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

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dc.contributor.advisorBalfour, Alanen_US
dc.creatorCarpenter, Mary Heathen_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-04T00:00:35Zen_US
dc.date.available2009-06-04T00:00:35Zen_US
dc.date.issued1991en_US
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.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. 1991 Carpenteren_US
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>.en_US
dc.identifier.digitalRICE2948en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/13550en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
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dc.subjectArchitectureen_US
dc.titleThe aberration of the inappropriate: Inhabiting Police Headquarters, Houston, Texasen_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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