dissertation rough notes 1

1. I am interested in the way that a client - in this specific case, Queen Mary, has used her individual affiliations and respect towards other cultures to help direct the architects - Augustino, Amerigo and Jules Jany increating a royal residence for her. 

2. The idea of the queen was to recreate the God's lands with the botanical garden and architecture of the palace have a religious significance. As she spent a part of her life in Egypt and adhered to the Bahá'í Faith. With the belief in equal rights between relugion, sex and race and the spiritual uniti of all humanking, she incorporated numerous cultures and religions influences into the palaces arhchitecture and decoration. Historians state that her political marriage, the constant unfaithfulness od her husband and her longing for her Scottish origins influenced her in transforming the fairy bay in her own shelter that would incorporate elements of all of her affiliations. 

I am intrested in analysing the psychological reasons and, relating with historical dates and facts, analyse to what extent her formar life as a princess  and the places she gew up in influenced her choice in the architectural influences she decided to portray, decorative elements and materials as well as the garden arrangement she decided upon during the construction of the residence. 

Through working with poeple one needs to adapt to the needs and preferences of people, feel what they want and the space that they want to live in, adapt the future space so that its inhabitant/s will feel at ease in that space.

Diana Mandache, “The Balchik of Queen Marie”, Curtea Veche Publishing, Book Launch 22 November 2014

3. I intend to collect information from the following sources:

Diana Mandache, “The Balchik of Queen Marie”, Curtea Veche Publishing, Book Launch 22 November 2014

Botton, A. The Architecture of Happiness

In-text: (Trilling, 2009)

Bibliography: Trilling, J. (2009). The Architecture of Happiness. Common Knowledge, 15(3), pp.516-516.

Daniel J Siegel, The developing mind: How relationships and the brain interact to shape who we are. 2nd edn.

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4. The architecture of Happiness will be my secondary line of enquiry as I intend to use the way in which Allain de Botton talked about the architecture’s task to stand as an eloquent reminder of our full potential and his prosaic way of taking the reader on a tour through the philosophy and psychology of architecture. My primary line of enquiry will be Queen Marie's critically acclaimed autobiography, The Story of My Life, published by Cassell in London, in three volumes and reviewed by Virginia Woolf. I will identify the architectural descriptions and memorial notes that describe the Palace in Bachik and connect those with her cultural heritage.

5. I believe that my strong points are making the graphic layout and academic writing. What I need to improve on is making a controversial statement, organising my time and resources and learn how to research the topic in detail.