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  • Kabul’s old city: Implications for alternatives to “Western” housing
    Watts, Donald J. (King Faisal University, 1983)
    This paper presents a new methodology for analyzing and discovering the interactions of social needs and traditional building practices in vernacular Afghan houses. Beginning with identifying common socio-spatial patterns ...
  • Landscape and Contemporary Art: Overlap, Disregard, and Relevance
    Kingery-Page, Katie (2010)
    Landscape, viewed for centuries by the art world as either an inspirational source for art or as a kind of decorative art, emerged with a new prominence during the twentieth century. Artists and landscape architects now ...
  • Landscapes of Learning | Annotated Bibliography
    Kingery-Page, Katie; Addo-Atuah, Kweku; Fakhraldeen, Sukaina; Hao, Shaung; King, Chelsey; Knight, Jonathan; Melvin, Rebecca; Weatherholt, Laura (Kansas State University. Dept. of Landscape Architecture/Regional & Community, 2012)
    Seven master's degree candidates in the K-State Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional & Community Planning participated in a collaborative studio process leading to completion of their individual master’s reports. ...
  • A lived hermetic of people and place: Phenomenology and space syntax
    Seamon, David (2007)
    This paper examines ways in which a phenomenological approach might contribute to space syntax research, drawing on three themes that mark the heart of phenomenological investigation: (1) understanding grounded in ...
  • Place, placelessness, insideness, and outsideness in John Sayles' Sunshine State
    Seamon, David (2008)
    John Sayles is one of America's most successful independent filmmakers, whose works include "Return of the Secaucus Seven" (1980), "City of Hope" (1991), and "Lone Star" (1996). This article examines Sayles' portrait of ...
  • The Post-Modern Analytique
    Kingery-Page, Katie (Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, 2009)
    The 'analytique' is a Beaux-Arts approach to teaching design principles through an 'order problem' which relies on the analysis and representation of built work. The term 'analytique' refers to the product of a student's ...
  • A prototypical (school) design strategy for soil-cement construction in Afghanistan
    Yoldas, Cenk (Kansas State University, 2004)
    Contemporary design and construction methods, when integrated with lessons of traditional vernacular architecture, can lead to a refined, regional, ecological and economical system of building construction. This thesis ...
  • Re-conceiving Afghan cellular architecture for the reconstruction of rural schools
    Watts, Donald J.; Yoldas, Cenk (Center for Environmental Design Research, University of California at Berkeley, 2004)
    Afghanistan suffers from a quarter century of war that has resulted in a devastated infrastructure and a generation of Afghans who have lived without a local school. This paper presents an architectural design investigation ...
  • Recurring patterns in traditional Afghan settlements
    Watts, Donald J. (1981)
    This article investigates how traditional patterns of Afghan architecture may lend a culturally sensitive dimension to modern urban planning in Afghanistan. Case studies of traditional Afghan houses reveal common patterns ...
  • Regeneration: Discovering tradition through cross cultural design education
    Watts, Donald J. (2008)
    This paper analyzes the manner in which two architectural design studios, one Afghan and one American, explored designs for a new College of Architecture, Planning and Design for Kabul University, Kabul, Afghanistan. The ...
  • School facility age and classroom technology: The influence of stakeholder participation in the technology planning process.
    Gibson, Huston J. (2011)
    This study begins by examining the relationship between public K-12 school facility age and student access to modern classroom technological resources, driven by questioning “newer equals better” assumptions. The method ...
  • Shades of Comfort: Privacy and the Street
    Kingery-Page, Katie (2009)
    Conditions of pedestrian comfort have been evaluated by other researchers as they relate to climate, protection from vehicles, and spatial conditions of the street. But in a discourse that emphasizes the public nature of ...
  • The value of new: Elementary school facility age and associated housing price.
    Gibson, Huston (2011)
    The purpose of this article is to assess the relationship between elementary school facility age and single-family housing price in the Orlando, Florida metropolitan area. This is a cross-sectional study employing multivariate ...
  • Watershed Assessment for River Stability and Sediment Supply Applied to Wildcat Creek Watershed in Riley County, Kansas
    Buffington, Jared; Clark, Jeffrey; Denlinger, Danielle; Engelke, Jennifer; Musoke, Elizabeth; Stout, Breanna; Sullivan, Justine; Tucker, Terry; Barnes, Philip; Sanders, Christopher (Dept. of Landscape Architecture and Regional and Community Planning. Kansas State University, 2012)
    Wildcat Creek Watershed (approx. 99 square miles) in Riley County, Kansas had significant flooding in recent years. A Watershed Assessment of River Stability and Sediment Supply (WARSSS, Rosgen, 2006) of Wildcat Creek was ...
  • A way of seeing people and place: Phenomenology in environment-behavior research
    Seamon, David (Plenum, 2000)
    This review examines the phenomenological approach as it might be used to explore environmental and architectural issues. After discussing the nature of phenomenology in broad terms, the review presents two major assumptions ...
  • Wetlands: a flooding solution
    Engelke, Jennifer (Kansas State University, 2012)
    Wildcat Creek in Riley County, KS has repeatedly flooded in the past 5 years causing significant damage to the watershed, private property, and community livelihood. Strategically placing wetlands throughout the watershed ...