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The purpose of this study was to examine the planning processes followed in the evolution of six elementary schools in Indiana. Data were gathered to determine: (1) the roles and perceptions of team members involved in the planning process, (2) the content of the educational specifications, (3) suggestions for improving the educational specifications, and (4) reactions of school staff members to the planning process and completed facility.

Agriculture has played and continues to play a vital role in the livelihood of Indiana; therefore, farm structures are present in nearly every section of the state. However, with advances in technology and commercial and residential development, historic farm structures are quickly being lost to demolition and neglect. Although Indiana is known as a leader in historic preservation, historic farm structures of the state do not receive the attention that they deserve from preservationists. This thesis serves to inform preservationists of the importance of Indiana's historic farm structures and to present suggestions on ways that the current programs and activities could be improved. This is accomplished by discussing the history and current state of farming in Indiana, by examining farm structure preservation organizations in Indiana and across the nation, and by presenting farmland preservation and the documentation of rural historic districts as two alternative tools to protect historic farm structures. / Department of Architecture

Research on domestic architecture using the space syntax method has suggested that while most vernacular traditions are characterised by 'genotypical' consistencies in the relation between spatial configuration and functional 'ends', such consistencies are usually lacking in experimental modernist architecture, where instead a consistency in spatial composition gives rise to 'genotype of means' rather than to 'genotypes of ends'. In Brazil, however, modernist housing became a established tradition and therefore there may be in them spatio-functional consistencies as found in vernacular tradition. The thesis examines how far this is the case, based on the fact that the dominant idea about the spatial organisation of the modernist dwelling was that it should be organised into spatially distinct 'sectors', within which similar activities could be clustered. This concept provided a pervasive underlying diagram, or paradigm, for housing organisation. No studies have been done however of how this paradigm worked out in practice. This thesis investigates this question with respect to a manifestation of this idea in the modernist architecture of Recife, between 1930 and 1980. The thesis first diagnoses the existence of a 'sectors' paradigm' in a pilot sample of modernist houses, then extends the investigation to a larger sample to see how prevalent it is and what different spatial forms it takes. The thesis then looks at historical houses and shows that a sectors' model can also be detected in them, but quite different spatially and functionally. It shows that both the internal form of the sectors and the way they are linked together are the key determinant for differentiating domestic activities and household members in both historical and modern dwellings. The thesis concludes that, through the methodological innovation of sectors' analysis, spatio-functional 'genotypes of ends' can be shown to be present in Recife's modernist dwellings, but that also they can be detected in vernacular houses, suggesting that a first layer should be added to the syntactic analysis of vernacular buildings.

This project, investigating the relation between sacred places and the mission of the Church, explores the issue through the lens of historical and theological frameworks, as well as pursing a dialectic path with representatives from religious studies and the social sciences. Much of the research has spanned textual resources across a spectrum of eras and traditions, but a substantial portion of the project was qualitative case study research, involving two churches representing two disparate traditions within Christianity.  The two congregations were chosen based on their well-articulated mission statements and their involvement in major relocation and building projects, providing excellent contexts to examine how their missions were embodied in and informed the design of their new physical facilities. The reflective transformative methodology was employed in this investigation, largely informed by the critical correlational practical theology approach developed by two key scholars, David Tracy and Don S. Browning. The link between mission and sacred place can facilitate either one-way or two-way movement.  The dictum that form must follow function is a one-way street demanding challenge.  A synergistic dynamic needs to exist between mission and sacred places and unless intentionally attended to, the dynamic can easily devolve into an adversarial, counter-productive reality, only avoided if sacred places are considered an enabling aspect of the Church’s mission, rather than merely the context in which it is acted out.