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Reality and Imagination: A Place for Blacksburg

Abstract

dc:description.abstract

There is nothing impossible in the world. Humans use their imagination to make their dreams come true or to achieve their desires. In architecture, a project should be completed by team effort and technology. Architects and engineers transform their ideas and imagination into an real object: space. Like a film, reflecting the director's thought and expression. How can space be defined ? A wall, a column.... every element in architecture can define a space, even though it might be only a door. A wall can be a separation as defining edges of a space, but a wall also is a connection as indicating other spaces for human to enter. A column is not just a part of the structure in architecture; it may guide people approaching a space or imply that there is another different space beyond?....

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
2000

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • Tseng, Hui-Min
Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
  • O'Brien, Michael J.
Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
  • Galloway, William U.
  • Brown, William W.
  • Schnoedt, Heinrich

Subjects

dc:subject × 5

Rights

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

Identifiers

dc:identifier.*
Dc Identifier Other
etd-04032000-01170008
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/31611

Chain of custody

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2026-07-22
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citation

Tseng, Hui-Min. Reality and Imagination: A Place for Blacksburg. masters thesis, Virginia Tech, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31611