Duality

Duality begins in the layers of intentions within this thesis. The thesis is approached from the primary need to address the questions of architecture by means of the intellect. Subjectivity is an inevitable intervention in the design process. Thus, there is the secondary need to address the questions of the self in which the intellect and its subjectivity are integral parts. Much of my identity is sculpted by the Buddhist philosophy. Thus it is the primary source which I draw from in the making of architecture. However, the philosophy and architecture are in diametrical opposition. Architecture is reliant on the tangibility of materiality and structure. Buddhism rejects that life in the tangibility. More acutely, its essence is an amorphism because of its inexplicable nature. Conversely, architecture's caliber resides in the clarity of form. This is an attempt in the construct of an architecture taken from outside of architecture while imbuing the quality of being architectural. In parallel, duality is in the dialectic of a thesis and an antithesis in search of a synthesis.

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

1995

Author dc:creator

• Le, Thuy D.

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Rott, Hans Christian

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Green, William R.
• Weiner, Frank H.

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

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

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53402

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/53402