Children of Prometheus

The superhuman is a notion of mankind's relationship between himself and his tools. This bound condition of dependence with ingenuity both liberates his body from mortal perils and binds him to indefinite dependence with the complex, the external, and inhuman. Architecture as an extension of mankind's agency which asserts and protects his will against unknown forces contends with this implicit contract; a contract and paradox most poetically considered in our earliest Western myths.

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

2021

Author dc:creator

• Weidner, Lukas Joel

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Thompson, Steven R.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Bedford, Joseph
• Weiner, Frank H.

• Architecture
• myth
• paradox
• dasein
• drawing
• fantasia
• prometheus
• narrative

Statement dc:rights

• Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en

Dc Identifier Other

vt_gsexam:32985

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/106809