Errata in manuscript. Multiple page numbering issues. Duplicate numbers: 171, 189; omitted: 211 / The central area of a city is commonly referred to as the heart of the city, since it supplies life-giving energy to the cells and tissues of the city. The circulatory system formed by veins and arteries moves the life-stream--people, goods,messages, and ideas, from the heart to all parts of the organization, and back a in. Although the vitality of the urban core influences the circulatory system, the sound functioning of the heart,cells and tissues of the city depends largely on the health of the circulatory system. The lungs of the city are refreshing and recreating elements such as open spaces, landscape, and embellishments. Then circulatory system and the refreshing and recreating elements are integrated for the sound functioning of the city. [...]

Through the centuries, urban form has developed in both a planned and a spontaneous way. In the Greek, Roman, Renaissance and Baroque periods there were some planned towns but the majority developed without following a predetermined pattern. [...]

The Monastery of Sainte-Marie-de-Ia-Tourette was built for the Dominicans between 1952 and 1960 in Eveux, near Lyon, by the French architect Le Corbusier. It is a massive, imposing, rough, sharp, geometrical, complex, beautiful, dark, surprising, calm and profoundly human building. The aim of this study is to explore, through words written on sheets of paper, the spaceopened by what the monastery has to say. This exploration is particularly relevant to our contemporary world with regard to questions concerning the uses and misuses of technology, the consequences of the hegemony of vision and the difficulties involved in engaging chaos properly. / Le monastère dominicain de La Tourette est l'œuvre de l'architecte français Le Corbusier. Il s’agit d'un bâtiment massif, imposant, brutal, aiguisé, mathématique, complexe, tendu, sombre, étonnant, calme et en bout de ligne profondément humain. À travers l'écriture, la présente étude se propose d'explorer l'espace ouvert par ce que dit le monastère. Cette exploration tente de saisir certaines problématiques bien contemporaines tout en offrant l'esquisse d'une réponse à certaines questions plus spécifiquement architecturales . fr

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The creation of a new project within an existing built environment requires more than just the careful preservation of the historical setting or domination of the ongoing architecture. Rather, the new work must sustain the vital reality of place and its external form in conjunction with the unity of all ages: past, present and future. / It is through this quest for architectural continuity that the peculiarly human quality of different places may be understood and reinterpreted. In this way, architecture can give shape to and preserve the meaningful lived-reality of place. Only through an active encounter with "place", may we create more of its dynamic vitality.

Socrates claimed Daedalus, the mythical first architect, as his ancestor. Taking this as a point of departure, the thesis explores the relationship between architecture and speculative thought, and shows how the latter is grounded in the former. A detailed examination of the Anaximander fragment, the earliest surviving record in Western philosophy, is considered in relation to Anaximander's built work. This three-part cosmic model which included a celestial sphere, the first map of the world, and a sun clock (the gnomon), reveals the fragment to be a theory of the work in that the cosmic order Anaximander was the first to articulate was discovered through the building of the model. The model is seen as comparable to a daidalon, a creation of Daedalus, whose legend reflects the importance of craft in the self-consciousness of archaic Greece where the kosmos (order) of civilization were seen as having emerged with the kosmos allowed to appear through the making of the artifact. Archaic self-consciousness is further examined through the emergence of the Greek city-state (the polis) and in the building of the first peripteral temples, both of which are revealed as necessary antecedents to birth of theory, understood as the wondering admiration of the well-made thing.

This thesis examines the idea of conjunctive housing as a viable alternative for habitation within the urban context. It traces the historical origins of housing in conjunctive use with other functions. Various examples of this type of housing are cited extending from its beginnings during the classical era right up to the twentieth century. / The study of the mixed land use concept in urban areas calls for a more comprehensive analysis of the validity of conjunctive housing as an alternative to the ever increasing suburbanization. This idea transcends the notion of landuse efficiency, and underscores the importance of promoting inner-city living. / Conjunctive housing represents a time-tested approach which deviates from various other conventional housing patterns. An exhibit of several types of mixed-use establishments is provided, together with a probe into its generic forms which demonstrate the numerous planning options. This thesis is an attempt to reiterate the concept of conjunctive housing, especially in response to the contemporary trend of urban living, as a viable solution for housing urbanites, a concept which may even prove to promote a socially superior mode of urban lifestyle.

By the end of the eighteenth century, as imagination makes its appearance behind representation, man enters the field of knowledge and literature emerges in the world of fiction. L'Architecture of Claude-Nicolas Ledoux is too complex a work to make its mapping possible in such a short study. I therefore tried to unfold the work through the question that seemed to me to be the most revelatory of this time. The notion of caratere derived from the specific codes of a culture where representation was the foundation of a possible order. In L'Architecture, between the fictional character and his caractere is this space where representation and imagination coincide through what makes the specificity of human nature: the identity, the ability to speak, the power to act, and the perception of time.

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