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Waldman, Peter Robertson, David Scott 2009-06-04T00:41:58Z 2009-06-04T00:41:58Z 1991 Robertson, David Scott. "Typological transformation of Houston's Coliseum and Sam Houston Park." (1991) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/13556">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/13556</a>. https://hdl.handle.net/1911/13556 RICE2903 THESIS ARCH. 1991 ROBERTSON Buildings as cultural tools, or their creators, continue to struggle to communicate with a media-induced, decentralized society. Buildings as either representational anachronisms or self-referential processes fail to remedy the situation by alienating or insulting the viewer. An alternative is sought which would avoid the absolute reductive qualities associated with the early modernists, whose internal focus ravaged the concept of a coherent urban field; the results of which still stand as isolated objects encouraged by the presence of the grid. The grid, a dimensional device whose lines of division deny the potential for literal or implied connections. The problem is one of creating an architectural vocabulary relative to its context, whose simplification and fusion at specific points would serve to create such connections in the memory of the fabric-dweller. 108 pp application/pdf reformatted digital eng 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. Architecture Typological transformation of Houston's Coliseum and Sam Houston Park Thesis Text Thesis was rescanned at 24-bit color in 2020. PDF has been OCR’d and made accessible. Architecture Architecture Rice University Masters Master of Architecture taggedPDF open.access