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The Monument And The Square: Evolving An Identity For Harvard Square, Kathleen Kulpa
The Monument And The Square: Evolving An Identity For Harvard Square, Kathleen Kulpa
Architecture Thesis Prep
"This thesis will demonstrate the making of a civic building as a resolution between urban conditions and as a focal point in a urban square. It proposes to create an identity for the place by using abstraction of the meeting house as a recognizable type which can allow for the reproposition of the community within."
Thesis Preparatory Booklet - Suburban Civic Center, Charles Angelakis
Thesis Preparatory Booklet - Suburban Civic Center, Charles Angelakis
Architecture Thesis Prep
'My intention is to investigate the reestablishment of the civic center within a typical suburban town of a major metropolitan city. This new 'town square" should be the seat of local law and government, the place of the town's library, site of public services, along with some commercial and residential functions. My goal is to take a site occupied by an architectural ruin which sits as a composition of objects in a field, and by the manipulation of the landscape, along with the introduction of a new piece of architecture, create an ordered composition which begins to become the towns …