Poetic expression in architecture

A common element of twentieth century thought has been the analysis of each phenomenon to its internal logic, the reduction of everything to bare essentials. What has evolved is a notion, to some extent shared by all of us, that in a world which seems almost incomprehensible we can regain meaning by stripping away the superfluous and revealing the essential. What has been pushed aside in this mind-cleaning frenzy is that other side of human nature, the speculative, imaginative side, a side no less important than the definitive and rational one. My purpose in this thesis is to use poetry--that is, poetic verse--as a model for relearning the expression of architectural ideas in ways that will encourage people to speculate and to form imaginative connections. The study is in two parts: an essay and a design of a library for Barnard College.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

1983

Author dc:creator

• Epstein, Deborah A

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Stanford Anderson.

• Architecture.

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

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73255

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/73255