Essays about: "modernist"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 80 essays containing the word modernist.

1. 1. FINDING TRACES OF THE MODERN MOVEMENT IN GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN Implementing personal value through visualisation as a conservation tool

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvård

   Author : Inès Vandesompele; [2024-01-30]
   Keywords : The Modern Movement; personal value; conservation; Swedish built environment;

   Abstract : The organisation Docomomo International is engaged in the documentation and conservation of the built environment related to the Modern Movement. Therefore, it was essential to discuss what this means for our modernist heritage. READ MORE

3. 2. Dead Spaces, Vibrant Places : Planning ideology, practice, and the built environment in Umeå

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för geografi

   Author : Alexander Ganassini; [2023]
   Keywords : public space; vibrancy; public life studies;

   Abstract : A vibrant place is abundant in energy and life. This vibrant energy comes from the presence of a great diversity of people performing a great diversity of activities. Vibrancy is an atmosphere we can intuitively feel in certain public spaces, and likewise we intuitively feel when a place is dead. READ MORE

4. 3. Spatializing Hospitality : A design exploration on how to provide spatial agency to immigrant households in Sweden

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet

   Author : Kajsa Grundström; [2023]
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   Abstract : The thesis investigates how a host country can apply ethics of hospitality to housing that allow refugees and asylum seekers spatial agency. The necessity of doing this is to reduce the passive state of being “guests” for refugees when they are waiting for answers of asylum application approval. READ MORE

5. 4. Fractal and entropy analysis of traditional and modernist building facades in street-level view : the case of Sweden’s growing cities

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

   Author : Alexis Ken Cartajenas; [2023]
   Keywords : fractal dimension; information entropy; street-level view; building façade; preference matrix;

   Abstract : This study presents a quantitative analysis of traditional and modernist building facades in urban environments, focusing on the assessment of their complexity and coherence. Fractal and entropy analysis techniques were employed to objectively evaluate the differences between the two architectural styles within the preference matrix framework. READ MORE

6. 5. “Every Time You Call Me Crazy I Get More Crazy”: Sylvia Plath, Taylor Swift, and Confessional Performances

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

   Author : Kajsa Reinholdsson; [2023]
   Keywords : Sylvia Plath; Taylor Swift; biographical performativity; mad studies; mad theory; auto biography; confessional poetry; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the works and personas of Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift and analyses the popular conflations of their real lives and their works. Jon Helt Haarder’s theory of biographical performativity is introduced to analyse the threshold aesthetics between reality and art and investigate the feedback loops between oeuvres andlives as well as the interpretation of these in the public sphere. READ MORE