Browsing by Author "McKee, Elysabeth Yates-Burns"

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    A critical analysis of the tectonic concepts in the thought and work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
    (1994) West, Christophe Charles; McKee, Elysabeth Yates-Burns
    This study is a critical reevaluation of the conceptual basis of Mies van der Rohe's use of tectonics. It concludes that Mies's tectonic concepts developed in four phases, and that each phase emphasized specific aspects of his Transcendental thought. It determines that each phase specifically embodied the dialectical arguments of his writings during that phase. The sequence of these tectonic concepts reflects Mies's development from a representational to an ontological understanding of tectonics, and reveals his return to representational tectonics at the end of his life.
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    Action, alienation and Bacchus
    (1993) Brain, Ariel Fernando; McKee, Elysabeth Yates-Burns
    In order to counter the alienated condition of man it is necessary to promote the reconciliation of the Dionysian and Apollonian. These are the forces that characterize the eternal swing from nature to artifice. While evidence of the Apollonian will to construct an ordered reality abounds in the contemporary city, the ability to access the Dionysian realm of truth is not provided for. The ancient urban form of the stoa--by giving shape to the space of the agora--allowed for an immersion into the sensuous world of Dionysos. The stoa defined the space and established an experience where a Dionysian immersion was mediated by Apollonian determination and order. By reviving the function of the stoa in the contemporary city, much can be done to ameliorate the alienated condition of man.
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    Computer technology: A new architectural frontier
    (1992) Albin, Andrew Wayne; McKee, Elysabeth Yates-Burns
    Computer technology represents a virtually unexplored medium and has brought architecture to the threshold of what could potentially be one of the greatest revolutions in its history. Precedents of all creative endeavors reveal how humans typically respond to such new mediums in terms of time and application. Once recognized as a new architectural medium, computer technology promises to establish a boundless environment which will redefine human interaction.
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    For the stone will cry out of the wall (Germany, Berlin)
    (1992) Karolides, Alexis; McKee, Elysabeth Yates-Burns
    The author argues that the Berlin Wall was more than merely a political construction. Demonstrating the powerful language of architecture, its form was psychologically driven and grounded in historical tradition and culture. Furthermore, it exemplified how architectural constructs are not static but acquire opposing and fluctuating meanings and symbolisms. The wall was, and is, a dynamic condition. More than an object, it was a modern procedure. Not only was it affected by its cultural and socio-political context, but it, in turn, affected its context--space, the pace of time, history, cultural thought and expression. It was an analogue of politics and a palimpsest of culture. Among other modes of expression (such as film, literature and visual art, including graffiti), architecture has been used as a tool to address political agendas connected to the wall. Examination of this architecture divulges a gulf--with notable bridges--between the nature of theoretical and of built projects; and similarly, between projects proposed for a hypothetically projected post-wall situation and those proposed after the wall actually came down.
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    Machinengeist: The spirit of the machine in architecture (1994). (Volumes I and II)
    (1994) Greer, Matthew Preston; McKee, Elysabeth Yates-Burns
    As technology becomes more prevalent in our society, it becomes more concealed. There is danger when we no longer have the awareness to question the presence of these instruments in our lives or our cities. We are becoming cyborgs, human-like creatures plugged into a technological superorganism. The line between human and machine is becoming blurred as technology becomes integrated into our selves. The supreme danger is in becoming part of the standing-reserve of a technological commodity. The saving power lies in architecture's ability to question, and therefore to reveal. We must produce events within our cities that resonate with the vibrations that shake the foundations of the status quo. These events bore through and reveal the layers that make up our technological society. Small fragments of architecture will be installed at each event that would resonate throughout, provoking, instigating, and questioning.
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    Response and Responsibility
    (Rice Design Alliance, 1991) McKee, Elysabeth Yates-Burns
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    Site/gesture
    (1992) Guy, Craig Alan; McKee, Elysabeth Yates-Burns
    Between the individual and the site exists a philosophical space wherein architecture defines the nature, the edge, of humankind's self understanding. Beyond the philosophical exists the physical reality of humankind's place: the topographical/geological specificities of the site and the man-made redefinitions of the site. It is within the physical reality that architecture, and the architect, as individual, must participate but it is the philosophical space wherein the idea is constructed that will inform the direction of the physical reality of architecture. I propose an investigation of the relationship between landscape and architecture. The focus will be on an architecture that will engage the physical realities of the site and the philosophical space of the imagination. My process/program will rely on the photographic manipulation of the site; the analysis of the lines resulting from such manipulation and the manipulation of these lines to define an architectural space.
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    Untitled No. 166: A search for a transparent reality
    (1993) Amerman, Robert; McKee, Elysabeth Yates-Burns
    Form oriented autonomous meaning in architecture has been a post enlightenment paradigm which has generated the tenets of institutionalized architecture. Post-Structuralist thinking has called into question this relationship through the non-constructive infiltration of schema and perception in its hope to reach a new paradigm. The inhabitation of the gap between the object and the way we perceive calls into question the nature of autonomy, archetype, and intrinsic relationships to provide a multi-valent architecture that translates over the flaws of work based on the conquest of reason alone.