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An artists' community in Georgetown: a study of the dialectical relationship between the general and the particular in architecture

Abstract

dc:description.abstract

Architecture occurs at the meeting of interior and exterior forces of use and space. These interior and environmental forces are both general and particular, generic and circumstantial. Architecture as the wall between inside and outside becomes the spatial record of this resolution and its drama. And by recognizing the difference between the inside and the outside, architecture opens the door once again to an urbanistic point of view. Robert Venturi It is the role of design to adjust to the circumstantial. Louis Kahn The existential purpose of building (architecture) is therefore to make a site become a place, that is, to uncover the meanings potentially present in the environment. Christian Norberg-Schulz

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
1993

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • Falkenbury, Paul H.
Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
  • Brown, William W.
Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
  • Holt, Jaan
  • Hunt, Gregory K.
  • Ritter, James W.

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/10919/53730
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/53730

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Falkenbury, Paul H.. An artists' community in Georgetown: a study of the dialectical relationship between the general and the particular in architecture. masters thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53730