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Fig. 17/18: Drawing on the "power from powerless" theme of the hip hop culture, I created a space that would erase the "vacant lot" and replace it with "valued space"

Fig. 17: Closeup of stamp from Fig. 16

Fig. 17: Night views into apartments

Fig. 17: West side of St. George Street looking south

Fig. 18: "Window Dressing" postcard

Fig. 18: East side of St. George Street

Fig. 18: Night view of man in window: Lafayette Towers, "heterotopia of dwelling"

Fig. 19, 20: Ventilation panels and heating causeways, Lafayette Towers, detail

Fig. 19: Postcard

Fig. 19: Sidney Smith Square looking southwest

Fig. 1: Barcelona

Fig. 1: Oblique shot of map

Fig. 1: Party wall during window replacement, spring 1977

Fig. 1: Sidney Smith Square looking northeast

Fig. 1: Site photo

Fig. 1: The spaciousness of Panurbia

Fig. 1: Trojan Horse

Fig. 1: Windowless frontage

Fig. 1A, 1B, 1C: Locke's spatial principle

Fig. 20: "Detroit" postcard

Fig. 21: Lafayette Towers (1961-63)

Fig. 22: West Tower reflected in East Tower, Lafayette Park

Fig. 23: Layfayette Towers, efficiency apartment-view east toward periphery wall

Fig. 24: Layfayette Towers, efficiency apartment-view toward corridor

Fig. 25: Layfayette Towers, parking structure and pool

Fig. 26: Two-story Townhouse building, Layfette Park

Fig. 2: Bonus Army Camp

Fig. 2: Defence Corps building

Fig. 2: Detroit Street Map

Fig. 2: Office parks in Fairfax County

Fig. 2: Party wall - Sound waves, moveable closet - student project

Fig. 2: Seville

Fig. 2: Trinity Bellwoods Park proposal - Model of park showing new bridges, restored ravine profile with new connected pond system

Fig. 2: West Mall

Fig. 2A, 2B, 2C: Lefebvre's spatial principle

Fig. 3: Aerial photo of downtown Detroit, 1995

Fig. 3: Atomized initial sites of Foucault's thesis

Fig. 3: Garrison Watershed and City Context showing built form and highlighted open spaces

Fig. 3: Master plan

Fig. 3: Parking

Fig. 3: Party wall - Adjacencies + Encroachments - student project

Fig. 3: Placa de las Olles, Barcelona

Fig. 3: Resurrection City

Fig. 3: Urban Renewal 1

Fig. 4: Adjacencies: Layfayette Tower rising behind the two story rowhouses

Fig. 4: Anti-apartheid shanties

Fig. 4: Archival map of Trinity Bellwoods Park showing original ravine profile

Fig. 4: Banding at the WestPark Office Park

Fig. 4: Block Structure

Fig. 4: Detail of patched aerial photo card

Fig. 4: Heterotopian links of Foucault's thesis

Fig. 4: Placa de las Olles

Fig. 4: Urban Renewal 2

Fig. 5/6: Kimbell museum (model/entry)

Fig. 5/6: Street images of the city

Fig. 5: Adjacencies: view from townhouse toward courtyard house

Fig. 5: Alternative link theorized from Foucault's initial thesis

Fig. 5: Building Site

Fig. 5: Girona

Fig. 5: Photomontage

Fig. 5: This bridge is buried intact, as is most of the ravine lands shown in the picture

Fig. 5: View of WestPark Office Park from Tyson's Galleria

Fig. 6: Adjacencies: views of the west tower and of the Layfayette Pavilion beyond, from an East Tower effacing apartment

Fig. 6: Model

Fig. 6: Rome

Fig. 6: Surrounded by a housing project, a YMCA, a library, an abandoned bank and a demolished grocery store, this site, currently used as a parking lot, was selected for a community center.

Fig. 6: Tadashi Kawamata - Toronto Project 1989

Fig. 6: Watershed showing ravine profile, Garrison Sewer, institutions and open spaces

Fig. 6: WestPark plan

Fig. 7: De Menil secions

Fig. 7: Low rise buildings - planting plan

Fig. 7: Major geographical landforms, and the ravine profile

Fig. 7: Overall back of map

Fig. 7: Revised Advertising materials

Fig. 7: Robert Taylor Homes

Fig. 7: Rome

Fig. 7: Site axonometric

Fig. 7: White House Project 1995

Fig. 8/9: Swiss pavilin/Unite section

Fig. 8/9: The Courtyard of DuSable High School is the future site of the Urban Ecology Sanctuary

Fig. 89 Development of one-fifth typical assembly net showing orientation of double-grids.

Fig. 8: Model shot of proposed greenway

Fig. 8: Nimes

Fig. 8: Overall front of map

Fig. 8: Ravine profile superimposed over original park lot division with existing street and built form superimposed

Fig. 8: Site Plan

Fig. 8: Stair landing and window pots

Fig. 9: "Graffitti Claim" postcard

Fig. 9: Linear Dynamics: open space network and areas of confluence

Fig. 9: New York City

Fig. 9: Plan

Fig. 9: View of "encroaching bedroom" wall of neighbor's unit - two-story town house, upper level

Fig. 9: Weaving

Fig. No. 10 Plans and elevations of 2V and 3V Alternate breakdown, vertex zenith domes. Icosahedron face breakdown with pentagonal vertex cues outlined.

Fig. No. 100 Concentric ring scaffold technique.

Fig. No. 101 Concentric ring crane technique.

Fig. No. 102 Concentric ring crane technique.

Fig. No. 103 Assembly sequence 55' diameter strut and membrane 3V Alternate dome.

Fig. No. 104 Expandable truss technique developed by Emilio Pinero of Madrid.

Fig. No. 105 Dome assembly by rotation about a horizontal axis.

Fig. No. 106 Inverted base rings joined, rings 1-7 complete, 3/4 completion, final erection.

Fig. No. 11 Plans and elevation of 3V Alternate breakdown domes with vertex and edge zenith comparison. Icosahedron face diamond patterns with pentagonal vertex cues outlined.

Fig. No. 12 Plans and elevations of 4V Triacon, vertex zenith domes with triangular and diamond breakdowns compared. Icosahedron face patterns and pentagonal vertex cues outlined.

Fig. No. 13 Plan and elevation of 18V Triacon Hex-Pent dome. Rhombic triacontahedron faces dotted, icosa vertex at ends of long diamond axis.

Fig. No. 14 Axial load results from one unit vertical load applied at every vertex of 6V Alternate strut dome. Plus tension, minus compression.

Fig. No. 15 Woods Hole dome, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 1953-54. Fifty-five foot diameter, wood and mylar hyperbolic parabola dome.

Fig. No. 16 Plan, basic hyperbolic parabola diamonds composed of 1" x 8", 2" x 3" and 1" x 2" members diamonds are approximately 10' to an edge.

Fig. No. 17 Elevation

Fig. No. 18 Geometric explanation of dome, A 3V Alternate edge zenith breakdown. Basic hyperbolic parabola diamond withdrawn.

Fig. No. 19 Basic calculations for the icosahedron subdivision.

Fig. No. 2 Evolution of dual polyhedra through face addition

Fig. No. 20 Grid triangle calculations for fat and thin diamonds. Chord factor formula converts arc lengths to chord lengths when multiplied by the desired dome radius. Project by Geodesics Incorporated.

Fig. No. 21 One hundred twenty foot diameter strut and membrane dome. An 8V Triacon beakdown, vertex zenith truncated along pent-cap. Struts have square flange ends bolt to cylinder ring, pull chain to membrane secures and adjusts membrane tension. A Synergetics Incorporated project.

Fig. No. 22

Fig. No. 23 Thirty-five foot diameter hemispherical personnel shelter developed for the Marine Corps Aviation, 1955.

Fig. No. 24 Plan.

Fig. No. 25 Plan of interior membrane with vertex pick up points (similar chain and clamp device Fig. 21) windows and vents are indicated, dome encloses 1,018 square feet, 10,300 cubic feet, weighs 1,313 pounds and packs into 176 cubic feet.

Fig. No. 26 Plan of geometry 4V Triacon, vertex zenith, basic diamond component withdrawn.

Fig. No. 276 Diamond packaging sequence, an ingenious pin and hinge system allows diamond components to partially disassemble reducing packaging volume, typical diamond and base support shown. A Fuller Research Foundation Project.

Fig. No. 28 Plan of a 60' diameter exhibition dome.

Fig. No. 29 Elevation and section.

Fig. No. 3 Polyhedra and spherical nomenclature.

Fig. No. 30 Strut and membrane connector.

Fig. No. 31 Plan and elevation of 51' diameter Sasaki Dome.

Fig. No. 32 Joint details adjacent struts are joined by a metal angle secured by spacer and screw assemblies.

Fig. No. 33 Exploded assembly view of 55' diameter 2/3 sphere polyester fiberglass panel radome. A Geometrics, Incorporated project.

Fig. No. 34 Assembly drawing for 1/5 typical segment of Fig. 33.

Fig. No. 35 Typical polyester fiberglass panels.

Fig. No. 36 Diagramatic panel assembly

Fig. No. 37 Typical packaging and identification for 55' diameter radome.

Fig. No. 38 Assembly sequence typical of 1/5 dome.

Fig. No. 39 6V Alternate 110 foot diameter radome similar to those described in Figs. 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 and 38.

Fig. No. 4 Spherical orientation x, y, z, edge zenith, and face zenith.

Fig. No. 40 Panel membrane and rail assembly for 110' diameter 10V Triacon dome.

Fig. No. 41 Casting views

Fig. No. 42 Assembly drawing for 60' diameter 3/4 sphere honeycomb panel dome.

Fig. No. 43 Thirty-nine foot diameter plywood dome.

Fig. No. 44 Plan of dome.

Fig. No. 45 Partial plan of plywood bolt patterns.

Fig. No. 46 Geometric interpretation of sheet fastener and fold axis.

Fig. No. 47 Sixty-six foot diameter lesser circle dome by Triodetic.

Fig. No. 48 Similar to Fig. 47 this lesser circle geometry permits the accumulation of the most struts where they are least needed, the zenith.

Fig. No. 49 The triodetic connector.

Fig. No. 5 Icosahedron breakdowns generated about the edge, face and vertex.

Fig. No. 50 Basic tensegrity polyhedra, discontinuous compression-continuous tension.

Fig. No. 51 Partial elevation of triangular - hexagonal breakdown.

Fig. No. 52 Partial plan of 24V Triacon, hex-pent dome.

Fig. No. 53 Elevation and erection sequence for 200' diameter tensegrity dome.

Fig. No. 54 Plan, base ring provides compressive restraint.

Fig. No. 55 Plan and elevation of 6V Alternate dome.

Fig. No. 56 Framing study of 4V Alternate dome.

Fig. No. 57 4V Alternate breakdown.

Fig. No. 58 Maintaining previous Figs. 56 and 57 geometry, triangulated sub assemblies now stabilize hex-pent areas.

Fig. No. 59 Double grid, 2V Alternate (edge zenith) post tensioned stress skin dome.

Fig. No. 6 Comparative breakdown of icosahedron face Alternate and Triacon methods

Fig. No. 60 Alternate framings for Fig. 59.

Fig. No. 61 Post tensioned 2V Alternate, vertex zenith dome.

Fig. No. 62 6V Alternate, vertex zenith, "bicycle wheel" dome.

Fig. No. 63 4V Alternate post tensioned dome.

Fig. No. 64 Load test of Fig. 63.

Fig. No. 65 Typical universal pivit joint used throughout test Fig. 64.

Fig. No. 66 Plan and elevation of 6V Alternate dome similar to Fig. 63 and 64.

Fig. No. 67 Thirty-six foot diameter University of Minnesota dome erected at Aspen, Colorado, 1953.

Fig. No. 68 Reflected ceiling view.

Fig. No. 69 Elevation of American Society for Metals dome, Cleveland, Ohio.

Fig. No. 7

Fig. No. 70 Plan 24V Triacon hex-pent.

Fig. No. 71

Fig. No. 72 Edge beam of ASM dome.

Fig. No. 73 Climatron at the Missouri Botanical Gardens in St. Louis, 175' diameter dome.

Fig. No. 74 Interior view of Acrylic enclosure.

Fig. No. 75 Sections of double grid, sub assemblies, and glazing details.

Fig. No. 76 Sub assembly and grid vertex castings.

Fig. No. 77 36V Triacon hex pent Baton Rouge dome.

Fig. No. 78

Fig. No. 79 Elevation Kaiser 145' diameter dome.

Fig. No. 8 Triacon and Alternate breakdown comparison

Fig. No. 80 Plan. Location plan for 575 basic diamonds.

Fig. No. 81

Fig. No. 82 Yomuiuri dome, Tokyo, Japan.

Fig. No. 83 Plan a double grid 36V Triacon breakdown.

Fig. No. 84 Plan inner grid of sub assemblies 18V Triacon breakdown.

Fig. No. 85 Double grid basic components.

Fig. No. 86 A grouping of six double grid components delineate one surface hexagon and surroundings triangles.

Fig. No. 87 Development of one-fifth dome showing hyperbolicparaboloid sky lights and grid components.

Fig. No. 88 Elevation U.S. Pavilion, Expo '67, Montreal, Canada.

Fig. No. 9 Plans and elevations of 4V Alternate breakdown domes with vertex and edge zenith comparison, icosahedron face with pentagonal vertex cues outlines.

Fig. No. 90 Partial space frame model indicating acrylic dome orientation.

Fig. No. 91 Exterior view of inner grid vertex hub.

Fig. No. 92 Plan of outer grid vertex hub.

Fig. No. 93 Acrylic dome panels being installed inner grid tubing received a mullion section to which panels were inserted.

Fig. No. 94 Connection devices for 10' diameter wooden strut 2V Alternate children's play sphere.

Fig. No. 95 Concentric ring erection sequence for 6V Triacon hex-pent dome rings 1-3.

Fig. No. 96 Concentric ring erection sequence for 6V Triacon hex-pent dome rings 4-7.

Fig. No. 97 Pneumatic baloon erection of strut dome.

Fig. No. 98 Radome erection by central twin boom mast.

Fig. No. 99 Central mast erection technique Kaiser dome Figs. 79, 80, 81.

figure 01

Figure 01 - 1000 Kroner Bank Note with the portrait of Edvard Munch (2001)

figure 01 Mono Lake Non-Site Cinders Near Black Point (Mono Lake, California, 1968)

figure 02

Figure 02 - Rendering by Herreros Arquitectos of view from the proposed Munch Museum (2009)

figure 02 A Ten Mile Walk (England, 1968)

figure 03

Figure 03 - Traditional costume at the Norsk Folkemuseum, photo by author (2010)

figure 03 Double Negative (Overton, Nevada, 1969-70)

figure 04

figure 04 Spiral Jetty (Great Salt Lake, Utah, 1970)

figure 05

figure 05 Lightning Field (Quemado, New Mexico, 1977)

figure 06

figure 06 Walter de Maria greeting a plane on the site of Cross (El Mirage Dry Lake, Nevada, 1968)

figure 07

figure 07 Landing Strip, process sketch (1999)

figure 08

figure 08 Le Corbusier & Pierre Jeanneret, Pavillon Suisse (Cite Universtaire, Paris, 1932)

figure 09

figure 09 Farnsworth House (Plano, Illinois, 1945-50)

Figure 1

Figure 1 (top): Newport Casino, Newport, RI, 1879-80, partial plan, Monograph of the Work of McKim, Mead & White, 1879-1915

Figure 1. Changes in Siheyuan since 1949

Figure 1.0 Cube and Duck Series

figure 10

figure 10 Partially Buried Woodshed (Kent State, 1970)

Figure 10. North South Dazhalan (For location refer to Figure 7) Black- New Built Structure White- Original Siheyuan Structure

Figure 10: (left) Gandillot's manufactured hollow tubular metal chair, painted to look like wood (1844)

Figure 10: Aerial View of the Pan-American Exposition, 1901

Figure 10: Descent

Figure 10: Poliphilo/Female Beauty, Leon Battista Alberti's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

Figure 10: San Francisco Fire Sacramento Street 1906-04, 2013

Figure 10: The University Club, New York, NY, 1896-99, southeast view, 1905

Figure 11

figure 11 Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Washington, D.C., 1982)

Figure 11. Daylight datamap model

Figure 11: (right) Marcel Breuer's tubular metal chair from 1926

Figure 11: Columbia University, Morningside Campus, New York, NY, 1894, proposed plan, dated May 1894 and final plan dated 1894, highlighted courtyard drawing

Figure 11: Container

Figure 11: Section of the Pavilion, Brion Cemetery, 1969-1978

Figure 12. Progressive datamaps of optimized locations for light well and outdoor spaces

Figure 12: (left) axonometric of J. J. P. Oud's L-Shaped Kitchen

Figure 12: Nudes, ca. 1930

Figure 12: The Brooklyn Rail, 2004

Figure 12: Washington, D.C., photograph of the Mall, looking east, ca. 1901

Figure 13. (a) Wind rose of Beijing (b) Wind vector

Figure 13: (right) The exterior of J. J. Oud's rowhouses in Weissenhoff Settlement, Stuttgart (c. 1927)

Figure 13: Mission Yuppie Education Project, 1999

Figure 13: Nude in an Interior, ca. 1922-23

Figure 13: Senate Park Commission rendering of the plan from a point 4,000 feet above Arlington

Figure 14. Wind vector translated into orientation and spacing between bricks

Figure 14: (left) the interior view of the Harundale Mall, the first enclosed shopping center

Figure 14: By Author

Figure 14: Court of Fountains, Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, NY, 1901

Figure 14: Senate Park Commission rendering of Union Square

Figure 14: The Manhattan Transcripts, Part 4: The Block, 1977-81

Figure 15: (right) Interior view of the World Duty Free retail outlet in the Gatwick Airport (2012)

Figure 15: By Author

Figure 15: Night Scene taken from the East Esplanade looking toward the Electric Tower, Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, NY, 1901

Figure 15: Screenplays: Domino Distortion, 1979

Figure 15: Senate Park Commission rendering of Washington Monument Gardens and Mall, from the original rendering

Figure 16: Map of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, MO, 1904

Figure 16: Reconstruction of the City, 1990

Figure 16: Rent Gap, 2008

Figure 16: Senate Park Commission rendering of the proposed development of the site for the Lincoln Memorial, seen from the east, from the original rendering

Figure 17: By Author

Figure 17: Grand Basin in Front of Festival Hall, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, MO, 1904

Figure 17: Untitled, 2000

Figure 18: Aerial View of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, MO, 1904

Figure 18: Bhavachakra, 2010

Figure 18: Figure Studies, 1506-1508

Figure 19: Post card of Festival Hall and the Cascades

Figure 1: A mass-produced chintz fabric of c. 1840

Figure 1: Blanciak, Francois Architect, competition entry for the Taipei Performing Arts Center, 2009

Figure 1: cube and duck collision, drawing

Figure 1: Engagement Tactics Month-to-Month Diagram, 2012

Figure 1: Existing Site Ruins

Figure 1: Four Books of Human Proportion

Figure 1: Grand Maitre of the Outside, 1947

Figure 1: Manipulation of space

Figure 1: Nestle's food for Infants poster by Alphonse Mucha (1897)

Figure 1: Panorama of Berlin, 2006

Figure 1: Puppy, 1992

Figure 1: Royal Ontario Museum, 2012

Figure 1: Studebaker Map of the World's Columbian Fairgrounds, In on Paper

Figure 1: Two Worlds

Figure 1: Victoria Park, Detroit, Michigan

Figure 1: View from above - bench as tufted surface

Figure 2

Figure 2.0 Several narratives of style and form have been mapped over 8,000 years

Figure 20: Central Cascades and Festival Hall at night, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, MO, 1904

Figure 21: Parallel walls as hypostyle hall

Figure 21: The East Lagoon, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, MO, 1904

Figure 22: Parallel walls as gallery & enfilade

Figure 22: Plan Grounds and Buildings of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, CA, 1915

Figure 23: Parallel walls carved to create spatial figure

Figure 23: The Court of the Universe, McKim, Mead and White architects, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, CA, 1915

Figure 24: The Palace of Fine Arts, Bernard Maybeck, architect, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, CA, 1915

Figure 25: Fountain of Energy

Figure 25: View of a 4th floor gallery

Figure 26: Star Maiden finial, Colonnade of the Court of the Universe, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, CA, 1915

Figure 27: Fountain of Energy

Figure 28: Electric Lighting, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, CA, 1915

Figure 2: "Saturn Devouring His Son", 1923

Figure 2: A French interior of c. 1855 from "La Garde-Meuble"

Figure 2: Aldo Rossi. Quartier Schutzenstrasse in Berlin Mitte, 2008

Figure 2: Axonometric section through vault on bias

Figure 2: Blanciak, Francois Architect, competition entry for the Taipei Performing Arts Center, 2009

Figure 2: Compilation of city and rural maps

Figure 2: Conceptual Site Investigation

Figure 2: Court of Honor, 1893

Figure 2: Embryological House

Figure 2: Newport Casino, Newport, RI, 1879-80, elevation, Monograph of the Work of McKim, Mead & White, 1879-1915

Figure 2: Original State Palace before and after the blight of war

Figure 2: Renaissance Center Detroit, Michigan

Figure 2: Section Diagram, Dingeman Park, Detroit, 2008

Figure 2: Siheyuan 800 year-old traditional building typology

Figure 2: Study of Proportions (Vitruvian Man)ca. 1490

Figure 2: Taichung Metropolitan Opera House

Figure 2: The Ellis Act, Anti Eviction Mapping Project, 2014

Figure 2: The lamp house before adaptation

Figure 2: Trash

Figure 3

Figure 3 (below): Newport Casino, Newport, RI, 1879-80, courtyard

Figure 3. Different components of a Hutong neighborhood

Figure 3. Li-Ping's wood-framed, temporary, above-ground banking system.

Figure 3: "Triptych, May-June," 1973

Figure 3: Advertisement for the 1034 Plymouth Six tells buyers to insist on 4 vital features to get their money's worth: individual springing

Figure 3: Ark of the World

Figure 3: Blanciak, Francois Architect, competition entry for the Taipei Performing Arts Center, 2009

Figure 3: Detail of illusion of tufting

Figure 3: Form dictated by wind speed and direction

Figure 3: G. B. Piranesi. S. Maria del Priorato, Altar (back)

Figure 3: Interior of the lamp house before adaptation

Figure 3: Jacquard Loom

Figure 3: Kahala Community Medicine Study

Figure 3: Left image- The palace of the (DDR) republic in Berlin, Germany Right Image- Palace of the Republic in East Germany (GDR/Berlin) in 1977

Figure 3: Looking south across the west end of the Court of Honor, 1893

Figure 3: Makiki Civic Investigation

Figure 3: Max Bell Alper pretends to be a Googler upset that the google bus is blocked by the protest, Steve Rhodes

Figure 3: Playhouse, Detroit, 2009

Figure 3: Pole Town Cadillac Plant Detroit, Michigan

Figure 3: Study of a Bench, 1524-1525

Figure 3: The Weather Project, Olafur Eliasson, 2003

Figure 4

Figure 4: (above) 1930 advertisement for the General Electric All-Steel Refrigerator claims to have proven efficiency and economy for the buyer, reflecting consumer interest of the period

Figure 4: Administration Building at night, Richard Morris Hunt, architect

Figure 4: Babbage Analytical Engine

Figure 4: Berlin - model of the proposed facade of the Stadtschloss

Figure 4: Boston Public Library, Boston, MA, 1887-95, aerial perspective across Copley Square

Figure 4: Desensification Black- "Self-help activities" to increase living spaces White- Original Siheyuan Structure

Figure 4: G. B. Piranesi. S. Maria del Priorato, Ornamental Detail on Altar

Figure 4: Geometry of an upholstered bench

Figure 4: Initial sketches of manipulation of form

Figure 4: Kaimuki Housing Investigation

Figure 4: LA Mission, 2013

Figure 4: Livernois Community Storefront, Detroit, 2009

Figure 4: Loving the Machinery Within the Consumation of Great Sacrifice

Figure 4: Measurement and Proportion: Man, Teaching Notes from the Bauhaus

Figure 4: Present elevation

Figure 5 (top): Diagram showing designing decisions of the architect

Figure 5: "Widening of Road"

Figure 5: (Right) Chrysler Corp. lineup of cars in the 1957

Figure 5: Boston Public Library, Boston, MA, 1887-95, photo of facade facing Copley Square, ca. 1901

Figure 5: Coalbrookdale By Night, 2013

Figure 5: ENIAC Machine, Wiki Commons

Figure 5: Final Scheme - Victoria Park Detroit, Michigan

Figure 5: Form studies

Figure 5: Sant'Andrea in Mantua, 2011

Figure 5: The Alley Project (TAP), Detroit, 2011

Figure 5: The Court of Honor looking east

Figure 5: The Court of Honor looking east.

Figure 5: The Modulor

Figure 5: The New American Family and the Perfect Purchase

Figure 5: The power of chemicals: William Perkins's aniline dye, mauve, as proposed for French interiors of c. 1860

Figure 6 (above): Diagram showing division of the spaces in the loft

Figure 6-7: St. Joseph Rebuild Center, New Orleans, 2009

Figure 6. Location and historic context of Dazhalan

Figure 6: A variety of colors were introduced to home appliances in the 1950s to encourage sales

Figure 6: Boston Public Library, Boston, MA, 1887-95, perspective of Copley Square

Figure 6: Comfort and convenience: a typical middle-class interior of c. 1870

Figure 6: Conceptual Site Investigation

Figure 6: Engelbart's Workstation

Figure 6: Garden Cities regional planning diagram, 2013

Figure 6: Golden Rule of Human Scale, 1946

Figure 6: Infill Housing Scheme for Detroit

Figure 6: Portal

Figure 6: The Lagoon

Figure 6: The Portal

Figure 6: Year of the Ox, 1993

Figure 7 (above): Sketch of Bolko Loft

Figure 7. Different areas of Dazhalan (1) East Dazhalan (2) North-South Dazhalan (3) West Dazhalan

Figure 7: Aerial Paris, 1989

Figure 7: Agricultural Building, McKim, Mead & White

Figure 7: Boston Public Library, Boston, MA, 1887-95, longitudinal section

Figure 7: Elephant

Figure 7: Frigidaire Sheer Look Refrigerator advertisement emphasizes fashion in home appliances

Figure 7: Mid-Cities Residential Project Detroit, Michigan

Figure 7: Plan of the City, ca. 1480

Figure 7: The Bowery, New York, New York Times, 2013

Figure 7: The Elephant

Figure 8 (Facing): GUI Museum

Figure 8. East Dazhalan (For location refer to Figure 7) Black- New Built Structure White- Original Siheyuan Structure

Figure 8: Administration Building, Richard Morris Hunt, architect, 1893

Figure 8: Boston Public Library, stair hall, Boston, MA, 1887-95, Digital Photography Academy

Figure 8: Chene and St. Aubin Parks Detroit, Michigan

Figure 8: Living space

Figure 8: Morris and Company's 'bird' wallpaper design

Figure 8: Passage

Figure 8: San Francisco de Asis-Mission Dolores, 2004

Figure 8: Shahira Hammad, Asemic Forest Westbahnhof Train Station, Vienna, 2010

Figure 8: The wall mounted General Electric refrigerator illustrates the practice of unveiling novelty product development without meaningful technical improvements

Figure 8: Tuscan Order, The First and Chieff Groundes of Architecture, 1563

Figure 8: UCSD Geisel Library

Figure 9: By Author

Figure 9: Cognizance

Figure 9: Corinthian Order, The First and Chieff Groundes of Architecture, 1563

Figure 9: Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building under construction, George B. Post, architect, 1892

Figure 9: The inner workings of the fully mechanized Yale lock, patented 188

Figure 9: The University Club, New York, NY, 1896-99, floor plans, Monograph of the Work of McKim, Mead & White, 1879-1915

Figure 9: Touch Wall

Figure A1 Drawing 6'x6' adirectional and ascaler

Figure C1: Building Section

Figure C2: Building Plan

Figure C3: Building Elevation

Figure D1 - D2: Building Model, 24"x24", Scale 1:200, Jagged Sectional Model

Figure D2 Building Model

Figure on left: In the 1930's the theatre was converted into a "modern" movie theater.

Figures 2: 1,000 Assembled Chassis, Record Daily Output from Ford Motor Company's Highland Park plant circa 1913

Figures 3 (above), 4 (below): The bane of the design reformers: lifelike, vibrant three-dimensionality in chintzes of c. 1860

Figures 7a, 7b: Plates from Owen Jones's "The Grammar of Ornament", 1856

Final scenarios (img.009)

Fireplace alcove in Freer's own room

Fireplace of the guest bedroom, second floor northeast corner, showing the space created by the addition to "Chamber F" of the old house

First floor - 1910

First floor hall

First floor hall showing dining

First floor plan

First floor plan of House VI, 1976

First floor plan, 1890

First floor plan, 1910

First sketch 1970: Detroit multi-level urban space and multipurpose civic bridge for pedestrians

Five Allegorical Cities The Future of Old Form in the New Paradigm

Flapjacks, 1893

Flawed Rationalism

Fleece-covered seat on step level of new entrance interchange.

Flights of Fanciful Steel, The Chrysler Building, New York City

floating power

Floor plan - Level 1

Floor plan for the Chicago and Alton Greenville, Illinois depot of 1885

Florence -- "Castrum Romanum" or Roman Camp and its development

Florence. "Partita di Calcio", 1984.

Flow of space around massive, articulated arches.

Fluid Architecture

Footprint showing various additions made to Freer's home during his lifetime

For Demilitarization Of The Act Of Building

For Pedestrians Only

For Pedestrians Only Multipurpose -- Old Market Square in Cracow Forum of Cracow for religious, cultural, governmental, social and also commercial activity.

Found in Translation: The Hunt for the Absent Landscape

four sketches executed at the American Academy in Rome, 1983

Fourth Phase 1982-1984: Chalk Talks, illustrating-among others-Belle Isle extension, and the Detroit-Windsor Linking Structure

Frank Fantauzzi and Michael Williams

Frank Lloyd Wright: Kaufmann House (Falling Water), 1936-39

Frederick S. Church (left) and Freer, 1892

Frederick S. Church as a bear ringing Freer's doorbell, 1891

frederick s. church's doorbell design

Freer bedroom fireplace

Freer comparing Whistler's Venus Rising from the Sea to an Islamic glazed vessel, 1909

Freer examining a scroll painting, 1909

Freer Gallery of Art courtyard

Freer Gallery of Art Facade

Freer's bedroom, north wall, 1996

Freer's dressing room

Freer's dressing room, north wall, 1996

Freer's home and garden, ca. 1895

freer's new home

Freer's sitting room

Frequency

From Aesthetics to Aisthetics

From An Architect's Sketchbook, 1912

From Bibl. Naz., Turin Ris., 59-3, No. 18

From Hospital Sketches, 1917

From Notebook Sketches, 1873

From Paddington to Victoria

From the Sketch Book -- Tuscany. A girl carrying. 1984. Orvieto.

From The Study of Architectural Design by John Harbeson

From Wescher

Front (west) elevation, Perry residence

Front and rear elevation with section through shed

Front door, 1981

Front facade, 1892

fruit carving on southern mantel of main hall fireplace

Funicular Casino

Furniture Scale

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