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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

A dream of the sacred

Abstract

dc:description.abstract

Memory Childhood Walking the long, winding dirt road to our home. The road is flanked by pine, birch, fern, occasioned by bold jack-in-the-pulpit and fire-red newts. Underfoot, stones roll and skitter. Each stone, solid, whole, each, an open eye, feigning sleep. Holding secret its very center. Dream Powerful in its simplicity. One stark picture frame. Like a billboard in an endless landscape, it comes between two other dreams. It is the cross section of a stone. Thin skinned and ordinary on the outside. Obsidian black inside, with a cube of transparent crystal rising in the center. Once a dream. Now a talisman.

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 Polytechnic Institute and State University
Year dc:date.issued
1994

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • Ehmann, Christine Marie
Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
  • Brown, William W.
Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
  • Choudhury, Salahuddin
  • O'Brien, Michael J.

Rights

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

Identifiers

dc:identifier.*
Handle dc:identifier.uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53373
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/53373

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Ehmann, Christine Marie. A dream of the sacred. masters thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53373