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Speculations On A City For Mars, Edouard Terzis
Speculations On A City For Mars, Edouard Terzis
School of Architecture - Theses
This thesis proposes the reinterpretation of architectural forms as the index of the constitution of the idea of the city. “Speculations on a City on Mars” is paradoxical in a sense as it superposes both the managerial representation of a city, that is Zoning, along with the speculative aspect of an extra-terrestrial city.
Theatre For A New Theater: A Play On Architecture, Alex Coulombe
Theatre For A New Theater: A Play On Architecture, Alex Coulombe
Honors Capstone Projects - All
The project entails transforming a former military fort into a theater. The scopic parameters native to both fort and theater can provide a field of operation for an architecture that simultaneously mobilizes and exposes the machinery of spectacle. In tandem, amplifying and distorting existing conditions of the fort and repurposing them for a theatrical program can provide catalytic parameters for design that are typically absent when designing from a clean slate.
Architecture Thesis, 2010-Kyle Weeks: Temple Kabbalah Madonna: Architecture And The Camp Sensibility, Kyle Weeks
Architecture Thesis, 2010-Kyle Weeks: Temple Kabbalah Madonna: Architecture And The Camp Sensibility, Kyle Weeks
School of Architecture - Theses
Weeks uses the theoretical pretext of creating a celebrity Kabbalah center loosely based in Los Angeles to test the potential of camp as a design strategy.