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The Elements of Home: Towards Community and Privacy

Abstract

dc:description.abstract

Today we live in a society where almost everything is or has been reduced to the quantitative state of being a commodity of some kind. We find ourselves searching for something within architecture that is not necessarily tangible or quantifiable. Searching for something more implicit to human experience This thesis is an attempt to explore and document the fundamental idea of dwelling.

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
1999

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • Davis, Christopher Brandon
Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
  • Galloway, William U.
Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
  • Pittman, V. Hunter
  • O'Brien, Michael J.

Subjects

dc:subject × 4

Rights

dc:rights
Statement dc:rights
  • In Copyright
Language dc:language.iso
en

Identifiers

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Dc Identifier Other
etd-050799-144141
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/42525

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citation

Davis, Christopher Brandon. The Elements of Home: Towards Community and Privacy. masters thesis, Virginia Tech, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42525