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Drawing Towards Building

Abstract

dc:description.abstract

This is a story of a buildingâ s becoming. It begins sixteen years ago when I was first made wholly subject to a drawing. It was not the kind commonly considered proper to architecture, but no drawing in architecture has made sense to me if not for that first. The drawing was toward music. The work of art for the architect is drawing out relationships of embodied belongingâ drawing from memory towards building. I once remembered a beloved house of brick and drew upon it. As building emerged in the drawing, it became its own thing with its own desires. I was myself drawn in by its presence and made attendant to its longings. I listened, in a way, to what it called for and then drew it out, again and again, all the while towards building.

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
2011

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • Wright, Daniel
Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
  • Thompson, Steven R.
Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
  • Gartner, Howard Scott
  • Schneider, Mark E.

Subjects

dc:subject × 4

Rights

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

Identifiers

dc:identifier.*
Dc Identifier Other
etd-06212011-135306
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/33679

Chain of custody

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2026-07-22
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citation

Wright, Daniel. Drawing Towards Building. masters thesis, Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33679