An architecture of experience is one that asks the dweller to participate in the making of the place. The building does not tell a story, but instead presents fragments that become a foundation for the dweller's interpretation. The fragments complement that which is already existing in Nature and in the human consciousness in order to provide the framework for a richer architecture. The participant's experience is not unlike that of recalling a dream; the pieces manifest themselves one by one, each one clearly defined, but the whole is elusive. In the end it is the participant who completes the whole. / Master of Architecture

First House is geometry, material and light. Geometry gives order. Material gives reality. Light gives space. / Master of Architecture

School is a forum for continuous exploration, critique and innovation. This forum enables a student to develop a framework of operation. Five houses are presented, each with shared concerns. These concerns are subjective and based on a critical awareness of site, history and form. The houses are drawn in plan, section and elevation. The drawings are an attempt to convey the quality of the space. The drawings exist somewhere between the idea drawing and the construction drawing, but by no means are they a realization of the built space. The work thus confronts reality and yet hides from it. The plans will never pretend to replace the work itself. They cannot be read in themselves. They are not a synthesis of anything and are no relation, then to drawn architecture. What is shown can only act as guides, navigational charts that lead to the precise act that is the work. Then the architecture comes into being. Edward Bru / Master of Architecture

Over all that has been said here hovers the judgment of Hegel that art, "on the side of its highest vocation is a thing of the past." Under this judgment the limits of mythic thought are brought to light with respect to itself. For an incomplete mythic identification with modern cultural forms might indicate a passing of mythic thought into a critical capacity or ideal achievement. Such, I believe, is the world for Hegel. For Hegel, this capacity moves to understand itself in the world. In the realm of art, this is accomplished by a physical determination of rational thought as the Ideal comes to inquire scientifically what art is through the elucidation of itself in the Absolute Spirit by the forms of its logic: Being, Essence, and Concept. From the realm of art, the Ideal pushes on into areas less friendly to the senses: first religion and then philosophy or logic. It moves this way only to return, with feeling, back into the realm of art. Yet in this return art is not hallowed or made sacred as it once was with the ancient Greeks. Nor does it, in Heidegger’s sense, allow for the ontic happening of truth. Instead, art is the world of man in the Absolute Spirit brought into physical form. This passing of art into a new age remains an undecided question for Heidegger and Cassirer. Their differences with Hegel turn upon how the logic of idealism defines the question of the nature of Being. Heidegger and the later Cassirer look toward "phenomenological horizons" to provide their foundation. For our part, we are skeptical about a complete connection of mythic thought to the modern world. The modern intellect is critical and demythologizing. In Hegel’s words: "the mind renders thought its object" and by so doing comes to theorize first in order to understand itself and the world. What attracts this mind is what appeals to its criticality. But when our criticality has achieved the clarity of line and concept of which it is capable a different mode of thinking stirs around us for the mythos and "the ultimate positive basis of the spirit and of life itself." (PoSF.,p.4) Speaking about architecture from within the framework established by the authors here examined, we find our interpretation to lie in between the conceptual tectonic of das Eins and the existential analytic of the Dasein of myth. / Master of Architecture

The primary objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between perceived environmental uncertainty, business strategy, and financial performance in the lodging Industry. Using a contingency framework, this study investigated the match between strategy content and environmental uncertainty which, from previous research, appear to distinguish between high and low performing organizations (Miles 8 Snow, 1978; Bourgeois, 1978; Schaffer, 1986). The key question that forms the basis of this research is whether the empirical evidence supports previous theory relating to the environment, strategy, and performance relationship. The findings of this study indicate that a "match" between the state of the environment facing an organization and its business strategy is required for high performance. Hotels employing a defender strategy In a stable environment tend to perform better than hotels that employing other strategies. Similarly, hotels employing an analyzer strategy in a volatile environment tend to perform better than hotels that employing other strategies. Furthermore, irrespective of the environment faced, smaller hotels do better than larger hotels in terms of profit, while larger properties tend to fare better in terms of revenue. From an Industry application perspective, this study provides the strategy planner in the lodging industry with empirical information relating to: 1. A means to assess the state of the business environment perceived by individual unit general managers, 2. A repertoire of business strategies that emphasize different competitive postures, and 3. A "decision rule" to apply in appropriately matching their strategy to an environmental state for maximal performance outcome reflected in revenues and earnings. The results obtained provide an invaluable planning and analysis tool for all levels of management involved in charting a firm’s future. / Ph. D.

No / The use of water in Roman private houses has been identified as a highly visible status symbol. The detailed study of the House of the Vestals at Pompeii reveals how water features were central to the house¿s structural changes from the late first century B.C. The owners of the house invested heavily in fountains and pools as key elements in the display of their wealth to visitors and passers-by alike. This article relates the structural development of the House of the Vestals to the social history of decorative water usage, from an initial investment exploiting the pressurized water provided by the new aqueduct early in the Augustan period to the responses to crises following the earthquake of A.D. 62

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Improving the energy efficiency of manufactured homes is important, as manufactured homes are built to a federal code which may not capture all the cost effective efficiency options available today. Energy efficiency improvements range from simple and inexpensive changes in manufacturing techniques (e.g. sealing duct systems) to more expensive additions (e.g. high performance windows) which still may be cost effective. This study will examine the most cost-effective options for energy conservation in manufactured homes including enhanced envelope and heating and cooling equipment options. Using cost information from various manufacturers and the simulation tool, Energy Gauge USA®, optimum energy conservation packages will be created for one or more climates. These packages will present manufacturers and homeowners with a guide to the costs and savings associated with various levels of energy conservation.

Thesis. 1976. M.Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. / Microfiche copy available in Archives and Rotch. / Includes bibliographical references. / by Kevin Cavanaugh. / M.Arch.

Leung Mei Wa Airy. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2007-2008, design report." / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 71). / Chapter 0. --- Abstract / Chapter 1. --- Observation & Argument / Chapter 1.1 --- Background History / Chapter 1.2 --- Building Types & Site Organization / Chapter 1.3 --- Building Form & Block Organization / Chapter 1.4 --- Comparison of Typical Unit Combination / Chapter 1.5 --- Comparison of Average Living Area / Chapter 2. --- Precedent Studies / Chapter 2.1 --- Overview of Precedent Cases / Chapter 2.2 --- Cases / Chapter 3. --- Analysis of 3 Housing Types / Chapter 3.1 --- Features of The 3 housing Types / Chapter 3.2 --- Existing Conditions of The 3 Houwing Types / Chapter 3.3 --- Ways to revitalize / Chapter 3.4 --- Preliminary Studies of Possibilities / Chapter 4. --- Programme / Chapter 4.1 --- Hong Kong Household Distribution / Chapter 4.2 --- Area Range of Twin Tower / Chapter 4.3 --- Possible Unit Combination / Chapter 5. --- Circulation & Communal Space / Chapter 5.1 --- Circulation Possibilities / Chapter 5.2 --- Additional Communal Area Possibilities / Chapter 5.3 --- Grouping Possibilities / Chapter 6. --- Final Design / Chapter 6.1 --- Grouping & Flat Organization / Chapter 6.2 --- Unit Distribution / Chapter 6.3 --- Design Scheme / Chapter 6.4 --- Types of Units / Chapter 6.5 --- Views of Models / Chapter 6.6 --- Final Presentation / Chapter 7. --- Bibliography