Shifting archi(text)ure: Notes on a discourse

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dc.contributor.advisorLast, Nanaen_US
dc.creatorFlatt-Hickey, Jamieen_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-04T08:41:02Zen_US
dc.date.available2009-06-04T08:41:02Zen_US
dc.date.issued2005en_US
dc.description.abstractThe final issue of Assemblage marks a new form of discourse in architecture: compilations of short responses to general provocations about architecture from numerous writers active in the field. Why are polls of this nature being taken now? The provocations imply a fundamental uncertainty, a gnawing existential angst. This trend relates to a current fascination in the broader architectural discourse with self-organizing systems. Yet self-organizing discourse fails to resolve the fundamental issues concerning architecture. In fact, soliciting input and disseminating it in this fashion, with no attempt at synthesis, provides a false sense of accomplishment. This shifts focus away from the question generating crisis and may contribute to dissolution of the discipline of architecture as we know it through appropriation by an emerging body of thought on the broader role of creativity and aesthetics in culture. The question then becomes, who cares? Architectural autonomy and critical practice are at stake.en_US
dc.digitization.specificationsThesis was rescanned at 24-bit color in 2020. PDF has been OCR’d and made accessible.en_US
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dc.identifier.callnoTHESIS ARCH. 2005 FLATT-HICKEYen_US
dc.identifier.citationFlatt-Hickey, Jamie. "Shifting archi(text)ure: Notes on a discourse." (2005) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/17776">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/17776</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.digitalRICE2769en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/17776en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
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dc.subjectLanguageen_US
dc.subjectRhetoricen_US
dc.subjectCompositionen_US
dc.subjectArchitectureen_US
dc.titleShifting archi(text)ure: Notes on a discourseen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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thesis.degree.departmentArchitectureen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineArchitectureen_US
thesis.degree.grantorRice Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Architectureen_US
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