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Details Matter: Architecture Is Understood As A Sum Of Its Details, Rajkumar Kadam
Details Matter: Architecture Is Understood As A Sum Of Its Details, Rajkumar Kadam
Architecture Thesis Prep
Architecture is understood as a product of its details. It is inseparable from its components and the characteristic ways in which they are assembled. The scalar and material consistency of the components is important as to how architecture is read. In this regard, the best detailing is one where each part has the same language and character as the whole as detailing is about the construction of a part to whole relationship. To construct this argument, this thesis looks at Edward Ford’s “55 Door Handles, or What is a Detail?” and the four schools of thought about the relationship of …
Charon's Passage: The Journey To Nimiety, Nicholas Kronauer
Charon's Passage: The Journey To Nimiety, Nicholas Kronauer
Architecture Thesis Prep
This thesis aims to reconsider the possibility and potential of the mausoleum as an architectural contradiction by reconceptualizing the mausoleum as a typology for public space, thus inverting the traditional objective of introspection and the object-form, interior-exterior dialectic of funerary architecture. By engaging the mausoleum with 21st-century urbanization, traditional notions of permanence, meaning, and tectonics can be renegotiated through the juxtaposition of a foreign object that activated by the appropriation and integration of a social program. Through this thesis, the mausoleum is no longer a place for reflection or solidarity but will operate as a stage set to frame and …