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Living Memories: Rethinking Remembrance, Timothy Mulhall May 2021

Living Memories: Rethinking Remembrance, Timothy Mulhall

Architecture Senior Theses

This thesis will interrogate conventional types and methods of memorialization, challenging the memorial as a complete product. Developing from inquiries into alternative acts of commemoration, this investigation will seek to conceive a memorial in the making. Memorials must be alive, changing, constantly developing as a result of interaction. The reliance on overly abstract, rhetorical conditions of design will become obsolete. The static condition of the image-friendly object will be replaced with a dynamism influenced by time and participation.


We Die As We Live, Yücel Güven Apr 2017

We Die As We Live, Yücel Güven

Architecture Thesis Prep

Each person is made up of different characters that build his/her complete identity. It is possible to identify these individual personas and design a different mausoleum to each one, specific in architectural language and function. The mausoleum should architecturally be unique to the persona and functionally serve the same purpose.


Materializing Light, Lirong Tan Apr 2017

Materializing Light, Lirong Tan

Architecture Senior Theses

Artificial light, especially volumetric light, can be materialized and transform the existing ruin. Specifically, I would choreograph the interaction between people and light to exaggerate, or dramatize, the tragic feeling of Hiroshima Memorial Dome.


En[Crypted]: A Memorial Archive For The Preservation And Sanctification Of Digital Remains., William Stattman Apr 2013

En[Crypted]: A Memorial Archive For The Preservation And Sanctification Of Digital Remains., William Stattman

Architecture Senior Theses

Humans no longer leave behind solely physical remains. We accrue countless digital files, photos, etc. that are part of our lives and reveal who we are. We have well established architectural typologies for physical living, spaces for viewings and funerals [the threshold] and typologies for storing and curating physical remains. There is a pragmatic "architecture" for the living digital in the form of vast server warehouses, which additionally house digital artifacts from deceased users out of necessity as there has yet to be an established typology for their permanent archiving. There is also no respectful digital equivalent to the funeral …


Remembering And Honoring Paul Harold Malo, Paul Harold Malo Oct 2008

Remembering And Honoring Paul Harold Malo, Paul Harold Malo

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

Remembering and Honoring Paul Harold Malo (June 8, 1930 - July 22, 2008)


Metropolis Necropolis: Building A Ritual Of Memorial For The Urban Homeless, Michael Marchand Oct 2008

Metropolis Necropolis: Building A Ritual Of Memorial For The Urban Homeless, Michael Marchand

Architecture Thesis Prep

"The intervention of architecture, through a cultural and contextual understanding, can create a relevant ritual for the memorial of the deceased that is meaningful to the communities it is intended to serve - the marginalized people of the streets of New York - while bringing the needs of the communities into the public light."


Phenomenological Perception: A Memorial For Fishermen Lost At Sea, Joel Kline Oct 2000

Phenomenological Perception: A Memorial For Fishermen Lost At Sea, Joel Kline

Architecture Thesis Prep

"This thesis contends that through the exploration of tactile issues of arhitectural perception, architecture can be tested for its broader role as an effective mediator between us and the world, the individual in society, and life and death."


Memorial Service For Werner Seligmann: Distiguished Professor Of Architecture, Michael Dennis, Henry Steck, Alan Chimacoff, Randall Korman, Jeffrey Klug, Arthur Mcdonald, Steven Alexander, Bruce Coleman, Franz Oswald, Colin Rowe, Bruce Abbey Dec 1998

Memorial Service For Werner Seligmann: Distiguished Professor Of Architecture, Michael Dennis, Henry Steck, Alan Chimacoff, Randall Korman, Jeffrey Klug, Arthur Mcdonald, Steven Alexander, Bruce Coleman, Franz Oswald, Colin Rowe, Bruce Abbey

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

Memorial Service for Werner Seligmann (1930-1998) was held in Hendricks Chapel, Syracuse University on December 6th, 1998 at 1:30pm.