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Item A zoological garden(1961-05) Taylor, Paul E.Lubbock and the entire West Texas region have never been able to experience the pleasures of regular and frequent visits to a zoological garden. The nearest zoo is in Fort Worth, about three-hundred miles to the East. The nearest zoo West of Lubbock is at Albuquerque, New Mexico. Of sixty-six West Texas c-ounties having a combined population of about 1,188,000 not one has convenient access to a zoological garden. Starting a new zoological garden is a tremendous and difficult task. Previous inquires into establishing a zoo at Lubbock have been made by a local service group but upon learning the cost the project was abandoned. A minimum amount of four million dollars is required to start a new zoo in a new area of about thirty to fifty acres_. 1 Operating budgets, exclusive of animal purchases and new capital structure, exceed four hundred thousand dollars annually for very modest zoos and exceed two million dollars for the larger zoos.2 This thesis is done in the hopes that someday, somehow, Lubbock will have a zoological garden of such size and stature to serve the people of West Texas.Item Botonical garden and research center(1964-05) Crump, M. T.Item Cross-cultural significance of connotative meaning in architecture: a comparison of Chinese, British, and American interpretations of meaning in Chinese Gardens(Texas Tech University, 1996-12) Zhou, YiBefore the Industrial Revolution, architecture was considered one ofthe disciplines of the humanities. It was recognized that well-designed buildings contain both denotative and connotative meanings to satisfy physical and psychological needs. The project of modernity and the accompanying search for the universal have "shattered this optimism." Only the importance of physical need is emphasized in architecture today. It embodies the power of science, and legitimizes architecture as a recognizable 'professional' enterprise. Functionalism prevails in architecture which may contribute to a general ignorance of any connotative meaning by the designer and the general public alike. This has created a situation in which much of architecture tends to be merely an object of utility, invoking the outrage of such as Thomas Bernhard; "... every new building they (builders and architects) put up is another crime they commit, a building crime against humanity . We are helpless against the destruction of our global surface by architects." To solve the problems resulting from a fianctionalist only approach to architectural design—sterile image, throw away buildings, glass boxes, etc., is to restore connotative meaning to architecture. The question is can modernity and connotation coexist in architecture? In the author's view, through the inclusion of connotative meaning, much more of architecture can be understood, even by culturally detached viewers, and that its inclusion would provide universality whereby people would enjoy the built environment much more than they do at present. The purpose of this thesis is to test this point of view.