Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
A scholastic center for political science majors: an indoor street
Abstract
dc:description.abstract"A building is a small city, a city is a large building." Alberti Even though Alberti wrote this quote hundreds of years ago, it still raises relevant design issues that can be explored in the architecture of today’s buildings. The quote addresses a modern architectural question in the design of large scale mixed use buildings by offering an architect the similarities between city-building and building interior spaces. These relationships all share design possibilities such as views, thresholds, passageways, public spaces, private spaces, places for activity, and places for rest. These are just a few of the physical and emotional ties that allow a city/building/interior space the opportunity to relate to its surroundings and ultimately create its surroundings.
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
- 1996
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Harlach, Timothy J.
- Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
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- Piedmont-Palladino, Susan C.
- Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
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- Hunt, Gregory K.
- Holt, Jaan
Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- In Copyright
- Licence dc:rights.uri
- Language dc:language.iso
- en
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Handle dc:identifier.uri
- http://hdl.handle.net/10919/54880
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/54880