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Blacksburg redevelopment
(Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1982)
Using the vehicle of redeveloping downtown Blacksburg, an architectural problem concerning planning, structure, housing and landscaping, this thesis considers the implications of each component and how they interrelate, ...
A book of drawings
(Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1986)
Work is presented to show one architect's findings, relating process rather than a single project. The book itself is conceived as the final product. Included are pages from the architect's notebook; axonometric studies ...
Of the head and of the heart
(Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1981)
The work of an architect (his architecture) is a result of inspiration derived from his head and his heart. If his work is to be original, timeless, and improving, neither his head nor his heart must be fettered or coerced ...
"Six house types"
(Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1985)
This thesis seeks to explore, through making.
The object of this making is, as Kahn has said, house. as opposed to a house; or, the house type seen as a generative tool rather than as a singular definitive manifestation ...
Face of the new
(Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1988)
Somewhere between thought and action
(Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1985)
Gainsboro structure
(Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1982)
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Symmetry plus --
(Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1981)
Architecture is a translation of an idea.
An ordering idea is vital to make architecture.
A building that is symmetrical about two axis, with some necessary exceptions, is an example of such an idea.
…Closed Together Order…
(Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1992)
"A walk through the woods"
(Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1983)
A wooded 7.8 acre parcel located in Northern Virginia near the Potomac River is bordered by a National Wildlife Refuge and provides a setting for ''A Walk through the Woods", a place for a single family to live. As one ...