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Item From vernacular to spectacular: a conference center in Kerrville, Texas(Texas Tech University, 1991-05) Franklin, Paul AndrewNot availableItem The impotent toolkit : challenges and limitations of co-design for societal value in Southeast Louisiana's landscapes of African American dispossession(2015-05) McDowell, Robin Boeun; Lee, Gloria; Tang, Eric; Lewis, RandolphThis report details a reflexive practice that lies in the emerging field of co-design for societal value. This territory marks a move from user participation to equal empowerment of stakeholders--that is, designers, users, and other project constituents defining objectives and working through design processes together via a shared vision for more just and sustainable ways of living. The body of design work examined in this report is a combination of traditional products of graphic design, participatory design methods, and ethnography. Initiated around a physically demolished and institutionally repressed history of enslaved Africans in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, the value of this work is not found in formal qualities of designed objects or in a groundbreaking process model, but in detailed documentation of consistent reflection on the role of the designer as outsider. This broadened analysis offers an expansion of the repertoire of co-design case studies.Item Mexican architecture and the culture within(Texas Tech University, 1999-05) Stapleton, Michael D.Efforts by the Mexican government to improve the economic condition of Mexico, plus the desire to expand architectural markets is leading foreign architects to seek work in Mexico. Traditionally, Mexico has been a two-class society, the tiny rich ruling class and the large poor lower class. However, this situation is changing with Mexico's current burgeoning middle-class. This is resulting in a growing market for new single-family housing. The purpose of this thesis is to identiiy a program to meet the Mexican single-family housing demand. The criteria must include social, cultural and historical content, as well as spatial organization and use. Architecture is often required to satisfy a diverse set of objectives, but it is the author's sincere conviction that successful architecture must meet two primary objectives. It must be meaningful as well as fimctional. The creation of meaningful architecture requires the designer to understand the context in which they are working, through searching for the essence of a place. It requires that the accidental or superficial qualities of a place not be allowed to obscure the immaterial or spiritual quality of a place. This requires the designer to seek out the culture of a people and to grasp how a culture imbeds itself within its architecture. Thus, within this thesis the author describes the culture of the Mexican people and how their culture is embedded within their architecture. Furthermore, the author poses the idea that this embedded culture has survived and adapted to the changes in Mexican society over thousands of years, including Spanish colonization, and that it still survives within Mexican architecture being produced now. The research data will be collected by the author through a literature search, discussions with architects in Mexico as well as other Mexican people, plus direct experience through living in Mexico, working in a Mexican architectural office, and designing single-family Mexican housing. The research data will be synthesized and presented in a format that first provides architects with a broad overview of Mexican culture, followed by a summary of Mexican architecture, and finally an in depth understanding of a specific building type, the Mexican house. Thus, the thesis is divided into three chapters. Cultural Context, Architectural History and the Mexican house, in that order.Item Mexican architecture and the culture within(1999-05) Stapleton, Michael D.Efforts by the Mexican government to improve the economic condition of Mexico. plus the desire to expand architectural markets is leading foreign architects to seek work in Mexico. Traditionally, Mexico has been a two-class society. the tiny rich ruling class and the large poor lower class. However, this situation is changing with Mexico· s current burgeoning middle-class. This is resulting in a growing market for new single-family housing. The purpose of this thesis is to identify a program to meet the Mexican single-family housing demand. The criteria must include sociaL cultural and historical content, as well as spatial organization and use. Architecture is often required to satisfy a diverse set of objectives, but it is the author's sincere conviction that successful architecture must meet two primary objectives. It must be meaningful as well as functional. The creation of meaningful architecture requires the designer to understand the context in \vhich they are working. through searching for the essence of a place. It requires that the accidental or superficial qualities of a place not be allowed to obscure the immaterial or spiritual quality of a place. This requires the designer to seek out the culture of a people and to grasp how a culture imbeds itself within its architecture. Thus, \vi thin this thesis the author describes the culture of the Mexican people and ho\v their culture is imbedded within their architecture. Furthennore, the author poses the idea that this imbedded culture has survived and adapted to the changes in Mexican society over thousands of VI years. including Spanish colonization. and that it still survives within Mexican architecture being produced now. The research data will be collected by the author through a literature search. discussions with architects in Mexico as well as other Mexican people. plus direct experience through living in Mexico, working in a Mexican architectural office, and designing single-family Mexican housing. The research data will be synthesized and presented in a fonnat that first provides architects with a broad overview of Mexican culture, followed by a summary of Mexican architecture, and finally an in depth understanding of a specific building type, the Mexican house. Thus, the thesis is divided into three chapters, Cultural Context, Architectural History and the Mexican house, in that order.Item Mexican architecture and the culture within(Texas Tech University, 1999-05) Stapleton, Michael D.Efforts by the Mexican government to improve the economic condition of Mexico, plus the desire to expand architectural markets is leading foreign architects to seek work in Mexico. Traditionally, Mexico has been a two-class society, the tiny rich ruling class and the large poor lower class. However, this situation is changing with Mexico's current burgeoning middle-class. This is resulting in a growing market for new single-family housing. The purpose of this thesis is to identify a program to meet the Mexican single-family housing demand. The criteria must include social, cultural and historical content, as well as spatial organization and use. Architecture is often required to satisfy a diverse set of objectives, but it is the author's sincere conviction that successful architecture must meet two primary objectives. It must be meaningful as well as functional. The creation of meaningful architecture requires the designer to understand the context in which they are working, through searching for the essence of a place. It requires that the accidental or superficial qualities of a place not be allowed to obscure the immaterial or spiritual quality of a place. This requires the designer to seek out the culture of a people and to grasp how a culture imbeds itself within its architecture. Thus, within this thesis the author describes the culture of the Mexican people and how their culture is imbedded within their architecture. Furthermore, the author poses the idea that this imbedded culture has survived and adapted to the changes in Mexican society over thousands of years, including Spanish colonization, and that it still survives within Mexican architecture being produced now. The research data will be collected by the author through a literature search, discussions with architects in Mexico as well as other Mexican people, plus direct experience through living in Mexico, working in a Mexican architectural office, and designing single-family Mexican housing. The research data will be synthesized and presented in a format that first provides architects with a broad overview of Mexican culture, followed by a summary of Mexican architecture, and finally an in depth understanding of a specific building type, the Mexican house. Thus, the thesis is divided into three chapters. Cultural Context, Architectural History and the Mexican house, in that order.Item Towards a contemporary vernacular architecture: the coast region of Ecuador(Texas Tech University, 2004-05) Ponce Valverde, JavierFor some Ecuadorians, a typical day might include checking e-mail, going to a shopping mall, eating a Whopper at Burger King, watching an NBA basketball game on ESPN, [or] renting one of Hollywood's latest box office hits at Blockbuster. One might be tempted to conclude that globalization has created a common culture among the world's diverse nations, especially in the Americas.' While it is true that most Ecuadorians actively embrace many features of the American way of life, they do not simply imitate their influential northern neighbors. Although Ecuadorians' have accepted many aspects of foreign cultures, they have also been persistent in cultivating and defending their Ecuadorianness. This thesis is a study of architecture within this context of cultural permeability and uniqueness. This study aims to demonstrate that through regionalism, contemporary Ecuadorian architecture can be founded upon rescuing and adapting regional cultural and natural conceptions. Currently this regional approach is rarely seen, due to the dominance of a universal architectural trend spread through globalization. In an attempt to gain architectural independence from universal trends, this thesis identifies common regional patterns that can be rescued from local historical architecture and that can form a basis for a future regional architecture. In essence, this thesis is a search for and translation of regional architecture undertaken through an analysis and synthesis of two main aspects. First, the analyses and discussions of vernacularism, regionalism, and critical regionalism are addressed, in order to define the most suitable theoretical basis for this proposal. Second, a study of local Ecuadorian architectural experiences is provided in which appropriate formulation and adequate architectural responses have been accomplished through focusing on immediate societal and contextual needs. This study focuses on two basic dwelling types. The Guayas house as the most predominant vernacular architecture from the rural areas of the Coast Region, and the modem housing estate house as a demonstration of the influence of globalization in cultural assets.Item Towards a contemporary vernacular architecture: The coast region of Eduador(2004-05) Valverde, Javier P.While it is true that most Ecuadorians actively embrace many features of the American way of life, they do not simply imitate their influential northern neighbors. Although Ecuadorians' have accepted many aspects of foreign cultures, they have also been persistent in cultivating and defending their Ecuadorianness. This thesis is a study of architecture within this context of cultural permeability and uniqueness. This study aims to demonstrate that through regionalism, contemporary Ecuadorian architecture can be founded upon rescuing and adapting regional cultural and natural conceptions. Currently this regional approach is rarely seen, due to the dominance of a universal architectural trend spread through globalization. In an attempt to gain architectural independence from universal trends, this thesis identifies common regional patterns that can be rescued from local historical architecture and that can form a basis for a future regional architecture. In essence, this thesis is a search for and translation of regional architecture undertaken through an analysis and synthesis of two main aspects. First, the analyses and discussions of vernacularism, regionalism, and critical regionalism are addressed, in order to define the most suitable theoretical basis for this proposal. Second, a study of local Ecuadorian architectural experiences is provided in which appropriate formulation and adequate architectural responses have been accomplished through focusing on immediate societal and contextual needs. This study focuses on two basic dwelling types. The Guayas house as the most predominant vernacular architecture from the rural areas of the Coast Region, and the modern housing estate house as a demonstration of the influence of globalization in cultural assets.Item Traditional vernacular houses of the arid lands: an analysis of the applicability of a traditional vernacular dwelling for contemporary needs--the Navaho model(Texas Tech University, 1989-08) Gonzalez Aguirre de Petrini, Olivia AmeliaDuring the last 10 years, at least, numerous authors have emphasized the adequacy of primitive and traditional vernacular structures as solutions to the habitational needs of people around the world, particularly in developing nations: Regarding the arid and semiarid lands, several authors agree that primitive and vernacular dwellings and settlements—present and past—represent successful human adaptations to life in arid environments. These authors argue that these primitive and vernacular responses to the arid conditions embody a wealth of design principles which should be retrieved and applied today.