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Item Campus Architecture 1890-1910: Student Experience of the Built Environment at the University of Minnesota(2016) Ghoshal, ShreyaStudents are provided with buildings on campus that have set programs, as prescribed by administration and what they feel is best. Through this research topic, I have found that the original intentions for a space are not necessarily realized or maintained due to student initiative in adopting or adapting spaces. Students will create their own experience of campus–regardless of how spaces were formally planned.Item "The Embattled University" Student Protest + Architecture, 1960s-1970s, University of Minnesota(2017-05) Ghoshal, Shreya; Torkelson, JacobThe 1960s and 1970s, often referred to as the ‘protest years’, were a period of great unrest on university campuses nation-wide. Students protested the Vietnam War, the draft, civil rights, and other social equity issues, all of which reflected the shifting ideals of the rising ‘babyboomer’ generation. The scholarship surrounding the student protest movement is often discussed through the lenses of political science or sociology. Analyses of the era rarely acknowledge how architecture influences protests; most discussions of the student protest movement, in fact, completely ignore the physical settings of demonstrations. This study addresses this gap in scholarship by arguing that the design of the built environment contains controls and affordances for protests, using the University of Minnesota as a case study and a microcosm of greater social trends across the nation. It further argues that students repeatedly used certain spaces on campus—whether consciously or not—based on stylistic, spatial, or programmatic factors. The symbolism of the institution —embedded in campus architecture— influenced the locations chosen for rallies, as documented by archival resources such as student newspapers and photographs, and by oral histories of students from the era. Student unions, administrative buildings, armories, and auditoriums were found to be particularly charged spaces that demonstrators adopted or adapted to reinforce the meaning of the protests. These findings were then diagrammed onto University of Minnesota spaces in order to visually represent the information analyzed in a way that could be presented as part of an exhibition on architecture’s role in protests.Item The ‘Embattled University’: Student Protest and Architecture at the University of Minnesota in the 1960’s and 1970s(2017) Torkelson, Jacob; Ghoshal, ShreyaDuring the 1960s and 1970s, universities across the country experienced unprecedented growth and social upheaval as the baby-boom generation asserted its values by protesting for civil rights and student power, and against the Vietnam War. While much is written about student activism during this time, scholars seldom examine these protests through the lenses of architecture and campus planning. This study contends the designed environment of the university embodies the cultural and social values of the institution. Therefore, students used buildings, landscapes, and spaces throughout campus as places of protest against the values embodied within the architecture. Using the University of Minnesota as a microcosm of national trends, this thesis aims to find out why specific spaces on campus are chosen as nodes of protest, in order to understand the role of architecture in shaping activism. These locations—the Armory, student union, administration building, and auditorium—contain controls and affordances for protests that influenced why these spaces were repeatedly chosen for student activism. The design, association, and program of these buildings and the spaces around them, principally elements of massing, scale, ornamentation, and association, created a stage in which protests gained legitimacy and visibility for their causes. Archival materials used for this exhibition—particularly newspaper clippings, photographs, and oral histories—validate and characterize these findings. Further analysis and diagramming were presented with archival materials as an exhibition entitled “The Embattled University”, to highlight the relationship between architecture and activism.Item Procession in Renaissance Venice: Effect of Ritual Procession on the Built Environment and the Citizens of Venice(2016) Ghoshal, ShreyaFor Venetians, the miraculous rediscovery of Saint Mark’s body brought not only the reestablishment of a bond between the city and the Saint, but also a bond between the city’s residents, both by way of ritual procession. After his body’s recovery from Alexandria in 828 AD, Saint Mark’s influence on Venice became evident in the renaming of sacred and political spaces and rising participation in ritual processions by all citizens. Venetian society embraced Saint Mark as a cause for a fresh start, especially during the Renaissance period; a new style of architecture was established to better suit the extravagance of ritual processions celebrating the Saint. Saint Mark soon displaced all other saints as Venice’s symbol of independence and unity.