A presente dissertação tem como objeto o conteúdo utópico de dois projetos produzidos entre 1958 e 1974: New Babylon (Constant Nieuwenhuys e Internacional Situacionista, 1956-74) e Gli Atti Fondamentali (Superstudio, 1972-73). A investigação considera o debate político e cultural da época para organizar um quadro de comparativo. Aproximados e colocados à luz da discussão contemporânea sobre utopia, esses projetos revelam-se como iniciativas especulativas e críticas, estruturadas a partir da proposição de modelos espaciais e sociais. Tratam-se de ideais urbanos que respondem a transformações fundamentais no paradigma da urbanização no pós-guerra europeu. Ambos compartilham almejam um modelo urbano no qual infraestruturas automatizadas proveem recursos abundantes à uma sociedade liberada do trabalho e da propriedade privada. / The object of the present dissertation is the utopian content of two projects developed from 1958 to 1974: New Babylon (Constant Nieuwenhuys and Situationist Internacional, 1956-74) and Gli Atti Fondamentali (Superstudio, 1972-73). This research considers the cultural and political debate contemporary to that time as a parameter for organizing a comparative scheme. To the light of a contemporary discussion of utopia, these projects reveal themselves as critical and speculative enterprises based on proposing spatial and social models for the future. They consist of urban ideals that relate with fundamental changes of the urbanization paradigm during the post-war years. Both yearn for an urban model in which automate infrastructures homogeneously provide abundant resources to a society that is free from both labor and private property.

What is a periphery? We can think about this word in more than one way. First off, peripheries are places that exist as spatial conditions in cities, They indicate edges and places that have been left behind. Spaces that have lost their meaning. But in this thesis I will use the word in another way as well. What does the periphery mean for us today? What are those parts of our lives that have been marginalized, and how can we begin to reclaim what has been lost? It is the aim of this thesis to address these issues of the individual in a site that exists on the edge of Manhattan--a place physically separated from the city by means of a highway, and in so doing, redeem both a physical space as well as a place within ourselves. One way in which we as a society create this edge condition within ourselves centers around how we structure our time. How do we work? When do we work? And, conversely, when do we rest? An important part of our twenty-first century lives centers around our ability to be in constant communication. Recent advancements in communication technology are fast shaping the way in which we live, and, as a result, we have constructed a world in which productivity and communication are no longer limited by our physical place. For its many benefits, one problem created by this is that of a population simultaneously connected to the world, yet easily disconnected from their physical place. When do we turn off? And, more importantly, what are we missing by being so endlessly connected? In response to this situation, I feel that we as a society need moments of repose to restore balance in our lives. It is during these breaks in our day that we are better able to synthesize information, form memory and maintain balance between engagement and rest. By connecting our minds with our bodies, moments of repose serve as physical and mental experiences that ground us in place.

Marguerite “Peggy” Guggenheim is best known for her legacy of collecting modern art in both Europe and the United States, but scholars have overlooked her importance as a patron of modern architecture, specifically the exhibition spaces that showcased her art collection. This thesis fills the gap of literature by tracing the architectural history of the collection. Guggenheim represented a catalyst for bridging the role of art and architecture by promoting modern art through three different spatial approaches: creating collaborative and didactic gallery workspaces at Galerie Guggenheim Jeune in London (1938-1939), establishing architectural spaces that employed unique display techniques at Art of This Century in New York (1942-1948), and instituting a final home-museum at Palazzo Venier dei Leoni in Venice (1949-present). Through the use of primary sources, such as Guggenheim’s autobiography, archival sources including familial correspondences, original black and white photographs, newspaper articles, and architectural drawings, I resituate Guggenheim as not only an art patron and collector, but also a benefactor of modern architectural spaces. / text

A História da Arquitetura e a Preservação de Bens Culturais entendidas como campos disciplinares autônomos, providos de referenciais teórico-metodológicos próprios, suscitaram a investigação sobre os seus possíveis entrelaçamentos, a partir de uma perspectiva que incorpora o instrumental e as noções operativas no campo da preservação. As múltiplas temporalidades da obra arquitetônica, identificadas pelo estudo de suas transformações ao longo do tempo, a indagação ao objeto em sua consistência física à luz da cultura material e a utilização de suportes documentais diversos, resultam em um material historiográfico de interesse, possibilitando um novo olhar sobre a produção arquitetônica. Através desses pressupostos, analisamos obras de Gregori Warchavchik tombadas ou preteridas em processos de tombamento, propondo uma reconstituição de suas trajetórias e utilizando-as como estratégia para pensar em que medida as interpretações oriundas da historiografia da arquitetura moderna vêm orientando as práticas de salvaguarda e conservação do patrimônio moderno, ou, falando de outro modo, como fundamentam critérios de seleção e de intervenção sobre o moderno. / The Architectural History and the Preservation of cultural heritage understood as autonomous fields, provided by its own theories and methodologies, raised the investigation study about its possible entanglements, from a perspective that incorporates the instrumental and the operational preservation concepts. The multiple temporalities of the architectural work, identified by the study of its changes over time, the investigation of the object under the light of the material culture and the use of several document sets, result as a historiographical subject of interest, allowing a new point of view over the architectural production. These are the starting points of a Gregori Warchavchik\'s architecture analysis. The research selected listed and excluded works from listing, doing a reconstitution of their trajectories and use them as a strategy to think about how the historiographical interpretations have been guiding the conservation and protective practices, or, the intervention\'s criteria on the modern.

Historically, a disconnect has existed between the education and practice of architecture. Architectural education has long prided itself on the value of creative problem-solving, research, and the fine arts. In contrast, the practice of architecture has evolved to emphasize technical knowledge, specialization, communication, business, and collaboration. This disconnect has led education to miss opportunities to teach students business skills and knowledge required for the workplace, and allowed practice to lose sight of the importance of artistry and research. Architecture educators, students, and practitioners each have a unique set of knowledge and skills to offer the other, and a corresponding set of need and challenges which must be addressed for the profession’s continued success. By analyzing history, current debates in the field, and case studies of current innovative practices and educational models, this thesis addresses these issues with a new model of architectural synergy, embodied through a facility for lifelong learning in architecture. The primary goal of this building is to inspire integrative and collaborative processes between students, researchers, educators, and practitioners to address the current disconnect between them. Through this facility, each group will have the opportunity to leverage their unique strengths and successes to help the others. This collaborative model will allow each role mutually beneficial opportunities for lifelong learning through the exchange of knowledge, ideas, and processes between different groups.

We live in an age defined by the automobile and its infrastructure. This paradigm of movement has shaped how we live our lives, and the urban frameworks we inhabit. Cars as a form of transportation damage the environment and engender unsustainable lifestyles. They also create anti-social spaces with the infrastructure they require, and therefore their success is inverse to that of the pedestrian experience. I seek to adapt this transit paradigm with a more flexible and resilient multimodal system. My work focuses on reinvigorating a rail line in central Massachusetts and designing a modular station system that can serve as a new kind of civic architecture. The station grows and shrinks between towns of different sizes, and over time. It slots into existing communities with little disruption, and is programmatically fluid and diverse, such that an array of stakeholders become invested in its success. It also presents as a new type of civic architecture; a building that represents a larger system, while also maintaining its place in local communities.

Created 3/28/2006 by Johnson City GIS, this map provides a tour of historic places in Johnson City, Tennessee. Historic sites are listed on the right edge and are denoted by numbers which correspond to places on the map.Road names are listed on the map itself. Physical copy resides with Johnson City, Geographic Information Systems Division. Scale - 1" = 0.257260 miles / https://dc.etsu.edu/rare-maps/1054/thumbnail.jpg

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Sustainable development practices and historic preservation efforts are imbued with contradictions, overlappings and shortcomings. Adaptive reuse is a tool for the sustainable preservation of existing building stock that bridges these approaches and more appropriately addresses the values of time, energy, place and community with respect to the built environment. Destruction of both material and abstract qualities can be circumvented by actively engaging a site, landscape or context through revealing and crossbreeding complex patterns, traces and perspectives. The value of a datascape is optimized when such a re-contextualization consists of both additive and subtractive manipulations and is flexible, continuous and regenerative. To avoid demolition and severing connections to the past and to extend the potential success of the development of the former Belchertown State School for the Feeble Minded in Belchertown, Massachusetts, I investigated ways by which the existing Auditorium Building and its relationship to the site could be re-contextualized. Since 1992, this defunct state-operated facility has been closed, transferred to the town and considered for economic development. Within the one hundred fifty-five-acre parcel that remains to be developed there are approximately sixty acres of forested areas and wetlands, a freshwater pond, and numerous abandoned school buildings in poor condition. The Auditorium Building, centrally located within the buildable area of the state school parcel, acted as a gateway into the campus and historically served as a gathering, performing and learning space for both school and Belchertown residents. In conjunction with precedent and programmatic research, I mapped patterns of State School site data which included not only existing, visible data but that which is historical, potential and invisible. The interpretation of these vectors, connections and boundaries served as a framework for re-contextualization and aimed to identify contextual attributes that require preservation, accretion or removal. The grafting of this data to the Auditorium Building and its surroundings exposed and affected various patterns of behavior that ultimately impacted its form, program and relationship to the landscape.

The Clifford A. Phaneuf Environmental Center is home to ECOS, The Environmental Center for Our Schools, in Springfield Massachusetts. The ECOS program provides a chance for elementary and middle school students in Springfield public schools to experience and learn about the natural world. The built environment provides opportunities to teach about ecosystems and human connections to nature. A new design for the Clifford A. Phaneuf Environmental Center will teach students about the natural world experientially through the building’s own connections to the environment.