Hi Donald, It just occurred to me that I might be finished with this fieldwork. I’m sitting at the side of the road looking over this fucked up landscape of cattle, golf carts, trees with turning leaves, being rained on, frozen out, everything feels forced, and I’m double-taking sight after sight, saying to myself I’ve seen this before, I’ve done this already. I’m packing up my things. I’ll write more later, or perhaps I’ll call. bau Thirty-three locations in pursuit of the long view, from the borders of an expropriated forty year old ghost town. Thirty-eight Polaroids, thirty-six mobile phone photographs, thirty-six photos from a digital single lens reflex camera with an oiled lens filter, forty 15.2 x 10.2 cm drawings, fifty-six 38.4 x 16.4 cm drawings, sixty-three white-bordered 38.4 x 20.8 cm drawings, sixty-four 33.5 x 17.2 cm sketchbook spreads. 20 085 words; 14 123 by choice, 5962 out of obligation. It is important to figure things out for yourself. It is important to not learn too much of any one thing. This is a thesis because it’s a thesis; it is what it is. (That’s begging the question.) This is a thesis about begging the question.

Thesis (M. Arch.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1993. / Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 51). Also available via the Internet.

Hur människor uppfattar rumsligheter är komplext. Människor baserar det upplevda rummet på professionell expertis, erfarenheter och vilket visuellt kommunikationsverktyg som rummet presenteras med hjälp av. Studiens syfte är att undersöka hur den visuella kommunikationen mellan arkitekter och kunder ser ut, hur arkitekter och kunder uppfattar rumsligheter, hur uppfattningen skiljer sig åt och om kommunikationen däremellan kan underlättas med hjälp av realtidsvisualisering (VR). Dessutom undersöker examensarbetet hur en sådan visuell kommunikation skulle kunna gå till och hur detaljerad en VR-modell behöver vara. Spelmotorn Unity och VR-plattformen HTC Vive används för att producera och driva interaktiva VR-modeller. Studien undersöker hur dessa kan användas som ett visuellt kommunikationsverktyg mellan arkitekter och kunder för att utveckla kommunikationen dem emellan. Litteraturen visar på tydlig klyfta i kommunikationen mellan arkitekt och kund där information går förlorad. Genom användandet av realtidsvisualisering hävdas det att kommunikationen kan underlättas och en ökad förståelse av rymd och skala uppnås. I studien testas tre VR-modeller med tre olika detaljnivåer på respondenter, tre arkitekter och två kunder. Efter testet intervjuas personerna om deras erfarenheter och rumsliga upplevelse för de olika modellerna. Intervjuerna pekar på att den skillnad i rumsuppfattning som finns mellan arkitekt och kund kan överbryggas med hjälp av VR som kan konkretisera arkitektur och medför att alla kan förstå rumsligheter på sina egna villkor. Undersökningen visar att VR är ett användbart visuellt kommunikationsverktyg. Inte bara som barriärbrytande mellan arkitekt och kund utan även som en integrerad del av den iterativa designprocessen. / How people perceive space is a complex thing. People base the perceived space on professional expertise, experiences and what visual communication tools the room is presented with. The purpose of the study is to investigate the visual communication between architects and clients; how architects and clients perceive spatial characteristics and how the perception differs and whether communication between them can be made easier using real-time visualization (VR). In addition, the study investigates how such communication could go and how detailed a VR model needs to be. The game engine Unity and VR-platform HTC Vive are used to produce interactive VR models and investigate how these can be used as a visual communication tool between architects and clients to improve the communication between them. The literature shows a clear gap in the communication between architects and clients where information is lost. Using real-time visualization, the communication can be eased, and an increased understanding of space and scale achieved. In the study, three VR models are tested with three various levels of detail on respondents, three architects and two customers. After the test, the respondents are interviewed about their experiences and space perception of the different models. The interviews show that the difference in space perception between architect and client can be overcome using VR that can show architecture and allow everyone to understand spatiality on their own terms. The investigation shows that VR as a visual communication tool is useful. Not only as barrier-breaking between architects and clients, but also as an integral part of the iterative design process.

Este estudo documenta a vida e a obra de Roberto José Goulart Tibau (1924-2003), arquiteto brasileiro. O objetivo fundamental - e mais importante - é reunir informações sobre os projetos e obras mais significativos desenvolvidos durante sua atividade profissional, tornando-os acessíveis através dessa pesquisa. O trabalho baseou-se em pesquisa bibliográfica, levantamento e registro das obras e projetos realizados, currículo profissional, e depoimento de Tibau, concedido ao autor, em 1998. Em Roberto Tibau e o fazer arquitetura são descritos os caminhos percorridos pelo arquiteto; o contexto histórico de sua formação e atuação profissional; a relação de sua produção arquitetônica com outras obras da época; e eventuais referências projetuais utilizadas na criação dos seus projetos. Este trabalho vem preencher uma lacuna bibliográfica considerável, trazendo à luz, a obra deste significativo arquiteto, que dedicou sua vida ao trabalho na prancheta, na qual deixou sua marca de humanista. / This study documents the life and work of Roberto José Goulart Tibau (1924-2003), a Brazilian architect. It aims to collect information about the most significant projects developed during the years of his professional career, which will become available through this research. The present study based on bibliographical research, examination and registration of the projects executed by the architect, his resumé, and his testimonial to the author of this research, in 1998. In Roberto Tibau and the process of making architecture there is a description of the ways in which his projects were conceived; the historical context through his professional activity since graduation, the relation between his own production and the production of other architects of the same period, and the projecting references used for his creations. This research is also an attempt to fill a signicant bibliographical gap of architecture history in Brazil by bringing to light the work of this relevant architect, who dedicated his life to working on his drawing table, leaving to us his humanistic style.

Submitted by Repositorio Digital Mackenzie (dspace@mackenzie.br) on 2016-03-28T14:10:37Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Angela Costa Diniz..pdf: 38362818 bytes, checksum: 9ed0753109a2522e0d0d48b7d1f6463d (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-28T14:10:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Angela Costa Diniz..pdf: 38362818 bytes, checksum: 9ed0753109a2522e0d0d48b7d1f6463d (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-05-29 / This master's thesis presents and analyzes the production of the architect Francisco M.L. Petracco (1935, within São Paulo modern architecture in the 1950s. This survey has listed nearly 300 works attributed to the architect and has also formed a database by doing a residential project filing of Petracco’s works. The paper consists of four parts, divided into chapters: the first chapter presents the work of the Architect, emphasizes his academic formation, intends to clarify the relevance of studying the work of such an architect and presents his major works; the second chapter explains the filing process of residences projected by the Architect, the production of residential projects, seeking to classify them into types; the fourth chapter, in which the research seeks to characterize the gesture in this Petracco’s projectproduction; and finally, the last part consists of the subsequent chapters, in which the residential projects of Casa Vicente Izzo (1975), and Samuel Rothenberg (1982), chosen as case studies, among other selected residential buildings belonging to the period of the 1970s and 1980s, the most productive of the Architect, have been analyzed. / Esta dissertação de mestrado apresenta e analisa a produção arquitetônica residencial do arquiteto Francisco M. L. Petracco (1935), no âmbito da arquitetura moderna paulista a partir da década de 1950. A pesquisa listou 290 obras atribuídas ao Arquiteto e formou um banco de dados por meio de fichamento dos projetos residenciais. O trabalho foi organizado em quatro partes, divididas em capítulos: o primeiro apresenta a obra do arquiteto; enfatiza a sua formação acadêmica e procura esclarecer a pertinência do estudo da obra do arquiteto, apresentando suas principais obras; o segundo esclarece o processo de fichamento das residências projetadas pelo arquiteto, a produção de projetos residenciais, procurando distingui-los por tipologias; o terceiro capítulo, no qual a pesquisa busca caracterizar o gesto projetual presente na produção de Petracco; e, por fim, a última parte, formada pelos capítulos seguintes, em que foram analisados os projetos residenciais da Casa Vicente Izzo (1975), e da Casa Samuel Rothenberg (1982), que foram eleitos como estudos de casos, dentre outras casas selecionadas. Ambos os projetos estão situados nas décadas de 1970 e 1980, período de maior produção do arquiteto.

O presente trabalho aborda a formação acadêmica e a obra do arquiteto brasileiro Attílio Corrêa Lima (1901-1943) analisando, desde os seus conhecidos trabalhos na área do urbanismo, até os seus projetos de paisagismo e arquitetura, realizados em sua curta, mas intensa, carreira profissional. Formado pela Escola Nacional de Belas Artes do Rio de Janeiro e sendo o primeiro brasileiro diplomado em urbanismo pela Universidade de Paris, Attílio Corrêa Lima participou dos mais importantes projetos brasileiros entre 1932 e 1943. Os planos urbanísticos de Goiânia, Recife e Volta Redonda, e os projetos elaborados para os industriários, revelam um perfil profissional sintonizado com a modernidade. Sua formação clássica na linha da beaux-arts e uma pioneira evolução rumo ao Movimento Moderno são a tônica deste trabalho, que revela ainda dados inéditos de sua produção profissional e procura estimular a realização de outras pesquisas semelhantes. / The present study approaches the academic foundation and the work of the Brazilian architect Attílio Corrêa Lima (1901-1943) studying his work since his best known studies about town planning until his landscape and architecture designs developed during his short but intensive professional career. He was graduated at Escola Nacional de Belas Artes do Rio de Janeiro and was the first Brazilian architect graduated in town planning at Paris University, Attílio Corrêa Lima took part in the most important Brazilian designs between 1932 and 1943. The city plans of Goiânia, Recife and Volta Redonda, and the designs elaborated for the industry workers reveal a professional profile connected to modernity. His classic foundation in beaux-arts trends and his pioneer evolution driven to the Modern Movement are the predominant subject of this study which also reveals unpublished data of his professional production and try to stimulate other similar studies.

Esta pesquisa é uma sistematização da carreira do arquiteto e funcionário público Geraldo Vespaziano Puntoni, tendo como pano de fundo sua atuação como funcionário do Estado no Departamento de Obras Públicas (DOP), no qual trabalhou de 1960 a 1990. Além do DOP, o arquiteto foi comissionado para cinco outros órgãos e companhias públicas, FECE - Fundo Estadual de Construções Escolares, CECAP - Companhia Estadual de Casas para o Povo, CESP - Centrais Eléctricas de São Paulo, EMURB - Empresa Municipal de Urbanização, e IPESP - Instituto de Previdência do Estado de São Paulo onde foram possíveis diversas experiências e expressões arquitetônicas e urbanas. A partir da pergunta: Qual é a função do arquiteto na construção do país, do estado e da cidade, escolhi um profissional que, de seus sessenta anos de trabalho, dedicou metade à elaboração de projetos e obras em órgãos públicos do estado de São Paulo. Esta pesquisa retrata o trajeto deste homem e profissional público. A ideia é avançar na compreensão das políticas públicas urbanas desta época e investigar o quanto destas posturas influenciaram e foram influenciadas pelo arquiteto Geraldo Vespaziano Puntoni. O objetivo deste trabalho é estudar a história desses órgãos e relacionar a trajetória do arquiteto Geraldo Vespaziano Puntoni com os aspectos mais relevantes da cultura e do imaginário moderno em São Paulo. O levantamento, a organização e a restituição de sua obra, característica da arquitetura brasileira contemporânea, tem como intuito contribuir para o avanço na reflexão acerca da profissão e do seu papel na constituição do espaço urbano nas décadas em questão. / This research is a systematization of Geraldo Vespaziano Puntoni\'s carrier as an architect and public servant, having as a background his work on the Department of Public Building (DOP), where he stayed from 1960 to 1990. Beyond DOP, the architect was commissioned to work in five others institutions and companies: Educational Buildings State Fund (FECE), State Company of Houses for the People (CECAP), São Paulo Electrical Centers (CESP) and Municipal Company of Urbanization (EMURB) and Welfare Institute of São Paulo (IPESP). During his stay at those institutions, the architect had several experiences and was able to try many different architectural and urban expressions. Starting with the question \"What is the architect\'s role in the development of a country, state and city?\", I chose a professional that dedicated half of his 60 years of work to the elaboration of projects for public institutions in São Paulo. This research shows the story of a man and public servant. The idea behind it is to explore the realm of public politics of the studied period and investigate just how much of this scenario influenced and have been influenced by the architect Geraldo Vespaziano Puntoni. The main objective of this work is to study the story behind those institutions and relate it to the architect\'s story, along with the most important aspects of the culture and modern imaginary of São Paulo. The gathering of data, organization and restitution of the architect\'s work, known for being embedded with characteristics of modern Brazilian architecture, helps to enrich the discussion about the role of the professional and its relation to the development of the urban space in the studied decades.

Preocupações observadas durante mais de 12 anos de vida docente nas disciplinas de Desenho e Projeto Arquitetônico para classes de curso superior de Arquitetura deram início ao presente trabalho de mestrado. Para tanto, primeiramente, se fez necessária uma releitura acerca do papel do desenho na Arquitetura. Diversos autores contribuíram com conceitos e experiências para uma melhor compreensão dos diversos valores atribuídos ao desenho. Uma vez suficientemente caracterizada a importância deste meio de representação gráfica, foi preciso expor o panorama recente do ensino de desenho no país, desde o Ensino Médio, passando pelo Ensino Superior e acompanhando o arquiteto no início do exercício de suas atividades profissionais. Foram aplicados questionários de campo quantitativos e investigativos da real situação do ensino de desenho junto a faculdades de Arquitetura na cidade de São Paulo. Em seguida, o estudo comparativo e qualitativo de uma trajetória acadêmica vivida pelo próprio autor, enquanto aluno de ensino médio técnico profissionalizante e depois como aluno de curso de arquitetura e urbanismo, frente ao material gráfico produzido por seus alunos nos dias de hoje, estudantes de curso de Arquitetura de período noturno. Por fim, uma análise sobre técnicas de representação gráfica utilizadas pelo estudante de Arquitetura recémformado, em especial desenhos à mão livre comparados aos desenhos elaborados por meio de programas de computador, visando identificar a melhor forma de coexistência entre essas diversas formas de expressão do projeto arquitetônico. Momento oportuno que traduz um pouco o constante interesse e necessidade do professor em permanecer sintonizado com as competências dos seus alunos e com as exigências do mercado a que se destinam, além de produzir algumas reflexões em busca da otimização do sistema de ensino-aprendizagem no Ensino Superior, ou seja, esclarecimentos sobre o profissional que estamos formando e sobre os destinos que estão sendo traçados para o futuro da profissão de arquiteto. / Concerns observed during more than 12 years of educational life in the disciplines of Drawing and Architectural Project for classes of Architecture schools gave beginning to the present master\'s degree work. For so much, firstly, it was done necessary a rereading concerning the paper of the drawing in the Architecture. Several authors contributed with concepts and experiences to a better understanding of the several values attributed to the drawing. Once sufficiently characterized the importance of this way of graphic representation, it was necessary to expose the recent panorama of the drawing teaching in the country, from the Secondary Education, going by the Higher Education and accompanying the architect in the beginning of the exercise of their professional activities. They were applied field\'s questionnaires quantitative and investigative of the real situation of the drawing teaching close to universities of Architecture in the city of São Paulo. Soon afterwards, the comparative and qualitative study of an academic path lived by the own author, while student of technical and professional Secondary Education and later as student of an Architecture course, front to the graphic material produced by their students in the days today, students of course of Architecture of night period. Finally, an analysis on techniques of graphic representation used by the student of Architecture recently-formed, especially drawings by hand free compared to the drawings elaborated through computer programs, seeking to identify the best coexistence form among those several forms of expression of the architectural project. Opportune moment that translates a little the constant teacher\'s interests and needs in staying tuned in with their students\' competences and with the demands of the market the one that is destined, besides producing some reflections in search of the optimization of the teaching-learning system in the Superior Education, in other words, explanations on the professional that we are forming and on the destinies that are being drawn for the future of architect\'s profession.

L’hypothèse centrale que sous-tend cette thèse est la suivante : le développement de nos sociétés, au sens des systèmes d’acteurs les constituant, face à ses principaux enjeux de long terme, est un processus d’innovation en tant que tel. Ce processus d’innovation est situé au croisement de dynamiques sociales, de conception et de traduction dans un système d’action collective et de fait de pouvoir.La thèse s’efforce de démontrer ces éléments en s’appuyant sur trois projets de terrain revisités à travers différents cadres théoriques spécifiques aux champs suscités. Cette analyse qui s’inscrit dans le cadre d’une démarche de recherche originale intégrant la théorie dans l’action et revisitant cette même théorie au vu des actions, permet à notre sens de faire émerger une nouvelle figure du développement des territoires dans leurs mécanismes contemporains d’innovation sociétale : L’architecte d’innovation.Cette nouvelle figure s’inscrit aux côtés des autres opérateurs de l’innovation et de l’action collective. Après avoir fait apparaitre les conditions de son émergence et les motivations de son intervention, la thèse s’achève par la présentation des différents visages du marginal sécant, concepteur de territoires inconnus. / The central hypothesis underlying this thesis is the following: the development of our societies, in the context of the constituent system of actors and their relationships, is based on an innovation process regarding long-term issues. This innovation process is located at the intersection of social dynamics, design and translation, in a system driven by collective action and power influences.This thesis attempts to demonstrate these elements based on three concrete projects revisited through different theoretical frameworks of the aforementioned specific fields. This analysis is part of a unique research program integrating theory in real life situations and revisiting theoretical concepts through our experience; this reflection leads to the emergence of a new figure/player in territories development through their mechanisms of contemporary social innovation: The architect of innovation.This new figure fits alongside other players driving innovation and collective action. After identifying the conditions of its emergence and motivations of its intervention, the thesis concludes with the presentation of the different faces of this ‘marginal secant’ defined as a designer of unknown territories.

Wars and conflicts inevitably result in the destruction of the built-environmentand of communities. This paper explores the potential social contributions of architectsto sustainable peace building in post-conflict reconstruction.Recent discussions about the social impact of architecture insist on the benefitsof involving affected populations in the design and implementation of construction andreconstruction projects. Nevertheless, the humanitarian community often disregards thebuilt-environment reconstruction sector, despite the opportunities it holds to bridge the‘humanitarian-development-peace nexus'. Due to a mutual misunderstanding betweenprofessions, the value of involving architects in humanitarian programmes isoverlooked. In light of Jean-Paul Lederach´s theory of conflict transformation, I suggestthat architecture processes can contribute to sustainable peace via the improvement ofrelationships between middle-range and grassroots leaders as well as within members ofthe grassroots level of affected population. This can take place when the(re)construction planning, design and implementation processes properly take thecultural context into consideration and involve the users.Through the analysis of three diverse examples of post-conflict constructions inRwanda, Colombia and Iraq, involving architects, I will show that they respectfullyinsert their projects in the local context. They involve the local communities in thereconstruction process, collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and consider not onlytechnical but also social and psychosociological aspects of housing. Thereby they cancontribute to the relevancy and sustainability of post-conflict reconstruction projects andsupport holistic approaches to peace building.Finally, I will argue for a greater involvement of architects in the humanitarianfield and call for more comprehensive research on their social contributions, the field ofpeace building and post-war reconstruction.