The object of the thesis was to develop a field instrument for the determination of aesthetic tastes and preferences among various social groups. The instrument has been developed for use in research on attitudes and preferences involved in the purchase of homes. The instrument was constructed as a visual attitude scale, consisting of three house photographs graduated along a social class continuum to represent the lower, middle, and upper scale categories; and will be developed on the assumption that people can consistently discriminate among house photographs on the basis of perceived social class of occupant families. The three house photographs were derived from a rating process in the field which used 60 respondents to rate a set of 30 carefully selected house photographs among three social class categories. The house photographs associated most with each of the three categories were selected to represent each social stratum in the visual attitude scale. Use of the visual attitude scale in conjunction with the Semantic Differential and open-end questions was proposed as a means to determine differences in aesthetic tastes and preferences and, also, other attitudes involved in the decision making process to buy a home. The actual utility and validity of the field instrument cannot be established here, but must be the object of further research. The study did reveal, however, a high degree of consistency of ratings by respondents from different social class backgrounds and, therefore, provided face validation for the assumptions underlying the construction of the field instrument. / Business, Sauder School of / Graduate

This thesis deals with the role of House leaders in the organization and conduct of business in the Canadian Parliament. The position of House leader in the parliamentary parties has emerged out of a complexity of factors and pressures placed upon the parliamentary system during the last thirty years. It may now be said that House leaders form the primary communication channel between the political parties concerning the business of the Canadian House of Commons. The adversary system in parliament, reinforced by the traditional position of the opposition, requires that the parties cooperate in organizing the conduct of parliamentary business. The House leaders meet informally and privately to negotiate and to arrange the timing of debates and other matters. The House leaders perform other important duties within their parties. The Government House leader is responsible to the prime minister and cabinet for the overall management of the House, management of the government's legislative schedule, and assistance in the development of legislation. The contemporary Government House leader is also involved in long-range legislative planning. Opposition House leaders keep their parties informed about House activities and perform important strategy and organizational duties. All House leaders are involved in procedural debates and parliamentary reforms. House leaders are appointed from within the parliamentary party and any authority they possess for making interparty agreements comes from the party. That they are normally senior and respected members and have unique contacts with the other House leaders are factors which usually enhance their influence and persuasive powers over the party. The development of the position of House leaders has decreased the influence of party whips; yet the whips remain and the roles of House leaders and party whips may now be seen as complementary. House leaders naturally must operate within the formal rules of the House, and changes in these rules affect the role of the House leaders. The inability to develop a working time allocation mechanism for Commons legislative activity leaves informal communications between the House leaders as the crucial method of scheduling and limiting these debates. The role performed by House leaders has become more significant and it is now recognized that House leaders hold powerful positions in the Canadian House of Commons. As government business increases yet further in amount and complexity the role of House leaders may be expected to become still more significant in the Canadian parliamentary process. / Arts, Faculty of / Political Science, Department of / Graduate

This exploratory study investigated the nature of interaction between husband and wife in the search/decision process leading to the purchase of a home. Interaction was examined in terms of convergence and divergence between the partners. It was suggested that divergence is most likely to occur over decision situations in which one or other partner dominates. A conceptual framework was constructed to examine some of the determinants of dominance. Using this scheme and several intervening variables; a number of possible interaction patterns were then suggested. A questionnaire was formulated and a field survey undertaken to verify the validity of these suggestions. The results indicated that the concepts of convergence and divergence are useful in examining this aspect of house buying behavior. The survey was, however, only partially successful in validating the conceptual framework and the suggested interaction patterns. / Business, Sauder School of / Graduate

The master´s thesis is focused on the design and preparation of project documentation of the polyfunctional house in Dobříš city. Polyfunctional house is a rectangular shape with dimensions of 16,12 x 26,12 m. The building has one underground and three floors, the last floor is the attic. Horizontal and vertical structural system is BS Klatovy, the roof is gabled with a skylights.

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Creating a quality courtyard on par with filling a vacant site on Kříźová street.

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The houses we grow up in are significant because they are our place to dream, contemplate, and imagine. There are many places in our childhood home to dream but there is often a favorite spot. The window that led to a light well in my grandparents' house was one of mine. This project is an exploration into dream space and the characteristics of that space. I explore the dream space through drawings, collages and models. The result of this investigation is a series of row houses located in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of Washington, D.C. / Master of Architecture

Ernest Hemingway conveyed emotion with an elegantly straightforward system. My methodology is patterned after his. To share a feeling, I recall the sharp details that caused it: buzzing bees fading to autumn's dry red rustle; a murmur of voices from the sidewalk below; stars creeping across a narrow aperture. An honest detail, delivered without embellishment, instills emotion. Form is sculpted and resculpted, distilled, until a minimum of moves create the "particular sequence of motion and fact that make the emotion". Clear lucid simplicity, the ability to share a fundamental emotion with a single act, is the ideal of my architecture. / Master of Architecture

concrete has a memory. It stores the construction sequences. It shows what it is made of and how it is made. The texture of the formwork, the color difference of the pours, and the shadows of the metal ties combine to layer the beauty of concrete. The aim of this study is to explore the instruments of a concrete surface in order to enhance this multi-sensory experience. This study began with the design of a concrete wall and evolved into the design of a single-family home. / Master of Architecture