Architecture is an expression of existence; it is the realization of a sense of place, a manifestation of a way-of-being in the world through built elements. "I want to see things. I want to see, therefore I draw. I can see an image only if I draw it." - Carlo Scarpa Carlo Scarpa expressed that he wanted to see, therefore he would draw, and draw incessantly. In that spirit, this thesis has been a search for what is authentic in my own work, based in a discovery through making. The way of making indicates a way of seeing a world; the drawings and the way of drawing directly impact my thoughts. The drawings tend to be fragmentary, indicative of an architecture of parts. The focus is on "the way to be" of the individual, and the way that individual is to the whole. These relationships inform a sense of order and direct the parts towards a greater whole. Those issues are explored in the making of a small house; it is one step toward a greater understanding. / Master of Architecture

This house is not in Ticino. It is somewhere between earth and sky, in the country, or in the city, passing the suburbs altogether at a speed of 45 mph. This house does not have a television set, hence the dweller never sees the architect portrayed in deodorant commercials, soap operas, nor shoe advertisements. / Master of Architecture

The house is a place to be quiet and alone; to be still and to rest. The task of the architect is to make the house that provides the possibility of this solitude. / Master of Architecture

As members of a collective whole, each of us, as a necessary event, must interact with others for our livelihood as well as the prosperity of society as a whole. However, just as we are part of a collective whole, we are also solitary individuals. As such, we need places which do not express community values, but rather, affirm our own identity and offer security and separation from the public realm. This thesis explores the historical precedents and generative principles for achieving refuge by varying the architectural character of spaces along a processional path to generate a subtle progression from the public to private domains. Following this, a design for a residence is presented which explores the potentials of the principles discovered. / Master of Architecture

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

In recent years corporations, are becoming increasingly concerned with their image. This is called branding and can involve a variety of activities that shape attitudes and opinions about the company. The appearance of a company's physical environment and facilities is one factor that potentially influences the company's image. However, there is very little empirical research that explains this relationship between the built environment and its significance to a corporation's image. The objective of this study is to examine and explain the role of landscape as it contributes to corporate image. In doing so, the study investigates three corporations, analyses their landscapes and provides an understanding of the image building process by interviewing the management, employees and landscape architects of these respective corporations. It is observed that landscape can play a major role in shaping corporate image. Consequently, the results of this study suggest that corporations must consider landscape an integral part of the image building process; and landscape architects must consciously consider corporate image while designing landscapes for corporate clients. The study concludes by providing possible design prompts for image conscious corporate clients. / Master of Landscape 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

Com o estabelecimento do Conselho de Arquitetura e Urbanismo do Brasil (CAU/BR), no final de 2011, a categoria profissional dos Arquitetos e Urbanistas conquistou a formação de seu órgão regulador, voltado somente a esse profissional. Diante de tal fato, a necessidade de formulação e implantação de um novo Código de Ética e Disciplina para a profissão, junto com seus procedimentos disciplinares tornou-se evidente. Com isso, a tese buscou, primeiramente, acompanhar e registrar o processo de elaboração do Código, ressaltando a metodologia utilizada e destacando as principais discussões que envolveram a consolidação do texto final do primeiro Código de Ética e Disciplina voltado somente aos profissionais de arquitetura e urbanismo no Brasil. Tal investigação não só possibilitou o levantamento das principais discussões voltadas à estrutura do texto do Código, como também, as discussões que envolveram os conflitos predominantes que ocorriam na prática profissional do arquiteto e urbanista naquele momento. Em seguida a tese se concentrou na demonstração do levantamento e classificação das decisões publicadas pelos CAU/UF da Região Sudeste referente às sanções aplicadas às infrações ocorridas às regras do Código a partir de sua implementação no início de 2014 até o final de 2017, procurando destacar quais infrações se apresentarem recorrentes. Ainda, com a intenção de fornecer uma descrição do processo histórico do desenvolvimento da profissão do arquiteto e urbanista no Brasil, enfocado na evolução de seu comportamento profissional baseado nos códigos de conduta estabelecidos pelos órgãos reguladores, seguiu-se a elaboração de um estudo comparativo dos resultados alcançados no decorrer das investigações colocadas acima, com os resultados obtidos em pesquisa anterior, no período em que a classe profissional se encontrava sob vigência do então Código de Ética do Sistema CONFEA/CREA. / With the establishment of the Architecture and Urban Design Council of Brazil (CAU/BR), by the end of 2011, the professional category of architects and urban designers attained the formation of its regulatory entity, exclusively dedicated to its professionals. Therefore, the need to formulate and implement a new Code of Ethics and Discipline for the profession, along with its disciplinary procedures became evident. With that in mind, the thesis aimed, in the first place, to follow and record the elaboration process of the Code, explaining its methodology and highlighting the main discussions that took place to achieve the consolidation of its final draft, with the first Code of Ethics dedicated solely to the field of Architecture and Urban Design in Brazil. The research made possible the survey of the main topics regarding the Code contents structure, and also, discussions that encompassed the predominant conflicts that occurred within the professional practice of Architecture and Urban Design at that time. Subsequently, the thesis focuses on the demonstration of the survey and classification of the decisions published by CAU/UF1, from the southeast region, concerning the applied sanctions regarding infractions committed against the Code after its implementation in the beginning of 2014, until the end of 2017, seeking to highlight the more recurrent ones. With the intention to provide a description of the historical process of the development of the profession of Architect and Urban Designer in Brazil, focused on the evolution of its professional behavior, based on the Conduct Codes established by the regulatory entities, the next step was the elaboration of a comparative study of the obtained results during the investigations mentioned above, containing the data of a previous research, conducted in a period in which the professional category was still under the regulation of the past Code of Ethics, under the CONFEA/CREA System.