The aberration of the inappropriate: Inhabiting Police Headquarters, Houston, Texas

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dc.contributor.advisorBalfour, Alan
dc.creatorCarpenter, Mary Heath
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-04T00:00:35Z
dc.date.available2009-06-04T00:00:35Z
dc.date.issued1991
dc.description.abstractThis thesis was based on the belief that architecture can comment on social and institutional structures. As a vehicle for this investigation, an event was chosen which informed the making of the architecture. The event was the death of a woman at the hands of off-duty Policemen. The proposed structure makes a mark on Police Headquarters in downtown Houston and provides a space for the community and the police to interact. The project explored architecture as a metaphor of society and this institution specifically, using such words as stable, static, heavy and opaque to define both the image of the institution, and the appearance of the headquarters building. To affect this building, such words as fragmented, light, unstable and warped were used to develop the architecture of the additions. The additions, as aberrations, use the true structure of the building to reveal the inappropriateness of the image of Police Headquarters.
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.extent81 pp
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dc.identifier.callnoThesis Arch. 1991 Carpenter
dc.identifier.citationCarpenter, Mary Heath. "The aberration of the inappropriate: Inhabiting Police Headquarters, Houston, Texas." (1991) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/13550">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/13550</a>.
dc.identifier.digitalRICE2948
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/13550
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.subjectArchitecture
dc.titleThe aberration of the inappropriate: Inhabiting Police Headquarters, Houston, Texas
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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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