Iain Borden, Katerina Rüedi Ray

The Dissertation

A Guide for Architecture Students

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a comprehensive guide to all that an architecture student might need to know about undertaking the dissertation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 3rd edition
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9781138168510
• ISBN-10: 1138168513
• Artikelnr.: 44149403

Autorenporträt

Iain Borden is an architectural historian and urban commentator. He is currently Vice-Dean for Communications at The Bartlett, University College London (UCL), UK, where he is also Professor of Architecture and Urban Culture. He graduated from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1985 and went on to complete a masters degree at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA, and another masters degree and a PhD at UCL. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Katerina Rüedi Ray is Director Emerita of the School of Art at Bowling Green State University, USA. From 1996 to 2002 she was the Director of the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. She studied architecture at the Architectural Association in London, and has a masters and a doctoral degree in architecture from the University of London. She taught architectural design and theory in the UK at the Architectural Association, The Bartlett and Kingston University before taking up her positions in America.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements 1 Introduction 1.01 Why Write a Dissertation? 1.02 The
Handbook 2 Starting 2.01 What is a Dissertation? 2.02 Selecting a
Dissertation Subject 2.03 Assessing a Dissertation Subject 2.04 Choosing
and Working with a Supervisor 2.05 Writing a Proposal 3 Researching 3.01
What is Research? 3.02 Historical and Critical Methodology 3.03 Research
Techniques 3.04 Libraries and Archives 3.05 The Internet 4 Writing 4.01
Structuring a Dissertation 4.02 Working Methods 4.03 Illustrations 4.04
Referencing 4.05 Bibliographies 4.06 Plagiarism 4.07 Submitting a Draft
4.08 Word-Processing 4.09 Alternative Dissertations 5 Presenting 5.01
General Presentation 5.02 Illustrations 5.03 Computer Software 5.04
Assessment Criteria 5.05 Oral Examinations 6 Afterwards 6.01 Further
Research and Study 6.02 Publications 6.03 Troubleshooting 7 Dissertation
Examples 7.01 Joseph Godlewski, "Alien and Distant: Rem Koolhaas on Film in
Lagos, Nigeria." 7.02 Ocean Howell, "The 'Creative Class' and the
Gentrifying City: Skateboarding in Philadelphia's Love Park." 7.03 Mairi
Johnson, "Once Upon a Sign: Relationships of Architecture and Narrative in
the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum." 7.04 Joanna Rapp, "A
Geometrical Analysis of Multiple Viewpoint Perspective in the Work of
Giovanni Battista Piranesi: an Application of Geometric Restitution of
Perspective." 7.05 Amy Thomas, "'Mart of the World': an Architectural and
Geographical History of the London Stock Exchange."