Urban Hospice: A Montage of Expiration and Memory

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dc.contributor.authorFinney, Timothy Johnen
dc.contributor.committeechairPiedmont-Palladino, Susan C.en
dc.contributor.committeememberEmmons, Paul F.en
dc.contributor.committeememberFrascari, Marcoen
dc.contributor.departmentArchitectureen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:31:47Zen
dc.date.adate2007-05-23en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:31:47Zen
dc.date.issued2003-06-23en
dc.date.rdate2007-05-23en
dc.date.sdate2007-02-15en
dc.description.abstractArchitecture is visuality. Its object is what Norman Bryson has referred to as a screen of signs. "Between subject and the world is inserted the entire sum of discourses which make up visuality, that cultural construct, and make visuality different from vision, the notion of unmediated visual experience. Between retina and the world is inserted a screen of signs, a screen consisting of all the multiple discourses on vision built into the social arena." (Norman Bryson, from Practice; Architecture, Technique, and Representation, by Stan Allen) Architecture and representation are integral to the screen. How do we make architecture? Is the act of making architecture a montage? Can architecture be made through montage? What is the role of montage in an architecture for life and death? The process of making architecture is not a prescribed methodology with a predetermined outcome. Architecture, crafted by the hand of the architect, is a divine act of assemblage of subconscious allegorical thought, image, and tectonics. Through this art of assemblage, an architecture is born capable of instigating a narrative of metaphor and memory. Metaphorical narrative has the innate ability of summoning memory, and is critical in an architecture for life and death. Architecture is the only total sensory means of narrative.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Architectureen
dc.identifier.otheretd-02152007-193250en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-02152007-193250/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/31237en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.hasparttjf_thesis_etd_300.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectmaterialityen
dc.subjectcavityen
dc.subjectrecorded constructionen
dc.subjectcypress treeen
dc.subjectweatheringen
dc.subjectexpirationen
dc.subjectplaceen
dc.subjectArchitectureen
dc.subjectmontageen
dc.subjectdepartureen
dc.subjectbrainen
dc.subjectdeathen
dc.subjectlifeen
dc.subjecthospiceen
dc.subjectMemoryen
dc.subjectfrontis pieceen
dc.subjectpatient beden
dc.subjectcosmosen
dc.titleUrban Hospice: A Montage of Expiration and Memoryen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineArchitectureen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Architectureen

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