Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by FAS Department "Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning"
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Media Consume Tokyo: Television and Urban Place Since the Bubble
(2016-05-18)Much has been made of the proliferation of fictions in the contemporary city, coming together under the hegemony of globalization to obliterate the particularities of place. The pervasiveness of media in daily life gives ... -
Modern Savoir-Faire: Ernest Cormier, “Architect and Engineer-Constructor,” and Architecture’s Representational Constructions
(2015-05-20)This dissertation is a historical study of the life and work of French-Canadian architect and engineer, Ernest Cormier (1885-1980), who is considered to be among the most important Canadian architects of his generation, ... -
Private Projects, Public Ambitions: Large-Scale, Middle-Income Housing in New York City
(2018-05-13)This dissertation explores the rise and fall of New York City’s postwar experiment with large-scale, middle-income housing. While most middle-class Americans were busy moving to the suburbs, New York charted a different ... -
Projecting in Space-Time: The Laboratory Method, Modern Architecture and Settlement-Building, 1918-1932.
(2015-05-20)Between 1918 and 1932, a number of European modern architects described their work as “scientifically managed” or “taylorized”, and as “laboratory work” or “practical experiments”, all of which were approaches attributable ... -
The Socialist Settlement Experiment: Soviet Urban Praxis, 1917-1932
(2016-05-17)If capitalist cities are dense, hierarchical, and exploitative, how might socialist space be differently organized to maximize productivity, equitability, and collectivity? That question—central to early Soviet planning ... -
The Photographic Turn: Architecture, Truth, and Modern Vision in France 1840-1900
(2018-01-24)Using the case of photography, my dissertation explores truth as a malleable practice that attempts to reconcile architecture’s growing interest in subjective qualities (especially space, movement, and the fragmentation ... -
Urban Furnace: The Making of a Chinese City
(2015-05-16)Urban transformation and the production of urban-rural difference have been defining characteristics of reform-era China. In recent years, the Chinese state has taken measures to relieve urban-rural inequity and coordinate ...