Double Agency
| dc.contributor.advisor | Martin Haettasch | en_US |
| dc.creator | Brammer, Justin William | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-07-03T22:49:15Z | en_US |
| dc.date.available | 2012-07-03T22:49:15Z | en_US |
| dc.date.created | 2011-05 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2011 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis formally defines a diagrammatically transparent judicial system as a method of exploiting architecture's urban agency. Government and judicial institutions are typically architecturalized as either a semantic reading or a monolithic object. This thesis produces an architectural double agency merging the idea of a public object and public space. Double agency creates architectural produce in two distinct capacities: creating a new relationship between the public and the courthouse, and the representation of the formal object in the city. This is addressed using the elements of form, organization, and legibility to reconfigure the relationship. Mies' courthouse marks a shift in institutional representation from a semantic historical reading to an abstracted slab privileging organization. This thesis proposes a new shift bringing representation back to the table. The relationship between diagram and legibility challenges standard notions of the relationship between public and the courthouse institution, and between architecture and the city. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 38 pp | en_US |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en_US |
| dc.identifier.callno | THESIS ARCH. 2011 BRAMMER | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Brammer, Justin William. "Double Agency." (2011) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/64391">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/64391</a>. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.digital | BrammerJ | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1911/64391 | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.rights | Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Architecture | en_US |
| dc.subject | Urban planning | en_US |
| dc.title | Double Agency | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
| dc.type.material | Text | en_US |
| thesis.degree.department | Architecture | en_US |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Architecture | en_US |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Rice University | en_US |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | en_US |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Architecture | en_US |
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