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Traditional communities in most Third World countries today are facing the influx of all industrialized economy which is leading to the introduction of new building technologies, infrastructure and modern communications. This has resulted in a change in the built environment of …

This thesis examines the haunted house trope in contemporary American Southern Gothic literature, specifically with regards to Mormama by Kit Reed and Little Sister Death by William Gay. I examine a brief history of the Southern Gothic to establish how the genre has moved into c…

The concept of housing has undergone various changes throughout the history. Once, it used to be a dwelling where different domestic activities took place in a room or a building without spatial divisions.

This project centers set design as the primary aesthetic, economic, and sociopolitical driver of the sitcom genre’s emergence and development during the first half of the twentieth century. My work treats sitcom set design as a category of historical architecture that can be (an…

This dissertation traces the image of what is now called "the Turkish House" as it emerged from Ottoman obscurity into the consciousness of the new Turkish Republic, between the closing decades of the 19th century and the end of the 1930s. Using visual representations, the disco…