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  • A Cantilever balcony for a small theater 
    Meisel, Clair C. (University of Oregon, 1932)
    The slope of the Balcony and height of the stoppings shall first be considered, so that the steel used in the construction of the balcony may be designed accordingly. When "setting up" the sections of the Parquette ...
  • A Hotel for Conclaves 
    Thompson, Polly Povey (University of Oregon, 1935-05)
    During the last few decades the American tendency towards specialization has spread into almost every field of human endeavor, so that it is not at all surprising to discover a demand for specialized hotels with specialized ...
  • Project for a City in the Amazon Valley 
    Pinedo, Oscar (University of Oregon, 1937-02)
    For more than four hundred years, the virgin regions of the Amazon plains in South America have been known as the most richly endowed in the world, where rivers form a veritable network of natural lines of communication ...
  • A Creative Project in the Design of Printed Textiles for Contemporary Interiors 
    Dow, Merlin G. (University of Oregon, 1947-06)
    The artist has sought in this project to create printed textiles for conetmporary interiors through organization and structure within space. To build in space he has regarded the fabric itself the center of the spatial ...
  • A Workingmen City in Cairo, Egypt 
    Sidky, Aziz (University of Oregon, 1948-06)
    A city serves different functions, but the common function that is found needed in every city is to offer safe, efficient and comfortable shelters and homes for its inhabitants, There is no doubt that this objective has ...
  • The Changing Relationships of the Modeler to His Material in China and the Valley of Mexico a Comparative Study of the Clay Figurines of the Two Centuries Produced During the First Millennium of the Christian Era 
    Manion, Donald Keith (University of Oregon, 1949-06)
    In a small upstairs gallery in the Museum of Art at the University of Oregon there is a wall case containing a group of statuettes of fired clay. In this group stands a comparatively small figure of a woman this is outstanding ...
  • Administration in Architecture 
    Sleight, Harold L. (University of Oregon, 1951)
    This program study was born of ideas advanced in conference with the Chancellor of the State System. The chancellor, an able administrator himself, recognized the lack of, and the need for, administrators in the field of ...
  • The Street in the Residential Neighborhood – With Special Emphasis on the Aesthetic and Community Planning Factors 
    Gvirtzman, Jehoshua Itzhak (University of Oregon, 1951-06)
    The visual, social, psychological and mechanical problems of our cities were widely studied in the various works on historical development of our urban communities. It is not the object of this study to devote too much ...
  • The Carving of Native Sons of Oregon 
    Daugherty, Joseph C. (University of Oregon, 1952-06)
    Stone carving is one of the oldest of the arts. From the earliest times man has used the permanent native materials around him both to help maintain his existence and to enhance his life. Stone, being one of the more ...
  • Rehabilitation of a Slum Area in Panama City, R.P. 
    Silvera, Consuelo (University of Oregon, 1953-03)
    The project developed in this thesis is the Rehabilitation of a Slum Area in Panama City, R.P. The district is called "Chorrillo" and it had a population of 27,375 inhabitants in 1950, at a density of 500 people her Hectare. ...
  • A Series of Mosaics 
    Sutherland, Jean L. (University of Oregon, 1956-06)
    This terminal project grew out of a wish to construct a picture from small movable units f color as a discipline that would force the attention on the picture surface and its design and on an emphasis on a process in which ...
  • An Epidotal Syllabus of the Mural at Clear Lake Elementary School 
    Flach, Victor H. Jr (University of Oregon, 1957-01)
    I take my motivation for the M.F.A. degree to be the Opportunity it provides rather than the M. or the F.A.: the Opportunity to pursue my personal Growing by continuing the original studies and development of the particular ...
  • A Project in Portraiture in Sculpture 
    Widman, Lorraine Balmuth (University of Oregon, 1957-06)
    The point of the portraiture problem, to me, lies in the ability of the artist to capture that which gives the person his "life". If so, the portrait must be not merely a physical replica of the person, but a selective ...
  • The Process of Making a Large Piece of Sculpture 
    Hannula, Walter (1959-06)
    The process of making a large piece of sculpture is one thing. The selection of an idea for a terminal project is another. This selection is a once a matter of concern and a matter of importance. On the one hand, there is ...
  • Pattern and Special Considerations in the Organization of Landscape Material in Painting 
    Koehler, John G. (University of Oregon, 1963)
    It was Aristotle who first expressed the idea that an artist should be more than just an “Imitator of Nature” As Plato had stated. It was aristotle's belief that an artist should concern himself with what he calls the ...
  • Low Cost Owner-Built Houses of the Pacific Northwest 
    Thallon, Robert Lawrence (University of Oregon, 1973-03)
  • Evaluating How Attributes of Operable Window Design Affect Office-workers' Perception of Personal Control 
    Vorderbruggen, Joan Marie (University of Oregon, 2009-06)
    Energy and environmental concerns warrant reconsideration of operable windows as a means of ventilating and cooling office environments. To design for optimal window use and performance, architects must understand human ...
  • Broadacre City: American Fable and Technological Society 
    Shaw, William R. (University of Oregon, 2009-12)
    In the 1930s Frank Lloyd Wright began working on a plan to remake the architectural fabric of the United States. Based on the principle of decentralization, Wright advocated for the abandonment of the industrialized city ...
  • Behavior, comfort, and energy consumption in student residence halls 
    Collins, Thomas Daniel, 1979- (University of Oregon, 2010-03)
    New residence halls differ from their predecessors because of sophisticated systems, concern for energy efficiency, and attention to student satisfaction. Nevertheless, older facilities represent the bulk of housing stock ...
  • Restoring oak habitats in the Southern Willamette Valley, Oregon: A multi-objective tradeoffs analysis for landowners and managers 
    Ulrich, Nathan D., 1977- (University of Oregon, 2010-12)
    Restoring oak habitats is an emerging conservation priority in Oregon's Willamette Valley. Both private and public landowners face multiple challenges to conservation and restoration of oak habitats, including a lack of ...

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