Many mini model homes

Architectural ideas have historically circulated through a literary format. Since the rediscovery of Vitruvius's De Architectura in the fifteenth century, the architectural book has fore fronted itself as a critical tool in the deliverance of disciplinary knowledge. Producing a book became a milestone for many architects in cementing themselves as authoritative figures within the architectural profession. Acting as broadcasting devices, these books were utilized as instruments of exchange between the architects who authored the books and the readers who constructed their designs. My thesis, Many Mini Model Homes, fits directly within the literary lineage of architectural design methodology and recrafts a relationship between architectural author and reader. As history has clearly expressed, the book has been utilized as a simultaneous pedagogical device of far stretching instruction and as an independent forum for individual design exploration. Operating as representational projects, architectural pattern books begged to be copied so that the designs within them could be realized. Many Mini Model Homes renews this conversation of representational methodology through the production of both a book which contains the designs of fifteen "model" homes and the drawings needed to replicate them in model scale. Hence the title of Many Mini Model Homes.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Schwartzman, Gideon(Gideon Bank)

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Mark Jarzombek.

• Architecture.

Statement dc:rights

• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123699

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/123699