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Finley, Dawn Frohn, Marc 2009-06-04T06:44:08Z 2009-06-04T06:44:08Z 2004 Frohn, Marc. "Impresario of change." (2004) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/17676">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/17676</a>. https://hdl.handle.net/1911/17676 RICE2764 THESIS ARCH. 2004 FROHN The common understanding regarding the profession of architecture is that the designer is only involved in a project up to the delivery of the building, but is almost never included in an extended role or level of involvement beyond this point. My thesis project tries to envision the architect as an "impresario of change" who not only completes the building, but afterwards begins to curate the specific material aspects of this environment according to its varying "seasons", which might include changes in its performance as well as ambient changes. Using the example of a hotel this proposed "impresario of change" model seeks to question preconceived ideas about the boundaries of our profession within a new economy built around the concept of experience and, at the same time, to examine the material implications of such a redefinition. 184 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. Economics Architecture Impresario of change 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