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"No individual building in particular can be the answer to all problems, but all the buildings together, the city,the urban and rural environment will serve and contain the flexible,the changing, the temperamental and growing needs of humanity as a whole." Emerson IThe intention of this creative project is to explore the idea of "The Way" as a means to explore different aspects of our environment and how to experience those in their overall context. I understand "The Way" as a circulation space as well as a spatial sequence of events and experiences, a spiritual quest, a methodical approach, and a physical activity. In short, "The Way" is a multilayered experience space which affects your whole personality. My thesis is an approach to understand architecture as a greater whole which includes and connects all layers, all aspects of life and being.The project attempts to put into architectural perspective an understanding, meaning and context of architecture as a part of a broader realm of ideas and interpretations, influencing and being influenced by the people that use and create the built environment, dependent of and important for every aspect of our society. Always in a constant flux.nThe metaphor of a melody is explored as an abstract, theoretical background as well as a programmatic base of my design. It is composed of different layers and the image of the labyrinth of life. From an architectural and sociological outlook, this means being able to understand the relations of that melody and to respect it's necessity, - to rediscoverthe lost diversity of use, meaning and form.This paper is presented in three parts:First, the introduction and description of the motivation, second the description of all the different layers/sequences, emotional and theoretical ones, which are included in the research; the last part describes the rearrangement of those single sequences together as a whole and their transformation into the architectural design exploration, the final conclusion, my impressions on the process and the conclusion. / Department of Architecture

Thesis (doctoral)--Düsseldorf, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 416-478).

Thesis (M.A.)--Wheaton College Graduate School, 2002. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 130-134).

Thesis (M.A.)--Wheaton College Graduate School, 2002. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 130-134).

Thesis (M.A.)--Wheaton College Graduate School, Wheaton, IL, 2002. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 130-134).

Thesis (M.A.)--Wheaton College Graduate School, Wheaton, IL, 2002. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 130-134).

Estudo sobre a arquitetura dos principais mosteiros beneditinos construídos no Brasil na segunda metade do século XX, quando simultaneamente à evolução dos costumes e às novas interpretações das regras religiosas monásticas, os trabalhos construtivos empreendidos dentro dos claustros adquirem um novo significado. Desse processo de renovação resultou uma produção heterogênea, que introduz modificações no programa arquitetônico tradicional dos mosteiros e que requer para sua compreensão um estudo especifico e aprofundado, face à escassez de informações sistematizadas disponíveis. Por meio da análise de seis obras contemporâneas e exemplares dessa produção, duas delas de autoria do arquiteto Hans Broos, o trabalho pretende identificar as contribuições arquitetônicas presentes nesses projetos para mosteiros beneditinos e analisar sua adequação aos propósitos de uma vida comunitária consagrada, vinculada com a liturgia e com a arte, elucidando assim os requisitos básicos para o reconhecimento e crítica dessa modalidade de produção. Desse modo, o estudo pretende contribuir para a análise do processo de renovação da arquitetura religiosa brasileira, um tema pouco explorado no panorama da historiografia da arquitetura nacional. / Study about architecture of main Benedictine monasteries built in Brazil during second half of XXth. Century, when the concurrency of evolutive habits and new commentaries of religious monastic rules, lead to new meanings of the monastic building. From this renovation process an heterogeneous production was resulted, introducing changes in the traditional architectonic program of the monasteries, and to know them requires an specific and deeper analysis, because they have a few systematic data available. By the analysis of six contemporary and emblematic works from that production, a couple by Hans Broos, this study aims identify the architectonical contributions in the projects for Benedictine monasteries and to investigate their adequacy to the devises of a consecrated communitarian life, linked with liturgy and fine arts, clarifying basic requirements to a knowing and critics of this kind of production. Most of all, the study aims to contribute to an analysis of the process of renovation of Brazilian religious architecture, a very few researched theme in the panorama of national architectonic history.

Univ., Diss.--Cambridge. / Literaturverz. S. [224] - 258.

Estudo sobre a arquitetura dos principais mosteiros beneditinos construídos no Brasil na segunda metade do século XX, quando simultaneamente à evolução dos costumes e às novas interpretações das regras religiosas monásticas, os trabalhos construtivos empreendidos dentro dos claustros adquirem um novo significado. Desse processo de renovação resultou uma produção heterogênea, que introduz modificações no programa arquitetônico tradicional dos mosteiros e que requer para sua compreensão um estudo especifico e aprofundado, face à escassez de informações sistematizadas disponíveis. Por meio da análise de seis obras contemporâneas e exemplares dessa produção, duas delas de autoria do arquiteto Hans Broos, o trabalho pretende identificar as contribuições arquitetônicas presentes nesses projetos para mosteiros beneditinos e analisar sua adequação aos propósitos de uma vida comunitária consagrada, vinculada com a liturgia e com a arte, elucidando assim os requisitos básicos para o reconhecimento e crítica dessa modalidade de produção. Desse modo, o estudo pretende contribuir para a análise do processo de renovação da arquitetura religiosa brasileira, um tema pouco explorado no panorama da historiografia da arquitetura nacional. / Study about architecture of main Benedictine monasteries built in Brazil during second half of XXth. Century, when the concurrency of evolutive habits and new commentaries of religious monastic rules, lead to new meanings of the monastic building. From this renovation process an heterogeneous production was resulted, introducing changes in the traditional architectonic program of the monasteries, and to know them requires an specific and deeper analysis, because they have a few systematic data available. By the analysis of six contemporary and emblematic works from that production, a couple by Hans Broos, this study aims identify the architectonical contributions in the projects for Benedictine monasteries and to investigate their adequacy to the devises of a consecrated communitarian life, linked with liturgy and fine arts, clarifying basic requirements to a knowing and critics of this kind of production. Most of all, the study aims to contribute to an analysis of the process of renovation of Brazilian religious architecture, a very few researched theme in the panorama of national architectonic history.