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Internalizing the Sun An Exploration in Light-Driven Architecture Sri Gaura Ely A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architecture University of Washington 2019 Committee: Christopher Meek Ann Marie Borys Program Authorized to Offer Degree: Architecture © Copyright 2019 Sri Gaura Ely University of Washington Abstract Internalizing the Sun An Exploration in Light-Driven Architecture Sri Gaura Ely Chairs of the Supervisory Committee: Christopher Meek Ann Marie Borys Can architecture utilize light to evoke a feeling of the sublime? This thesis is an exploration of daylight- driven architecture, architecture that is designed to utilize direct sunlight and ambient skylight for specifically prescribed effects. The foundation of this project draws on the thinking of architectural masters, the perspective of lighting experts, and the lessons of precedent studies to direct a process of designing architecture that allows occupants to approach a sense of divinity. I believe that architecture is at its best when shelter, space, symbolism, and function are balanced with a desire to delight. Architecture’s ability to elicit emotion from individuals, to incite wonder and awe, largely through occupation, is special. In order to exceed programmatic requirements and provoke an emotional response, the endeavor is to create architecture that is akin to art. The proposal explored is an architecture which utilizes natural light to evoke the sublime through its cosmic connection with the sun, sky, and horizon. Internalizing the Sun An Exploration in Light-Driven Architecture Sri Gaura Ely Committee: Christopher Meek Ann Marie Borys Dedication This thesis is dedicated to my parents, Kosarupa and Bada Haridas, to my brother Charles, to my dearest friends, you know who you are, and to my community of well-wishers. -
J O U R N a L of the One Hundred Seventieth
J O U R N A L OF THE One Hundred Seventieth ANNUAL COUNCIL Volume II AND DIRECTORY OF THE DIOCESE OF TEXAS The Woodlands Marriott Waterway Hotel and Convention Center February 21 - 23 2019 THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA The Most Reverend Michael B. Curry, Presiding Bishop & Primate Ms. Gay Clark Jennings, President of the House of Deputies OFFICERS OF THE SEVENTH PROVINCE President: Ms. Sherry Denton, Diocese of Western Kansas Vice-President: Ms. Sherry Denton, Diocese of Western Kansas Secretary: Ms. Kate Huston, Diocese of Oklahoma Treasurer: The Reverend Nancy Igo, Northwest Texas DIOCESE OF TEXAS DIOCESAN OFFICE: 1225 Texas Avenue; Houston, Texas 77002-3504 Texas was administered as a Foreign Mission from 1838 to 1845, being visited by Bishop Polk of Louisiana and Bishop Freeman of Arkansas. When Texas became a state of the union in 1845, it continued under the care of Bishop Freeman. The Diocese of Texas was organized in 1849 and continued under Bishop Freeman’s care until Bishop Gregg was consecrated. The original diocese, comprising the whole state, was divided in 1874. Since that time, the Diocese of Texas has been made up of the 57 counties of southeast and east Texas, viz: that portion of the State of Texas lying south of the northern line of the counties of Lampasas, Coryell, McLennan, Limestone, Freestone, Anderson, Smith, Gregg, and Marion, and east of the western line of the counties of Matagorda, Colorado, Fayette, Bastrop, Travis, Burnet, and Lampasas. Population: 1970-4,103,046; 1980-5,582,119; 1990-6,497,200; 2000-8,182,990; 2010-10,098,913 Sq. -
Cover and Table of Contents
4 Non-Profit Org. 0 Rice Design Alliance * 5 W d S f M P V U U f IN William Marsh Rice University £Z5". Postage Pa/t/ 0 P.O. Box 1892 faTii BURNING l^EE Houston, Texas Houston, Texas 77251 T7T36 Permit No. 7?49 A Publication of the Rice Design Alliance Winter 1984 S2.00 The Architecture and Design Review of Houston r S\ Fourth Ward Overview Allen Parkway Village py**-,, > i tfc •% '*> Phillip Lopate on Public Space in Houston 2 Cite Winter 1984 InCite 3 Citelines 6 Citeations 8 Citesurvey m& 10 A Fourth Ward Overview 13 Wielding the HACHet at Allen Parkway Village Cite 14 An Update From Freedman's Town 17 The Greening of Allen Parkway Village Cover: House on Robin Street. A shotgun 15 Pursuing the Unicorn: Public Space cottage typical of those built in the Fourth in Houston 0** Ward (Photo by Paul Hester) 22 HindCite Editorial Committee John Kaliski Elizabeth S. Glassman Peter C. Papademetriou Chairman Mark A. Hewitt Macey Reasoner Richard Keating Andrew John Rudnick Raymond D. Brochstein O.Jack Mitchell William F. Stem Dana Cuff W.James Murdaugh Drexel Turner Herman Dyal, Jr. Janet M, O'Brien Bruce C Webb *jmK• Guest Editor: John Kaliski Cite welcomes unsolicited manuscripts. Managing Editor Linda Leigh Sylvan Authots take full responsibility for Design Director: Herman Dyal, Jr. securing required consents and releases •:'::••':•' + Graphic Designer Lorraine Wild and for the authenticity of their articles. Publisher: Lynette M. Gannon All manuscripts will be considered by the Editorial Board. Suggestions for topics The opinions expressed in Cite do not are also welcome. -
The Rothko Chapel Rita Reis Colaço Artwork and Space
THE ROTHKO CHAPEL RITA COLAÇO REIS RITA ARTWORK AND SPACE AND ARTWORK / 2017 / the rothko chapel ARTWORK AND SPACE by Rita Reis Colaço Research followed by Sébastien Quequet in order to obtain the diplome in Master in Space & Communication at Haute École d’Art et de Design de Genève First of all, I would like to thank Sébastien Quequet for all knowledge and help he shared with me during the last months. I would also like to thank Alexandra Midal and Vivien Philizot, as well as Helena, Lisa, Maria, Lourenço and Vasco for all the support. I. Introduction | 13 II. The Chapel Commission The Chapel of all tensions | 21 To build or not to build? | 23 Tension, changes and relations generated by the commission through the project | 24 III. Artwork and Space 1. Mark Rothko and the Abstract Expressionism | 41 2. Anatomy of the interaction between the space and the artwork | 45 3. Narration | 101 4. Religion | 109 IV. Conclusion | 119 Endnotes Annexes Bibliography I. Introduction When I concluded my studies on Product Design, I realized that I was much more aware of the space and the environment created through the relation of elements present than just the objects themselves. This interest led me to become very attentive to museum spaces, more specifically to the relation between the space and the artwork and how the space around an artwork influences its observation. I have come to realize that an artwork doesn’t exist without a space around it; an artwork needs a space to live on and to be observed on. -
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10 Cite Fall 1984 ike cdif tkai Le4, bejj&ie u, &i j&Ue, v^gzs*- ewe cty ike p44A£4 t ezampled we kaue a a H H"A :-OK city. , ; -•- ^'. Houston's lack o) C: Hou7(ini|caV^uwfli)«iio(iPii(fiotW? 1*1 ' I rlirrl • 'mumttA IM>HH» WI#J •i-inir ' f'l'iin « «r* Umm . * 4 d < • • „ . f . 1 I . P l i t . h - " ' - in-vikiml In *lHf« n i i ' t ><i II.• (minli . umlnrti II x u i kdtn i* t-i Ln | •tot i a J w M l < i < i | i > T T J I * | M i -, •• , .t . I IE yE ELAND • > W | i • HOUSTON !•' N T C t \:,. Clockwise from upper left corner: Ford and Colley and Tamminaga, architects, Dominique de Menil and Philip JoblUOH, 1 949 altered; a modern office and industrial building (Houston Postal. Atrial view oj Gulf Freeway built in the Buffalo Speedway corridor (Houston looking tint from St. Emanuel Street, 1950 Metropolitan Refearch Center, Houston Public (Houston CAamberofCommerce). Welder Hall, Library). Houston grandes dames gathered University of St. Thomas, 19">l), Philip Johnson in a modern living room in the Pine Hill section Associates, architects, Bolton and Rarnstone, of River Oaks. Wilion, Morris, Crain and Mi wt iate architects. View of Commons, altered Anderson, architects (Photo by Beadle, courtesy (PbotO by Alexandre Georges). Meyerland House and GardenJ. The Museum o) Modern Company advertisement, 1958 (Houston Art's "Painting Toward Architecture" exhibi- Chamber of Commerce). Project: Montclair tion on display at the Contemporary A rt<A SJOt lo- Shopping Center, I950. -
The Princeton Review's 2011 Edition
The Princeton Review’s GUIDE TO 311 GREEN COPresentedLLE in partnership with Gthe U.S. GreenES Building Council 2011 Edition • 311 school profiles cover Green highlights on the nation’s most eco-friendly campuses, featuring everything from solar panel study rooms to fair-trade fashion. • Get each school’s vital stats on sustainability, including Green majors, Green job placement, getting around Green on campus, and more. • Includes special features on outstanding examples of living and learning Green on campus. THE PRINCETON REVIEW’S GUIDE TO 311 GREEN COLLEGES 2011 EDITION 1 THE PRINCETON Review’s Guide to 311 Green COLLEGES 2011 by The Princeton Review, Inc. The Princeton Review is not affiliated with Princeton University. This is for personal use and not for reproduction or posting. CONTENTS Introduction ..............................................................................................................................................................................5 About This Book ..................................................................................................................................................................5 Why Sustainability On Campus Matters .........................................................................................................................8 Getting Into College ..........................................................................................................................................................11 Getting Involved ...............................................................................................................................................................11 -
A Clapboard Treasure House: Piano's New Museum for the Menil Collection
Cite August 1982 5 Piano's New Museum For The Menil A Clapboard Collection Treasure House Stephen Fox like the tension between business and art, has been a concern in architecture for a long lime. Some of the explosive ethics debates of the 1970s and the emerging On 2 December 1981 at a public presen- business-oriented firms appear clearly foreshadowed in Frank Lloyd Wright's comments published in American Architect in 1930: tation held at Hamman Hall on the Rice ' 'We know who runs the business but, unless unpopulariy curious, we no longer know who makes the designs... University campus, Mrs. John de Menil "Promotion, Financing, Operating, Building here are four departments of modern architectural practice unknown to yesterday's architect, who devoted his mind announced the planned construction of and extended his powers in the direction of making plans and writing specifications for a real building that he himself expected faithfully to superintend." a seventy-thousand-square-foot museum The tension between business and profession cannot be erased. It has been part of the practice of all professions and art storage building to contain the since the rise of industrial capitalism. Even Roscoe Pound's famous definition of what makes a professional indicates this: Menil Foundations extensive collection ' 'The term (professional) refers to a group of men (and women) pursuing a learned art as a common calling in a of art and anthropological artifacts. The spirit of public service—no less a public service because it is incidentally a means of livelihood.'' museum, to be known as The Menil Service and livelihood—profession and business—it is the balance between these two which led to the con- sumer challenges and the court cases in the 1970s. -
Houston Houston, Texas
What’s Out There® Houston Houston, Texas Welcome to What’s Out There® Houston, organized ranged from Picturesque and Beaux-Arts styles to Modernist by The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) and Postmodernist. The Houston Transformation conference with support from national and local partners. and What’s Out There Weekend tours correspond with the th This guidebook provides details about more than 100 anniversary of the founding of the Houston Parks and Recreation Department, which today manages parks and 30 examples of Houston’s incredible legacy of open spaces comprising more than 37,800 acres. parks and public open spaces—sites featured in free, expert-led tours that complemented Leading This guidebook is a complement to TCLF’s much more with Landscape II: The Houston Transformation comprehensive What’s Out There Houston Guide, an conference, also organized by TCLF. interactive online platform that includes all of the enclosed essays plus many others, as well as overarching narratives, The story of zoning and planning in Houston is a fascinating maps, historic photographs, and biographical profiles. That Photo by Natalie Keeton, courtesy Lauren Griffith study, one that lies at the very center of the conference Guide, viewable at tclf.org/houstonguide, is one of a number and tours. It is a story characterized by political wrangling, of online compendia of urban landscapes, dovetailing with economic boom and bust cycles, hurricanes and flooding, TCLF’s Web-based What’s Out There, the nation’s most the influence of the automobile in infrastructure and housing comprehensive searchable database of historic designed development, public-private partnerships, and the presence landscapes. -
The Twombly Gallery
16 i t e S p r i n g 1 9 3 6 C i l e 3 4 S p r i n g 1 9 9 6 • t|U u Twombly Gallery, Renio Piano Building Workshop, architect, wilh Richord Filzgeiald & Partners, associate architect, I f f 5 . U I i ! The T w o m b l y G a l l e r y a n d William F. Stern he 1995 completion of the Twombly Foundation, founded by Dominique de sculpture drawn from the Menil and Dia the Order of St. Basil. The de Menils" TGallery in an early-20th-eentury Menil\ daughter Farina (Philippa) and collections, along with more than 33 architectural influence would first be Montrose neighborhood continues a con- her husband, Hciner Friedrich, owned works donated by the artist himself. The felt when they were asked by the univer- temporary pattern of building that was Twombly paintings and drawings collect- Menil took title of six paintings from Dia sity to assist in the selection of an archi- established with the Rothko Chapel in ed in the 1970s and additional pieces and in so doing helped the foundation ro tect for new buildings. Among those 1971. Like the Rothko and the nearby purchased for Dia in 1980. At the time purchase a building on West 22nd Street recommended, Philip Johnson, who had Menil Collection, the Twombly Gallery nl ilu I womhb exhtbitic i i louston, in New York, across the street from the designed the de Menil house ill River is the result of an unusual three-way discussion began about a collaboration foundation's existing four-story loft Oaks in 1950, received the commission collaboration between artist, architect, between Dia and the Menil for a perma- building. -
Heat and Light Thematised in the Modern Architecture of Houston
703 The Journal of Architecture Volume 16 Number 5 Heat and light thematised in the modern architecture of Houston Michelangelo Sabatino Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture, University of Houston, 122 College of Architecture Bldg, Houston, Texas, TX 77204-4000, USA Mid-twentieth-century modern architecture in Houston thematised responsiveness to the natural phenomena of heat and light despite the fact that Houston’s most celebrated modern buildings were designed to be completely reliant on central air-conditioning. An examination of Houston buildings constructed from the late 1940s through the 1960s demonstrates the ways in which modern architects sought to privilege the architectural rec- ognition of regional climatic difference while also employing modern technology to allevi- ate local climatic extremes of heat and humidity. The spectacular modern buildings that represent this era in Houston raise crucial questions: How did architects reconcile the doc- trine of climatic responsiveness to the equally modern desire for maximum transparency? What proved more compelling: responsiveness to local circumstance or the imperatives of modern structural and mechanical engineering? Did modern architects perceive that there might be contradictions between responsiveness to climate and other aspects of modern architectural identity, such as transparency? Because concern about the roles of building design and construction in the responsible use of natural resources is current at the turn of the twenty-first century, it is pertinent to examine the ways modern architects in a particular climatic setting negotiated the issue of climatic responsiveness as modern architecture became the dominant practice. Introduction States during the post-war period strenuously ques- Twentieth-century modern architecture was ident- tioned the universalising claims of the modern ified with an exploration of innovative building movement by investigating regional building prac- materials and rationalised planning and construc- tices that registered material and climatic differ- tion practices. -
Cover & Table of Contents
Rice Design Alliance William Marsh Rice University I Paid P.O. Box I8V2 Houston, Texas Houston. Texas 772M I A Publication of the Rice Design Alliance Spring 1985 S3.00 The Architecture and Design Review of Houston Recent Housing in Houston A Romantic Urbanism p 9 $ 5« <a 4 • <3B fW A Houston Parks Primer All Around Downtown: A Personal Tour Cite Spring 1985 InCite 3 Citelines 6 Citeations 10 Citesurvey: The Woodlands 12 All Around the Town: A Personal Tour IS Recent Housing in Houston: A Romantic Urbanism 18 A Houston Parks Primer 20 Citesurvey: Robert R. Herring Hal) 20 Citeations Cite 26 HindCite 27 Rice Design Alliance Covet illustration by Edward Fella Annual Report Editorial Committee John Kaliski Elizabeth S. Classman Peter C Papademeinnu Chairman Mark A. Hewitt Macey Reasoner Richard Keating Andrew |ohn Rudnick Raymond I> Brochstein O.Jadt Mitchell William I" Stern Dana CuM W James Murdaugh Drexel Turner Herman Dyal.Jr. Jan O'Brien Bruce C Webb Guest Editor: Jan O'Brien Cite welcomes unsolicited manuscripts. Managing Editor: Linda Leigh Sylvan Authors take full responsibility for secur- Graphic Designer: Lorraine Wild ing required consents and releases and for Publisher: I.ynette M. Gannon the authenticity of their articles. All manuscripts will be considered by the Edi- torial Board. Suggestions for topics are The opinions expressed in Cite do not also welcome. Address correspondence to: necessarily represent the views of the Managing Editor, Cite, Rice Design Board of Directors of the Rice Design Alliance, P. O. Box 1892, Houston, Texas Alliance. 77251. Rice Design Alliance Board of Directors 1984-1985 W James Murdaugh Judy L Allen Burdette Keeland President Sally G. -
Breaking the Box: the Alternative, Libertarian Exhibition Spaces Created by Rothko & Judd
Breaking the Box: The Alternative, Libertarian Exhibition Spaces Created by Rothko & Judd by Stephanie Anne Webb B.F.A., B.A. University of Victoria, 2001 A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS in the Department of History in Art © Stephanie Anne Webb, 2008 University of Victoria All rights reserved. This thesis may not be reproduced in whole or in part by photocopy or other means, without the permission of the author. ii SUPERVISORY COMMITTEE Breaking the Box: The Alternative, Libertarian Exhibition Spaces Created by Rothko & Judd by Stephanie Anne Webb B.F.A., B.A. University of Victoria, 2001 Supervisory Committee: Dr. Allan Antliff, (Department of History in Art) Supervisor Dr. Christopher Thomas, (Department of History in Art) Departmental Member Dr. Astri Wright, (Department of History in Art) Departmental Member Dr. Dániel Biró, (Department of Music) External Examiner iii Dr. Allan Antliff, Supervisor (Department of History in Art) Dr. Christopher Thomas, Departmental Member (Department of History in Art) Dr. Astri Wright, Departmental Member (Department of History in Art) Dr. Dániel Biró, External Examiner (Department of Music) ABSTRACT An exhibition space is neither neutral nor universal and meaning is continually constructed within these mediated spaces. My thesis is an examination of two instances where artists have broken outside the box and carefully crafted unique exhibition spaces within which an intentional dialogue between art works and viewer, art works and space, content and context is established. It considers two twentieth century artists from the United States of America, Mark Rothko and Donald Judd, both of whom rethought and ultimately rejected the mediating constraints prevalent in the conventional exhibition spaces of their time.