Thesis (M Arch)--Montana State University--Bozeman, 2009. / Typescript. Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Maire O'Neill. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 74-76).

Thesis (M. Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes special study report entitled: Art/space @ media age. Includes bibliographical references.

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Thesis (M.L.A.) -- University of Texas at Arlington, 2009.

Thesis (M.Arch.)--University of Detroit Mercy, 2005. / "2 May 2005". Includes bibliographical references (p. 102-105).

Thesis (M.Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes special study report entitled : Art/space @ media age. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.

Man is increasingly assuming conscious control over his physical environment. The impact of rapidly accelerating scientific and technological progress has resulted in the environment being increasingly man-made and man-influenced. The growing urban population has necessitated building at a rate and quantity greater than ever before. Enormous resources, both human and material, are being channelled on an unprecedented scale into the planning, designing and construction of new environments for human use. Whilst this tide of energy and activity continues to surge forward, creating vast urban and suburban. developments, very little energy and resources have, by comparison, been directed towards critically assessing the impact that these built environments have on people, and the extent to which they are responsive to human needs and aspirations. It has become critical for the architect to be made fully aware of the human implications of the physical environment he is creating. Concern for the human element has been eclipsed by the current pre-occupation of the design profession with technology and economics which have become the dominant design imperatives.

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1981. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Bibliography: p. 167-172. / It is the opinion of this writer that the success or failure of a "place" or space as defined by architectural or urban design terms is linked not only to its physical boundaries and the reality of its elements and their material composition, but also to the divergent meanings and the associations that they invoke within the observer. It is further my opinion that in the past, in a time when the "individual" was more directly involved, better able and more willing to take part in affecting the shaping of our environment, through the craft of building, the quality of "meaning" of which I speak was achieved as a natural by-product of this process. Because of this integration the meaning and quality of a place was better perceived "commonly" or generally by the larger public audience. The users felt more directly connected to the environment in which they lived. As the "individual" was removed from the process of creation and construction his absence was perceivable in the product of those activities, our built environment. As a result our spaces and places for living, our architecture, became more and more removed from the collective experience, more barren, less related to, or grounded in, the human experience and the human functions they were to support. The results were that the places we live in, work in, play in, were perceived as, and thereby often became, alienating and cold. The fact is, that while in many cases our newly constructed physical boundaries or objects, their functions, and their activities were still as the old, the places did not work nor do they work today. They work neither at all, or, as well as one might expect if evaluating only their physical elements. It is the intention of this thesis to attempt to analyze and describe the process, the ways in which meaning can be designed into or added to the environment and its architecture through acquiring an understanding of the process by which it occurs, or has occurred, naturally. I wish to study how this process can be integrated into our current practices of design and construction, and determine when, where, and how our current practices should be changed to accommodate what I see as an imperative to re-introduce "meaning" into our built environment. / by Ronald Thomas Reed. / M.S.

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Thesis (doctoral)--Technische Universiteit Delft, 2003. / Text in English; summary in Dutch. Includes abstract and vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-267).