9 research outputs found
Texas Capitol Complex Update
No full textNewsletter from the Texas Capitol Complex Project discussing news and updates about phase II, as well as other information related to construction and the implementation of the master plan for the state capitol complex adopted in 2016
Texas Capitol Complex Update
No full textNewsletter from the Texas Capitol Complex Project discussing news and updates about phase II, as well as other information related to construction and the implementation of the master plan for the state capitol complex adopted in 2016
Texas Capitol Complex Update
No full textNewsletter from the Texas Capitol Complex Project discussing news and updates about phase II, as well as other information related to construction and the implementation of the master plan for the state capitol complex adopted in 2016
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Changing parking building in the Texas Capitol Complex
No full texttextThe site is in a garage area in the state capitol complex, Austin Texas. Even though this
place is located near by important government facilities and public park and links between
UT Campus and Central Business District, there are no people who enjoy the place because
there are no function except parking. There are just authoritative and mono-cultural office
buildings and boring parking buildings. On the street, there are no trees, retails, and galleries
for pedestrians. Existing parking buildings are same type and structure. Because the city
has several plans to develop this area in the future such as Waller Creek Development, UT
Medical School Master Plan, and Austin's Urban Rail, you can see the importance of this area.
The most critical problem is this area is cutting the relationship between UT Campus and
Downtown. My question is "How can a new type of parking building contribute to make the
Texas Capitol Complex good place?" So I suggest a new type of mix-used parking building.
The project goal is to gather people, link separated places: The State Capitol, Waller Creek,
UT Campus, CBD, intermingle different functions: garage, gallery, shop, theater, restaurant,
lounge, pool, park, and then make the place more dynamic, enjoyable and energetic
place. Further, I expect that Austin become interesting city to live and visit through like this
new place.Architectur
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Texas State Capitol 1882-1888
No full textThis project employs an alternative methodology to investigating the multi-layered histories embedded in the built environment. Conventional narratives of the capitol focus on political events, but close attention the Limestone-Granite Controversy of 1884 allows for the telling of alternate and marginalized histories. By analyzing the history of the Texas statehouse through its stone construction; the Limestone-Granite Controversy of 1884 proved to be a defining moment in the history of the capitol and resonated through the quarry communities, laborers, politics, construction technology, in pervasive ways. Key figures and broader convict and social labor histories are depicted with minimal attention afforded to the significance of the construction materials. This project seeks to focus on the stone as the intersecting artifact to uncover an alternative history of the Texas State Capitol. The granite and limestone exterior embodies a complex multi-facetted history that is exposed on the surface of the building. The type of stone tells a story of that specific quarry history, landscape, and its community impact and perception. The people and how and what tools they used had a lasting effect on the built environment. These textured tooling marks and rough chiseled rock-pitch face stone are direct connections to the skilled stonecutters and convict laborers that shaped the stone for such a monumental building. The Limestone-Granite Controversy and the subsequent change of construction stone type reveals an alternative historic landscape for the Texas State Capitol.Architectur
The Christian Right and US Foreign Policy in the Twenty-first Century
No full textThe thesis discusses the role of the Christian Right in the US foreign policy decision making process. The research revealed that the Christian Right has long been fascinated with some international issues in general and US foreign policy in particular. The Christian Right’s interest in international issues increased markedly during years of the George W. Bush presidency. It successfully widened its activities from domestic social conservative issues to foreign policy issues by participating in, articulating and lobbying for its religious version of American foreign policy. In assessing the role of the Christian Right in US foreign policy making, this dissertation examines three aspects of US foreign policy, namely Israel, international religious freedom and global humanitarianism. Based on these aspects, the Christian Right is seen as skilled in framing and defining issues. The Christian Right seems effective in selecting and prioritizing international issues that have a reasonable chance of being selected by foreign policy decision makers, especially in Congress. Moreover, the Christian Right has shown its maturity in seeking engagement and cooperation with other organizations, secular and religious, in order to advance its international goals. Finally, in pursuing and conveying its international agenda, the Christian Right has adopted a more moderate and less overtly religious approach. Instead of using its traditional religious rhetoric, the Christian Right has successfully projected its foreign policy preferences into the conventional realist discourse of American foreign policy that is largely based on the objective of national interest and national security. Nevertheless, this study does not, in any way, conclude that the Christian Right was able to influence or determine the direction of US foreign policy and its outcomes; however, it does suggest that the Christian Right did contribute and have an impact on the formulation of some US foreign policy. As such, the research contends that the role of the Christian Right is similar to other interest group lobbies and that its perceived influence on US foreign policy should not be exaggerated. Finally, the research suggests that the emergence of the Christian Right as an actor in asserting its global agenda through US foreign policy can possibly provide an example of how religious beliefs and values can become a potential source of “soft power”. Together with the “climate of opinion” of the American public during the Bush administration, the “soft power” at domestic level could serve as a valuable new explanatory variable in understanding how the US foreign policy was formulated in the early 21st century
Review of \u3ci\u3eFort Worth\u27s Legendary Landmarks\u3c/i\u3e By Carol Roark
No full textFew substantial cities in the United States can boast of such an impressive aggregate of preserved pre-Second World War architectural wealth as Fort Worth, Texas. Downtown Cow town is largely intact, featuring block after block of continuous shop fronts, brick streets, and terra cotta details scraping the sky. Business and nightlife abound in this vintage precinct, whose century-old courthouse still houses county courts. A secondary downtown at the Stockyards Historic District is past its prime as a sprawling slaughterhouse but today is the thriving destination for herds of tourists. Even close-in historic neighborhoods remain vibrant, although their occupants long ago traded original trolley connections-just as most Texans swapped their horses-for automobiles (and pickups, of course).
While most American cities must mourn the urban fabric they\u27ve lost in the past fifty years, Fort Worth is still a place capable of inspiring a handsome book on its imposing survivors. Fort Worth\u27s Legendary Landmarks illustrates, celebrates, and explains the city\u27s architectural heritage using well-preserved buildings dating from the 1870s through the late 1930s. The community that thrived during this period on livestock and petroleum, as well as regional commercial service to the vast reaches of West Texas, provides a fine tableau of popular American architecture.
Yet amid the usual Victorian mansions, Mediterranean villas, Classical Revival monuments, and Art Deco high-rises stand many landmarks with few national rivals. Fort Worth\u27s Beaux-Arts-inspired 1893 Tarrant County Courthouse emerged from the same granite quarry as the State Capitol in Austin, finished five years earlier, but here a more generous budget resulted in much finer embellishments. The 1902 Livestock Exchange Building with its neighbor 1907 Coliseum together push Mission Revival Style to a zenith of design and adapted function. And the massive Art Deco styled Texas & Pacific railroad office and warehouse begun in 1930, flanking the 1931 Federal temple (with cowskull capitals) Post Office, all form an enduring and beloved urban complex.
Author Carol Roark weaves an informative and easily-read text out of both her hometown knowledge and a comprehensive historic sites inventory. Roark credits that ten-year survey project-plus resulting individual documents for designations as local and state landmarks, and listings in the National Register of Historic Places-as the source of the book\u27s selection criteria and depth of detail. Photographer Byrd Williams combined his existing collection of recent photographs with images crafted specifically for this volume, often exposing his large-format negatives, ranging from 5x7 - to 18x24-inch sheets, in cloudy-bright conditions and slow speeds for consistent lighting on all building sides. Many of his time exposures for interiors and nighttime street scenes are stunning, especially when rain glazed brick streets glow in the foreground
A study, exploration and development of the interaction of music production techniques in a contemporary desktop setting
No full textAs with all computer-based technologies, music production is advancing at a rate comparable to ‘Moore’s law’. Developments within the discipline are gathering momentum exponentially; stretching the boundaries of the field,
deepening the levels to which mediation can be applied, concatenating previously discrete hardware technologies into the desktop domain, demanding greater insight from practitioners to master these technologies and even
defining new genres of music through the increasing potential for sonic creativity to evolve.
This DMus project will draw from the implications of the above developments and study the application of technologies currently available in the desktop environment, from emulations of that which was traditionally hardware to the latest spectrally based audio-manipulation tools. It will investigate the interaction of these technologies, and explore creative
possibilities that were unattainable only a few years ago – all as exemplified through the production of two contrasting albums of music. In addition, new software will be developed to actively contribute to the evolution of music production as we know it. The focus will be on extended production technique and innovation, through both development and context.
The commentary will frame the practical work. It will offer a research context with a number of foci in preference to literal questions, it will qualify the methodology and then form a literature & practice review. It will then present a series of frameworks that analyse music production contexts and technologies in a historical perspective. By setting such a trajectory, the current state-of-the-art can be best placed, and a number of the progressive production techniques associated with the submitted artefacts can then by contextualised. It will terminate with a discussion of the work that moves from the specific to the general
The self-conscious chanson : creative responses to the art versus commerce debate
No full textThis thesis investigates self-consciousnessin chanson. It examines,in particular, French popular songs that question and problematise the chanson form and the role of the chanson artist. While certain forms of self-consciousnessc an be traced back to the troubadours, this thesis will argue that the specifically self interrogatory nature of self-consciousness found in modern French chanson can
be attributed to artists responding to the 'art versus commerce' debate. It is precisely through their responses that a particular conception of chanson is constructed. Chanson, in this self-conscious discourse, differs from both varieties and Anglo-American pop music as well as from governmental and institutional definitions of the genre. The thesis examines the diverse, and at times ambiguous,
effects of this self-consciousness. Moreover, it argues
that reading chanson from a self-conscious perspective suggests a redefinition of chanson's relationship to
cultural debates. It also provides a new interpretative grille for its analysis, and enables the researcher to find different and possibly deeper meanings than those revealed through an examination of overriding thematic preoccupations.
The thesis is in three parts. Part I comprises two introductory chapters: an Introduction and a Literature Survey and Methodology (Chapter 1). Part 11 consists of a thematic investigation of the guises self-consciousness takes in chanson. It focuses, in particular, on the conscious evolution of a chanson genre (Chapter 2); the constructed role of chanson (Chapter 3); and the figure of the chanson artist (Chapter 4). Part III comprises three case studies: Serge Gainsbourg, Renaud and MC Solaar. Each artist in Part III was chosen because, on the one hand, his work is especially self-conscious in nature, and, on the other, he makes an original contribution to the art versus commerce debate
