Performative landscapes: Strategizing a man-made geology

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dc.contributor.advisorHight, Christopheren_US
dc.creatorNewton, David Williamen_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-04T06:27:00Zen_US
dc.date.available2009-06-04T06:27:00Zen_US
dc.date.issued2006en_US
dc.description.abstractPerformative Landscapes examines and strategizes the production of artificial wetlands, port facilities, and recreational/commercial fishing areas by utilizing the excess dredge material generated by the Houston Ship Channel. Performative Landscapes seeks to propose a developmental tool kit and set of logics that will guide the growth of new wetlands and foster the production of integrated, not fragmented, program along Galveston Bay. The primary goal of the project then is to produce a design method, a generative seed, that can be used in the genesis of new and integrated man-made and natural systems along the coast, and in Galveston Bay. What I primarily advance in this thesis is a design analytic and a design method geared towards ecological and relational thinking. These two tools are derived and inspired by the concept of self-organization in material systems and the operational searching method of the genetic algorithm as defined by David E. Goldberg.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. 2006 NEWTONen_US
dc.identifier.citationNewton, David William. "Performative landscapes: Strategizing a man-made geology." (2006) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/17903">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/17903</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.digitalRICE2753en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/17903en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
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dc.subjectAgricultural engineeringen_US
dc.subjectArchitectureen_US
dc.subjectFisheries and aquatic sciencesen_US
dc.titlePerformative landscapes: Strategizing a man-made geologyen_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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