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A house of the city, Tarragona, Spain
(1989) Delclos, Luis (b. 1926); Waldman, Peter; Pope, Albert; Cannady, William T.
Tarragona is a city with a 2 year urban history, building up successive urban settlements literally on top of previous ruins. Its history reveals a city in section. It is proposed that the extreme sectional and chronological structure of this city might be “housed” as the construction site of both an archaeological excavation and the fabrication of urban models. One is therefore factual while the other is representational. The city already has a variety of "Houses" of History scattered from citadel to port as a consequence of previous discoveries/interventions into what was thought to be the anonymous fabric of the city that revealed the existence of a variety of urban fragments. The site for this project was chosen for its proximity to the new Cultural Center and because it is the only anonymous site available on the previously unexcavated 19th century Rambla. There are two organizational methods to be explored in this project, both sectional in character. One is to reveal the archaeological stratas (layers) through the .sectional excavation of the ground and the other is the fabrication of a tower to reveal the documentation of the evidence through urban models culminating in an observation platform to study the contemporary city.
A mobile dwelling
(1989) Snyder, Gregory M.; Cannady, William T.; Wittenberg, Gordon; Sherman, William H.
The proposal of this thesis is to explore the ideas, implications, and manifestations of a mobile dwelling. The thesis implies an investigation and conjecture of the nature of a mobile existence today; an exploration of of existence within the dwelling itself as well as the relationship between the dwelling and the landscape or context in which it is placed. The ideas provoking the thesis are to a certain extent in response to the mobile home and travel trailer, but more specifically to the ideas and potential of a mobile dwelling which they suggest but don’t fulfill. The thesis is not a re-evaluation of the mobile home as it exists, but rather a design problem which explores fundamental ideas of inhabitation within the discourse of architecture. To return to the seminal ideas behind a mobile dwelling allows a variety of speculations and attendant explorations which are denied by the stigma which the mobile home operates within today. If the dwelling is the place where an order relative to the world is constructed, then the mobile habitat must allow for many constructions. The taxonomy of landscapes can range from singular relationships of machine and garden to the displacement within a built urban or suburban context. Through a plurality of contexts the mobile dwelling confronts its potential: the ability to structure and inform an existence amidst a collection of contexts. The mobile dwelling then becomes a discursive element mediating the individual and the collective, allowing a critical and speculative existence within an interpretive structure. The mobile dwelling itself will provide for the fundamental physical needs of an individual. It will provide for bathing, eating, and sleeping. The articulation and definition of the object will allow an interpretive structure for those needs to be manifest within, as well as elaborated upon relative to the displacement of the mobile dwelling relative to a variety of contexts.
A plan for the urban expansion of la Democracia, Escuintla (Guatemala)
(1996) Bruderer, Carlos Andres; Cannady, William T.
In the next 25 years, la Democracia, a town of 4000 people in the Pacific coastal plains of Guatemala, Central America, will double in population if current population growth trends continue. In this thesis, the author investigates the current state of infrastructure; waste disposal, streets, education, health, and housing and proposes solutions for the town's future infrastructure needs.
A proposal for an urban movement system
(1967) Lawless, Roscoe Charles; Cannady, William T.
Mobility, a result of technology and science, has become the outstanding characteristic of this age. Physical and social mobility have provided man with new freedoms, although, often having, adverse affects on men's lives. Our cities, as they exist today, represent the results of the combined forces of past and present movements. Our cities are complex and diverse: they are , outgrowths of transitory periods in which confusion and lack of emphasis often dominated to derive order for our cities, it is necessary that we accept mobility or movement as a primary characteristic of our age...understand it, its implications, its hierarchies, and begin to structure it as a positive tool in urban design.
A school of architecture for a university in India
(1966) Desai, Chittaranjan Hiralal; Cannady, William T.
The architectural education of India is outdated. It fails to turn out architects who can cope with today's problems. The aim of this thesis is to examine the causes of the problems, the role of architects in the contemporary society, and the formulation of educational concepts which can produce the kind of architects we need today.
An application of the computer to architecture (a tool in design development)
(1967) Doyle, Peter Gerald; Cannady, William T.
The computeroince its development in the late 1940's, has created an era'of unlimited potential and change. A 'transformation of the world abont us and of the processes and methods with which we are accustomed is taking place at' an accelerating pace. Computer technology is making significant contributions to architecture and to the processes through which the architectural solution is produced. This is evidenced in its application to accounting procedures, critical path planning, specifications writing, cost estimating, and graphic data processing. Architects will see develop a new 'interprofessional and interdisciplinary dialogue' which will permit them to receive engineering data and evaluation of functional characteristics almost instantly, at any stage in the design process. Working drawings .and specifications will be produced with great rapidity using computerized technology. But the computer is more than just a tool for management or a more efficient means of producing construction documents. It can become a useful tool In determining criteria for the design process and through an analytic-synthesis and evaluation of such information can establish precise functional and environmental criteria, determine suitable engineering and architectural systems and solutions and make routine design decisions based on logical quantitative data. The architect, today, cannot depend solely on traditional methods used in design development. In the search for form, we begin to uncover a very complex structure of elements of which it consists. It becomes evident that because of this underlying complexity that the sheer speed and accuracy of the computer can be an aid to the designer. In the design development phase of the architectural process, the architect dissects his problem into its various component needs and by determining the relative importance of each aspect in his system of analysis creates a hierarchy of design criteria. Then, choosing from an information source a particular system or systems to fit the needs indicated or set forth in the criteria, he sets up a working model of combinations of these systems to approximate the correct three dimensional architectural solution to his specific problem. He then tests this model and its alternates until the best solution is found, that is, the combination of elements which best satisfies all the design criteria in its proper order of relative importance. The computer, applied to such a task, would give man the opportunity to set up and investigate many more alternates to the architectural solution in a more sophisticated manner. This in no way makes the architect less responsible for the final solution. In truth, it requires a deeper understanding of the architectural problem, a logical approach in solving it, and offers more opportunity for the architect to make use of his intuitive judgment on those problems which cannot be solved by computer technology.
An architecture for Wichita (Kansas)
(1991) Reber, Ralfe David, Jr; Cannady, William T.
An improbable relationship exists between monumentality, which is called Apollonian--universal and timeless--and regionalism, which is Dionysian--local and time-specific. A city requires an architecture that is both, an architecture that monumentalizes what is unique about itself and its people. Wichita, Kansas, is a city that sits in the middle of the vast grid of the American Midwest. It also suffers from a sort of identity crisis typical of that region. What images for Wichita should be promoted, and how? An urban design scheme which establishes the Arkansas River as a monument for the city and which reinforces the genius loci of the area is proposed, along with a specific project for a hotel to provide a social forum in the center of the city and show how future building might relate to the scheme.
Analysis of factors which affect single family residential development in northwest Harris County
(1973) Iser, Vinod; Cannady, William T.
This study attempts to seek answers to questions listed below using as a vehicle a selected area in Northwest Harris County. (1) Are developers and builders increasing the number of single family housing units per acre to maximize their returns on investments or maintain constant profits? (2) Are single family home buyers getting their dollar value in terms of home size as compared to previous years? (3) Are single family homes decreasing in size? (4) Corresponding to this decrease in size in single family homes are more multi-family housing units being built? (5) And, finally, if single family homes are decreasing in size; are home buyers still purchasing single family homes as a matter of preference and consequently, are they paying more for their homes? The basic approach consists of a selection of factors which affect single family residential development, and an analysis of these factors between the years 1962-1971 with the intent to reach conclusive answers to the above mentioned questions. The study shows that for the most part the answers to the above mentioned questions are in the affirmative. Developers have been constantly increasing the density of single family housing units per acre to maximize their returns on investments. Prospective single family home buyers were being offered larger home sizes for their dollar until 1968. Single family home sizes began to decrease after 1968 mainly as a result of increasing construction costs and higher interest rates. This decrease in single family home size lead to a corresponding increase in multi-family housing activity, which began to be accepted at an increasing rate. Nevertheless, prospective home buyers still purchased single family homes at increasing prices as a matter of preference over multi-family housing, despite a decrease in square foot area.
Bayou Mile (Texas)
(1993) Easterling, John Samuel; Cannady, William T.
This architectural design thesis contends that meaning is found not in historical typologies and static conceptions of architectural form but in the specifics of the proposed architecture's conditions--in its precise regional cultural territory and from the particular landscape of which it is a part (Houston). Such an approach is typically labeled Critical Regionalist as defined by architectural theorist Kenneth Frampton. This thesis proposes to extend Frampton's definition of Critical Regionalism by offering an architecture which is informed by the natural systems and processes, the geomorphology, and the phenomenology of the regional landscape. The project focuses on the bayou system, the Houston landscape's most significant and salient natural feature. The ideas derived from the bayous, along with the cultural, historical and formal content of the site are transformed into the architectural proposal from its overall massing; to its spatial configuration; and to the tactility of its smallest detail.
Building on the past: A multi-service center in Houston's Fourth Ward (Texas)
(1992) Minus, Stephen Keator; Cannady, William T.
Houston's Fourth Ward has often been the object of redevelopment schemes which call for extensive change. The most recent such plan would save neighborhood houses, but would displace residents. To so easily separate buildings from their occupants requires an architecture concerned primarily with aesthetics. My thesis' premise is the desirability of maintaining the Fourth Ward's current population. Change must occur to stop this community from disintegrating due to poverty, drugs, and neglect. A community center located in and around an abandoned school, well known by residents, would act as a reinvigorated center for the neighborhood. Proposed new buildings mediate between this monumental school and shotgun homes around it. A sloped court connects neighborhood streets to the school's raised floor and serves as common entry to child care, elderly care, and commercial facilities.
Cities in the sky
(1972) Griffin, Brand Norman; Cannady, William T.
More so than most design efforts, a manned spacecraft must be an efficient integration of many subsystems and yet function as an autonomous life support habitat. This document is a brief expose of major determinants affecting extra-terrestrial habitability, subsequently leading to a design proposal for an earth orbiting space station. Owing to the essential integration and mutual dependencies of subsystems, a scheme for the entire station is conceived. Particular emphasis is devoted toward habitability (especially under confined isolation conditions) and serves as a principal generator of the resultant design solution.
Color and space in architecture
(1990) Covarrubias, Monica Daly; Cannady, William T.
The thesis investigates color/light in the perception and interpretation of space. One understands the presence of space through visual experience. Architectural form is the visual limit which represents mass and its relationship to space. The aim of this project is to develop a color museum where the generator of space is determined by the effects of natural and artificial sources. Finally to experience color action as well as color relatedness in the creation of a form. Color introduces new morphological problems due to these important factors: The color of the building does not depend only on natural resources such as LIGHT generated by the sun, or MATERIAL like wood, stone, and others. Modern technology produces a wide new range of lighting, and materials which are ever changing. Every time we rediscover a new tool, it requires an effort of awareness to understand its use.Today, color is all about us in such vast expression that we take it for granted. Color photography, color television, and modern color reproduction have set new standards for human desires and opportunities. If we could see color for the first time, if we could isolate it from the objects that held it prisoner, then we could open the field of color to achieve clearness in composition, and a greater awareness of the expressions and influence of space. The project: A color liuseun where color light is the expression of the object "space". The program: Three major rooms. One where the characteristics of natural light resources act as the creator of the forms.A second where the use of artificial lights generated the space making, and a third which is the combination of both sources of light combined in one piece.
Connections in architecture
(1984) Bleck, Robert Frank; Cannady, William T.; Waldman, Peter
The environment is composed of many parts. Growth occurs through the incremental addition of new parts. During this process there is a desire on the part of the architect to establish order in the environment through a process of unification. Unity is a metaphysical concept. It is the essential quality needed to give man orientation to the human experience. During the modern movement it was popular to articulate the various elements of a building. The walls were separated from the ceilings, structure was independent from elements of enclosure, and the buildings themselves were often separated from the ground. The result is an architecture consisting of various juxtaposed parts. In reaction to this attitude, I propose an architecture which celebrates connections rather than revealing them, resulting in a synthetic rather than analytic expression of the meeting of the architectonic elements. Of course, not all built elements need to be or should be tangibly connected. Many elements are truly independent and need to be physically separated. For these cases, 1 propose the use of implied connections to accommodate both the physical needs of separation and the psychological needs of unity. Through the use of both celebrated and implied connections I intend to exploit both the dependent and independent systems in architecture.
Downtown Houston parking garage interventions
(1989) Feiersinger, Martin C.; Cannady, William T.; Waldman, Peter; Sherman, William H.
The wheel of the design-process was brought into movement rapidly with the "discovery” of potential landscapes within the city of automobile accessible roof terraces in Downtown Houston, 12 feet above street level. Polaroid series, most of which were shot from the car, documented the various "journeys" through these places. Thereafter three parking garages were chosen for three experiments. Three projects, independent of one another, were commenced at once, reflecting my interest in the simultaneity of different processes as well as in the dynamic influences within the process. The three programs: From a catalog of imagined functions, triggered by the "discovered landscapes", the following were selected: First, 3 houses for one person who seeks orientation and observes the city but lives in the greatest isolation; with the starting-point in "personal sensual experience". Second, in opposition to the above, "public architecture" was discussed with specific performance places; with the starting-point in "collective experience/communication". Third, in between the aforementioned poles a rather conventional program of an athletic club as well as a night club was given form.
Farm worker housing/tourist shelter in Napa Valley
(2001) Kuchkovsky, Michael Paul; Cannady, William T.
During the grape harvest that lasts for two months between late August to early November, over 3,000 migrant farm workers migrate to the Napa Valley. With less than a 1% vacancy rate in the area, they sleep in fields, cars or on the streets. There is a great need and current consensus to house them. In addition to the farm workers, over 5 million tourists visit the Napa Valley every year. I propose a structure to house 4 farm workers during harvest that is located at the winery at which they work. The other 10 months of the year it is to be used by tourists visiting the wineries.
Four planning concepts for Bay City, Texas
(1964) Cannady, William T.; Architecture 300 students; Rice University. Dept. of Architecture; Houston, Rice University, Dept. of Architecture: New York, distributed by Wittenborn
From the veranda to the balcony :a study in the evolution of resort motels
(1990) Valliere, Mark T.; Cannady, William T.; Wittenberg, Gordon; Todd, Anderson
THESIS will demonstrate that the social significance of tourism 1n the 19th century led to the origin and development of a specific public oriented architecture which reflected the content and meaning of the resort hotel. This typology was drastically reformed during the modern era, specifically between 195-198. The result was an architectural language that 1s no longer concerned with creation and expression of a public realm. Rather, the result was the predominance of a private expression In today's resort hotel which Incorrectly represents the purpose and meaning of this particular building type.
Geometric aspects of linear movements systems
(1967) Champeaux, Junius Joseph; Cannady, William T.
Planning city form requires a thorough synthesis of numerous interrelated factors, each individually contributing some part to the fabric of total environment. The process of interaction of people as they live, work and play is best supported in an ordered environment. This order must respect individual as well as community needs; it must provide flexibility for growth and change; it must insure continuity with the past, and at the saw time provide avenues for progress beyond the lifetime of its planners and current citizens. There exist today conditions which deny such order in most cities, and this thesis concerns two of those conditions: High-intensity-use urban centers, currently dying from population flight to the suburbs; and the movement systems, which congest, confuse and discourage the life-producing interaction of people within these dense urban centers. Today the automobile is a symbol of individual and mass mobility. Its path system, which provides accessibility to all of the cities' parts, becoming a major formative element in the total environment. It is the intent of this thesis to use the path systems of movement as en instrument to provide a structure for environmental ordor within cities, while promoting an integration of the life-giving activity of the central urban areas in a continuous manner throughout the city fabric: an order for movement and an order for growth. By analysis of the nature of movement systems and the scale unique to each system, and synthesis of proper relationships of those systems relative to the city they serve, it is possible to demonstrate the validity of this thesis: THE NATURE AND SCALE OF MOVEMENT SYSTEMS IS A PRIMARY CONSIDERATION FOR GIVING ORDER TO NATURAL URBAN GROWTH.
Housing the elderly in new communities
(1972) Kwan, Chun Chuen; Cannady, William T.
The growth of the elderly population in America has rapidly increased since the beginning of the twentieth century, primarily due to increasing life expectancy and decline in the birth rate. Because of their numbers alone, the elderly deserve greater consideration and concern than they have had in the past. The concept of this thesis concerns the housing of the elderly in the new community as both logical and desirable. Many of the elderly in existing communities do not possess a valuable community life as such and are segregated by living in an unsuitable environment. Because of a lack of alternatives, many are forced to remain in their present housing situation. Recognition of the need for elderly housing and recognition of the effects of physical and psychological characteristics of the elderly on housing needs give insight to the nature of the problem of elderly housing. Because of the Increasing numbers of new towns being developed in the United States, there will also be an increasing need to provide housing in these new towns for the elderly who moved to the new town at an earlier age and have grown old there and for those elderly who are attracted to come to live in the new town. The new community offers the opportunity for provision of a better living environment for the elderly through availability of adequate services and facilities and of a variety of housing types to fit the varied needs of the elderly. The primary goal in housing the elderly in the new town Is to provide a living environment that will encourage the continued growth and development of the elderly individual in the community. To fulfill this goal this thesis outlines certain criteria for the placement of housing for the elderly in the new community.
Lake Houston development studies
(1965) Cannady, William T.; Architecture 300 students; Guffee, Harry J.; Houston, Rice University, Dept. of Architecture: New York, distributed by Wittenborn

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