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Distillation

Abstract

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Ernest Hemingway conveyed emotion with an elegantly straightforward system. My methodology is patterned after his. To share a feeling, I recall the sharp details that caused it: buzzing bees fading to autumn's dry red rustle; a murmur of voices from the sidewalk below; stars creeping across a narrow aperture. An honest detail, delivered without embellishment, instills emotion. Form is sculpted and resculpted, distilled, until a minimum of moves create the "particular sequence of motion and fact that make the emotion". Clear lucid simplicity, the ability to share a fundamental emotion with a single act, is the ideal of my architecture.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Master of Architecture
Level thesis:degree_level
masters
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Architecture
Department dc:contributor.department
Architecture
Grantor dc:publisher
Virginia Tech
Year dc:date.issued
1996

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • Schmiedicke, James Bradford
Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
  • Mashburn, Joseph L.
Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
  • Miller, Patrick A.
  • O'Brien, Michael J.

Subjects

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Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • In Copyright

Identifiers

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Dc Identifier Other
etd-052599-112337
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/33245

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citation

Schmiedicke, James Bradford. Distillation. masters thesis, Virginia Tech, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33245