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- Title
- WIND MICRO-CLIMATE CONFORMATION IN HOT DRY CITIES; RIYADH
- Creator
- Alhawsah, Saeed Idris
- Date
- 2019
- Description
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Recently, the transformation in urban development in Saudi Arabia has caused abrupt and sporadic change to its desert climate. Careful...
Show moreRecently, the transformation in urban development in Saudi Arabia has caused abrupt and sporadic change to its desert climate. Careful environmental consideration of vernacular architecture practices is lost by the vast modernization. The significant changes of modernization contain desertification, sand rapping due to massive urban construction, and urban heat islands, all that has created a severe issue with sandstorms. Saudi’s modernization changed sandstorms phenomena from its seasonal occasions to a frequent rapid increase as a result of the urban inability to maintain its naturally mild and soothing condition. All the global incidents from the natural refugees in Gobi Desert, China, to the 1930s U.S. dustbowl are evident to the urban environmental disturbance. This research is an environmental investigation to reduce the sandstorm effects in Saudi Arabia through designing multiple territorial landscape interventions to filter out the sandstorms and trap its sediments to avoid reoccurring sandstorms.
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- The City in the Landscape: Alfred Caldwell's Broader Perspective on Urban Design
- Creator
- Jones, Kristin, Garcia-Requejo, Zaida
- Date
- 2020, 2020
- Publisher
- Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València
- Description
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Alfred Caldwell was among the first full- time American professors Mies van der Rohe hired at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). Many...
Show moreAlfred Caldwell was among the first full- time American professors Mies van der Rohe hired at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). Many have admired Mies’s architecture since the 1920s, and know that his ideas were also transmitted as a professor, first at the Bauhaus in Europe and then as Director of the Department of Architecture at IIT. Caldwell, a practicing landscape architect and protégé of Jens Jensen, is perhaps less widely known, but was a major influence on IIT’s program especially in the areas of construction, landscape, and architectural history. Caldwell completed a Master of Science in City Planning with a thesis entitled The City in the Landscape: A Preface for Planning, which can be considered a manifesto of both his professional ideas and IIT’s planning pedagogy. In addition to his own works, Caldwell collaborated with Mies and architect Ludwig Hilberseimer, Director of City and Regional Planning at IIT and former Head of Building Theory at the Bauhaus, on the design of built works which left behind artifacts representing the ideal of “the city in the landscape.” This communication examines the broader perspective on urban design influenced by the symbiotic disciplines of architecture, city-regional planning and landscape as manifested in the individual and collaborative built work and pedagogy of Caldwell, Hilberseimer, and Mies.
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- EAAE-ARCC International Conference & 2nd Valencia International Biennial
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- Sketchbook 4: Meetings 2001
- Creator
- Gordon, Robert Philip
- Date
- 2001
- Description
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Sketchbook containing sketches of various Mayor's Committee meetings, including the Streetscape Committee, Parks & Open Space Committee, and...
Show moreSketchbook containing sketches of various Mayor's Committee meetings, including the Streetscape Committee, Parks & Open Space Committee, and Landscape Task Force. The sketches date from February to July 2001, and include such projects as Soldier Field and the "Central Area," Jackson Park, Grant Park, and the 31st Street overpass. One sketch includes an unbuilt Santiago Calatrava design for a pedestrian bridge at Queen's Landing in Grant Park.
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- Robert Philip Gordon papers, 1963-2010
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- Tree planting on campus, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1980s
- Creator
- Illinois Institute of Technology
- Date
- 1980-1989
- Description
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Photograph of tree planting activities on the Illinois Institute of Technology campus. Date of photograph unknown. Date range listed is...
Show morePhotograph of tree planting activities on the Illinois Institute of Technology campus. Date of photograph unknown. Date range listed is approximate.
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- Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999
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- Tree planting on campus, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1980s
- Creator
- Illinois Institute of Technology
- Date
- 1980-1989
- Description
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Photograph of tree planting activities on the Illinois Institute of Technology campus. Date of photograph unknown. Date range listed is...
Show morePhotograph of tree planting activities on the Illinois Institute of Technology campus. Date of photograph unknown. Date range listed is approximate.
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- Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999