El sistema de escuelas primarias de Juan O'Gorman, arquitecto : modernidad y eficiencia

El proceso de proyecto, llevado a cabo por Juan O’Gorman, para proyectar y construir más de veinticinco Escuelas Primarias en el Distrito Federal en menos de seis meses en 1932, necesariamente debió regirse por una metodología que permitiera conseguirlo. Esta investigación plantea la existencia de un método de proyecto que engloba toda la arquitectura de la etapa funcionalista de O’Gorman. Se considera la metodología, denominada en esta tesis Sistema Modular de las Escuelas Primarias, como un procedimiento proyectual evolutivo, conseguido a través de una investigación y experimentación continua. Inicia en 1929 con la realización de dos proyectos de vivienda particular, continúa con la génesis de un esquema de modulación que surge en unos proyectos de vivienda colectiva, se perfecciona en los proyectos de Escuelas Primarias del D.F. introduciendo criterios de estandarización y culmina con la adaptación a diversas circunstancias geométricas y climáticas que define la ubicación, en los casos concretos de la Escuela Vocacional Industrial de Tolsá y Tresguerras y la Escuela Primaria de Tampico en 1934. Este planteamiento destaca el valor de la obra funcionalista de aquel joven arquitecto, no sólo por lo novedoso que este nuevo lenguaje supuso en el México neo-colonial de los años 30, sino especialmente por la importancia que significó para la arquitectura mexicana contemporánea, la sistematización de procesos de proyecto -modulación y estandarización- para abordar una arquitectura inexistente en la época -la arquitectura social- de manera moderna y eficiente. La metodología empleada en la tesis implica la catalogación y mapeado de las Escuelas Primarias del D.F., lo cual aporta documentación original inédita. ABSTRACT The project process, carried out by Juan O’Gorman, to design and build more than twenty five elementary schools in less than six months in Mexico City in 1932, must have necessarily been governed by a thorough methodology in order to achieve this. This research posits the existence of a project method that encompasses all the architecture of O’Gorman’s functionalist stage. The methodology, known as “Modular System of Elementary Schools” in this thesis, is regarded as an evolutionary proyectual process, achieved through continuous research and experimentation. This methodology, which started in 1929 with the completion of two projects of private dwellings, continued with the creation of a modulation scheme arising from collective housing projects, later perfected in the Elementary School projects of Mexico City by introducing standardization criteria. Finally, it culminated in the adaptation to various geometric and climatic circumstances defined by the location, in the specific cases of the Industrial Vocational School of Tolsá and Tresguerras and Tampico’s Elementary School in 1934. This approach highlights the value of the young architect’s functionalist work, not only for the novelty of this new language in the neo-colonial Mexico of the 1930s, but especially because of the importance it meant to contemporary Mexican architecture, the systematization of project processes, -modulation and standardization- and addressing a nonexistent ‘social architecture’ at the time in a modern and efficient way. The methodology used in this thesis involves cataloging and mapping O’Gorman’s Elementary Schools in Mexico City, which provides unprecedented original documentation.

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"References" at end of most of the chapters.

Law and freedom in the school;

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Industrial arts in our elementary schools,

Mode of access: Internet.

Illinois State Police activity book /

"3/11"--Colophon.

Inge Hansen-Schaberg: Minna Specht - Eine Sozialistin in der Landerziehungsheimbewegung (1918 bis 1951). Untersuchung zur pädagogischen Biographie einer Reformpädagogin. (Studien zur Bildungsreform. Bd. 22). Frankfurt a.M./Bern: Lang 1992 [Rezension]

Rezension von: Inge Hansen-Schaberg: Minna Specht - Eine Sozialistin in der Landerziehungsheimbewegung (1918 bis 1951). Untersuchung zur pädagogischen Biographie einer Reformpädagogin. (Studien zur Bildungsreform. Bd. 22). Frankfurt a.M./Bern: Lang 1992, 406 S.

Silke Traub: Projektarbeit – ein Unterrichtskonzept selbstgesteuerten Lernens? Eine vergleichende empirische Studie. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt 2012 (267 S.) [Rezension]

Rezension von: Silke Traub: Projektarbeit – ein Unterrichtskonzept selbstgesteuerten Lernens? Eine vergleichende empirische Studie. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt 2012 (267 S.; ISBN 978-3-7815-1864-3)

Development of a Method to Determine Pavement Damage Due to Detours, Project 02-105, Apirl 2005

The research presented in this report provides the basis for the development of a new procedure to be used by the Iowa DOT and cities and counties in the state to deal with detours. Even though the project initially focused on investigating new tools to determine condition and compensation, the focus was shifted to traffic and the gas tax method to set the basis for the new procedure. It was concluded that the condition-based approach, even though accurate and consistent condition evaluations can be achieved, is not feasible or cost effective because of the current practices of data collection (two-year cycle) and also the logistics of the procedure (before and after determination). The gas tax method provides for a simple, easy to implement, and consistent approach to dealing with compensation for use of detours. It removes the subjectivity out of the current procedures and provides for a more realistic (traffic based) approach to the compensation determination.

Modelling complex systems for project planning - A semiotics motivated method

A large and complex IT project may involve multiple organizations and be constrained within a temporal period. An organization is a system comprising of people, activities, processes, information, resources and goals. Understanding and modelling such a project and its interrelationship with relevant organizations are essential for organizational project planning. This paper introduces the problem articulation method (PAM) as a semiotic method for organizational infrastructure modelling. PAM offers a suite of techniques, which enables the articulation of the business, technical and organizational requirements, delivering an infrastructural framework to support the organization. It works by eliciting and formalizing (e. g. processes, activities, relationships, responsibilities, communications, resources, agents, dependencies and constraints) and mapping these abstractions to represent the manifestation of the "actual" organization. Many analysts forgo organizational modelling methods and use localized ad hoc and point solutions, but this is not amenable for organizational infrastructures modelling. A case study of the infrared atmospheric sounding interferometer (IASI) will be used to demonstrate the applicability of PAM, and to examine its relevancy and significance in dealing with the innovation and changes in the organizations.

Assessing the Implementation of a Secondary Plan Using a Conformance-Based GIS Method: A Pilot Project in Winnipeg, Manitoba

This case study evaluates the implementation of a secondary land use plan in Winnipeg, MB. The area selected for this case study is the Northeast Neighbourhood located in Waverley West; the development of this neighbourhood was guided by the Northeast Neighbourhood Area Structure Plan (NNASP). This case study evaluates the implementation of the NNASP through a conformance analysis which answers the following research questions: 1) Does the developed land use pattern in the NNASP area conform to what was planned; and 2) Does the implementation of the NNASP conform to the goals, objectives, policies, and intent of the plan? The implementation of the NNASP was evaluated against 62 evaluation criteria which were generated based on the policies of the NNASP. Using this method, the development of the Northeast Neighbourhood is effectively evaluated against the requirements of the NNASP. This conformity test utilized threefold approach including GIS analysis, a site visit, and document analysis.