A residence hall is a temporary home. Yet, it can be the most impactful campus environment on a student's education and life. From lifelong friendships to retention rates, residence halls affect students as many experience their first opportunity to express their individuality and personal responsibility. No study can conclusively determine that one residence hall type is better than another. Rather, it is a hall's overall gestalt that determines student satisfaction and a positive perception of community. The question of my thesis explores how residence hall architecture can anticipate its role as an inspiring distraction to the individual that provokes interaction, engagement, and community as a building type that is not quite transient and not quite permanent. / Master of Architecture

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Carnegie Mellon University, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available in PDF via the World Wide Web.

Análise das realizações urbano-arquitetônicas das universidades federais do Ceará (UFC), da Paraíba (UFPB), do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), de Alagoas (UFAL), Maranhão (UFMA), de Sergipe (UFS) e do Piauí (UFPI), executadas a partir da Reforma Universitária de 1968, com o objetivo de demonstrar que esses espaços universitários, em sua reformulação ou constituição física, obedecendo ao projeto reformista, adotaram o padrão de campus norte-americano e produziram no Nordeste configurações urbanísticas e arquitetônicas com características que evidenciam respostas submetidas ao contexto local. A primeira parte aborda a implantação da Reforma Universitária e suas características. Destaca o modelo do campus concebido para responder aos intentos de eficiência e racionalidade da organização universitária e as orientações do Manual, de autoria do consultor norte-americano Rudolph Atcon (1970), que foi utilizado como documento base para o seu planejamento e execução. A segunda parte aborda a criação das sete universidades. A partir de uma matriz de análise formulada com base nas recomendações do Manual de Atcon, descrevem-se as características e se analisa cada campus em relação ao tecido urbano existente, as concepções urbanística e arquitetônica, as características construtivas e tipologias produzidas, evidenciando-se aspectos da racionalização (padronização dos elementos construtivos), funcionalidade (distribuição dos ambientes), modulação (estrutural e/ou módulo-base) e flexibilidade (remanejamento e expansão da edificação). Questões como o isolamento ou a integração dos campi na estrutura urbana, o zoneamento como instrumento de organização funcional e, ao mesmo tempo, indutor de segregação, as limitações dos procedimentos e sistemas construtivos frente aos conceitos de racionalização da construção são examinados mais de 40 anos após a implantação da Reforma / Analysis of the urban architectural achievements of the federal universities of Ceara (UFC), Paraiba (URPB), Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Alagoas (UFAL), Maranhão (UFMA), Sergipe (UFS), and Piaui (UFPI) executed after the University Reform of 1968, designed to demonstrate that such university spaces, in their physical reformulation or constitution, according to the reformist project, adopted the standard of North American campus and produced urban and architectural configurations in the Northeast, with features highlighting responses submitted to the local context. The first part addresses the implementation of the University Reform and its features. It focuses on the campus model designed to meet the aims of efficiency and rationality of the university organization and the guidelines of the Manual by North American consultant Rudolph Atcon (1970), which was used as the basic document for its planning and execution. The second part addresses the creation of the seven universities. Based on an analysis matrix formulated from the recommendations of the Atcon Manual, the features are described and each campus is analyzed in accordance with the existing urban fabric, the urban and architectural conceptions, the constructive characteristic and the produced typologies, highlighting the rationalization aspects (standardization of the constructive elements), functionality (distribution of environments), modulation (structural or basis module) and flexibility (building relocation and expansion). Issues relating to the isolation or integration of the campuses in the urban structure, to the zoning as instrument of functional organization and as a segregation inductor, and to the limitation of procedures and constructive systems in the building rationalization concepts are examined forty years after the implementation of the Reform in 1968

EDUCATIONAL IDEALS VS. ARCHITECTURAL EXPRESSION: THE GENESIS OF BUILDING EXCELLENCE Brenda Sisco Vaughan, Ph.D. The University of Texas at Austin, 2011 Supervisor: William F. Lasher How education is articulated, understood or comprehended, in the vocabulary (i.e. the expressive techniques or devices) of architecture provokes a certain fascination and intrigue for those interested in methods of pedagogy and cognition at institutions of higher education. This research entered the discussion about architectural expression in the university setting with a focus on the educational aspects in the programming, planning, and design of new buildings on campus. Educational ideals refer to concepts of perfection or models of excellence at institutions of higher education. Architectural expression refers to design or the determination of form which includes every aspect of every quality of a building (size, shape, materials, texture, color, ornamentation, etc.), while supporting the function and intended use of the building. This research examined the processes by which educational ideals translate into architectural expression. Analyses of the processes or systems used in planning and designing new buildings provided data to understand influences on the system. Qualitative data were analyzed in this study from a systems point of view utilizing Interactive Qualitative Analysis, IQA methodology. Following IQA protocol, the problem of how educational ideals translate into architectural expression produced and named the factors (affinities) influencing the processes on university campuses; identified relationships between these factors in cause-and-effect terms; provided the forum to compare and contrast similarities and differences in the systems; and identified similarities and differences in the processes utilized in planning and designing new buildings at private vs. public institutions. In this study, focus groups of higher education administrators and professional architects explored the case study of The University of Texas at Austin. After the data were analyzed, a theoretical model was produced to explore the case study of Rice University. Research synthesis provides information, guidance, and recommendations for educational administrators and professional architects in leadership and decision-making roles guiding the direction of new building projects on campuses. / text

Análise das realizações urbano-arquitetônicas das universidades federais do Ceará (UFC), da Paraíba (UFPB), do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), de Alagoas (UFAL), Maranhão (UFMA), de Sergipe (UFS) e do Piauí (UFPI), executadas a partir da Reforma Universitária de 1968, com o objetivo de demonstrar que esses espaços universitários, em sua reformulação ou constituição física, obedecendo ao projeto reformista, adotaram o padrão de campus norte-americano e produziram no Nordeste configurações urbanísticas e arquitetônicas com características que evidenciam respostas submetidas ao contexto local. A primeira parte aborda a implantação da Reforma Universitária e suas características. Destaca o modelo do campus concebido para responder aos intentos de eficiência e racionalidade da organização universitária e as orientações do Manual, de autoria do consultor norte-americano Rudolph Atcon (1970), que foi utilizado como documento base para o seu planejamento e execução. A segunda parte aborda a criação das sete universidades. A partir de uma matriz de análise formulada com base nas recomendações do Manual de Atcon, descrevem-se as características e se analisa cada campus em relação ao tecido urbano existente, as concepções urbanística e arquitetônica, as características construtivas e tipologias produzidas, evidenciando-se aspectos da racionalização (padronização dos elementos construtivos), funcionalidade (distribuição dos ambientes), modulação (estrutural e/ou módulo-base) e flexibilidade (remanejamento e expansão da edificação). Questões como o isolamento ou a integração dos campi na estrutura urbana, o zoneamento como instrumento de organização funcional e, ao mesmo tempo, indutor de segregação, as limitações dos procedimentos e sistemas construtivos frente aos conceitos de racionalização da construção são examinados mais de 40 anos após a implantação da Reforma / Analysis of the urban architectural achievements of the federal universities of Ceara (UFC), Paraiba (URPB), Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Alagoas (UFAL), Maranhão (UFMA), Sergipe (UFS), and Piaui (UFPI) executed after the University Reform of 1968, designed to demonstrate that such university spaces, in their physical reformulation or constitution, according to the reformist project, adopted the standard of North American campus and produced urban and architectural configurations in the Northeast, with features highlighting responses submitted to the local context. The first part addresses the implementation of the University Reform and its features. It focuses on the campus model designed to meet the aims of efficiency and rationality of the university organization and the guidelines of the Manual by North American consultant Rudolph Atcon (1970), which was used as the basic document for its planning and execution. The second part addresses the creation of the seven universities. Based on an analysis matrix formulated from the recommendations of the Atcon Manual, the features are described and each campus is analyzed in accordance with the existing urban fabric, the urban and architectural conceptions, the constructive characteristic and the produced typologies, highlighting the rationalization aspects (standardization of the constructive elements), functionality (distribution of environments), modulation (structural or basis module) and flexibility (building relocation and expansion). Issues relating to the isolation or integration of the campuses in the urban structure, to the zoning as instrument of functional organization and as a segregation inductor, and to the limitation of procedures and constructive systems in the building rationalization concepts are examined forty years after the implementation of the Reform in 1968