Browsing by Author "Gammard, Elysabeth"
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Item A sense of place architecture in the fiction of Toni Morrison(1997) Springer, Nicola Joy; Gammard, Elysabeth; Brown, David P.This thesis begins with a graphic exploration and analysis of Toni Morrison s fiction. It attempts to concretize the imagined spaces of the stories as well as map the unusual and idiosyncratic details of the architecture. There is an awareness that there is an origin for her architecture in real life, however what is recounted in the stories is a mutated architecture that is a product of Morrison s memory and imagination. Graphic and literary analysis look for the symbols and elements that are recurrent in the stories, as a way to grasp an idea of an architecture that is part of a particular and potent black fiction.Item Appropriating architecture(1997) Zuchman, Allison C.; Casbarian, John J.; Gammard, Elysabeth; Pope, AlbertItem Beyond the control of architecture(1996) Kisner, John Leonard, II; Gammard, ElysabethNew means of interaction in the electronic realm are transforming activities of our society that have traditionally occurred in the spatial realm. Since the development of public space has traditionally been the center of the domain reserved for the practice of architecture, this transfer of activity from the spatial to the electronic can be interpreted as an slipping away of the lifeblood of the profession. After initially proposing a way for the architectural profession to positively impact the problem of the decline of equality in contemporary culture, the focus of this investigation shifted to the nature of the relationships between architecture and the physical and electronic worlds. The conclusion is that the profession of architecture should not abandon the strength of its empirical knowledge about human needs in the physical world in an uphill effort to compete for control over the new means of interaction in the electronic realm.Item Dirty blue on not-so-white walls for the Wittgenstein house(1997) Parke, David; Gammard, Elysabeth; Farouki, Sohela; Lerup, Lars; Casbarian, John J.Item Gottfried Semper and the profound surface of architecture(1997) Spelman, Elizabeth Rowe; Gammard, ElysabethGottfried Semper argues for a return to the surface of architecture. In response to the aesthetic crisis brought on by the integration of industry and art, he sought a new source for principles with which to guide architectural invention. By looking to man's own productions, Semper creates a kosmos for architecture, one that both describes the primal forms out of which all art and industry arise and that outlines the way in which those forms transform over time. Semper believed that all cultural productions, both physical and conceptual, arose out of the Volk. Architecture's role is to express the social structure monumentally, just as government expresses it in its political institutions. Architecture does that symbolically through its Bekleidung, the cladding. In the making and ordering of architecture, the culture itself is ordered.Item On the school of architecture(1997) Tkachenko, Ivan; Gammard, Elysabeth; Pope, Albert; Wamble, MarkThe purpose of this project is to question the concept of formal in architecture by exploring the notion of programmatic. From the classical treatises to the Modern Movement, the fundamental tenet of architectural ideology has been expressed in architectural forms which exemplify a unitary vision of firmness, commodity, and delight. Today, the function of architectural form has been discarded on behalf of programmatic conditions. My design project-a school of architecture- has been set to explore the notion where the organization of space and structure mediates the formal solution of the building.Item Recovering scraps from the cutting edge: Avant-gardes and the shape of the theater. A flexible theater project for Dallas (Texas)(1996) Washburn, Niall Quin; Gammard, ElysabethAn architecture thesis in two parts: Part I examines the social and technical forces which shaped theater buildings in Europe and the United States. Physical relationships between audience and performer are shown to be central in understanding the changing form of theater buildings. Part II proposes a new model for flexible theater structures. It is a design to house the Dallas Theater Center's alternative performances. The design is informed by historical models and rooted in the imperatives of the audience-performer relationship. This combination historical analysis and design project seeks to critique the methodology of the avant-garde and reconsider the built elements that vanguard theater movements use and discard. The goal is to create a renewable theater building that can workably accommodate urges toward change.Item Santiago De Compostela: An Allegorical Inerpretation of Its Urban Fabric(1997) Platero, Carmen; Gammard, Elysabeth; Casbarian, John J.; Kauffmann, R. L.; Bell, M. J.Item Skirting the house: The evolution of the women's home, 1890-1910(1996) Fisher, Kyle Ross; Gammard, ElysabethWorking from the assumption that a distinct women's subjectivity has driven the development of the modern American home, this two part thesis examines the nature of that evolution. The first part shows how a women's perspective was capable of effecting the general development of the home from 1880-1920. By analyzing four houses that chart the evolution of the American home, the criteria that characterizes the women's house type is traced. The second part examines the initial movement towards the development of the women's home. Using the Ladies' Home Journal and The House Beautiful from 1890-1910 establishes the source of particular women's criteria that transformed the design of middle-class housing around the turn of the century. The conclusion demonstrates that the house's character has been two fold; while on the one hand it has been a means of oppression for women within our culture, and it has also been a means of liberation.Item Strip City(1997) Steinberg, Sharon Ann; Pope, Albert; Gammard, Elysabeth; DeLaura, Louis P.Strip City' is both an actual site and a set of visual circumstances found in the modern, automobile dependent city. Physically, strip cities occur along the highways, where audience and advertising merge into a complex set of visual cues and physical built responses. By combining word and image in multiple formats, Strip City can be liberated into a completely .two-dimensional context where its visual relationships can be understood, providing a basis Of} which the space can be acted upon. The result is put forth as the v1sual and physical grounds for a new way of communicating what we see in the landscape of the urban highway. This thesis represents one possibility for seeing Strip City.