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Contrarchitecture

Abstract

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A study of how contrasting architectural elements can create a sense of presence. Contrasts constitute movement, feeling, and energy and are what could be the basis of an architecture that illustrates these principles. The transition between extremes creates a balance. Through the use of contrasting elements such as rectilinear and curvilinear, light and shadow, density and sparsity, transparency and opacity, small and large, light and heavy, and compression and tension, there is a static pulse, where architecture may live.

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
2012

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • Addesso, Abbott John
Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
  • Thompson, Steven R.
Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
  • Weiner, Frank H.
  • Rott, Hans Christian

Subjects

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Rights

dc:rights
Statement dc:rights
  • In Copyright

Identifiers

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Dc Identifier Other
etd-10152012-155107
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/35396

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Addesso, Abbott John. Contrarchitecture. masters thesis, Virginia Tech, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35396