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Seeing architectural photographs: space and time in the works of Julius Shulman and Ezra Stoller

2016-11-15 , Hyun, Myung Seok

This dissertation is about seeing architectural photographs. It begins by addressing a paradoxical aspect of some architectural photographs: they acquire a status as works of photographic art, yet are able to do so while ostensibly serving a documentary purpose – in fact, they take on their significance by virtue of presenting architectural content. This raises questions about the nature of architectural experience. In particular, what do we see of architecture, exactly, when we see an architectural photograph? I propose that what we see in some architectural photographs involves our visual construct of space and time, and bears upon our cognition of essential architectural qualities. To demonstrate this, I offer case studies of architectural photographs from mid-century America, the works by Julius Shulman and Ezra Stoller. The studies show how the photographers’ careful manipulation of technical variables and selective inclusion of secondary subject matter bring forth distinctive exemplificational architectural qualities from what appears to be objective presentation. In Shulman’s photographs of Richard Neutra’s houses, what is exemplified is the quality of a lived space, modulated by subtle depictive moves. In Stoller’s case, the secondary or peripheral subjects trigger various durations of seeing, against which the relative permanence of the building is made manifest. Ironically, these photographs offer the kind of seeing in question by obscuring key descriptive details of the photographed building, and letting seemingly incidental details acquire visual salience. They succeed by bringing forth the properties of the medium that exemplify those of architecture. The study thus offers telling insights into why visual representation matters to our experience of architecture.

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From Medium Specificity to Medium Technicity

2016-11-10 , Abrioux, Yves

The notion of pure or 'specific' media, which was highly influential in defining the moment of modernism, had the effect of foregrounding the expressive possibilities of any given medium, beyond that of abstract painting to which the term medium specificity originally applied. Its continuing relevance is anything but obvious in a 'post media' world in which digital media have developed the capacity to subsume all other technological media-and indeed promise, in some readings, to provoke the disappearance of media (and the human) as such, in favor of the autonomous proliferation of self-sufficient data streams. A concept of medium technicity can, however, be derived from the French philosopher Gilbert Simondon's analysis of the history of technology, that allows for an intensification of the capabilities of media and underlines their continued relevance in an environment in which binary code is held to reign supreme.

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Architecture and Humanism: Three Projects, Three Places

2016-10-07 , Cadrecha, Manuel

For Manuel Cadrecha, architecture and humanism centers man and his values in each design effort. With this approach and explorations of timeless issues (like culture, identity, perception and the search for beauty), three diverse projects will be shared. Each designed through an empathetic, integrated and interdisciplinary creative process that has yielded remarkably different but equally responsive design solutions.

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Integrated performance based design of communities and distributed generation

2016-08-26 , Street, Michael

The vertically integrated utility market within the U.S. is undergoing rapid changes due to the rise of small-scale distributed power generation known as microgrids, which are local networks of power generation and distribution typically serving a demand less than 40 MW. Primary drivers for microgrid investment are the performance benefits these systems return to their owners, which include increased reliability, reduced emissions and reduced operating costs. We define a novel modeling methodology to represent the microgrid as an integrated system of the demand and supply. Previous work to develop an integrated system model does not adequately model the building thermal demand, incorporate a modeler’s knowledge of the grid’s availability or allow for a user to model their tolerance for unmet demand. To address these modeling issues, we first demonstrate a technique for representing a building stock as a reduced order hourly demand model. Next, as demand side measures are typically defined at the building level as discrete options, we demonstrate a technique for converting a large discrete optimization problem into a simplified continuous variable optimization problem through the use of Pareto efficient cost functions. The reduced problem specification results in 90% fewer function evaluations for a benchmark optimization task. Then, we incorporate two new features into the Distributed Energy Resource Customer Adoption Model (DER-CAM) developed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) that allow users to define grid outage scenarios and their limit of expected energy demand not served. Applying the integrated model to a microgrid design scenario return solutions that exhibit on average an 8% total annual cost reduction and 18% reduction in CO2 emissions versus a Supply Only case. Similarly, the results on average reduce total annual cost by 5% and annual emissions by 17% for a Demand First case. In summary, we present a modeling methodology with application to joint decision making that involve renewable power supply, building systems and passive building design measures and recommend this model for performance based microgrid design.

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The Future of Energy and Design

2016-11-11 , Augenbroe, Godfried , Breen, Rita , Gentry, T. Russell , Jackson, Roderick , MIller, Justin , Schmidt, Jacqueline

Every year, the world’s population increases by 65 million people, and over the next 13 years, 600 cities will account for nearly 65 percent of global GDP growth. This afternoon symposium will explore ideas related to 21st urban housing in the context of changing urban demographics, sustainability targets and alternative energy requirements, via guest presentations, audience involvement and exemplary design projects. There are a number of new initiatives focused on understanding the forces in play as urbanized areas like Tokyo, Seattle, Atlanta, San Francisco, and New York City work to address issues associated with designing livable, energy efficient and affordable urban dwellings. As cities like Atlanta continue to experience a move away from satellite single family bedroom communities towards center city, mid and high-rise housing blocks, our challenge is to create sustained focus and dialogue on ecology, opportunity and affordability.

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The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life

2016-10-18 , Rose, Jonathan F. P.

In the vein of Jane Jacobs’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities and Edward Glaeser’s Triumph of the City, Jonathan F. P. Rose—a visionary in urban development and renewal—champions the role of cities in addressing the environmental, economic, and social challenges of the twenty-first century. Cities are birthplaces of civilization; centers of culture, trade, and progress; cauldrons of opportunity—and by 2080 will be home to 80 percent of the world’s population. As the twenty-first century progresses, metropolitan areas will bear the brunt of global megatrends such as climate change, natural resource depletion, population growth, income inequality, mass migration, and education and health disparity, among many others. In The Well-Tempered City, Jonathan F. P. Rose—the man who “repairs the fabric of cities”—distills a lifetime of interdisciplinary research and firsthand experience into a five-pronged model for designing and reshaping cities with the goal of equalizing their landscape of opportunity. Drawing from the musical concept of “temperament,” Rose argues that well-tempered cities can be infused with systems that bend the arc of their development toward equality, resilience, adaptability, and well-being, to achieve ever-unfolding harmony between civilization and nature. While these goals may never be fully attained, if we at least aspire to them, and approach every plan and constructive step with this intention, our cities will be richer and happier.

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Creating Transformational Spaces

2016-09-23 , Hatfield, Erleen

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The Future of Housing Affordability and Access to the City

2016-11-11 , Dickens, Andre , Hirsch, Jennifer , Immergluck, Daniel W. , Smith, Nathaniel , Watson, Sarah

Every year, the world’s population increases by 65 million people, and over the next 13 years, 600 cities will account for nearly 65 percent of global GDP growth. This afternoon symposium will explore ideas related to 21st urban housing in the context of changing urban demographics, sustainability targets and alternative energy requirements, via guest presentations, audience involvement and exemplary design projects. There are a number of new initiatives focused on understanding the forces in play as urbanized areas like Tokyo, Seattle, Atlanta, San Francisco, and New York City work to address issues associated with designing livable, energy efficient and affordable urban dwellings. As cities like Atlanta continue to experience a move away from satellite single family bedroom communities towards center city, mid and high-rise housing blocks, our challenge is to create sustained focus and dialogue on ecology, opportunity and affordability.

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Toward An Urban Ecology

2016-10-12 , Orff, Kate

Part monograph, part manual, part manifesto, Toward an Urban Ecology re-conceives urban landscape design as a form of activism, demonstrating how to move beyond familiar and increasingly outmoded ways of thinking about environmental, urban, and social issues as separate domains; and advocating for the synthesis of practice to create a truly urban ecology. The book depicts a range of participatory and science-based strategies through the lens of SCAPE’s practice, featuring projects, collaborators, and invited essays on urban ecological design.

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Smart Cities

2016-09-16 , Clark, Jennifer , Martin, Torri , Shelden, Dennis R. , Williams, Sarah

This panel explores the many facets of academic, professional and technology development interest in Smart Cities - places where the forces of changing demographics, culture, economics, infrastructure and information converge to become the 21st century places of cyberphysical experience.

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