The main objective of this thesis is to investigate how works of public architecture, both alone and as components of the general urban layout, were related to the selfperception and identity of the ancient Greek polis community. And further, how the gradual evolution and change of this identity affected the history and associations of the buildings and the overall appearance of the city. The study concentrates on the Classical and Hellenistic periods with emphasis on the process of transition, and the geographical region of Ionia, which in that particular period lay at the centre of the historical developments that would bring important changes to Greek poleis and their communities. Miletus and Priene were selected as case studies because both were founded in the Classical period and continued to develop throughout the Hellenistic, are extensively excavated and published, and offer sufficient material for study. Miletus allows insight into large and influential polis communities, while Priene offers evidence for small ones with more limited means. In the first chapter, fundamental concepts such as 'collective identity,' 'cultural community,' 'cultural memory,' 'monumentality,' etc. and also those of 'city,' 'citystate' and 'polis community' are defined and analyzed, and their relation to each other and to architecture is discussed. In the second and third chapters, the architectural development of Miletus and Priene is examined against its historical background, in the light of the principles and associations observed in the first, theoretical part. In the final chapter, the developments and tendencies observed in Miletus and Priene are placed into context with similar phenomena that occurred in other poleis of the region and the Greek world in general during the process of transition from the Classical to the Hellenistic era. The discussion is based around the main axes of civic life i.e. the economic-political, socio-cultural, religious etc., and around issues of particular concern at the time such as the effects of monarchy and the growing role of the individual.

Thesis (M.Arch.) - Carleton University, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-158). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (M.Arch.) - Carleton University, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-228). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (M.Arch.) - Carleton University, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-101). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (M.Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes special study report entitled : Re-capturing the lost urban space. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.

Thesis (M.Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes special study report entitled : Electronic expression in buildings. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T12:09:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 parte1.pdf: 4319832 bytes, checksum: 79c07a6d9ab1b622daf3939bb90654e1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-09-29 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This dissertation studies the role played by the public architecture produced between 1900 and 1950 at the capital of Paraíba State (Brazil) in the transformation of its townscape occurred between those years. This architecture introduced into the town many public buildings that were much larger and taller than the existing ones and styles that had not been used there yet, such as the academic classicism, the Neocolonial language, the Art Deco and the International Style (the last three, created during the above period). The dissertation examines over forty buildings that contributed to the mentioned transformation; they were both new constructions and the result of works of renovation or extension. Most of these buildings appeared during the 25 years comprised between 1916 and 1940 and many of them were produced by the government as part of its policy to embellish the capital of the State. The transformation of the townscape took place mainly at major squares and along the two main traffic routes of the town, one stretching from the north to the south and the other from the east to the west. / Esta dissertação estuda a contribuição da arquitetura pública produzida entre 1900 e 1950 na capital do estado da Paraíba para a transformação da paisagem desta então ocorrida. Tal arquitetura introduziu na cidade muitos prédios públicos bem maiores e altos que os existentes e linguagens que ali não tinham sido usadas ainda, como o classicismo acadêmico, o estilo neocolonial, o art déco e o modernismo as três últimas, criadas no período estudado. A dissertação examina mais de quarenta edifícios que contribuíram para a transformação mencionada; uns eram novas construções, outros eram o resultado de obras de reforma ou ampliação. A maioria dessas edificações surgiram nos 25 anos compreendidos entre 1916 e 1940 e muitas foram produzidas pelo governo, como parte de sua política visando o embelezamento da capital do estado. A transformação da paisagem teve lugar principalmente em praças importantes e ao longo dos dois principais eixos viários da cidade, um se estendendo do norte para o sul e o outro do leste para o oeste.

This paper addresses the active and changing role of circular kancha, public buildings organized around an open central court, common to the northern highlands of Perú. It discusses the distribution and chronology of this type of monument based on regional and local scale investigations in the central Los Conchucos region as well as the Callejón de Huaylas Valley. The focus on their landscape setting and the structure of the internal space, linked to the analysis of pottery samples recovered from excavations at Gotushjirka (San Nicolás district, Carlos Fermín Fitzcarrald province, Ancash Region), revealed that these are spaces built to create a dramatic sense of liminality, closely tied to mortuary practices. The remodelling of circular kancha following an orthogonal plan, detected at two sites in the Cordillera Blanca —Kishwar (Yanama district, Yungay province) and Keushu (Yungay district and province)— raise questions on the interaction of different sociohistorical trajectories at subregional level. / Este trabajo aborda el papel activo y cambiante de las kancha de planta circular, estructuras públicas organizadas en torno a un patio abierto y que son comunes en la sierra norcentral del Perú. Se discuten la distribución y cronología de este tipo de monumentos a partir de las investigaciones a escala regional y local en la región de Los Conchucos y la parte media del Callejón de Huaylas. El enfoque en su emplazamiento en el paisaje y la estructura del espacio interno, ligado al análisis de los restos de cerámica hallados en las excavaciones realizadas en el sitio de Gotushjirka (distrito de San Nicolás, provincia de Carlos Fermín Fitzcarrald, región Áncash), revela que se trata de espacios diseñados para crear un impresionante sentido de “liminalidad”, estrechamente vinculado con prácticas mortuorias. La remodelación de kancha circulares según un plano ortogonal, detectada en dos sitios de la Cordillera Blanca —Kishwar (distrito deYanama, provincia de Yungay) y Keushu (distrito y provincia de Yungay)— suscita interrogantes acerca de trayectorias sociohistóricas disímiles a nivel subregional.

This dissertation grapples with the making of identity in contemporary Tshwane, South Africa. Through this discourse, a number of issues, informants & responses are identified & developed as means of extracting identity from a cosmopolitan society. This extrapolation is undertaken as a means of reinvigorating the chosen study area as active public space, playing a role in informing both public & cultural discourse. At this dissertation's conclusion, a unique architectural response will be presented, dealing with issues such as identity, memory, globalisation, & context. In grappling with these issues, this dissertation will add to a contextual architectural discourse concerning the public realm, & cultural interactions in South Africa. / Die skripsie probeer die kwessie rondom die skepping van identiteit in kontemporêre Tshwane, Suid Afrika, behandel. Deur die ondersoek van die bogenoemde kwessie, word veeltallige probleme, insigte en reaksies geidentifiseer en ontwikkel,om deur sulke wyse identiteit vanuit die kosmopolitaanse gemeenskap te identifiseer. Deur wyse van hierdie ekstrapolasie word die heraktivering van die verkose studie area as n aktiewe publieke ruimte ondersoek, asook die rol wat dit speel daarin om publike en kulturele ruimtes te beinvloed deur verhandeling. Die slot van hierdie skripsie sal n unieke argitektoniese reaksie uitbeeld, wat die kwessies van identiteit, nagedagtenis, globalisering en kontektualiteit aanspreek. Deur die verhandeling van die bogenoemde kwessies, sal die skripsie n bydrae lewer tot die kontektuele argitektoniese gesprek rondom die publieke ryk en kulturele wisselwerking en interaksie in hedendaagse Suid Afrika. / Diese Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit der Identitäts ndung im zeitgenössischen Tshwane, Südafrika. Durch diesen Diskurs werden eine Reihe von emen, Informanten und Antworten identi ziert und als Mittel entwickelt, um Identität aus einer kosmopolitischen Gesellschaft herauszuholen. Diese Extrapolation dient der Wiederbelebung des gewählten Untersuchungsgebietes als aktiver ö¨entlicher Raum und spielt in dem Sinne eine Rolle den ö¨entlichen und kulturellen Diskurs zu informieren. Am Ende dieser Dissertation wird eine einzigartige architektonische Antwort präsentiert, die sich mit emen wie Identität, Gedächtnis, Globalisierung und Kontext befasst. Diese Dissertation wird zu einem kontextuellen architektonischen Diskurs über den ö¨entlichen Bereich und kulturelle Interaktionen in Südafrika beitragen. / Mini Dissertation MArch(Prof)--University of Pretoria, 2018. / Architecture / MArch(Prof) / Unrestricted

Thesis (M.Arch. (Prof.))--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, School of Architecture and Planning, 2012. / Society is moving through the Information Age1, a period summarised by advancing information technologies, a world economy, and a global culture, where an ephemeral network has expanded to stir and captivate our everyday lives. While the seemingly unimaginable nature and spatial qualities associated with this digital age continue to captivate our imaginations, one cannot ignore that electronic space has grounding in physical place; a consequence that sees minerals, energy, technology, and people coming together in real spaces to construct the backbone upon which today’s global information networks are built. In this instantaneous era, where spatial tensions are characteristic of widespread change, one need not stretch one’s imagination to see that people and cities are increasingly pushed to find new ways to retain their grasp on and compete within the circuits of globalising space. The shifting nature of urban geographies everywhere materialise not only from the capacity of networks to disperse but also integrate increasingly complex components of productivity throughout specific regions of the world, while hollowing out spaces of marginality in others. Those cities located within developing contexts, which live so precariously along a cusp, become frontiers for unimagined resourcefulness and experimentation, where people as infrastructure assemble with remarkable reach and efficiency to oscillate between the universal and particular (Simone, 1998:173-187). These trajectories shift our perception from city to borderland, where the urban imaginary converges on themes of exclusion and incorporation, marginality and experimentation. Our incessant lifestyles and fixations with technology, consumption, and obsolesce have reproduced volatile circumstances, where mountains of discarded electronic waste are dumped near marginal communities. These wastelands are far removed from the promises once held by this machinery – instead offering opportunities only to those willing to salvage precious metals in smouldering pits. By providing an interface that operates to alleviate the collision between these phenomena; the Open Public Trade Forum, a hybrid market place where a liberalised trade in metal weaves in and out between actual and virtual space, informal and formal activities, local and global networks, could be the first to explore the intersection between these traditionally exclusive sectors. Through rethinking existing economic activities and socio-spatial environments the market is to become a lithe public realm – an arena for altering perceptions – where established notions of trade fuse with progressive concepts of exchange and production in an exploration of 1 Information Age: is a period characterised by widespread electronic access to information through the use of computer technology (Encarta English Dictionary). 3 | P a g e programmatic relations and typological inventions. This is a dynamic space to be used as much for commerce and industry as social collectives, where a myriad of citizens are brought together under the auspices of exchange: to trade in mixed metals, to visualise, debate, and shift their dreams of urban futures, to experience chance encounters and excite unique social interactions. And in so doing distinguish a new public architecture – a pioneering metal market embedded between Johannesburg’s informal, informational and industrial landscapes.