Architecture and hypertext: networks of proliferation, accretion and mutation

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dc.contributor.author Wouters, Katleen
dc.contributor.department Architecture
dc.date 2018-08-22T22:46:34.000
dc.date.accessioned 2020-06-30T07:54:24Z
dc.date.available 2020-06-30T07:54:24Z
dc.date.copyright Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 UTC 1998
dc.date.issued 1998
dc.description.abstract <p>This thesis originated with the East River Project, a national collection of collaborative studios orchestrated by the Van Alen Institute in New York City. The project addresses the question of how best to energize and rehabilitate the decaying urban fabric on the banks of the East River in Lower Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. The site which the Iowa State Laboratory for Experimental Design worked on compromises the East River Park (extending over a mile between 14th and Jackson Streets) and the structure that intersects it, the Williamsburg Bridge (spanning the river between Brooklyn and Manhattan at Delancey Street). The L.E.D. overlaid onto the project of proposing rehabilitation of the East River Park and its predominant structure (the bridge) its mission of exploring the interface of digital and physical tools in the design process.;As an integrated media studio, it addressed the problem from the standpoint that integrated media can best serve: design as an accretion of multiple small elements on a conceptual framing apparatus, small elements on a conceptual framing apparatus, small elements that can be constructed piecemeal and over a long period of time (as opposed to design as a process of master planning at the grand scale, which then proceeds to the small elements). Furthermore, this research was situated specifically within an epistemological milieu that is characterized by various possibilities of accretion and proliferation, the way in which these processes are conducted, and what they represent. This "milieu" compromises the 1851 Crystal Palace in London,;Hieronymous Bosch's painting "The Garden of Earthly Delights," the model of the garden itself as the ongoing product of such processes (as well as the linear processes of conventional design), Material World (a collection of photographs of "average families" from many countries, each posed in front of its abode with all of its domestic possessions), James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, and Owen Jones's The Grammar of Ornament, among other "nodes" that describe this territory of proliferation of the everyday. The first 'ordering' of this research resulted in four drawings of the design of a Rapid Transit Station on the Williamsburg Bridge, connecting the bridge to the park. This thesis is the second ordering, a written work assisted by the drawings. Katleen Wouters, Six Nodes, Four Baskets.</p>
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dc.identifier.articleid 17694
dc.identifier.contextkey 7405240
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.31274/rtd-180813-7249
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dc.identifier.uri https://dr.lib.iastate.edu/handle/20.500.12876/70461
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dc.subject.disciplines Architectural History and Criticism
dc.subject.disciplines Discourse and Text Linguistics
dc.subject.keywords Architecture
dc.title Architecture and hypertext: networks of proliferation, accretion and mutation
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thesis.degree.level thesis
thesis.degree.name Master of Architecture
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