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Parkes, P. I. "Post-modern architecture theory : A critique." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.373870.
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Best, Michael Lloyd. "Microevolutionary language theory." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9024.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2000.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-245).<br>A new microevolutionary theory of complex design within language is proposed. Experiments were carried out that support the theory that complex functional design - adaptive complexity - accumulates due to the evolutionary algorithm at the simplest levels within human natural language. A large software system was developed which identifies and tracks evolutionary dynamics within text discourse. With this system hundreds of examples of activity suggesting evolutionary significance were distilled from a text collection of many millions of words. Research contributions include: (1) An active replicator model of microevolutionary dynamics within natural language, (2) methods to distill active replicators offering evidence of evolutionary processes in action and at multiple linguistic levels (lexical, lexical co-occurrence, lexico-syntactic, and syntactic), (3) a demonstration that language evolution and organic evolution are both examples of a single over-arching evolutionary algorithm, (4) a set of tools to comparatively study language over time, and (5) methods to materially improve text retrieval.<br>by Michael Lloyd Best.<br>Ph.D.
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Reu, Caroline Marie. "Corporate, cirque, commute : an adaptation of situationist theory to contemporary america." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23450.
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Todd, Jeffrey M. "Einstein's film theory of montage and architecture." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/21653.
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Sharma, Jonathan. "STASE: set theory-influenced architecture space exploration." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/52330.
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The first of NASA's high-level strategic goals is to extend and sustain human activities across the solar system. As the United States moves into the post-Shuttle era, meeting this goal is more challenging than ever. There are several desired outcomes for this goal, including development of an integrated architecture and capabilities for safe crewed and cargo missions beyond low Earth orbit. NASA's Flexible Path for the future human exploration of space provides the guidelines to achieve this outcome.
Designing space system architectures to satisfy the Flexible Path starts early in design, when a downselection process works to reduce the broad spectrum of feasible system architectures into a more refined set that contains a handful of alternatives that are to be considered and studied further in the detailed design phases. This downselection process is supported by what is referred to as architecture space exploration (ASE). ASE is a systems engineering process which generates the design knowledge necessary to enable informed decision-making.
The broad spectrum of potential system architectures can be impractical to evaluate. As the system architecture becomes more complex in its structure and decomposition, its space encounters a factorial growth in the number of alternatives to be considered. This effect is known in the literature as combinatorial explosion. For the Flexible Path, the development of new space system architectures can occur over the period of a decade or more. During this time, a variety of changes can occur which lead to new requirements that necessitate the development of new technologies, or changes in budget and schedule. Developing comprehensive and quantitative design knowledge early during design helps to address these challenges.
Current methods focus on a small number of system architecture alternatives. From these alternatives, a series of 'one off' -type of trade studies are performed to refine and generate more design knowledge. These small-scale studies are unable to adequately capture the broad spectrum of possible architectures and typically use qualitative knowledge. The focus of this research is to develop a systems engineering method for system-level ASE during pre-phase A design that is rapid, exhaustive, flexible, traceable, and quantitative.
Review of literature found a gap in currents methods that were able to achieve this research objective. This led to the development of the Set Theory-Influenced Architecture Space Exploration (STASE) methodology. The downselection process is modeled as a decision-making process with STASE serving as a supporting systems engineering method. STASE is comprised of two main phases: system decomposition and system synthesis.
During system decomposition, the problem is broken down into three system spaces. The architecture space consists of the categorical parameters and decisions that uniquely define an architecture, such as the physical and functional aspects. The design space contains the design parameters that uniquely define individual point designs for a given architecture. The objective space holds the objectives that are used in comparing alternatives.
The application of set theory across the system spaces enables an alternative form of representing system alternatives. This novel application of set theory allows the STASE method to mitigate the problem of combinatorial explosion. The fundamental definitions and theorems of set theory are used to form the mathematical basis for the STASE method.
A series of hypotheses were formed to develop STASE in a scientific way. These hypotheses are confirmed by experiments using a proof of concept over a subset of the Flexible Path. The STASE method results are compared against baseline results found using the traditional process of representing individual architectures as the system alternatives. The comparisons highlight many advantages of the STASE method. The greatest advantage is that STASE comprehensively explores the architecture space more rapidly than the baseline. This is because the set theory-influenced representation of alternatives has a summation growth with system complexity in the architecture space. The resultant option subsets provide additional design knowledge that enables new ways of visualizing results and comparing alternatives during early design. The option subsets can also account for changes in some requirements and constraints so that new analysis of system alternatives is not required.
An example decision-making process was performed for the proof of concept. This notional example starts from the entire architecture space with the goal of minimizing the total cost and the number of launches. Several decisions are made for different architecture parameters using the developed data visualization and manipulation techniques until a complete architecture was determined. The example serves as a use-case example that walks through the implementation of the STASE method, the techniques for analyzing the results, and the steps towards making meaningful architecture decisions.
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Mitchell, Lauren Coleen. "Movement in Architecture: A Spacial Movement Theory." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34210.
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As the body moves through space ephemeral lines of movement are created. These lines of movement are influenced by body tendencies. We learn from the body by watching the path and patterning of movement. From the study of the movement of the body, theories of spacial movement were developed. The goal of my project is to draw from spacial movement theory to create an architectural expression that motivates movement of the body on my site and through my building. The focus of my thesis is the movement theory of Rudolph Laban (1879-1958), a modern dance pioneer and a spacial movement theorist.<br>Master of Architecture
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Bynum, James Jordan III. "An architectural theory for a centerless world." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/24014.
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Khalighinejad, Farshad. "Architecture Aesthetic Preferences and Architectural Habitus: A Comparison Among Architecture and Business Students at the University of Cincinnati." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1551971907333194.
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Chng, Raymond S. K. "A parallel architecture for multimedia communications." Thesis, University of Essex, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.332803.
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Durning, Louise. "The Architecture of Humanism : an historical and critical analysis of Geoffrey Scott's architectural theory." Thesis, University of Essex, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.276634.
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Oh, Yeonjoo. "Toward A Theory of Design Critiquing." Research Showcase @ CMU, 2010. http://repository.cmu.edu/dissertations/133.
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Critiquing is a fundamental part of design education, yet we lack a clear and systematic understanding of how effective teachers make decisions about how to critique students. Although there is a considerable literature on design education, little has been written about design critiquing, specifically about critiquing strategies.
The dissertation outlines a theoretical framework of design critiquing practice developed through a literature survey. It then describes a computational model based on this framework, implemented in the Furniture Design Critic program, a kind of constraint-based tutor. The Furniture Design Critic provides a basis for describing and articulating critiquing strategies. The program first assesses the conditions of critiquing: how much a designer knows, his or her weaknesses and strengths, what critiquing methods have been effective for the designer, and the history of interaction between critic and designer. Based on this the Furniture Design Critic then selects a set of critiquing methods.
This program offers a computational model to describe design critiquing and to model inference about critiquing, and an environment for exploring and investigating alternative critiquing strategies. The dissertation contributes to an ongoing discussion of critiquing in design, design education, and intelligent tutoring systems
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Kaji-O'Grady, Sandra 1965. "Serialism in art and architecture : context and theory." Monash University, School of Literary, Visual and Performance Studies, 2001. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/9120.
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Behrens, Joanna. "Bo-Kaap architecture : a critique of structuralist theory." Bachelor's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12736.
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Bibliography: p. 70-76.<br>Within the last decade, the study of vernacular architecture has expanded dramatically. The built environment has been recognized as the conversion of ideas into architectural space and the durable and stationary nature of construction has facilitated the development of a broad data base complementing more traditional historical sources. Much interpretation has been orientated within a structuralist framework of analysis and the validity of such an approach is questioned by a critical examination of two structuralist interpretation - Henry Glassie's Folk Housing in Middle Virginia and John Gribble's analysis of sandveld vernacular. A comparative data base is provided by a sample of houses from Bo-Kaap. Interpretation suggests the inadquacies and limitations of a structuralist understanding and recommends the need for new direction.
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Brott, Simone. "Subjectivizations : Deleuze and Architecture." Thesis, Yale University, 2003. http://architecture.yale.edu/people/simone-brott.
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My thesis is an exploration of the architectural production surrounding the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, specifically, through the overarching theme of Deleuze’s theory of subjectivity, which I will call subjectivization. I interpret this to mean the strange coalescence of matter, architectural subject, and event, in architectural experience and culture. I speculate that subjectivization presents a yet under-explored dimension of deleuzianism in architecture. In order to develop this I pursue two independent trajectories: firstly the narrative of architectural production surrounding Deleuze, from the 1970s until today, as it is an emergence of changing groupings, alliances, formations and disbandment in the pursuit of creative-intellectual tasks—what might be called the subjectivization of architecture—and, secondly, through a speculation about the architecture of subjectivization—that is, an attempt to explore, concretely, what might be the space and time of subjectivization.
Chapter One traces an oral history of deleuzianism in architecture, through conversations with Sanford Kwinter and John Rajchman, describing how the Deleuze milieu makes its way into architectural practice and discussion—subjectivization as a social and cultural emergence—whereas Chapter Two theorizes the emergence of an architectural subjectivity where architecture constitutes its own affective event—what I call subjectivization or material becoming-subject.
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Afnan, Parviz F. "The "sense of place" its significance, theory and attainment /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1987. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09pha257.pdf.
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Shomali, Farid Manawel. "The gnomonic theory of architecture : a computational theory of the geneology of design." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.248560.
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Shimmel, David Philip. "Transparency in theory, discourse, and practice of Landscape Architecture." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1366213070.
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Cottengim, Sean. "313 Berry Street presencing architecture /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1243008502.
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Thesis (Master of Architecture)--University of Cincinnati, 2009.<br>Advisors: Vincent Sansalone (Committee Chair), Tom Bible (Committee Co-Chair). Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed July 25, 2009). Includes abstract. Keywords: Presentation; theory; presentation theory; design build; presencing; covington; kentucky; northern kentucky. Includes bibliographical references.
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Jacob, Jose 1969. "The architectural theory of the Mānasāra /." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=84515.
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The extant Manasara is one of the authoritative treatises of vastusastra, traditional Indian architectural theory. The dissertation addresses the question of the nature of vastusastra, traditional architectural theory, as enunciated in the Manasara, and the relationship of theory to traditional practice. Vastusastra claims itself to be a priori with respect to practice. Two aspects of theory, theology and nomology, constitute the ontological and epistemological foundation and structure for this claim. From this sastraic perspective, practice is understood as mere application of rules. However, a closer hermeneutical reading of the text reveals the dialectical nature of theory itself, in both its theological and nomological aspects. This dialectic obtains in the relationship between theory and practice as a certain reciprocity between them, and in the parallelism between making the temple (the paradigmatic architectural object) and writing the treatise. Thus, a more precise understanding of the nature of traditional theory and its relationship to traditional practice is arrived at through this exercise. Such a calibrated understanding of vastusastra is indispensable in addressing the issue of the proper role that it may play in contemporary Indian architectural practice which is constituted in the modern scientific and technological mode.
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Rocha, Altino João Magalhães 1968. "Architecture theory, 1960-1980 : emergence of a computational perspective." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/28316.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2004.<br>Leaf 175 blank.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 162-175).<br>This thesis attempts to clarify the need for an appreciation of architecture theory within a computational architectural domain. It reveals and reflects upon some of the cultural, historical and technological contexts that influenced the emergence of a computational practice in architecture. To carry out this new reading, we focus on the pioneering research that underpinned the beginnings of the relationship between architecture and computation and which was carried out at four research Centres both in the UK and in the USA: The Land Use and Built Form Studies [LUBFS], founded at Cambridge, UK; The Center for Configurational Studies at the Open University, Milton Keynes; The Architecture Machine Group [AMG] at MIT, and the Design Research Center [DRC] at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA. Moreover this thesis reinterprets the role of Leslie Martin as the founding father of LUBFS by showing the influence of the British physicist Desmond Bernal's building science research and the British avant-garde movement on Martin's work. This thesis also presents reflections on how best to use computation in architecture.<br>by Altino João Magalhães Rocha.<br>Ph.D.
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Sejpal, Shraddha. "Theory and city form : the case of Ahmedabad." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78964.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1987.<br>MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 89-91).<br>The thesis seeks to formulate an approach to urban design intervention in the walled city of Ahmedabad, by first developing an understanding of the context. This is to be undertaken by applying the methodological tools suggested by two theories of city form, those of Kevin Lynch's "Theory of Good City Form" and N.J. Habraken's "Concept of Territory" which forms part of the book, "Transformations of the Site." In applying two different theories together to the city, the study endeavors to develop a more comprehensive understanding of the city. The exercise of applying theories to the city, also provides way of evaluating the theories, and their efficacy as methods for observing cities. The observations derived from the application of the theories, may be helpful as a basis for formulating strategies for urban design intervention in the walled city of Ahmedabad.<br>by Shraddha Sejpal.<br>M.S.
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Bar, Tal. "Digital architecture and difference : a theory of ethical transpositions towards nomadic embodiments in digital architecture." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2018. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10042282/.
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This thesis contributes to histories and theories of digital architecture of the past two decades, as it questions the narratives of its novelty. The main argument this thesis puts forward is that a plethora of methodologies, displacing the centrality of the architect from the architectural design process, has folded into the discipline in the process of its rewriting along digital protocols. These steer architecture onto a post-human path. However, while the redefinition of the practice unfolds, it does so epistemically only without redefining the new subject of architecture emerging from these processes, which therefore remains anchored to humanist-modern definitions. This unaccounted-for position, I argue, prevents novelty from emerging. Simultaneously, the thesis unfolds a creative approach – while drawing on nomadic, critical theory concepts, there surfaces an alternative genealogy already underpinning digital methodologies that enable a reconceptualization of novelty framed with difference to be articulated through nomadic digital embodiment. Regarding the first claim, I turn to the narratives as well as to the mechanisms of digital discourse emerging in two modes of production – mathematical and biological – in exploration of the ways perceptions of novelty are articulated: a) through close readings of its narratives as they consolidate into digital architectural theory (Carpo 2011; Lynn 2003, 2012; Terzidis 2006; Migayrou 2004, 2009); b) through an analysis of the two digital methodologies that support these narratives – parametric architecture and biodigital architecture. In parallel, this thesis draws on twentieth-century critical theory and twenty-firstcentury nomadic feminist theory to rethink two thematic topics: difference and subjectivity. Specifically, these are Gilles Deleuze’s non-essentialist, nonrepresentational philosophy of difference (1968, 1980, 1988) and Rosi Braidotti’s nomadic feminist reconceptualization of post-human, nonunitary subjectivity (2006, 2011, 2015). Nomadic feminist theory also informs my methodology. I draw on Rosi Braidotti’s cartographing and transposing (2006, 2011) because they engender a non-dualist approach to research itself that is dynamic and affirmative, insisting on grounding techniques – grounding in subject positions that are nevertheless post-human and nonunitary. This leads to a redefinition of novel digital practices with ethical ones.
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Campos, Maria Luiza Machado. "A data modelling architecture for integrated schema and data." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.332834.
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Carrera, Frank D. "In response to place : advancing an architectural theory of regionalism." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23777.
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Telhan, Orkan. "The living commons : a spatial theory for biological design." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/84365.
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Thesis (Ph. D. in Design and Computation)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2013.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-189).<br>Biological design is as ancient as human civilization. For thousands of years, living systems and natural processes have been manipulated by humans and their biological outcomes have been customized for different purposes. While the idea of biological design has always been prevalent throughout history, especially with the discovery of DNA, the ability to manipulate the form, function, and behavior of the living has significantly advanced. Today synthetic biology is pushing the frontiers of biological design even further. Now, living things can be completely abstracted from their original biological contexts, assembled like molecular constructs, and engineered like circuits or programmed like computational hardware. biological designers compose biological form and function by running modeling and simulation software; order standardized biological parts from online libraries and databases; utilize fabrication companies to synthesize gene products to prototype their designs; and build complex artifacts, applications and services that meet human wants, needs, fears, and desires on a daily basis. In this dissertation, I examine different practices of biological design in life sciences and engineering based on different theoretical models. I trace the history of information-based, relational, synthesis-oriented methods and present a new design framework that offers a spatial and a context-driven approach to the design of living matter. Being rooted in a different interpretation of space and spatiality in design, the framework approaches biological design systematically, at three stages: 1) the design of the basic units of the living (Units), 2) how different units are arranged and composed for different functionalities and behavior (Logic), and 3) the design of the biological contexts where biological artifacts live and perform their objectives (Context). This new framework intends to bring together a multitude of approaches from different design fields such as engineering, architecture and product Design that have their unique histories with living matter. The goal here is to demonstrate the ways different design paradigms can potentially shape our relationship with biological design in new ways; altering the design process, the objectives, the outcomes, and the social, cultural, and ethical perception of synthetic living.<br>by Orkan Telhan.<br>Ph.D.in Design and Computation
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Moustafa, Amer A. (Amer Adham). "Architectural representation and meaning : towards a theory of interpretation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78999.
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Vardouli, Theodora. "Graphing theory : new mathematics, design, and the participatory turn." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113917.
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Thesis: Ph. D. in Architecture: Design and Computation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2017.<br>This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.<br>Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-430).<br>In the 1960s mathematically inclined architects involved with academic research advocated for a shift from the points and lines of geometric shapes to points and lines of another kind - ones representing abstract objects and their relationships. A story of propinquities between architecture and mathematics, this dissertation investigates this shift through the lens of the mathematical concept that catalyzed it: the graph. I take the graph as an entity with fluctuating symbolic and operational properties and "follow" it across institutional and disciplinary boundaries to reveal historical connections hitherto unseen. I begin by locating the graph's entry into architectural theory at transitions and transactions of mathematical and architectural modernism. Mathematical modernism promoted a structural model of disciplinary knowledge free of empirical intuitions, while boosting new mathematical varieties that represented structures and relations. Architects turned to structural abstraction in efforts to purify their inheritance of interwar Modern architecture from stylistic doctrines and empirical conventions. The graph's amenability both to visual depiction and to mathematical analysis furnished it with a strategic position among modern mathematical varieties: graphs made structural abstraction visible and workable. By virtue of this property, graphs proliferated in architectural theory as harbingers of a veritably modern discipline founded on rationality and geared toward ensuring functional efficiency. The end of the 1960s found advocates of functionalism and rationality turning to ideals of intuition and espousing the "unpredictabilities" of participatory design. By delving into four contexts of architectural theory production in the United Kingdom, the United States, and France, I expose technical and conceptual continuities among propositions sitting on opposite sides of this "participatory turn." I argue that the "turn" was undergirded and motivated by a new regime of seeing and subjectivity, for which the graph was an instigator, symbol, and facilitator. "Intellectual vision," as I call this regime, assumes an abstract invariant structure that underlies concrete appearance and delimits the extents of subjective choice in a combinatorial manner. I identify forces that legitimized intellectual vision in 1960s and 1970s architectural theory and critically analyze the ways in which it was used to conceptualize creativity and open-endedness both in architectural design and in theories of participation. I close with an evocation of alternative engagements between architecture and mathematics as pathways to reclaiming shape and recouping perceptual seeing.<br>by Theodora Vardouli.<br>Ph. D. in Architecture: Design and Computation
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Fleischli, John S. (John Scott), and J. Brinton Davis. "Business process reengineering : a study in theory and practice." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66363.
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Khiripet, Noppadon. "An architecture for intelligent time series prediction with causal information." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/13896.
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Carvalho, Mario Estevao. "An intellectual history of modern city planning theory." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/18082.
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Koc, Betul. "From Numbers To Digits: On The Changing Role Of Mathematics In Architecture." Master's thesis, METU, 2008. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12609645/index.pdf.
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This study is a critical reconsideration of architecture&rsquo<br>s affiliation with mathematics and geometry both as practical instrument and theoretical reference. The thesis claims that mathematics and its methodological structure provided architects with an ultimate foundation and a strong reference outside architecture itself ever since the initial formations of architectural discourse. However, the definitive assumptions and epistemological consequences of this grounding in mathematical clarity, methodological certainty and instrumental precision gain a new insight with the introduction of digital technologies. Since digital technologies offer a new formation for this affiliation either with their claim of a better geometric representation or mathematical controllability of physical reality (space), the specific focus on these newly emerging technologies will be developed within a theoretical frame presenting the significant points of mathematics in architecture.
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Dehan, Philippe. "« Pertinence d’une approche globale de la qualité architecturale dans l’optique de la construction d’un jugement critique raisonné »." Thesis, Paris Est, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PESC1176/document.
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Cherchant à répondre aux questions :1- Une définition unifiée de la qualité architecturale peut-elle encore exister ou doit-elle être modulée en fonction des programmes et des observateurs ?2.La qualité architecturale est-elle intemporelle ou varie-t-elle dans le temps, en fonction de valeurs de références ?3.La décomposition de la qualité architecturale en un corpus d’indicateurs permettant d’étayer le jugement permet-il de réduire voire de supprimer la « boîte noire » de la qualité, en particulier de sa valeur d’art habituellement réservée aux initiés ?Ma thèse sur travaux s'appuie sur mes trois livres publiés antérieurement ("Jean Ginsberg", "L'Habitat des personnes âgées" et "Qualité architecturale et innovation") et sur mon expérience d'enseignant et de constructeur pour explorer la pertinence des approches qualitatives en interrogeant aussi l’actualité du triptyque vitruvien, les théories anciennes, les doctrines et pratiques contemporaines<br>Seeking to answer the questions:1- A unified definition of architectural quality can it still exist or should it be modulated according programs and observers?2.Is architectural quality timeless or does it vary over time, depending on reference values?3.Does the decomposition of architectural quality in a set of indicators to substantiate the judgment allows to reduce or even eliminate the "black box" of quality, especially its art value usually reserved for specialists ?My thesis is based on my previously published three books ( "Jean Ginsberg", "The Habitat of the elderly" and "Architectural quality and innovation") and my teaching experience and builder to explore the relevance of qualitative approaches also exploring lhe actuality of Vitruvian triptych, old theories, contemporary doctrines and practices
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Gray, Susan Margaret. "Code generation for a long instruction word architecture." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.303448.
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Bhatt, Ritu. "On the epistemological significance of aesthetic values in architectural theory." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/64548.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2000.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-130).<br>This dissertation examines the epistemological significance of "truth," "rationality," and the "aesthetic" first in the nineteenth-century definitions of the nature of Gothic and, then in more recent twentieth-century debates about objectivity. My study links the Aristotelian notion of practical reasoning to aesthetic cognition, and brings to surface the scientific, moral, and ethical arguments, which have been ignored by contemporary architectural criticism. The theoretical foundation of my argument lies in the work of analytic philosophers and literary theorists such as Hilary Putnam, Nelson Goodman and Satya P. Mohanty. These writers emphasize the rational and affective nature of our aesthetic experience and our aesthetic values and judgments, and propose a sophisticated account of objectivity by reexamining the actual nature of the "hard" sciences, interpreting them as complex, coordinated social practices. By drawing upon this understanding of objectivity, particularly as it relates to politics, I hope to bring to light a theoretical alternative to post-modernism in architecture that can enable us to explain the relationship of architecture to political power without abandoning the values of aesthetics, truth or rationality. My dissertation mediates between the disciplines of philosophy, literary theory, and architecture and tries to create space for inquiry wherein the epistemological, the theoretical, and the historical are interconnected.<br>by Ritu Bhatt.<br>Ph.D.
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Hade, James D. "Field study experiences in landscape architecture education : practice and theory." Virtual Press, 1987. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/546126.
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This work presents arguments to the reader about the possible benefits for Landscape Architecture education using field study experiences. Three groups of information or opinion are presented: 1. fact supported by retrievable documentation or research, selected quotes from various literary sources, and 3. the writer's observations and opinions as derived from personal experiences, interpretations of fact and quoted material.A questionnaire was developed and administered to six Midwestern programs of landscape architecture. The results only pointed out that some schools sponsor Field study programs with varying frequencies, focusing on various topics, but it failed to expose the motives behind sponsoring field study programs, or the benefits of field study experiences.<br>Department of Landscape Architecture
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Ng, Kal. "Architectural cinema a theory of practice for digital architectural animation /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B4308574X.
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Bonnevier, Katarina. "Behind Straight Curtains : Towards a queer feminist theory of architecture." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : School of Architecture, Royal Institute of Technology : Axl Books, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-4295.
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Lu, Andong. "Narrative space : a theory of narrative environment and its architecture." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.611784.
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Tavel, Jose Enrique. "A theory of architecture based on the synthesis of bricolage and linguistic devices." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/21742.
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Blankinship, Erik Jackson 1974. "Who's got game (theory)?" Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33877.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2005.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 85-88).<br>Many players enjoy the challenge of outwitting computer opponents in strategy games. Devising strategies to defeat a computer opponent may enhance certain cognitive skills (e.g., analysis, evaluation, planning). This thesis takes a constructionist approach to gaming, hypothesizing that players may learn more about strategic planning by building their own computer opponents and then playing them to understand how their strategic theories play out in real experiments. I have developed a graphic toolkit for designing strategy games and computer opponents. The goal is to help students learn the underlying mathematical and computer science theories used to win these games. The tools have been designed to eliminate the overhead of using conventional programming languages to build games and focus students on the pedagogical issues of designing and understanding game theory algorithms. I describe the tools as well as initial evaluations of their effectiveness with populations of teenage students. Teenagers in this study posed their own problems, in the form of games they designed, and then hypothesized about winning strategies. Of their own volition, most teenagers iterated on their strategic designs, reformulated problems and hypotheses, isolated variables, and informed next generation versions of this tool with astute suggestions.<br>(cont.) The toolkit designed for this thesis has a low floor, making it easy for people to quickly start playing with mathematical concepts, and a high ceiling for sophisticated exploration.<br>by Erik Jackson Blankinship.<br>Ph.D.
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Shen, James M. Arch Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Repositioning Chinatown Las Vegas : theming authenticity and theory of boring architecture." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/41759.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2007.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 166-171).<br>China's surging economy compels cities worldwide to employ an extreme form of reverse colonization. A race is in progress to build the world's largest Chinatown. St. Petersburg and Dubai's are under construction and London is talking about it. Las Vegas belatedly joins the competition. The city already boasts the fist planned Chinatown - although it's just a strip mall. Learning from the success of its Chinatown Plaza, I propose an instant "Worlds' largest Chinatown" in collaboration with the newly formed International Chinatown Development Corporation. Situated in the capital of theming, Chinatown Las Vegas offers something different. The Paris Hotel Casino doesn't come with Parisians, but Chinatown Las Vegas comes with the Chinese. How can Chinatown exploit its themed people to market its notorious otherness? The success of current architectural practices of them- ing rests on its ability to mask the banal with signifiers of the exotic. The effects of this "shock and awe" approach, however, are short lived. My project offers an alternative; I begin with the banal to not end there. Instead of designing every aspect of the new Chinatown, I will populate the site with ready-mades; "carpet theming" by copy-paste. Preserving all existing buildings on the site, multistory Platforms (parking structures) fill current parking lots. Chinatown Signage (Chinatown Plaza roof multiplied) blankets the site, pinned to the ground by Cores (infrastructure towers). With: 3 components 1 square mile 1 manual (25 examples) 20,000 Chinese an infrastructure for guerrilla programming is deployed. The architect fastens the parts as the themed population begins the occupation.<br>by James Shen.<br>M.Arch.
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Cornetet, James. "The Intricacy of Ornament: A Theory of Responsive Ornamentation in Architecture." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc//view?acc_num=ucin1153768590.
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Thesis (Master of Architecture)--University of Cincinnati, 2006.<br>Advisor: Gordon Simmons. Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Dec. 26, 2009). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.
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Sommestad, Teodor. "A framework and theory for cyber security assessments." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Industriella informations- och styrsystem, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-103690.
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Information technology (IT) is critical and valuable to our society. An important type of IT system is Supervisor Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems. These systems are used to control and monitor physical industrial processes like electrical power supply, water supply and railroad transport. Since our society is heavily dependent on these industrial processes we are also dependent on the behavior of our SCADA systems. SCADA systems have become (and continue to be) integrated with other IT systems they are thereby becoming increasingly vulnerable to cyber threats. Decision makers need to assess the security that a SCADA system’s architecture offers in order to make informed decisions concerning its appropriateness. However, data collection costs often restrict how much information that can be collected about the SCADA system’s architecture and it is difficult for a decision maker to know how important different variables are or what their value mean for the SCADA system’s security. The contribution of this thesis is a modeling framework and a theory to support cyber security vulnerability assessments. It has a particular focus on SCADA systems. The thesis is a composite of six papers. Paper A describes a template stating how probabilistic relational models can be used to connect architecture models with cyber security theory. Papers B through E contribute with theory on operational security. More precisely, they contribute with theory on: discovery of software vulnerabilities (paper B), remote arbitrary code exploits (paper C), intrusion detection (paper D) and denial-of-service attacks (paper E). Paper F describes how the contribution of paper A is combined with the contributions of papers B through E and other operationalized cyber security theory. The result is a decision support tool called the Cyber Security Modeling Language (CySeMoL). This tool produces a vulnerability assessment for a system based on an architecture model of it.<br>Informationsteknik (IT) är kritiskt och värdefullt för vårt samhälle. En viktig typ av IT-system är de styrsystem som ofta kallas SCADA-system (från engelskans "Supervisor Control And Data Acquisition"). Dessa system styr och övervakar fysiska industriella processer så som kraftförsörjning, vattenförsörjning och järnvägstransport. Eftersom vårt samhälle är beroende av dessa industriella processer så är vi också beroende av våra SCADA-systems beteende. SCADA-system har blivit (och fortsätter bli) integrerade med andra IT system och blir därmed mer sårbara för cyberhot. Beslutsfattare behöver utvärdera säkerheten som en systemarkitektur erbjuder för att kunna fatta informerade beslut rörande dess lämplighet. Men datainsamlingskostnader begränsar ofta hur mycket information som kan samlas in om ett SCADA-systems arkitektur och det är svårt för en beslutsfattare att veta hur viktiga olika variabler är eller vad deras värden betyder för SCADA-systemets säkerhet. Bidraget i denna avhandling är ett modelleringsramverk och en teori för att stödja cybersäkerhetsutvärderingar. Det har ett särskilt focus på SCADA-system. Avhandlingen är av sammanläggningstyp och består av sex artiklar. Artikel A beskriver en mall för hur probabilistiska relationsmodeller kan användas för att koppla samman cybersäkerhetsteori med arkitekturmodeller. Artikel B till E bidrar med teori inom operationell säkerhet. Mer exakt, de bidrar med teori angående: upptäckt av mjukvarusårbarheter (artikel B), fjärrexekvering av godtycklig kod (artikel C), intrångsdetektering (artikel D) och attacker mot tillgänglighet (artikel E). Artikel F beskriver hur bidraget i artikel A kombineras med bidragen i artikel B till E och annan operationell cybersäkerhetsteori. Resultatet är ett beslutsstödsverktyg kallat Cyber Security Modeling Language (CySeMoL). Beslutsstödsverktyget producerar sårbarhetsutvärdering för ett system baserat på en arkitekturmodell av det.<br><p>QC 20121018</p>
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Cunningham, Kevin L. "Resilience theory: a framework for engaging urban design." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/15776.
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Master of Landscape Architecture<br>Department of Landscape Architecture, Regional and Community Planning<br>Blake Belanger<br>Landscape architects are challenged with finding appropriate solutions to adequately address the dynamic nature of urban environments. In the 1970's C.S. Holling began to develop resilience theory, which is intended to provide a holistic understanding of the way socio-ecological systems change and interact across scales. Resilience theory addresses the challenges and complexities of contemporary urban environments and can serve as a theoretical basis for engaging urban design practice. To test the validity of resilience theory as a theoretical basis for urban design, this thesis is an exploration of the addition of resilience theory to current landscape architecture literature and theory through a three-part methodology: a literature review that spans a breadth of research, case study analyses, and an application of resilience theory through a design framework in two projective design experiments. The resilience framework bridges between complex theory and design goals/strategies in a holistic approach. Through the identification of key connections in the reviewed literature that situate the relevance of resilience theory to landscape architecture and the subsequent case study analysis, specific methods for applying resilience theory to urban design practice are defined within the proposed framework. These methods fit within five main categories: identify and respond to thresholds, promote diversity, develop redundancies, create multi-scale networks and connectivity, and implement adaptive planning/management/design practices. The framework is validated by the success of the projective design application in the winning 2013 ULI/Hines Urban Design Competition entry, The Armory. Resilience theory and the proposed design framework have the potential to continue to advance the prominence of landscape architecture as the primary leader in urban design practice.
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Foley, J. Aidan (James Aidan) 1977. "Multi-round auctions for institutional real estate assets : theory and practice." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/29775.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2003.<br>Includes bibliographical references.<br>The theory of auctions has grown dramatically over the last four decades; it offers guidance and insights into the conduct of efficient and optimal auctions in real estate, and other industries. In this thesis an auction process used to sell institutional real estate assets in the US is identified. This auction came into being during the 1990s, and is now in common use. The auction is recorded though surveys with industry representatives and is characterized. Problems with the auction are identified, and solutions are proposed, referencing this auction to the body of auction theory. The auction consists of two rounds of sealed bid submissions, with attrition in the number of competitive bidders. After competitive bidding is complete a preferred bidder is selected, and engages in due diligence, a practice that often uncovers new information and induces renegotiation. Bids are not binding during the bidding process, because the auction is informationally incomplete. Sellers analyze bids based on the perceived quality of the bidder as a contractual partner, as well as the bid's value, complicating the objective selection of the best bidder. The auction is bilaterally incomplete and unstable, potentially influencing efficiency and optimality. Recommendations to improve the process are made. Descriptive statistics are formed and presented of multi-round auctions for institutional real estate assets.<br>by J. Aidan Foley.<br>S.M.
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Anderson, Curtis Warren. "The relationship between design theory and architectural practice." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23406.
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Barr, Sue. "The architecture of transit : photographing incidents of sublimity in the landscapes of motorway architecture between the Alps and Naples." Thesis, Royal College of Art, 2017. http://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/2851/.
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The aesthetics of motorway architecture has not received attention within theoretical photographic discourse and has never been the subject of an academic photographic research project. This project begins from the understanding of the motorway as one continuous piece of architecture that crosses international boundaries on its route across Europe – an architecture so large that it cannot be perceived in its entirety. As a research-by-practice PhD, photography is used to identify and record incidents of the sublime in the route of the motorway. The photographs are produced with a large field study from the Swiss Alps to Naples, where numerous complex topographical and spatial conditions are found. This results in incidents of the sublime within its architecture when the motorway is forced to negotiate these conditions during its route. The research domain was chosen for its significance within the history of art and literature in European cultural history. Travelling in these regions was and is strongly related to the development of cultural concepts of the sublime. The questions that this research investigates are: Is it possible to make a depiction of architectural, spatial, topographical factors combined in a sublime incident? Can a methodology be defined to photograph these structures? How can photographs be made of large-scale architecture that cannot be seen or experienced in their entirety? The meaning of the term sublime has become diluted in contemporary usage, often being used inaccurately in description of something exquisite or delightful. This project revisits 18th-century formulations of this aesthetic categorisation, alongside historical travel literature, representations of landscape in painting and photography and contemporary architectural and photographic discourses. These references enable a thorough understanding of principles of aesthetic composition, resulting in the creation of a new understanding of the sublime and methodology for photographing large-scale motorway architecture. Employing a photographic aesthetic that embraces representation and post-production enhancement of Fine Art practice, the project culminates in the production of 29 photographs that form a narrative series exploring incidents of the sublime within motorway architecture between the Alps and Naples.
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Chou, Shiuh-Lin D. "Modernism in architecture : a descriptive theory of its formal/aesthetic basis." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.385937.
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Jiang, Yingying, and 江盈盈. "Open building : a theory of housing for post-industrial society." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/198835.
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Kim, Y. C. "Space, place and home : an integrative theory of architectural space." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.356402.
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