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Curatur of the exhibition "Projecting Albania" on the occasion of Tirana Architecture Week 2014
No full textThe exhibition presented in occasion of the TIRANA Architecture Weeks 2014 was a modest summary of the ideas coming from Research Thesis Works of the graduates of Bachelor Programs; Professional Masters Programs, Master of Science Programs and Integrated Master of Science Programs. The exposure of the best thesis were collected from the Faculty of Architecture, Applied Art & Design, Civil Engineering, professional post master in Landscape & Urban Design, Parametric Design, Structural and Aesthetic Design in the POLIS University of Tirana
Voskopoja conservation camp 2012 - Construction technology approach
No full textThis article tries to explain the "construction technology" approach used in the restoration project "Dormition of Saint Mary Church". The aim of the entire project and the various interventions is to evidence the measures undertaken by traditional skills through direct restoration work done by professional experts of the Institute of Cultural Monuments in Tirana, and by the valuable help of the students of Polis University from both Architecture and Art-Design Studies. The author aims at describing the potential of the great cultural and historical resource of the Voskopoja Church and the use of traditional crafts, materials, and techniques in order to better understand the various typologies of the construction technology approach. The author aims at describing the potential of the great cultural and historical resource of the Voskopoja Church and the use of traditional crafts, materials, and techniques in order to better understand the various typologies of the construction technology approach
[re] Appropriation Of The Property Limit
No full textThis article talks about an exhibition created by the same author on the occasion of Tirana Architecture Week in Tirana explaining the main idea. The idea of this exhibition was to [re] appropriate the property limit in Tirana which is one of the problems that we encounter in almost every road or private property in our city and especially in the suburbs. This was an exhibition of photos taken by students or staff during activities like walking the city. The exhibition was inspired by the Agueda Case in Portugal or even Kotorr (Montenegro) where sometimes simple elements of everyday life can be transformed into show-stoppers, art installations which create surrealistic atmospheres and attract people’s attention. Prior to the day of the exhibition, the students worked hard on the construction of the umbrella’s supporting grid and the carton boxes exhibition wall. The exhibition is a guide through the typology of walls used in our city as traditional enclosure walls during the first half of the 20th century, the 1945-1990 period, and finally the typology of walls from the 90’s until the present day in our country. The exhibition discusses the re-appropriation of the walls that limit the property throughout our city. The achievement of the exhibition was to incite the participants to create a critical opinion in the public masses and to contribute with a qualitative dialogue regarding the recognition and renewal of the qualities of public spaces. The main goal was to stimulate the participants’ imagination on how to definitely change the medieval mentality of using fortresses instead of more functional, aesthetic , and appropriate solutions
A general view on the architecture and the elements that increase the aesthetic value of Berat's porched dwellings
No full textThe aim of this article is to recall and highlight the architectural values of Berat's porched dwellings as the most significant typologies of traditional dwellings in Albania, focusing also on the definition of the elements that play an important aesthetic role. Another striking architectural value of the Albanian traditional dwellings is precisely the perfect combination of the composing materials such as stone and wood as an identification tool used at a maximal advantage by the period’s artisans as well as the architectural treatment of the component environments of the Albanian dwellings including those of Berat.These facilities are also enriched with decorative features made of wood elements which increase their aesthetic value. It is worth noting that the decoration used in the interior as well as in the exterior of the house, especially in Berat’s dwellings, has been reduced with time thus increasing the aesthetic values in the Albanian traditional architecture
Critical review of restoration methodology of the architectural heritage adopted in Albania the last 20 years
No full textThe restoration of the architectural heritage is a very complex topic in continuous development. The issue raises interesting questions about the methodological approach to be followed and the objectives from which it must be started for the definition of a correct restoration. In Albania, in academic terms, different normative efforts have been done by means of the production of technical documents that establish how to evaluate the problem with more awareness. In the international field, from a general point of view, it is possible to refer to the ISCARSAH Recommendations that give a preliminary approach, a sort of guidelines about the restoration of historical heritage. Currently, in this field are being used different approaches: either a criterion based on the restoration, which puts attention to the form and to the basic traditional materials of the building but less in the originality of aesthetic design and architectural elements; or a technical method that is more interested at the building but, in many cases, involves over-dimensioned interventions than the real requirements, altering the original form and history of the artefact’s. The research method consists in reviewing case studies and fieldwork especially conducted in Albanian cities with a significant Architectural Heritage during the past 20 years, observations and interviews with the specific restoration experts to better understand their opinion and critics about the adopted restoration methodology. For this purpose, there have been analyzed variable examples like the transformation of the “Vila 14”, designed by arch. S. Luarasi located in st. “Asim Zeneli”, Tirana after the restoration process, the restoration project of the “Babameto’s house” in Gjirokastra, etc., to identify where the architectural heritage sector has received the right restoration methodology to maintain and preserve its aesthetic values. An important part of this analysis is the critical review of the project from the Preliminary identification phase (amnesia and diagnosis), how the structure or the elements that compose it are treated until the intervention phase
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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