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Total Fiction | The Artifice And The Armature, Anrai Pearson
Total Fiction | The Artifice And The Armature, Anrai Pearson
Architecture Senior Theses
This thesis views architecture as a total fiction. It aims to explore the representational and communicative qualities of the architectural surface. Architects have always abstracted raw materials in order to create a larger conceptual basis for architecture but the relationship between abstraction and reality has not always been concrete. In the past, ideals of “truth” and “authenticity” have played a central theoretical role in defining how architects approach building. For example, John Ruskin and Viollet-le-Duc decry various forms of material deceit, in favor of an authentic and truthful architecture. Alternately, architects interested in the communicative agency of architecture have questioned …
Abstracting The Monument: Architectural Representation For A Contemporary Institution, Emma Isabel Corbalan
Abstracting The Monument: Architectural Representation For A Contemporary Institution, Emma Isabel Corbalan
Architecture Thesis Prep
"This thesis contends that a strategic, meaningful abstraction of the traditional principles of monumentality will create an architecture that is identifiable and communicative, and that can become contextual without the evocation of specific historic references."
Symbolism Versus Abstraction: Architectural Representation In A Post-Modern Society, Nina Ebbighausen
Symbolism Versus Abstraction: Architectural Representation In A Post-Modern Society, Nina Ebbighausen
Architecture Thesis Prep
"This thesis poses an investigation into the work of Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Mies van der Rohe as elements of a formal architectural tradition in Berlin; It proposes the institution of an architecture based up on a chosen set of historical models, with the aim of providing one possible foundation for architectural renewal (of unified Berlin) implying cultural continuity. To this end, the thesis poses an investigation into the representative qualities of architecture while examining the informative potential of artifact.
Thesis Preparatory Booklet - Architectural Education, Alex Marc Resch
Thesis Preparatory Booklet - Architectural Education, Alex Marc Resch
Architecture Senior Theses
"Design Principles in the architectural project as an in-depth study of a one-year teaching experience in a first year design studio at Syracuse University