Browsing by Author "Roy, Lindy"

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    An autobigraphical ecology/an architectural method
    (1997) Koski, Keith A.; Roy, Lindy; Pope, Albert; Fox, Stephen
    This project began as an autobiography. In addition to that, it became a study of the history of autobiographies. Somewhere in the comparison, it became necessary to locate the autobiography within an ecology. I reinhabited and measured a place of my youth, a suburban super-block in west Houston. The investigation took on a variety of scales. I studied aerial photographs, took lots of snapshots, shot videos, drove around, walked around, collected artifacts, and talked to people. I processed part of that information into a written and graphic history. The site had experienced cycles of advance and recession between man and nature. It had also experienced radical transformations in the landscape which were largely the results of myopic land development.
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    Polytectic
    (1997) Ridenour-Krockel, Sara Elizabeth; Casbarian, John J.; Kwinter, Sanford; Roy, Lindy; Wolin, Richard
    In the fragmented, polymorphous world we presently inhabit, is synthesis applicable or even relevant? The conflict, tension, and struggle inherent in the attempts at reconciliation between architectural theory and architectural praxis re-visit the Hegelian synthetic dialectic in the search for configuration and inscription (or reconfiguration and reinscription) within fragmentation. The question remains whether this self-unfolding of events is a holistic or heterogeneous construct. In this inquiry, the interrogation begins a the pivotal comer of an urban parking garage and with a succession of catalytic programs and residents. Linear construction documentation unravels to reveal the delineation of spatial unwrapping across the plastic surface.