Thesis. 1979. M.Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Bibliography: leaves 171-179. / M.Arch.

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Thesis (MTech (Architectural Technology))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2017. / In the developed Western world, the need to preserve buildings, including industrial buildings, is well established, and the many charters that exist for guidance for preservation of the built environment point to the necessity of preservation. It can be posited that many of South Africa buildings with industrial architectural heritage are being lost either through neglect, obsolescence, demolition or vandalisation. At an international conference, David Worth, the sole South African representative for the International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage (TICCIH), stated that South Africa‟s industrial heritage has been neglected by the public, by professionals and academics, and by commercial and political interests. Läuferts and Mavunganidze make the point that South Africa continues to lag behind other countries in the preservation of and declaration of its industrial heritage. The purpose of this research was to investigate if adaptive reuse is a successful strategy to preserve industrial architectural heritage in South Africa. A further aim was to investigate whether adaptive reuse can be considered sustainable or „green‟ (in terms of the UN‟s sustainable development goals)

Thesis (M.L.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes special study report entitled: Planting in interior landscape. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.L.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes special study report entitled : Planting in interior landscape. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.

Orientador: Ricardo Luiz Coltro Antunes / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-09T17:55:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Villela_FabioFernandes_D.pdf: 2250670 bytes, checksum: 993e42a0e980a7ff681b36c198ef18cb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: Esta tese trata das grandes mudanças ocorridas no mundo do trabalho, especialmente aquelas relacionadas à transição do padrão fordista de acumulação para o padrão que alguns pesquisadores denominaram de acumulação flexível, neo-fordismo, pós-fordismo, póstaylorismo, especialização flexível, modelo japonês ou toyotista. Busca-se esclarecer e tornar mais compreensível a complexa realidade da reestruturação produtiva num setor que tem sido pouco privilegiado pelos trabalhos sociológicos contemporâneos: a Indústria da Construção Civil Subsetor de Edificações (ICCSE) no Brasil. Nosso campo de pesquisa sobre a ICCSE se estrutura a partir do legado das pesquisas do Grupo Arquitetura Nova (GAN). Para um balanço de tallegado, são apresentadas duas teses, quais sejam: (i) o romantismo revolucionário presente no GAN e (ii) a tentativa de reestruturação radical das forças produtivas e das relações de produção na ICCSE. Em seguida, são apresentadas as modalidades históricas dos processos de trabalho capitalista na ICCSE brasileira e são caracterizadas as diferenças fundamentais entre estrutura e conjuntura da ICCSE. Logo depois, desvela-se o fetichismo da tecnologia presente nas pesquisas sobre esse setor, com suas teses sobre o seu atraso. Para finalizar essa parte da argumentação, levantam-se as principais soluções históricas para esse tipo de atraso, do taylorismo ortodoxo dos pioneiros até a reestruturação produtiva na ICCSE. Nosso foco passa a ser a reestruturação produtiva e suas implicações para a ICCSE no Brasil. Caracteriza-se o modelo japonês ou toyotista, com suas novas tecnologias e seus modos de socialização, isto é, formas contemporâneas do estranhamento (alienação). Mapeia-se a introdução, nas empresas brasileiras da ICCSE, do modelo japonês ou toyotista nos anos 90, explicitando-se quais são os modos de socialização observados. Depois, identifica-se, por meio de uma análise quantitativa e qualitativa, que o principal modo de socialização empregado pela empresa pesquisada é a estratégia organizacional. Essa estratégia organizacional foi caracterizada como uma ¿escola¿ empreendedora e, a partir desta tese, foram levantados os conceitos fundamentais de uma escola empreendedora, explicitandose como se formam as principais estratégias empreendedoras na empresa pesquisada. Em seguida, demonstra-se como as novas tecnologias e seus modos de socialização corroboram na construção do intelecto coletivo (¿General Intellect¿). Para tanto, retoma-se o conceito de intelecto coletivo, categoria abordada por Marx nos Grundrisse da Crítica da Economia Política (1857-1858), e defende-se que sua principal característica contemporânea é uma forma de afirmação da teoria do valor-trabalho. A partir dessa tese, o intelecto coletivo é caracterizado como forma de subsunção do trabalho ao capital e desvela-se seu ¿ponta-delança¿ contemporâneo: a mais-valia extraordinária. Após esta argumentação, definem-se as edificações da ICCSE como a construção do intelecto coletivo. Para fundamentar tal análise, caracteriza-se a produção de edificações na ICCSE de forma materialista, isto é, como capital fixo. Por fim, argumenta-se que a expressão do intelecto coletivo nos canteiros da ICCSE contemporânea é a Fast Construction / Abstract: This PhD dissertation deals with changes that happened at labor field, especially those related to transition from Fordism Accumulation pattern to Flexible Accumulation, Neo-Fordism, Post-Fordism, Post-Taylorism, Flexible Specialization, Japanese Model or Toyotism. It aims at giving light to the complex reality of Productive Reorganization in a sector that has been little privileged for the recent sociological works: the Civil Construction Industry (ICCSE, in Portuguese) in Brazil. Our field of research about ICCSE is based on legacy from investigations done by Group of New Architecture (GAN, in Portuguese). In order to sustain an evaluation of GAN¿s legacy, two statements are presented: (i) the romantic revolutionary sprit of GAN and (ii) the attempt of radical reorganization of productive forces and of the relations of production at ICCSE. After that, the historical modalities of capitalist labor processes at ICCSE in Brazil are summarized and the main differences between structure and conjuncture at ICCSE are characterized. Afterwards, the fetishism of technology present on research about ICCSE and its statements about delayed at ICCSE in Brazil are detailed. In order to conclude this part of argumentation, the main historical solutions to this type of delayed, from pioneers with their orthodox Taylorism solutions to those Productive Reorganization solutions at ICCSE, are discussed. Our next focus is the Productive Reorganization and its implications to ICCSE in Brazil. The Japanese Model, with its news technologies and ways of socialization, i.e., contemporaneous forms of alienation, is characterized. Afterwards, the introduction of Japanese Model at Brazilian enterprises of ICCSE at 90¿s is analyzed and the ways of socialization observed are detailed. A steep further is done when based on quantitative and qualitative analyses the ¿organizational strategy¿ is identified as the main way of socialization employed by the investigated enterprise. This organization strategy was characterized as been an entrepreneur school and, assuming this thesis, fundamental concepts of this entrepreneur school were shown and the main entrepreneur strategies of investigated enterprise were analyzed. At last, it was showed how the new technologies and its ways of socialization construct the General Intellect. The concept of General Intellect that we based on was the one proposed by Marx on Grundrisse of Critique of Political Economics (1857- 1858). We argue that its main characteristic nowadays is one form of manifestation of value labor theory. Based on this thesis, General Intellect is characterized as a form of subsumption of labor to capital and the extraordinary more-value is seen as its contemporaneous way of implementation. From this argumentation, it is defined the edifications of ICCSE as a construction of General Intellect. In order to sustain our argumentation, the production of edifications at ICCSE is characterized from the materialism point of view as fixed capital. Finally, it is argued that contemporaneous expression of General Intellect at ICCSE fields is ¿Fast Construction¿ / Doutorado / Doutor em Sociologia

Unsettling Colonial Science: Modern Architecture and Indigenous Claims to Land in North America and the Pacific examines the contested landscapes of research infrastructure and settler colonialism. During the 1950s and 60s, as the Cold War accelerated, Big Science sought new frontiers both conceptual and spatial. While the alliance between modern architecture and postwar scientific research has been the subject of significant historical work, the settler colonial politics and land relations ingrained in these large-scale laboratories and research stations has gone under-discussed. Investigating federally-funded research installations constructed from the 1950s-1990s, this dissertation addresses how Cold War-era science participated in the settlement of landscapes perceived as inhospitable through discourses and practices of “modernism.” It also examines Indigenous opposition to these land occupations as acts of self-determination. Covering a wide geography—from the Kitt Peak Observatory on Ioligam Du’ag in the Tohono O’odham Nation, to the Inuvik Research Laboratory in Inuvik in the Northwest Territories of Canada, to the Mauna Kea Observatories on the Mauna Kea volcano on the island of Hawai‘i this dissertation moves between spaces where the universalism, modernism, and colonialism of the postwar settler colonial project are contested through material practices in the landscape and built environment. These places reveal how settler colonialism contributed to US empire in the twentieth century. Importantly, they also broaden discourses of resistance and refusal, showing how traditional land use, material culture, and mobility practices give rise to resistance movements. This dissertation investigates how different resistance movements protested the construction of research infrastructures on their lands. Across these cases, modern architecture does not operate uniformly. In some instances it is part of a state-initiated modernization project; in others affiliated with military-industrial architecture; and others an aesthetic exercise in a romanticized landscape. But in all, architecture is used to reify a division between Western modernity and “traditional knowledge” that undercuts land-based claims to sovereignty. Tohono O’odham, Kānaka Maoli, and Gwich’in activists and practitioners, along with environmental advocates and allies, mobilized grounded forms of refusal to insist that land use is political. I argue that these places and their histories reveal how modern architecture orders the land and its political meaning within settler colonial contexts. In the mid-twentieth century, federal science agencies, engineering departments, and architecture corporations deployed modernism as an instrument to make public and trust lands productive and national. Architecture is also a site where jurisdiction, land use, and the relationship to land is contested. These contestations open on to anticolonial histories of the built environment.

This dissertation examines how American businesses’ focus on transportation and trade came to be key agents of US imperialism at the turn of the twentieth century. Extending our understanding of the architecture and urbanism of US industry and commerce, “Empire’s Stores” turns to the design, construction, and maintenance of transnational and transimperial supply chains and the physical infrastructure that made them possible—what I call the architecture of conveyance. Divided into four chapters, the project examines the built environment created by a set of firms and related industries selected geographically: to the West, the “Big Five” sugar factors and their predecessors operating in the Hawaiian Islands; to the North, the Niagara Falls Power Company and related hydroelectric concerns located along the Niagara Frontier; to the South, the United Fruit Company’s operations, including both tourism and trade, anchored in the Port of New Orleans; and, to the East, the storage, handling, and shipment of freight at the Bush Terminal Company in Brooklyn, New York. Through these case studies I show how American corporations produced and profited from imperial formations and, in doing so, reshaped territorial, geographic, and economic borders.