“Transformation of
Environmental Significance and The Theoretic of Marcuse, Adorno and Habermas.”
Gretchen Schira
Research Fellow
Design Knowledge Systems Center
Architectural Theory
Faculty of Architecture
Delft University of Technology
2628 CR Delft, The Netherlands
+31.15.278.3996 (o)
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Biography:
PhD Candidate, Delft University of Technology
Thesis Title:
Aesthetics and Multivariate Filtering: The relationship between spatial frequency and human preference
Tentative Completion: Dec '03
MSArchSt, The University of Texas at Austin
Thesis Title:
Architecture as Prägnanz: An Analysis of Aesthetic Preference for Images Using Gabor Filters
B. Arch, Cumme Laude, Norwich University Minors in: Engineering and Computer Information Systems
Thesis Title:
BUILDING AS THEATRE A CULTURAL MYTH?: A QUESTION OF REVITALIZATION OF TENGANAN, BALI INDONESIA
Papers:
“Visual texture preference and global filter
bank properties,” Environment and Planning B, Planning and Design, Vol.30,
Jan., 2003.
“Frequency Magnitudes and Visual Preference for
Texture,” 2002, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, MIT Press, currently under
review.
“Analysis
of Digital Image Properties and Human Preference” In Proceedings of the ACADIA 2002 - Thresholds Between Physical And Virtual”, Association
for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), Cal Poly., 24 Oct, 02.
“Oppression
of Visual Discretion: An Addendum to the Frankfurt Critique.” The First Annual
Jordanian Critical Theory Seminar, Jordan, Israel, 29 March 2000.
“A Logic
Comparison for Environmental Critique” The Environmental Design Research
Association 2000, Building Bridges: Connecting People, Research and Design,
San Francisco, 12 May 2000.
“Interior
Design Implications for NASA’s Transit Habitat on Long Term Space Missions,”
with Kwallek, N, H. Woodson, the 13th Humans in Space
Symposium, Greek Aerospace Medical Association International Academy of
Aeronautics, Santorini, Greece, 19 May 2000
“Pattern
Recognition: A Function of Perception” World Congress on Environmental Design
for the New Millennium, Seoul Korea, 20 November 2000.
“Mutation
of Environmental Content: A Critique of Operational Thought and the Status
Quo.” World Congress on Environmental Design for the New Millennium, Seoul
Korea, 20 November 2000.
“Oppression
of Visual Discretion: an Addendum to the Frankfurt School.” World Congress on
Environmental Design for the New Millennium, Seoul Korea, 20 November 2000.
“Systems
Meet Semantics and The Dead Paradox of Rationality:
Toward Processing the Validity Claims posited by Jürgen Habermas”
“Non-Identity
and the Mission to Clothe the Unclothed: A Criticism of the Configurative and
the Methods Proposed by Team X.”
“Self Preservation and the Discarded Status of Aesthetic Judgment: An
Interpretation of the Ideas Proposed by Horkheimer and Adorno.”
“Transformation of
Environmental Significance and The Theoretic of Marcuse, Adorno and Habermas.”
