Thesis (M. Arch.)--University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2009. / Title from title page screen (viewed on Mar. 11, 2010). Thesis advisor: William Rudd. Vita. Bailey appendix II.pdf (18364 KB) link located at bottom of [Article summary page]. Includes bibliographical references.

This building emerges as a solitary work from obscurity. Its form is a composition of disjointed rooms connected by common themes: frontality, obscurity, artifice, and seclusion.<br /><br />In the first part, the plan appears as a map of a promenade which is the main ordering device of the building structure.<br /><br />In the second part, the internal spaces are presented as isolated from each other as is the building from any external reference.<br /><br />In the sections, which constitute the third part, the building appears as layered facades emerging from planes of strata. / Master of Architecture

There is a rich inventory of the oral arts within Swazi culture. In a culture that relies heavily on annual events saturated with song, dance and praise poetry lies the opportunity for people to express themselves more freely than within more conservative dialogue. Swaziland has a lack of freedom of expression in casual conversation and media. Many people fear for the harm that might come to them if they speak out of turn. But there is a new generation full of burning questions towards culture, a youth that has access to most international information through the internet, cellphones and television and yet struggles to get the answers they need from Swazi culture. Many boundaries within Swazi culture are caused through respect for powers of a spiritual nature and love of King. However there are few opportunities for the youth of Swaziland to voice their concerns and ask the questions that would help them affi liate more closely to Swazi tradition. The Lobamba Interpretation Centre of the Oral Arts and Landscape explores the possible solution of a forum that enables the youth to interact with their culture, to unearth the ghosts of the past on a more regular basis through the medium of the arts, a medium they have become familiar with due to technology. The oral arts of storytelling, poetry and song are a neutralized means of communication and an opportunity for dialogue in a respectful and entertaining way that can still bring forth a message without disrespecting the cultural element of speech, essentially using culture to answer cultural issues. Politics is always controversial but the arts allows for the disparity and a layering of opinion. This thesis is in no way a critique of Swazi culture, it merely aims to source solutions from Swazi culture to accommodates dialogue and freedom of speech in a growing Swazi society. It aims to understand the importance of performance, a language familiar to the people of Swaziland. It unearths examples of traditional Swazi methods of communication that have been used for centuries, in order to include a younger generation that is very heavily reliant on international customs due to their accessibility to the media, a media that embraces global news but shies away from the bigger issues behind culture. Swazi culture and landscape form a tight bond .The Swazi are a people of their land who listen and base many of their cultural decisions on natural vegetation, weather, river sources and topography. In order to fully embrace Swazi culture and expression, one must also begin to understand the dialogue between Swazi culture and landscape. My building is an interpretation centre of the oral arts in Lobamba, Swaziland, the heart of Swazi culture. My building suggests the opportunity of a site that allows for a freedom of expression in the very heart of these tensions, without disrupting /disrespecting the cultural norms of its context. This will be programmed with a series of platforms for expression, stages and exhibition spaces that can allow for connection points between the youth and culture.The building will house an exhibition space for the oral arts as well as accommodation for the infl ux and subsequent dispersal of people that take part in cultural ceremonies through pilgrimages 4 times a year. My thesis allows for a discovery of this complex and layered landscape, an unpacking of time, landscape and space and refl ects back its impact on Swazi culture and the oral arts namely: storytelling, song and praise poetry. It also documents the existing built form and topography and begins to make sense of the area’s patterning. It builds an understanding of the oral arts and its importance in Swazi context in order to sustain the notion of tradition. In this book, I will be taking you on a journey through my thought process towards the interpretation center of the oral arts and landscape. All quoted poetry within this book is my own work that I have marked with “inverted commas”.

Orientador: Omar Khouri / Banca: José Spaniol / Banca: Neiva Pitta Kadotta / Resumo: Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo a apresentação, investigação e leitura da série de fotografias intitulada O Cinza e a Carne, bem como o diálogo entre as referidas imagens e reflexões sobre as capacidades documentais e artísticas da linguagem fotográfica. Para fundamentar tal abordagem, buscou-se aliar um instrumental teórico referente a discursos e conceitos que acompanham a trajetória da fotografia, ao relato da Autora sobre o processo de criação e produção das imagens. A dissertação está, portanto, dividida em três partes: a primeira, com a exposição das fotografias, em um formato de livro de imagens; a segunda, com todo referencial teórico sobre a linguagem fotográfica e a terceira, com o relato das experiências de morar no Parque Cecap e fotografá-lo, além da leitura das imagens / Resumen: Esta pesquisa tiene como objetivo la presentación, investigación y lectura de la serie de fotografías titulada El Gris y la Carne, bien como el diálogo entre éstas imágenes y reflexiones sobre las capacidades documentales y artísticas del lenguaje fotográfico. Para fundamentar tal abordaje, se ha buscado combinar un instrumental teórico referente a discursos y conceptos que acompañan la trayectoria de la fotografía, a el relato de la Autora acerca del proceso de creación y producción de las imágenes. La disertación está, así, dividida en tres partes: la primera, con la exposición de las fotografías, en un formato de libro de imágenes; la segunda, con todo referencial teórico sobre el lenguaje fotográfico y la tercera, con el relato de las experiencias de vivir en el Parque Cecap y fotografiarlo, además de la lectura de de las imágenes / Mestre

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Bibliography: leaves 138-149. This thesis investigates the theoretical and practical importance of nomadic ways of life for architecture. Nomadology is a construction of Deleuze and Gattari's 'counter-philosophy' challenging authenticity and propriety, in this case, in the context of architecture. It describes how nomadology may challenge static, permanent, heroically solitary ways of working and dwelling, and suggests strategies - diagramming, ephemerality, movement, and collaboration - as ways of reconciling nomadism and architecture.

This study aims to analyze the istanbul Hilton, the izmir Grand Efes and the Grand Ankara Hotels, which are owned by the Pension Fund, during the 1950-1980 period that witnessed the formation process of modern tourism and tourism architecture in Turkey. As the first five-star hotels of their cities, these buildings provide the possibility of tracing the social transformation processes at the second half of the 20th century beyond their architectural properties that reflect and affect the zeitgeist of the period. In this manner, besides the architectural formation of the buildings, this thesis also aims to examine the participation of the hotels in social life and the relations of architecture with the changing city life and tourism. Moreover, this thesis offers historical perspectives about tourism architecture, about which adequate researches have not been provided yet. Chronologically, the first chapter formulates a general introduction. The second chapter issues the 1950s&amp / #8217 / Turkey and the istanbul Hilton Hotel. The third chapter issues the 1960s&amp / #8217 / Turkey and the izmir Efes Hotel and the Grand Ankara Hotels. The fourth chapter examines the critique of tourism that developed in the 1970s&amp / #8217 / social and political medium, and the last chapter is a general conclusion

Le Corbusier's method of creating Architecture in all regions of the world is endlessly rich in techniques. While it is impossible to exactly know his thoughts as he created his modern compositions that skillfully addressed contextual cues, I present a thesis of how Corbusier approached different sites and masterfully created residences that were places "where happiness is born". I will use Shape Grammars and formulate my own languages that will recreate Corbusier's two Monol houses: Maison Jaoul in Paris and Sarabhai Villa in Ahmedabad. Furthermore, I will expand on these houses by creating other iterations, and transforming the grammars to understand critical major and minor moves. In the end I hope to derive architectural lessons that come from formal exercises that can be used in future design processes. I explore this practical effort by creating designs for a site in Midtown, Atlanta. I compare the process of using Shape Grammars with that of the typical studio approach. In conclusion, I find that Shape Grammars allows one to produce iterations that connect to the lessons of the original houses in an intuitive manner.

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