Representation(s): A Mutable Process for a Transitioning Urban Landscape

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dc.contributor.advisorAmbrose, Michaelen_US
dc.contributor.authorLaCharite-Lostritto, Lisaen_US
dc.contributor.departmentArchitectureen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-10-06T06:42:15Z
dc.date.available2009-10-06T06:42:15Z
dc.date.issued2009en_US
dc.description.abstractTo understand the medium is to understand the affects the medium has on the changes and the scale and form of human association and action over time, not only as the medium is being introduced, but also the unconscious and unforeseeable effects the cultural matrix within which the medium operates. Marshall McLuhan Difference is not simply the collapsing [or circulation] of identity, it is also the rendering of space and time as fragmented, transformable, interpenetrated, beyond any fixed formulation, no longer guaranteed by the a priori or by the universalisms of science. Elizabeth Grosz Media can be leveraged as a way to evaluate and inform the built environment. By using media as more than just a communicative necessity, media is capable of directing process. This process seeks to construct a representational framework and narrative through the investigation and translation of cultural, historical, and conceptual contexts. Architecture, as media, functions as a perceptual tool toward the fusion of process and a meta-physical and physical experience. This thesis asks the question: How can these complex contexts create a framework within which the media operates and informs the built environment? The validity of this research in the context of the culture of architectural education is to show that architecture is more than simply applied knowledge and skills translated through conventions of visual communication. Architecture is a way of seeing and thinking that requires understanding of media beyond the idea of tool and production to an idea of performance, process, and methodology.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/9658
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledArchitectureen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolleddigital mediaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledpalimpsesten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledprocessen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledrepresentationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledtranslationen_US
dc.titleRepresentation(s): A Mutable Process for a Transitioning Urban Landscapeen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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