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Narrative Architecture, Leah E. Cohen
Narrative Architecture, Leah E. Cohen
Architecture Thesis Prep
"Architecture reveals narrative through the facilitation of sequence and the expression of ritual. Ritual is based on archetypal actions."
The Virtual Real, Kurt Schnarr
The Virtual Real, Kurt Schnarr
Architecture Thesis Prep
"Digital technologies have led to the transformation of different types of information into binary form. This transformation changes the way one perceives materiality, space, and its relationship to information. On one level. cyberspace creates a condition in which communication, travel, and education occur at a fast and efficient rate. On another level, cyberspace allows one to exist within a different condition, another world created by simulation and virtual reality. However, one cannot engage these virtual worlds without the existence of physical space. Aside from being an essential element for human existence, physical space evokes human contact, which must occur to …
Advertising / Gender Studies, Delia Nevola
Advertising / Gender Studies, Delia Nevola
Architecture Thesis Prep
"The architectural blurring of genered space. IMages are presented to society as the representation of men/women, and what it means to be one versus the other. This imagery takes form in the products that are produced and dvertised. Architecture will therefore take on the role of (re)presentation, meaning the presentation of products and the representation of genes, through the investigation of binary opposites. These binary opposites, those that are assumed by society, become the architectural elements to demonstrate the presumed differences between genders. The intervention which establishes a blue between these binaries advocates a degenderization of architecture."