"Building"
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1989
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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I guess my concern is for building.
This thesis became a search for form. It did not start that way.
The start was a search for reasons, for methods, for a way. It was, however, the pursuit of an understanding of the essence of an object that proved the most rewarding. How l design has come from investigating WHAT I design.
The thesis has not left me with answers, but with questions. And what are those questions?
The thing:
The thing as OBJECT: it seems to boil down to - how is it made?
The thing as EVENT: it seems to boil down to - what is it like to be there?
The thing as DESIGNED: it seems to boil down to what do I want its nature to be? What will inform my forms?