Chang, Yung-Ho2009-06-042009-06-041995Radeke, Michael Robert. "Urban house: The ultrasonic blender confusion of twenty-first century society." (1995) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/13987">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/13987</a>.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/13987We are surrounded by devices that are designed to respond to us. They have been given a language of rhythm, movement, attachment, repetition, and layering. They are both overwhelmingly present and unseen. Mutably flowing together, they lose their distinctness in an anonymous field. They are notations of a system, each a reference, a hazy outline. This dual nature is echoed by our own nature. In this world of stimulation, we have learned simultaneously to seek out this stimulation and to flee from it. Increasingly, our houses have become shelters and retreats from ever-present demands. Instead, the house must allow the inhabitant to dwell cyclically. It must allow us to have stimulation and also allow us to escape from it. It must be a device that reflects one's desires in relation to our mechanized existence.105 ppapplication/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.ArchitectureThesisRICE2959reformatted digitalTHESIS ARCH. 1995 RADEKE