Architecture and photographic framing: Re-framing the building fragment in its context, and the body in a program of use (Roland Barthes, Brassa\"\i, Daniel Buren, Cindy Sherman)

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dc.contributor.advisorSherman, Williamen_US
dc.creatorWickham, V. Masonen_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-04T00:36:09Zen_US
dc.date.available2009-06-04T00:36:09Zen_US
dc.date.issued1993en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores the phenomenon of contingency inherent in photographic framing for its application to the design of a public building in an urban context. Like the conception of any duality, as stated by Roland Barthes in his essay Camera Lucida; a photograph exists only in terms of our perception of its frame. This project demonstrates these principles as they are examined in the images of Brassai's Paris, the work of Daniel Buren, and the Untitled Film Stills of Cindy Sherman through the design of a post office in Houston, Texas. The city, the site, the building and the program extend beyond the bounded limits of pure enclosure; and the architecture becomes an inhabitable frame in which the referent adheres to the reference, the fragment to the context, the object to the subject.en_US
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dc.identifier.callnoThesis Arch. 1993 Wickhamen_US
dc.identifier.citationWickham, V. Mason. "Architecture and photographic framing: Re-framing the building fragment in its context, and the body in a program of use (Roland Barthes, Brassa\"\i, Daniel Buren, Cindy Sherman)." (1993) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/13798">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/13798</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.digitalRICE2915en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/13798en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
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dc.subjectArchitectureen_US
dc.subjectFine artsen_US
dc.titleArchitecture and photographic framing: Re-framing the building fragment in its context, and the body in a program of use (Roland Barthes, Brassa\"\i, Daniel Buren, Cindy Sherman)en_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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