Utting, BrittanyColman, Scott2020-04-272020-04-272020-052020-04-20May 2020Xu, Tiffany L. "Suture and Estrangement in Architecture." (2020) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/108390">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/108390</a>.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/108390This project investigates a filmic technique—the production of moments of absorption and estrangement—and its translation and provocation to architecture with attention to private life and residence. The design research explored a set of formal, material, tectonic, programmatic, and temporal qualities, and a series of operations and presentation of these qualities that produced or irrupted continuity and cohesion. The thesis argues that this technique can be one framework for articulating contemporary subjecthood and architectural experience.application/pdfengCopyright 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.architectureestrangementabsorptionnarrativemedium specificityfilmtectonics, continuityThesis2020-04-27