Roberts, Bryony2014-09-302014-09-302013-052013-04-19May 2013White, Duncan. "History, Repeating." (2013) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/77343">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/77343</a>.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/77343This project is a study in doing the same thing again and again and again. It experiments with a purposefully reductive design strategy limited to the repetition of a single idea. Taking cues from other disciplines, it uses this incessant repetition to introduce a new affect to architecture based upon the experience of self-similar spaces in an uninterrupted and seemingly endless sequence. Finally, it reimagines the typology of the large history museum, proposing an open-ended series of moments of historical totality as an alternative to the cumulative or narrative unfolding of content. This thesis project is at once a primitive formal game and a spatially complex reinvention of a venerable American institution. It is an architectural contraption that reorders a universe of artifacts.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.Repetition and variationContinuous presentOver and Over AgainNew York Historical SocietyMinimalist musicRepetitionThesis2014-09-30123456789/ETD-2013-05-528