Title page for ETD etd-05222001-144759

Type of Document

Master's Thesis

Author

Gan, Yu-Hui

Author's Email Address

ygan@vt.edu, yuhuig@hotmail.com

URN

etd-05222001-144759

Title

Lightness - A bookstore in Chicago

Degree

Master of Architecture

Department

Architecture

Advisory Committee

Advisor Name	Title
William Galloway	Committee Chair
Dr. Joseph C. Wang	Committee Member
Heinrich Schnoedt	Committee Member

Keywords

bookstore
lightness
light

Date of Defense

2001-05-04

Availability

unrestricted

Abstract

Beauty is something momentary and ever - fleeting, and if it is not appreciated while it is fully charged with life, it will become a memory, and its liveliness will be entirely lost.... Beauty is ever alive, because it has no past, no future, but the present. You hesitate, turn your head, and it will not be there any more...

The project is a bookstore, located in a plaza between two high-rise buildings in downtown Chicago.The idea came from the desire to give people a place to sense the ordinary but precious lightness in their lives, to give them a place to read, to dream, to see the life of other people and to feel the beauty of nature.

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