Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Texas, 1992. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 177-187).

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Yiu Chi Yue, Karen. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2010-2011, design report." / Includes bibliographical references (p. [28]). / Research / Chapter 0.0 --- Background / Chapter 0.1 --- Preface --- p.p. 3 / Chapter 0.2 --- Problems of the concealed architecture --- p.4 / Chapter 0.3 --- Breaking the boundary --- p.5 / Chapter 1.0 --- Vernacular Architecture in the Subtropics / Chapter 1.1 --- Climate of Hong Kong --- p.7 / Chapter 1.2 --- "Chinese Ganlan Archintecture, traditional Thai and Malaysian Housings" / Chapter 2.0 --- Spatially connecting to the outside (environment) / Chapter 2.1 --- Growth --- p.10 / Chapter 2.2 --- Traditional Japanese Housing --- p.11 / Chapter 2.3 --- 'Organic Architecture' of Frank Lloyd Wright --- p.12 / Chapter 3.0 --- Program of Design / Chapter 3.1 --- Hong Kong Public Libraries --- p.15 / Chapter 3.2 --- History of Libraries' Development --- p.17 / Chapter 4.0 --- Case Studies / Chapter 4.0 --- Libraries in the 21st Centuries --- p.20 / Chapter 4.0a --- One-room Space --- p.21 / Chapter 4.0b --- Openness in Structure --- p.22 / Chapter 4.0c --- Responding to the Climate- Ventilation --- p.23 / Chapter 4.0d --- Reponding to the Climate- Light and Shade --- p.24 / Chapter 4.1e --- Program- Indoors and Outdoors --- p.25 / Design / Chapter 5.0 --- Site / Chapter 5.1 --- Site Selection --- p.p. 32 / Chapter 5.2 --- Site Analysis --- p.36 / Chapter 6.0 / Chapter 6.1 --- Concept --- p.37 / Chapter 6.2 --- Program --- p.39 / Design Development --- p.41 / Chapter 6.3 --- Orientation and Insolation --- p.43 / Chapter 6.4 --- Roof Design --- p.45 / Chapter 6.5 --- Roof Profile VS Lighting --- p.47 / Chapter 6.6 --- Structure and Details --- p.49 / Design Development --- p.51 / Chapter 6.7 --- Program and Zoning --- p.53 / Plans --- p.55 / Sections --- p.59 / Chapter 6.8 --- Envelopne: Openness and Shade --- p.63 / Views --- p.65 / Afterwords --- p.71

Thesis (M.L.S.)--University of Michigan, 19**. / "Presented as a term paper in course [Library Science] 321."

This thesis is principally concerned with providing an inventory and analysis of public libraries in the state Carnegie. Among those states receiving Carnegie grants for library buildings, Indiana ranks first, both in funds and -the number of buildings constructed. Beginning in 1901 when newly enacted state tax laws permitted greater autonomy for municipal library boards and ending in 1917 with the entry of the United States into World War 1, the public movement in Indiana rapidly advanced. This can be seen as the direct result of Carnegie's philanthropic efforts. It is the intent of this paper to outline those activities and show the extent of his library program in Indiana.In addition, this thesis will provide an overview of architectural aspects of the libraries as shown in the buildings themselves. It will discuss the architecture of the libraries and the stylistic differences among them.. Finally a catalog is to be included, illustrating each of the buildings constructed through Carnegie's benefactions. / Department of Architecture

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1949. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-91). Also available in print.

Siu Wun Nam Jo. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2008-2009, design report." / Includes bibliographical references.

The hybrid nature of the building's program became the central idea behind the design of the project. The combination of office, retail and library funcions was an attempt to investigate the possibility of integrating a public amenity space directly within a private building. The implication of such a collision of uses was not only the potential for public cost savings and the promotion of public construction, but as well a possibility of the creation of a symbiotic relationship between these two forces. The private spaces of the building could make use of some of the public, while the public spaces could make use of some of the private. The project took on a diagramatic and absract nature early on, detatched architecturally somewhat from surrounding site conditions in order to investigate the possibilities of connecting and overlapping the building's public and private uses. An early series of diagrams and sectional sketches began to shape the building in its beginning. The three major elements of the program (office, library and retail) were initially separated vertically in space. The retail occupied the ground floor, the library the second, and the offices the final and third. However, the idea of interrelation of the spaces required a greater extent of overlapping and mixture. Thus, the strategy of a split-level shceme started to emerge. The three separations remained somewhat intact, however separated by intermittent split levels. These split levels contained spaces which could relate to either the floor directly above or below. The idea was that these 'shared' spaces could contain elements of the program which could be used by both library and retail, or by both office and library. The net result was a 'saving' of space, as well as a mixing of public and private functions. Yet, with the mixing of public and private uses came the architectural issue of building security. How could a public book enter and leave a retail store? How could a private office be contained from public access? Would the separate retail units truly relate with the library space? Were there more possibilies for more double uses? The library took on the role of both public amenity and private retail enterprise at this point in the project. The move seemed to satisfy both issues of security and interrelationship between public and private functions. The security system of the library would double as the cash desk; the library stacks would contain both borrowable books and commercial retail goods for consumption; the seating for the library would also provide for the in-house cafe-bar; library staff would also function as staff for the shared smaller offices on the second floor. In this sense, the combination of private and public functions not only reduced the need for excess (publically funded) space, but aslo presented the idea of a saving of maintenance and operational costs. The location of the building in Whistler village was done for two main reasons: the town, at present, is currently without a permanent library for a rapidly growing full-time population; and the town, as a resort municipality, relies heavily on its commercial activity in order to energize its main, public pedestrian outdoor mall. The specific site of the building was a point in the village which related both directly to this pedestrian mall as well as an adjacent shopping centre, intended for the vehicular traffic and use of the more full-time residents of Whistler Village. Here the full time residents coming in to use the library could perhaps discover its second commercial nature, while tourists may make use of the public use of the building while going in soley to shop. The building would then be a place where both full-time residents and incidental tourists could both come, interacting within the same building for an array of different reasons. Architecturally, the building was a modest success: the issue of security had been adressed and overlapping of private and public functions was explored in the building. However, the notion that a library would become a highly commercial retailer still seemed improbable; even in an age of decreasing government spending and reliance upon the private sector for public services, the difficulty in motivating a traditionally public sector into an entrepreneurially self-sustaining enterprise prevented the likelihood of its construction.

The changing nature of society has caused existing methods of knowledge dissemination to become ineffective, and even the types of information and knowledge required by people has changed. Therefore, through the study of the needs of today's society in regard to knowledge and information, and the study of existing systems of its transmission, an appropriate method for dissemination in today's environment will emerge and inform the manifestation of this in the built form. This study aims to discover how architecture needs to respond to society's requirements, in an age dependant on information. Therefore, the research explores the definitions of information and the systems presently employed for collection, storage and dissemination. It is an important element of society that affects individuals and the state. Information's relationship to the built environment and the importance of appropriate architectural expressionis established in response to the study and is applied to the local context of KwaZulu-Natal. / Thesis (M.Arch.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2006.

Thesis (MA)--Montana State University--Bozeman, 2009. / Typescript. Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Amy Thomas. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 85-89).