"Raízes do Brasil\".
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Gupta, Anubhav 1978. "Dominion Geometries : Colonial construction and Postcolonial persistence of the Imperial in the New Delhi Plan." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33413.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2005.Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-150).
New Delhi is not only the capital of India but the capital of the world's largest democracy. Conceived and built by the British, the New Delhi plan translated British India's home policy in sandstone. The government's administrative hierarchy and centralization of power was directly represented in the physical plan that impressed its magnificence and power over a country awakening to freedom. A realized grand vision imperial plan in an ideologically contradictory circumstance of independence and democracy is the unique departure point for this work. Divided in two parts corresponding to the colonial and postcolonial timeframes, this thesis attempts to answer the central questions of: -How was the Imperial constructed in colonial Delhi? -How and why has it persisted in the postcolonial evolution of New Delhi? At the macro level, this research engages intersecting themes of political ideology, physical planning, policy, culture and evolution in contemporary city form. the motivation for this research emerges from my own subscription to the fact that "[New Delhi today is] a kind of an overgrown capitol complex, resolutely detached from the rest of the city." In my view, it is the persistence or resistance of the "Imperial" in the post colonial democratization of New Delhi that is largely responsible for the fractures in the city's identity, urban form, sustenance and evolution.
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Howes, Jennifer. "The courts of pre-colonial south India : material culture and kingship /." London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40140812p.
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Rogers, Muriel Brine. "John Hartwell Cocke (1780-1866) : from Jeffersonian Palladianism to romantic colonial revivalism in antebellum Virginia /." VCU Scholars Compass, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10156/1529.
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Acikgoz, Umit Firat. "A Case In French Colonial Politics Of Architecture And Urbanism: Antioch And Alexandretta During The Mandate." Master's thesis, METU, 2008. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12609838/index.pdf.
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The aim of this study is to investigate characteristics of urban transformation in Antioch and Alexandretta during the French Mandate, 1920-1938. Contending that a purely formal analysis would fail to grasp complex politics of architecture and urbanism promoted by the French administration, this thesis seeks to explore the urban transformation of these cities in its political and representational context. In analyzing the French perception of the urban space especially in Antioch, this thesis devotes an extensive attention to the nineteenth century travelers who visited Antioch, by emphasizing the ways in which they described the urban make-up of the city. Moreover, it situates the case of Antioch and Alexandretta within the broader framework of French colonial architecture and urbanism by occassionally referring to French North Africa on the one hand, and other cities of the French Mandate in Syria and Lebanon on the other hand. Along with an analysis of the changing built environment in Antioch and Alexandretta, other visual and representational strategies such as the colonial exhibition, archeological works, scholarly endeavors, and tourism are discussed. It is the major premise of this thesis that a comprehensive portrayal of the architectural and urban transformation of these cities might be attained only through the inclusion of different forms of political and visual representation.
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Whittaker, Daniel Joseph. "Re-imaging antiquities in Lincoln Park| Digitized public museological interactions in a post-colonial world." Thesis, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10007515.
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The study of an architecture of autonomy consists of theoretical investigations into the realm of building types where a sole use or purpose is manifest in a structure that could, site provided, be constructed. However, provisions that conventional architecture traditionally provide are not present in these explorations. Technological advancements such as indoor plumbing, electric lights, and vertical conveyance systems in the form of elevators and escalators are excluded. Platonic geometric form-making are instead thoroughly investigated, imagined, and manipulated for the purposes of creating new spatial experiences. The desired resultant is an architecture of singularity, an architecture of fantastical projection.
Through a series of two theoretical ritual-based investigations, three-dimensional form manipulation and construction of proportioned scale models, the essence of elements that compose a spatial experience contributed to a collection of metaphorical tools by which the designer may use to build a third imagined reality: the re-imagination of the archetypal museum. A building whose purpose is not solely to house ancient objects in a near hermetically-sealed environment, free of temperature, humidity and ultra-violet light aberrations, but is a re-imagined. A structure meant to engage the presence of two seemingly divergent communities: the local patron/visitor and the extreme distant denizen.
This paper also examines key contemporary global artists’ work and their contributions to the fragmentation / demolition of architectural assemblages for the purposes of re-evaluating the familiar vernacular urban landscape while critically positioning the rôle of both the artifact and gallery in shaping contemporary audience’s museum experiences.
The power of the internet and live-camera broadcasting of images utilizing both digital image recording and full-scale screen-projections enable the exploration of “transporter-type” virtual-reality experiences: the ability to inhabit an art work’s presumed original in situ location, while remaining in Chicago as a visitor within a vernacular multi-tenant masonry structure: vacated, evicted, and deconstructed for the purposes of displaying art amidst a new urbane ruin. The complexities of this layered experience is meant to simultaneously displace and interrupt a typical set of so-called a priori gallery expectations while providing the expectant simulacrum that video cameras and screens provide, whetting a contemporary patron’s appetite.
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Choto, Jennifer Rudo. "The Info Market: Transformation of the Harare City Library." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1283460367.
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Mattes, Sarah. "Canary Red: Preserving Cochineal and Contrasting Colonial Histories on Lanzarote." W&M ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626784.
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Anbrine, Shama. "The Co-operative Model Town Society : history, planning, architecture and social character of an indigenous garden suburb in colonial Lahore." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2014. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/2010879/.
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This thesis investigates the Co-operative Model Town Society Lahore; a town covering an area of around 2000 acres developed in the 1920’s in the (then) suburbs of Lahore, capital of Punjab province in British India. The Town is a remarkable interpretation of Ebenezer Howard’s Garden City ideals and the co-operative principles. However, the real significance of the town is it being a unique example of a co-operative garden town built by the local Indian bourgeois, majority of whom were forced to migrate due to the disturbances that followed after the declaration of independence to India and Pakistan in 1947. Despite the admiration and significance of the Town in the realm of pre and post-Independence Lahore, very little has been documented about it. Its formal documented history is non-existent while its original built environment, an excellent example to illustrate late-colonial architecture in the region, is diminishing rapidly due to negligence and reconstructions. The aim of this research is the documentation of history, urban form, social character and architecture of the pre-independence Model Town. Consequently, through an analysis of its built environment this study intends to develop an insight into the colonizer-colonized cultural transfers, in particular, to the transformation of British town planning ideas in the colonies due to their interpretation by the local Indians under the influence of prevalent religious, cultural and social practices. The research was conducted by the process of historical construction, whereby evidences from the documents and the built environment have been used collectively to develop the historiography of the town. The selection of primary material has been based on its availability as the documentary evidences are scattered across Pakistan, India and the UK. The built environment has been documented using the official drawings as well as onsite surveys and measurements where the original drawings are unavailable. The Town has been analysed in a comparative setting with respect to contemporary urban, architectural and social trends and practices prevalent locally ( both by the colonial rulers and the colonized natives) as well as global movements, especially Western ideologies and perspectives and their retrospect local adaptations. The documentation and analysis were used as a ground for four interpretative conclusions. The first conclusion elaborates on the need of urban historiography in Pakistan. The second conclusion interprets the Model Town in the realm of twentieth century urban planning in the region. The third conclusion elaborates on the colonial architectural styles. The fourth conclusion gives an insight into the Model Town with reference to western styled ‘Indian’ nationalism.
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Herbelin, Caroline. "Architecture et urbanisme en situation coloniale : le cas du Vietnam." Thesis, Paris 4, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA040182.
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Cette thèse cherche à montrer comment au Vietnam, l’architecture et l’urbanisme relèvent de la rencontre de deux cultures, celle du colonisateur et celle du colonisé. L’enjeu est de mettre en lumière la diversité des échanges culturels – expressions et significations – à travers le bâti, en procédant à une étude critique de l’idée selon laquelle l’architecture et l’urbanisme seraient uniquement des instruments du pouvoir colonial. Nous avons cherché à identifier les conditions de production et d’utilisation du bâti pour appréhender la complexité et la diversité des phénomènes à l’œuvre. Nous avons privilégié trois approches. La première concerne l’étude des acteurs et de la circulation des savoirs qui nous permet d’envisager les différents discours et théories qui ont existé autour de l’architecture métissée, ainsi que leur réception. La seconde prend en considération les politiques de gestion de l’espace urbain en s’attachant à mettre en valeur les négociations et les résistances au projet d’encadrement colonial. Enfin le troisième volet se place au niveau de l’articulation des enjeux techniques et sociaux et permet de mettre au jour les mécanismes constitutifs de cette architecture interculturelleThis dissertation aims to demonstrate how the history of architecture and town planning in Vietnam became enmeshed in the encounter of two cultures: that of the colonized and that of the colonizer. The goal is to first examine the diversity of cultural exchanges – both their manifestations and meanings – through the built environment, and then provide a critique of the idea equating architecture and colonial power. In order to consider the diversity and the complexity of the phenomenon at work, this dissertation identifies the conditions of production and use of the built environment. This study privileges three approaches. The first considers the actors and the circulation of knowledge so as to explore the construction and the reception of the different discourses and theories that enveloped hybrid architecture. The second approach takes into account the politics of administrating urban space by emphasizing the negotiations and the resistance to the colonial project of construction and enclosure. Finally the third part analyzes the articulations between social and technical issues, which reveal the mechanisms constitutive of this intercultural architecture
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Gutierrez, Rodrigo Luiz Minot. "Estudo sobre as representações e o processo de produção da arquitetura colonial em Ouro Preto no século XVIII: risco debuxado na parede da capela do Carmo de Ouro Preto." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16132/tde-20122016-152717/.
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Este trabalho apresenta um estudo sobre as representações de arquitetura, a partir da leitura e interpretação de um objeto histórico, o risco debuxado na parede do consistório da Capela do Carmo de Ouro Preto em 1789, e promove uma abordagem ainda não realizada, desde a sua descoberta em 1942, durante reforma realizada na capela pelo então SPHAN (Serviço do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional). O risco e os documentos da Ordem do Carmo revelam aspectos importantes para a compreensão da fábrica da arquitetura religiosa no período colonial brasileiro, quando o Brasil era parte do vasto reino de Portugal. Ao longo do texto confirma-se a existência de uma trama social e produtiva hierarquizada, em que o risco aparece como parte da fábrica da arquitetura religiosa, um recurso de reflexão coletiva no campo hoje reconhecido como das práticas projetuais. Mais especificamente, um procedimento de reforma do risco original feito para a obra de talha dos seis altares do corpo da capela, uma revisão de aspectos formais que só foram percebidos com os altares já asentados, ou instalados. Ao desenhar, ou debuxar, eram articulados conhecimentos técnicos e artísticos. As pessoas envolvidas em tal processo, mestres oficiais ou não, conheciam o peso da matéria e o sentido das ideias representadas a partir de recursos gráficos específicos, que comunicavam, antecipavam e constituíam elemento de coesão dessa estrutura social, consolidada na concepção e materialização de suas ideias, como pode ser visto na cidade de Ouro Preto.This work presents a study on the architectural representations, from the reading and interpretation of a historical object, the risk drawn on the wall of the consistory of the Carmo Chapel of Ouro Preto in 1789, and promotes an approach not yet accomplished, since its Discovered in 1942, during a reform carried out in the chapel by the SPHAN (National Historical and Artistic Heritage Service). The risk and documents of the Order of Carmel reveal important aspects for the understanding of the religious architecture factory in the Brazilian colonial period, when Brazil was part of the vast kingdom of Portugal. Throughout the text, the existence of a hierarchical productive and social fabric is confirmed, in which the risk appears as part of the religious architecture factory, a resource of collective reflection in the field today recognized as of the project practices. More specifically, an original risk reform procedure done for the carving work of the six altars of the chapel body, a review of formal aspects that were only perceived with the altars already settled, or installed. When drawing, or debugging, technical and artistic knowledge was articulated. The people involved in this process, both official and non-formal masters, knew the weight of the material and the meaning of the ideas represented by specific graphic resources that communicated, anticipated and constituted an element of cohesion of this social structure, consolidated in the conception and materialization of its Ideas, as can be seen in the city of Ouro Preto.
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Charron, Craig E. "The piece sur piece log houses of Michigan : an architectural history." Virtual Press, 1997. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1074548.
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This study presents a history of the French Canadian piece sur piece log houses constructed in Michigan in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Drawing upon a 17th century architectural tradition in Canada, the early French Canadian settlers switched from the poteaux en terre building style to the piece sur piece, or horizontal log construction form. This type of log house, through the building techniques it employed, was distinct from any of its contemporaries. The reason for this change dealt with the changing nature of the French settlement in Michigan, from a fur trade economy to one that included agriculture. These houses were not the crude log structures which have been popularly associated with the settlement of the nation's frontier, but rather a sophisticated design which made use of local and imported materials to create a refined structure that was intended for long term habitation.Department of Architecture
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Lightfoot, Dessa Elizabeth. "“God Sends Meat and the Devil Sends Cooks”: Meat Usage and Cuisine in Eighteenth-Century English Colonial America." W&M ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1530192810.
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American cuisines did not develop in isolation, but instead were influenced by a constant flow of information, individuals, and material culture between the colonies and the rest of the Atlantic world. These, in turn, interacted with the specific agricultural, social, and economic conditions and goals of residents in each colony. Food was a powerful symbol of identity in the English world in the eighteenth century, and printed English cookery books were widely available. What colonists ate, however, also reflected what was locally available, and resources could vary significantly between colonies. Meat usage is one aspect of cuisine that is directly observable in the archaeological record. This study employs a multidisciplinary approach to investigate the utility of printed eighteenth-century English cookery books to model and predict meat usage in the British American colonies, and to explore if or how meat usage and the larger cuisine varied from colony to colony. to do so, archaeologically-recovered faunal materials from sites in colonial Connecticut and colonial Virginia were compared against a model of meat usage constructed from a rigorous textual analysis of several popular printed cookery books and other texts available to colonists in the eighteenth century. The central aims of this research are to establish a baseline understanding of colonial American meat cuisine to allow for assessments of the ways the cuisine of the American colonists varied from their English peers, and to contextualize colonial British America cuisine in the ecological, political, and social worlds of eighteenth century Anglo-America.
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Ikebude, Chukwuemeka M. "Identity in Igbo Architecture: Ekwuru, Obi, and the African Continental Bank Building." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1250885407.
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Betadam, Joburt. "Geometry of pre-revolutionary Virginia architecture." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53092.
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Virginia architecture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries prior to the American Revolution has distinctive geometries which determine proportion. The square, root-two rectangle and equilateral triangle are the figures which establish most proportions. Plans and elevations underwent a development based on a rational method of incorporating the figures into a coherent building. This investigation establishes the use of geometry as a starting point for the culmination of many elements which together composed a building.Master of Architecture