Browsing by Author "Glowacki, Kevin T."
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Architectural Context and Aspects of Ritual Behavior at Late Minoan IIIC Kavousi Vronda
Glowacki, Kevin T.; Klein, Nancy L. (Archaeological Institute of America, 2019)The Late Minoan IIIC settlement at Kavousi Vronda, located in the northern foothills of the Thriphti mountain range in eastern Crete, consisted of about twenty houses clustered in complexes around the slopes and summit of ... -
Colloquium Overview Statement: What’s New at Gournia? The Gournia Excavation Project 2010–Present.
Buell, David Mattew; Glowacki, Kevin T. (Archaeological Institute of America, 2017)Harriet Boyd Hawes conducted the first systematic excavations at Gournia in 1901 and 1903-1904, revealing a palace, a public plateia, some 64 houses, two extramural cemeteries, and a street-network. Hawes was primarily ... -
A Comparative Study of Ancient Greek Houses Using Visibility Graph Analysis
Glowacki, Kevin T. (Athens Institute for Education and Research, 2014)Ancient Greek domestic architecture has been a topic of interest from the perspectives of both ancient literary texts and modern archaeological fieldwork. Scholarship has advanced from a focus on house forms described by ... -
Comparing Aluminum Composite Sheeting to Fibre Panel for Thermal Performance in Residential Housing
Zhou, Jun (2016-05-06)In the United States, the building industry is one of the main consumers of energy and materials such as concrete and walling systems. Exterior wall systems play an important role in determining the energy consumption for ... -
Cooking Vessels, Volumes, and Venues: Evidence from LM IIIC Kavousi Vronda and Karphi
Glowacki, Kevin T.; Day, Leslie P. (2020-05-17)Our understanding of diet and culinary practices at the Late Minoan IIIC settlement sites of Kavousi Vronda and Karphi is based upon several different types of physical evidence that have been recovered through excavation. ... -
Estimating Storage Capacity of Late Minoan Pithoi Using 3D Computer Modeling: A Case Study from Kavousi Vronda
Glowacki, Kevin T. (Archaeological Institute of America, 2011)Accurate calculation of the storage capacity of ceramic assemblages offers insights relevant to many types of archaeological analyses, including function and design variability, craft specialization, the establishment of ... -
Investigating vernacular design at the Treviño-Uribe Rancho complex in San Ygnacio, Texas. Poster presented at the 2020 Virtual Conference of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, May 9, 2020
Glowacki, Kevin T.; Billingsley, Andrew J.; Baaske, Benjamin; Briscoe, Frank; Warden, Robert; Champagne, Lonnie. (2020-05-16)The Jesus Treviño-Blas Maria Uribe Rancho in San Ygnacio, Texas, is an important example of a fortified home from the Spanish Colonial and Mexican periods of settlement along the Rio Grande River. Originally constructed ... -
Reverse Auction Bidding-Bid Time Intervals Analysis
Xiao, Mengyan (2015-05-11)Reverse Auction Bidding is for the purchase of goods or services that has developed in line with the development of the World Wide Web. A number of agencies utilize Reverse Auction Bidding as their procurement tool. In an ... -
Stratigraphic Excavations within the Gournia Palace 2011-2014
Gallimore, Scott; Glowacki, Kevin T. (Archaeological Institute of America, 2017)Recent excavations within the Gournia palace have revealed much new evidence for the occupation of the site prior to the construction of the Neopalatial complex and for the formation processes, ritual activities, and ... -
Structural Aspects of Traditional Cretan Masonry
Glowacki, Kevin T.; Nichols, John M.; Holland, Nancy L. (15th International Brick and Block Masonry Conference, 2012)The island of Crete has a long tradition of stone masonry construction, beginning over 8000 years before present. As noted by architectural historians, the vernacular architecture of modern (pre-World War II) villages on ... -
A Study of Dust Movement through Construction Barriers
Zhang, Wei (2014-12-12)Airborne infection agents can and do infect patients who have a lung disease or who are coping with a weakened immune systems or in some circumstances otherwise apparently healthy people. A rise in the rate of fungal ... -
A Study of Vernacular Architecture in Late Bronze/Early Iron Age Crete
Klein, Nancy L.; Glowacki, Kevin T. (2020-05-17)Vernacular architecture is closely linked to both time and place and reflects what most people in a community or region consistently build and use, working with local materials, and traditional techniques and forms. It is ... -
Understanding Vernacular Architecture in Late Minoan IIIC Crete
Glowacki, Kevin T. (Archaeology & Art Publications, 2014)The built environment of Late Minoan IIIC Crete (c. 1200–1050 BCE) offers a striking contrast to the formal and often monumental architecture that characterizes the palaces, villas, and settlements of the preceding Neopalatial ... -
The Use of Space Syntax Analysis for the Study of Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age Domestic Architecture on Crete
Glowacki, Kevin T. (Athens Institute for Education and Research, 2013)Following the collapse of the Minoan Palatial system and the abandonment of most coastal settlements on Crete in the late 13th century BC, new self- sufficient villages were established at a number of upland sites in the ... -
The Utilization of Building Information Modeling in Computer-Controlled Automatic Construction: Case Study of a Six-Room Wooden House
Wang, Yifei (2016-04-25)In the current context, Building Information Modeling (BIM) is belatedly providing the construction industry with a tool to reach higher levels of efficiency, quality and convenience. However, human errors in both management ... -
Vronda Reconstruction - Preliminary (Nov. 2009)
Dafedar, Sayed Kashif; Glowacki, Kevin T.; Klein, Nancy L. (2009)Preliminary virtual reconstruction of the archaeological site of Kavousi Vronda in eastern Crete, Greece. This video segment tours part of the Late Minoan IIIC settlement, beginning with Building I-O-N on the western slope ...