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0000-0003-1919-8523
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University of Tasmania Launceston Campus
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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-03-2021
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 21-09-2018
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 03-2022
DOI: 10.1108/ARCH-09-2021-0257
Abstract: Iconic buildings, especially museums, are often enrolled in creating an identity for cities, yet cities and museums have been sometimes uneasy partners in using architecture to shape city identity. This paper examines the negotiations of place identity amid the conflicting influences of global design trends and local cultural nostalgia through the case of a single development in Aspen, Colorado. In this case study, using discourse analysis and grounded theory methods, the authors analyzed interviews, planning documents and critical opinions in the press to reveal the ways in which complex identities and contradictory planning directives shape a single building in a hyper-glocal Western town. This analysis presents a place with complex and at times conflicting identities: residents have intense local concerns in parallel with global allegiances. The Aspen Art Museum building by Shigeru Ban similarly reflects a complex and contradictory identity with its bold design which confronted notions of local identity expressed in the built environment. Despite engaged citizenry and carefully crafted planning directives, the resulting design did not reflect locally produced culture but instead revealed the influence of international capital in the urban fabric. This study examines the tension between hyper-local concerns and international status enacted on a single site in a small yet metropolitan place in the American West offering insights regarding the emplacement of buildings and the subsequent impacts on a place. As cities and institutions move beyond placeless iconic architecture, architecture and urban planning practice will need to adapt to the new paradigm where buildings can be at once global yet also local, drawing on innovative design practices and local culture in the construction of place.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-02-2020
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 14-04-2016
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 07-06-2022
DOI: 10.1108/ARCH-02-2022-0028
Abstract: The Tourist Gaze has been debated, reimagined and applied to a variety of actors and settings. This paper helps investigate how contemporary architecture operates as subject and participant in gazing practices. Using Yelp reviews of art museums in a regional US city, a thematic analysis of text reviews and image uploads was conducted. Reviewers do refer to buildings as objects of the gaze but they also connect their experience of the building to emotions and to actions and use the building to orient themselves spatially. This article demonstrates that contemporary buildings are important components of tourist experiences as objects of the gaze, but also as frames for gazing and as stages for tourist practices. The research implications are both topical and methodological: the paper demonstrates that contemporary (neo-modern) architecture is a vibrant avenue of research, and that social networking sites are a promising potential source of data for studying architecture in the social field. This research uses an underexplored data set, Yelp reviews, to capture what people pay attention to and think others will find interesting about architecture. It also adds important layers to studies on the tourist gaze. First, it emphasizes that architecture is important to tourists not only as an object of the gaze but also as a site for affective experience, action and daily life. Second, it addresses some building styles beyond the historical ones that are foundational to the idea of the tourist gaze.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-05-2022
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 30-11-2014
DOI: 10.26687/ARCHNET-IJAR.V8I3.433
Abstract: Learning about human behavior, cultural ersity, and user perspectives are all part of the NAAB-required curriculum for educating architects. Beyond that, these skills help architects compete in a global and erse world. Semantic ethnography offers a method for understanding the user perspective in cultural settings. We present a research and design project centered on semantic ethnography as a way to teach architecture students about how to design for user groups. A survey administered to two years of students indicates that this project is indeed helpful for teaching students about how to find and listen to the user perspective.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-02-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2021
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 18-07-2017
DOI: 10.26687/ARCHNET-IJAR.V11I2.1159
Abstract: After over a decade of reports, designs, and public outreach, the United Nations Plaza in San Francisco was dedicated in 1976. Using historical documents such as government reports, design guidelines, letters, meeting minutes, and newspaper articles from archives, I argue that while the construction of the UN Plaza has failed to completely transform the social and economic life of the area, it succeeds in creating a genuinely public space. The history of the UN Plaza can serve both as a cautionary tale for those interested in changing property values purely through changing design, and as a standard of success in making a space used by a true cross-section of urban society.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-11-2018
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 14-02-2013
Abstract: As the United States adjusts to the necessity of ecological sustainability, buildings play an important role because of their use of resources—and because they are potent nonverbal symbols of new societal values. The David Brower Center in Berkeley, California, strives to be a model for sustainability. Environmental impact is often the focus of those concerned with sustainability, but here, additionally, the designers aim to raise public awareness of sustainability through the building. For this reason, this building became the site for a postoccupancy evaluation class exercise architecture students analyzed the building and what it communicates about sustainability from the perspective of its users. Findings indicate that many people did not adequately read the building’s green design characteristics: Social and symbolic communication could be improved by increasing signage and evolving clearer symbolism for “green.”
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-08-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-07-2023
Location: United States of America
Location: United States of America
Start Date: 10-2023
End Date: 10-2028
Amount: $2,959,803.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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