Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of London, 1980. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Basel. / Description based on print version record.

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Pedilanthus palmeri Millsp. was evaluated as a potential interior landscaping plant. The optimal propagation technique, production and post-production light requirements, growth regulator response and photoperiod requirement were analyzed. Cuttings were successfully rooted within five weeks after treatment with aqueous solutions of IBA. Root fresh weight increased from 0.58 g with 0 mg·liter⁻¹ IBA to 1.12 g with 6736 mg·liter⁻¹ IBA. No difference in leaf length, width or thickness, plant height or node number was found between plants grown under 77% and 88% shade. Plants moved to a low light interior environment continued to grow and new, thin leaves replaced abscised leaves. The optimum concentration of the growth retardant Bonzi (paclobutrazol), 0.125 g ai per pot, caused a 46% reduction in shoot height. Apical pinching and 500 mg·liter-1 BA increased branch number 3.8-fold. Pedilanthus palmeri is a short day plant. Flowering occurred in the 8 and 10 hour light treatments but not in the longer photoperiods.

The present study examines the pictorial style of pottery made in Thera and Crete in the LCI/LMIA period. The work is in two volumes. Volume I is divided into three parts. Part I comprises the introductory chapter in which there is a summary of previous research on the subject and the aims of the thesis are set out. Chapter II the context of the pictorial style of pottery is examined. Chapter III contains analysis of the forms of vases with pictorial decoration. Part II includes three chapters dealing with the Analysis of Motifs. The plants are analysed in Chapter IV, the living creatures in Chapter V and the sacred symbols in Chapter VI. Part III comprises the Synthesis. In Chapter VII an attempt is made to identify pottery workshops specializing in different vase forms and decoration. Chapter VIII examines the origin and character of the pictorial style of pottery in the Cyclades and Crete. Finally in the last Chapter IX, conclusions regarding the character, context, forms and motifs, workshops and development of the pictorial style pottery are presented. A possible ritual function of the pottery is discussed. Interrelations and influences between the cultures Of Thera and Crete on various Levels are demonstrated. Volume II contains a Catalogue Of the available pottery, presented in two groups: the first from Thera and the second from Crete. The illustrations — figures and photographic plates — come at the end of Volume II.

Thesis. 1977. M.Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Bibliography : leaves 44-45. / M.Arch.

王静芬. / Thesis (M.A.)--香港中文大學硏究院藝術學部. / Reprint (c. 2-3). / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 376-411). / Wang Jingfen. / Thesis (M.A.)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue yan jiu yuan yi shu xue bu. / 前言 --- p.i / 圖版目錄 --- p.v / Chapter 第一部份： --- 彌勒信仰及《彌勒經變》通論 --- p.1 / Chapter 第一章 --- 彌勒信仰 --- p.2 / Chapter 一 --- 彌勒信仰的內容 / Chapter 二 --- 中國彌勒信仰的特質 / Chapter 第二章 --- 《彌勒變》的源流 --- p.53 / Chapter 第三章 --- 有關《彌勒變》的文獻資料 --- p.99 / Chapter 一 --- 《彌勒變》的成立年代 / Chapter 二 --- 《彌勒變》的文獻記載 / Chapter 第二部份： --- 敦煌的《彌勒經變畫》 --- p.132 / Chapter 第四章 --- 隋代的《彌勒變》 --- p.136 / Chapter 第五章 --- 唐前期的《彌勒變》 --- p.174 / Chapter 第六章 --- 唐後期及曹氏畫院時期的《彌勒變》 --- p.251 / Chapter 第七章 --- 莫高窟壁畫以外的敦煌《彌勒變》資料 --- p.325 / 結論 --- p.367 / 書目 --- p.377 / 附表一；各期《彌勒變》的統計 --- p.413 / 附表二：存《彌勒變》的紀年窟 --- p.414 / 附表三：已發表 《彌勒變》的揭載圖版 --- p.416 / 附表四：存《彌勒變》各窟主要壁畫題材 --- p.419 / 附表五：各種經變統計對照表 --- p.434 / 圖版

Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1981. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 75). / The loss of small scale elements and the lack of opportunity for personal elaboration has been an area of failure in contemporary buildings . These small scale elements are essential in providing human scale, enabling useful inhabitation, and giving a sense of place. This study attempts to define a design approach in which small scale elements and details will be an intrinsic outgrowth of the building process. The fulfillment of utilitarian conditions; use patterns, structure, and construction, form the basis of this approach rather than the application of some "decoration" to the basic form. This approach calls for the intensification of design decisions, based on utility and maintaining the integrity of earlier decisions. Built intensification serves as the optional aesthetic manner in which a utilitarian distinction is made. This theory of intensification is studied through a design of an infill system of interior elements to be used in multi-family housing. This system relies on standardized elements, shop fabricated, which can be custom assembled within each dwelling to meet the particular programmatic needs of the inhabitant. These elements, which would serve as storage, use surfaces and separation, would also be amenable to personal elaboration and rearrangement by the occupant at a later time. One typical dwelling unit, taken from the context of a larger housing project that I designed, serves as the area to be inhabited . There are four phases of the design process of this infill system. Each of the phases is illustrated through drawings and photographs of a model. The four phases of the design process are: 1) the primary structural zone; the catalogue of interior elements and their details; 3) the assemblage of these elements in the primary structure; and 4) the details, connections and further intensification of the assembled pieces. / by Charles Treister. / M.Arch.

Thesis. 1979. M.Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Bibliography: leaves 231-233. / M.Arch.

Decoration holds a contested position in built environment scholarship. Largely marginalised by Modernist claims of material and structural integrity, decoration is often sidelined as the most temporal and superficial of built environment practices. A common misunderstanding is that decoration and interior design merely make built space fashionable. The thesis challenges the misconception of interior design as gratuitous embellishment, and demonstrates how a reconsideration of the term ‘decoration’ makes new insights available for both contemporary practice and scholarship in interior design. I contend that if decoration can be considered a vehicle through which ideas, such as the cultural veneration of appearances and the social motivations of fashion are explored, it can be understood as representative of contemporary cultural concerns.