Oblivion Research: An Interdisciplinary Index of Spatial Poetics

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dc.contributor.advisorGeiser, Reto
dc.contributor.advisorFinley, Dawn
dc.creatorBullis, Jimmy
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-09T14:07:46Z
dc.date.available2023-08-09T14:07:46Z
dc.date.created2023-05
dc.date.issued2023-04-21
dc.date.submittedMay 2023
dc.date.updated2023-08-09T14:07:47Z
dc.description.abstractThis thesis reframes meaning and interpretation in architecture as a function of poiesis and the poetic and begins to explore the spatial implications therein. Much has been made of narrative in architecture. We see it deployed as a way of building fictions, of projecting the future, and of imagining what we design as it might one day exist in the world. On some level, projecting narrative is as fundamental to architecture as drawing itself. But within all fictions is the urge for what can be called the lyric moment. This is the point where the prosaic transcends narrative as such and achieves something more fantastic than just “what happens next.” This project hopes to uncover the way that the poetic is involved with cultural production in visual and spatial modes. Narrative provides details of a world, but the poetic is what convinces us of it. And if the use of narrative in architecture is relatively widely discussed, what of the lyric moment? Through surveying and analyzing some of the ways language and space have been addressed historically, we can begin understanding notions of poiesis (creation) and the poetic as deeply entrenched in architectural and spatial discourse. The project hopes to demystify the term poetic and its associates and to offer a fuller understanding of what forces tend to conjure it, and to propose that a spatial conception of poiesis, the poetic, and the lyric moment is a critical and scarcely addressed step towards understanding the modes of cultural production undertaken by architects.
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dc.identifier.citationBullis, Jimmy. "Oblivion Research: An Interdisciplinary Index of Spatial Poetics." (2023) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/115052">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/115052</a>.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/115052
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.subjectArchitecture
dc.subjectPoetry
dc.subjectWriting
dc.subjectSpatial
dc.subjectPoetics
dc.subjectPoetic
dc.subjectPoiesis
dc.subjectLanguage
dc.subjectLinguistics
dc.subjectArchitectural
dc.subjectLiterature
dc.subjectBooks
dc.subjectBookmaking
dc.subjectSpace
dc.subjectEkphrasis
dc.subjectEkphrastic
dc.subjectEcstatic
dc.subjectLyric
dc.subjectMoment
dc.subjectInterdisciplinary
dc.subjectNarrative
dc.subjectHeraclitus
dc.subjectGerard Manley Hopkins
dc.subjectHopkins
dc.subjectMallarme
dc.subjectMallarmé
dc.subjectHejduk
dc.subjectTerragni
dc.subjectRilke
dc.subjectModes
dc.subjectMode
dc.subjectModal
dc.subjectJudgement
dc.subjectInterpretation
dc.subjectFiguration
dc.subjectRefiguration
dc.subjectMeaning
dc.subjectWorlding
dc.subjectWorld Building
dc.subjectMetaphysics
dc.subjectWorld Creation
dc.subjectCreation
dc.titleOblivion Research: An Interdisciplinary Index of Spatial Poetics
dc.typeThesis
dc.type.materialText
thesis.degree.departmentArchitecture
thesis.degree.disciplineArchitecture
thesis.degree.grantorRice University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Architecture
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