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Architektūros vietoženklių statyba – vienas ryškiausių visuotinių miestokūros reiškinių, kuris Vakaruose stebimas ir nagrinėjamas jau daugiau nei dešimtmetį. Tačiau į urbanistinėje aplinkoje išsiskiriančius architektūros objektus dar dažnai žvelgiama pro pusės amžiaus teorijų prizmę. Pirmojoje tokio pobūdžio disertacijoje pasiūlytas miesto įvaizdį formuojančių šiuolaikinės architektūros vietoženklių tyrimo modelis, kuris leidžia išsiaiškinti miesto įvaizdį formuojančių šiuolaikinės architektūros vietoženklių reikšmę. Teoriniai aspektai čia yra suderinti su praktiniais. Metodologiniu pagrindu čia tapo R.Barthes išplėtoti teksto analizės principai, akcentuojantys prasminį – giluminį – kūrinio lygmenį. 1990–2010 m. pastatyti Vilniaus, Kauno ir Klaipėdos įvaizdį formuojantys šiuolaikinės architektūros vietoženkliai čia traktuojami kaip vizualus tekstas. Remiantis sukurtuoju tyrimo modeliu buvo išsiaiškintos urbanistinėje aplinkoje vietoženklius išskiriančios fizinės, estetinės ir kitos funkcijos bei išskirtinės dislokacijos ypatybės. Architektų bei eilinių Vilniaus, Kauno ir Klaipėdos miestiečių sociologinė apklausa (buvo apklausti 363 skirtingo amžiaus ir išsilavinimo asmenys) leido sukurti miestų įvaizdžiui svarbių šiuolaikinės architektūros vietoženklių reikšmės atvaizdus, kuriuos sudaro 9 būdingos vertės. Matematinės statistikos priemonėmis atlikta šių verčių dažnio koreliacija su vietoženklius urbanistinėje aplinkoje išskiriančiomis ypatybėmis padėjo surasti patikimus... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / In the global urban development, the construction of new architectural landmarks is one of the most prominent phenomena, which has been widely observed and analyzed in Western Europe for more than a decade. However, in urban areas, distinctive architectural objects are still often viewed through the prism of the half-century theories. The key innovation proposed in the thesis is a construction of the research model that helps to explore the meaning of the contemporary architectural landmarks important for the city image. The theoretical aspects in the dissertation are in line with the practical ones. Methodological basis there were the text analysis principles developed by R. Barthes, emphasizing meaningful level of an object. From 1990 to 2010, built in Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda image forming modern architecture landmarks here treated as a visual text. The research model reveals aesthetic, physical and some other features of contemporary architectural landmarks (exceptional location, distinctive function), distinguishing them in the urban context. In total, 363 respondents of citizens and architects groups were interviewed in the sociological survey and it led to the creation of The images of meaning, which consist of nine key values. In order to process the data of the survey and to find the correlation between the contemporary architectural landmarks’ values frequency and aesthetic, physical, and the distinctive function, the exceptional location characteristics... [to full text]

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The research presented in this thesis is intended to reveal the layers of social and cultural meaning invested in a building conventionally regarded as a work of abstract aesthetic modernism, and one which has been evaluated, within the framework of a national heritage preservation policy, as an architectural landmark of the post-war era of urban reconstruction. By combining the research methods of architectural history (archival) and of anthropology (ethnographic) I have located and interpreted the architecture of the Brunswick within a larger social story that demonstrates how the lived experience of a particular environment exists in parallel with the more objective official discourse that invests a work of architecture or art with cultural significance. The thesis traces the architectural inception and complex evolution of the building, its critical reception, and the proposals for redevelopment that culminated in a major refurbishment and transformation of the shopping precinct in 2006. It goes on to present an ethnographic account of the Brunswick as a social, as much as an architectural space, and an anthropological interpretation of the relationship between identity and place in terms of the specific qualities of the built environment. It shows that the material environment becomes real and vivid to people as an embodiment of the social dimensions of their lives, and that the boundaries between ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ – the private space of the home, and the layered sequence of public spaces extending through the building to the city beyond - are not objectively fixed, but subjectively perceived and negotiated in different ways. Although the Brunswick exerts considerable power as a unique architectural image, its boundaries do not define an integrated social space, nor a unified experience of the place as a living environment. Nevertheless, repeated interaction and sensory experience make it a tangible architectural framework for everyday and domestic life which evidently shapes the view from the inside looking out. The research aims to make a significant contribution to knowledge at a meeting-point between anthropology and architecture, which might help to inform future understanding of the interaction between people and the built habitat in modern urban societies.

The designed building is a proposed Learner's Resource Centre situated in Berea Park. The development will be funded by the European Union and managed by a section 21 company of tertiary institutions and government departments. It creates a community facility that is needed in the Pretoria inner city, addressing lack of study space and urban parks in the CBD. The main building includes a digital library, offices, auditorium, conferencing facilities and a restaurant. This building forms the focus of the investigation, while the rest of the campus development forms part of an Urban Design scheme proposed for the Pretoria inner city. The functions included on the campus are overnight facilities, workshops, classrooms and a multi purpose hall. The thesis is introduced by an investigation into the theory of the meaning in architecture. This includes research in the fields of semiotics and visual culture and the conclusion of that theory into a designed building. / Dissertation (MArch (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2005. / Architecture / unrestricted