Creating the threshold: Between the architectural sublime and the simply terrible (Massachusetts)

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dc.contributor.advisorSherman, William
dc.creatorFrancis, Mark John
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-04T00:09:47Z
dc.date.available2009-06-04T00:09:47Z
dc.date.issued1993
dc.description.abstractThe program is the development of a library for Smith College to house the collection of poetic works by Emily Dickinson. The library is the result of an examination of creating an architectural space that generates the delight of the sublime and approaches the personal terror experienced by one who suffers from agoraphobia with panic disorder. The siting in the garden and the architectural decisions in the building of the library are chiefly generated with consideration of the work of Piranesi and Hopper, and the writings of Edmund Burke and Thomas Weiskel of such issues of extremes as delight and pain, the infinite and the graspable, vastness and minuteness, light and dark, life and death.
dc.digitization.specificationsThesis was rescanned at 24-bit color in 2020. PDF has been OCR’d and made accessible.
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dc.format.extent193 pp
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dc.identifier.callnoThesis Arch. 1993 Francis
dc.identifier.citationFrancis, Mark John. "Creating the threshold: Between the architectural sublime and the simply terrible (Massachusetts)." (1993) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/13723">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/13723</a>.
dc.identifier.digitalRICE2854
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/13723
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.subjectArchitecture
dc.subjectClinical psychology
dc.subjectAmerican literature
dc.titleCreating the threshold: Between the architectural sublime and the simply terrible (Massachusetts)
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thesis.degree.departmentArchitecture
thesis.degree.disciplineArchitecture
thesis.degree.grantorRice University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Architecture
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