A dialogue: a steel mill, a method, an expression

Architecture is an act of making. A student of architecture must respond to the findings in the practice of architecture, the making. Theories are only signified through and after the making of a work of architecture. These theories develop from discussions among others and within oneself of ideas and objects in the artistic framework Finding the similarities and differences within objects and ideas begins the · dialogue. A reduction takes place. Ideas and objects are catalogued to ideas already structured in the architect’s mind from previous perceptions. This is not to say that the perceptions are brought down to similar experiences, but to ideas and things that have their own structure within the one world. Things and ideas no longer hold in our experiential context, they are reduced to perceptions that are not sensed in the initial apprehension of the phenomena; Perceptions that the architect understands through the making of objects. Something that was not revealed initially is unconcealed giving the architect a sense of being in the world.

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 Polytechnic Institute and State University

Year dc:date.issued

1992

Author dc:creator

• Lipchak, W. Paul

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Kilper, Dennis J.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Ferrari, Olivio C.
• Dunay, Robert J.

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53329

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/53329