Fukuda Chiyo-ni and Kiyohara Yukinobu were 17th-18th century (Edo period) Japanese women artists well known during their lifetime but are relatively unknown today. This thesis establishes their contributions and recognition during their lifespans. Further, it examines the precedence for professional women artists’ recognition within Japanese art history. Then, it proceeds to explain the complexities of Meiji-era changes to art history and aesthetics heavily influenced by European and American (Western) traditions. Using aesthetic and art historical analysis of artworks, this thesis establishes a pattern of art canon formation that favored specific styles of art/artists while excluding others in ways sometimes inauthentic to Japanese values. Japan has certainly had periods of female suppression and this research illustrates how European models and traditions of art further shaped the perception of Japanese women artists and the dearth of female representation in galleries and art historical accounts.

The diploma project deals with postindustrial area on the east of the city centre of Brno. Due to regulatives there is supposed to be new main road. This solution is not ideal. The aim of this project is to search how the lokality should look like without it. The other topic is new usage of postindustrial structures for living in the city. I am looking for options how to create public space where walking is emphasized. I am also interested in topic of gallery house as a structure with wide range of semipublic and semiprivate spaces. Using this topics I am trying to present my own opinion on contemporary city.

The goal of our projectis to „restart“ the Jaroslavice village. It was a well established settlement before the war, but has been on a downfall ever since. The problem began by eviction of german population after the war, followed by close distance to highly guarded border. This project is aiming on the possibility of living in the „ near border area and resumption of forgotten countryside. It proposes to connect old with new. The core of the project is renovation of majer near the castle. It is located on the edge of Jaroslavice and is connected to newly established part of the village. The site of the majer is becomming a connection point of history and present. Therefore, the object provides areas needed by students of newly designed high school. It includes accomodation, cafeteria and residental yard. It blends with additional areas of art centre nearby and is connected to the centre of village. Among the functions ths project provides, there is also a variable hall desired by village management.

The aim of thediploma thesis is to design an architectural study of a new synagogue in Opava for the Jewish community. Content of the work is also a community center and administration. In the deign is a set of three buildings serving the Jewish community. The design is solved as an interconnected space between the public and the Jewish community. With its openness and permeability, it offers the opportunity to look into the Jewish community. The main object, the synagogue, for believers is directly linked to the construction of the Jewish community, where at the same level we can find mikve for ritual purrification. The second object, the Jewish community, offers two business units in the first floor. The important part of the Jewish community is education, and therefore the design of the Jewish community also contains a library and a clasroom connected to this library. The administration itself is located on the private last floor with a terrace. A third building, a community center, has been created to make the public familiar with the Jewish community, its religion and culture. The first floor is used by the kosher restaurant, which can use the central space between the park landscaping for sitting. The Community Center provides a lecture hall on the second floor and a spacious gallery for Jewish artists on the third floor.

The diploma thesis deals with the issue of "Jihlava historical houses" (hereinafter JHD), which primary use today is for a permanent housing with unsatisfactory characteristics. Most apartments consist of a studio apartment with minimal or shared sanitary facilities. This condition arose due to the layout changes during the 18th and 19th centuries, when a large part of the spacious Renaissance and Baroque palace houses were transformed into intensively used apartment buildings. Given the situation persists to this day, it is necessary to think about changing the nature of such houses as part of the city's development. The diploma thesis addresses the location of the southeastern tip of Jihlava's Masaryk Square, which has the ambition to soon transform into a cultural HUB of the city and includes seven JHD. As more than half of these houses were already discussed at the faculty, the university have already prepared a plan of changes in the houses` nature. It is nonetheless necessary for a comprehensive overview of changes in the locality to prepare a study of the last two JHD, which are adjacent to one another. The objective of the paper is to address the functional characteristics of these houses regarding their placement within the city. Consideration is given to the studies and planned changes within the area - the reconstruction of Masaryk Square and the ongoing reconstruction of the house Masaryk Square 21, which bound to become the center of culture, education and tourism. The houses No. 22 and 23, which this paper addresses, are now enclosed by the future cultural and social house and the existing Vysočina Regional Gallery - this location thus significantly affects their use in the future. House No. 23, which is characterized by its large inner hall with a porch, is directly adjacent to the Regional Gallery of Vysočina, which faces the lack of a representative entrance facilities for visitors and insufficient space for a permanent exhibition. In terms of functionality, the house No. 23 is suitable for cultural purposes and so the existing Vysočina Gallery Area merges with it and its main entrance is moved. House No. 22 retains the function of a permanent housing, primarily due to its good layout, but is more up to the standards of Jihlava. The mentioned four houses influence the adjoining accessible courtyard, which is transformed into a new attractive public space. The outcome of the paper is not only an urban and architectural study of two addressed houses and the adjacent courtyard, but also an evaluation of the overall functional change of the site in the future, including other JHD. Primarily, the monofunctional nature is removed from the addressed location, which now finds itself unsuitable for housing, and a new functional characteristic are proposed that support the development of the southern tip of Masaryk Square, but at the same time respect the essence of the housing, which should always be primarily based upon the customized needs. The paper is an overview of the future functional development of this locality and discusses the possibilities of how the city of Jihlava could manage the historical houses within the area and thus significantly affect life in the city.

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(農学) / 甲第20445号 / 農博第2230号 / 新制||農||1050(附属図書館) / 学位論文||H29||N5066(農学部図書室) / 京都大学大学院農学研究科森林科学専攻 / (主査)教授 吉村 剛, 教授 藤井 義久, 教授 松浦 健二 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Agricultural Science / Kyoto University / DFAM

Ett nytt kommunhus för Nynäshamn stad, belägen i Stockholms län sydspets, vilket innehåller aktivitetsbaserade kontor, ett konstgalleri, kafé och en plenisal. Byggnaden ligger mellan två olika men kompletterande stadsrum vilket byggnaden bemöter med två olika "ansikten", allt medan den fortfarande uppfattas som samma byggnad. Denna idé, vilken kan liknas vid idén om Janusansiktet, har varit min huvudsakliga ingång i det här projektet. Utvändigt både återspeglar ansiktena de stadsrum som äger rum framför och är aktiva i formandet av dess karaktärer. Sammanflätningen mellan de båda sidorna sker istället inuti byggnaden där övergången ömsom är flytande och ömsom skarp med visuella snarare än fysiska kopplingar. / A new municipal building for the city of Nynäshamn, located in the most southern part of Greater Stockholm, including acitivity based offices, an art gallery, café and council chamber. The building lies inbetween two different but complementary public spaces which it adresses with two different "faces" while still being read as one and the same building. This idea, reminiscent of the image of the roman god Janus, has been my main focus through this project. Outwards, the faces both reflect and take an active roll in forming the character of these public spaces while the interweaving takes places inside the building where they sometimes are visually, although not physically connected, and sometimes closer to fade into one another.

This thesis aims to critically examine the relationship of digital technology and the modern art gallery in order to find the possible role of art galleries in the future. The integration of technology and the modern art gallery can change the way people experience art in built space. In order to examine this, certain questions needed to be asked. The most important of these questions is authenticity and originality in a digital art gallery. What if, in order for the notion of originality to exist, it needs the notion of the copy; a kind of parasite. What if we don’t consider them as opposites, but rather as variables of a knot. What if there was never an original voice, but only writing. The process of writing itself undermines any notion of a primary original. It creates a space of difference, a gap. The space from one letter to the next, from one word to the next, from the graphite to the paper, and to continue to the digital, the space from 1 to 0. The difference described by Derrida in of Gramatology is the idea of difference through “trace.” Derrida says “The trace is in fact the absolute origin of sense in general. Which amounts to saying once again that there is no absolute origin of sense in general. The trace is the difference which opens appearance and signification.” Through a process of language study a series of spatial conditions were derived from a structured process of analyzing trace. This series of spatial conditions were then used to design the interior and exterior spaces along with arranging the buildings program and circulation through the new University Gallery. These spatial conditions allowed for a development of space that looked beyond simple geometric forms to form genuine experiences derived from a process.

The goal of the diploma project is the architectural design of The Gallery Grand Prix in Brno Racing Circuit. Project considers the actual urbanization of racing circuit. It's goal is to continue in long-term history of this kind of sport in Brno and to make this racing circuit more attractive.

The project deals with the development of a gap site which forms the front line of a street in a city block. The building consists of two parts: in the southern corner a five-storey administrative building with a café and a patio is situated; the second, larger part is a block of flats with a commercial parterre connected with a pedestrain zone. The block of flats is – in accordance with the surrounding built-up area – designed as a house with access galleries, the majority of flats contain two storeys. Parking spaces are provided in the form of two underground storeys accessible from the inner block.