Type of Document Master's Thesis Author Fleming, Jonathan Paul URN etd-102598-105940 Title Descendents: Research in Architecture Degree Master of Architecture Department Architecture Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Schneider, Mark E. Committee Chair Galloway, William U. Committee Member O'Brien, Michael J. Committee Member Willoughby, William Committee Member Keywords
- descendent
- architecture
Date of Defense 1998-09-05 Availability unrestricted Abstract This thesis investigates the relationships between projects inthe form of resistance. The thesis is accompanied by a series
of projects that investigate a number of resistances. These
resistances spur relationships to other works in progress;
descendents. The projects are a testing ground for the ideo-logical
content in an architects work.
Each project we undertake is a part of a much
larger whole that may or may not be a life's work,
but is, certainly, an influence in the creation of
coherence as we move forth in our practice. This
is not to say that everything must look alike, rather
it is to keep one involved in the fundamental
aspects of a project that may give clues as to what
you as an architect stand for. It is itself a
resistance to the problems facing us as we attempt
to build. Those problems that may begin to bog us
down and force us to lose sight of architecture.
There are many things on one's plate as a project
proceeds, it is not easy to keep focus.
The architect must seek aspects that put us into
dialogue with those things outside that inevitably
influence the specific work at hand. A way of
arriving at conclusions that do not confound an
architecture. I see it as being analogous to
Hertzberger's discussion of warp and weft, a
defined structure into which possibilities may be
woven creating relationships between the elements
of the architecture. This asserts a set of rules that
an architect learns how to work with, and even
violate.
This formulation creates multiple possibilities
within and outside a framework of the architect's
order. The architect learns to question within the
boundaries of his times, and perhaps beyond those
bounds with that understanding. He learns what to
ask and what not to ask; which resistances offer
stimulus and which do not. The work, through
time, acts as an analogue to history itself. The
designer may then create with a better grasp of the
full potentiality of Architecture.
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