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  • Examining the energy performance of older and historic building using municipal benchmarking data

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    Article
    Description/Abstract:
    Until recently, nationally representative survey data has been the primary source of information on the energy performance of buildings in the U.S., relative to their year of construction. The emergence of municipal energy benchmarking ordinances and public availability of benchmarking datasets now makes it possible to explore these relationships at the local level, and to link this data with information about a building’s historic designation status. This paper presents results from an initial statistical analysis examining the relationships between building energy use, year of construction, and historic designation status. First, municipal benchmarking data from six U.S. cities is used to examine local trends in the relationship between building age and energy performance. Second, an exploratory analysis of the energy performance of designated historic compared to non-historic buildings in New York City is presented. The methods described in this paper could be applied more widely to benchmarking datasets from other cities.
    Creator/Author:
    Webb, Amanda; M. David Burton, and Beckett, Lauren
    Submitter:
    Amanda Webb
    Date Uploaded:
    05/26/2022
    Date Modified:
    05/26/2022
    Date Created:
    2018-09-26
    License:
    Attribution 4.0 International

  • Artistic Self-Consciousness in Pietro Lorenzetti's Arezzo Altarpiece

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    Article
    Description/Abstract:
    “With his Right Hand”: Signatures, Pictorial Gestures, and Artistic Self-Consciousness in Pietro Lorenzetti’s Arezzo Polyptych Pietro Lorenzetti signed no fewer than nine paintings during his career, more than any other European artist until Jan van Eyck a century later. He also left an unprecedented “double signature” on one work, with the first inscription prominently visible to the public and the second hidden and known only to the painter. Written along the lower edge of altarpieces and panels, Lorenzetti’s signatures are usually simple and concise, following formulas previously adopted by medieval Italian artists. But two of his earliest inscriptions, on the Cortona Madonna (ca. 1315) and Arezzo Polyptych (1320-1324), differ by including the word “dextra”: “Petrus Laurentii hanc pinxit dextra senensis.” These signatures can be translated as “Pietro di Lorenzo of Siena painted this [work] with his right hand.” Like his unparalleled proclivity for signing paintings, Lorenzetti’s use of “dextra” in these inscriptions can inform us about his specific works, pictorial language and artistic personality. By stating that the Arezzo Polyptych was painted “with his right hand,” Lorenzetti naturally drew attention to his manual dexterity and the glorious product of his extensive handiwork. Simultaneously it put Lorenzetti’s paintings in relation to the work of esteemed artists such as Giunta Pisano who had already referred to their own expert hands in their signatures. If we look at the Arezzo Polyptych’s content, Lorenzetti’s “dextra” encourages viewers to consider the formal connections between the artist’s hand and the hands of figures he painted, including the dextra Dei depicted in the Annunciation and the pointing hand of John the Baptist indicating the Christ Child, both of which are vertically aligned with Pietro’s signature. Such visual resonances between text and image suggest that Lorenzetti was self-consciously linking his creative act with the divine work of God and the saints. What inspired Lorenzetti to sign so many of his paintings, and, on occasion, to do so in such a self-aggrandizing way? The painter was surrounded by several significant artists who created prominent works with signatures. They include Giunta Pisano, Margaritone d’Arezzo, Giovanni Pisano, and Duccio, and if Lorenzetti did not collaborate directly with them, he surely would have seen their paintings and sculptures in Arezzo, Assisi, Siena, and elsewhere. Moreover, having secured at a young age several highly important commissions in Tuscany and Umbria, including the fresco cycle in the left transept of the Lower Church at Assisi, Lorenzetti would have had more than enough self-confidence to inscribe himself—and his right hand—into the Arezzo Polyptych.
    Creator/Author:
    Platts, Christopher
    Submitter:
    Christopher Platts
    Date Uploaded:
    03/25/2022
    Date Modified:
    03/25/2022
    Date Created:
    2019-01-01
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • The Unspoken Arms Race: Neurowarfare

    Type:
    Article
    Description/Abstract:
    An expanded version of "The Future of Conflict: Neurowarfare", both of which discuss emerging neurotechnology, neuroscience, and their implications for war, politics, medicine, ethics, and society.
    Creator/Author:
    Turner, Grant
    Submitter:
    Grant Turner
    Date Uploaded:
    10/15/2021
    Date Modified:
    10/15/2021
    Date Created:
    2021-10-02
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

  • Reviving Wright in Cincinnati

    Type:
    Article
    Description/Abstract:
    Revival of Wright in the University of Cincinnati's Faculty Center (demolished to make way for the new Linder Center)
    Creator/Author:
    Meyer, Elizabeth A. and Snadon, Patrick
    Submitter:
    Elizabeth A. Meyer
    Date Uploaded:
    09/22/2021
    Date Modified:
    09/22/2021
    Date Created:
    2018
    License:
    All rights reserved

  • Modernism's Skin Disease

    Type:
    Article
    Description/Abstract:
    Recladding of Procter Hall and Kroger Headquarters
    Creator/Author:
    Meyer, Elizabeth A. and Snadon, Patrick
    Submitter:
    Elizabeth A. Meyer
    Date Uploaded:
    09/22/2021
    Date Modified:
    09/22/2021
    Date Created:
    2018
    License:
    All rights reserved

  • Procter Hall

    Type:
    Article
    Description/Abstract:
    Procter Hall at the University of Cincinnati designed by Woodie Garber
    Creator/Author:
    Meyer, Elizabeth A.
    Submitter:
    Elizabeth A. Meyer
    Date Uploaded:
    09/22/2021
    Date Modified:
    09/22/2021
    Date Created:
    2017
    License:
    All rights reserved

  • Architecture and Sculpture in Cincinnati

    Type:
    Article
    Description/Abstract:
    Sculpture and Art in the Terrace Plaza Hotel and Public Library of Cincinnati Hamilton County
    Creator/Author:
    Snadon, Patrick and Meyer, Elizabeth A.
    Submitter:
    Elizabeth A. Meyer
    Date Uploaded:
    09/22/2021
    Date Modified:
    09/22/2021
    Date Created:
    2018
    License:
    All rights reserved

  • Machines and Gardens (Cincinnati Modern)

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    Article
    Description/Abstract:
    Leo Marx, in his famous 1964 book, “The Machine in the Garden,” proposed that a central conflict in the American psyche resulted from the industrialization of the unspoiled, Eden-like landscapes of the new world. Wright’s Organic Modernism perhaps allowed 20th-century Americans to unconsciously feel that they could “resolve" that conflict by living in harmony with nature, while International Style Modernism and its machine-like buildings perhaps pointed too directly to the tragedy of industrial capitalism’s despoiling of the environment.
    Creator/Author:
    Snadon, Patrick and Meyer, Elizabeth A.
    Submitter:
    Elizabeth A. Meyer
    Date Uploaded:
    09/22/2021
    Date Modified:
    09/22/2021
    Date Created:
    2018
    License:
    All rights reserved

  • Great Kitchens of Cincinnati

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    Article
    Description/Abstract:
    The Corbett House kitchen and John Becker Residence, both notable Cincinnati kitchens.
    Creator/Author:
    Snadon, Patrick and Meyer, Elizabeth A.
    Submitter:
    Elizabeth A. Meyer
    Date Uploaded:
    09/22/2021
    Date Modified:
    09/22/2021
    Date Created:
    2018
    License:
    All rights reserved

  • Frank Lloyd Wright's Scandals

    Type:
    Article
    Description/Abstract:
    Scandals in newspapers of Frank Lloyd Wright
    Creator/Author:
    Snadon, Patrick and Meyer, Elizabeth A.
    Submitter:
    Elizabeth A. Meyer
    Date Uploaded:
    09/22/2021
    Date Modified:
    09/22/2021
    Date Created:
    2018
    License:
    All rights reserved