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MAHATTANISM: BEYOND THE EVENT, THE FORM OF HUMAN SPIRIT

Teti, Scot
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1111086436

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2004, Bachelor of Arts, Miami University, School of Fine Arts - Architecture.
The former World Trade Center site in New York City has come to represent a number of emotional and intellectually charged issues for people across the world. This project is to look critically at the meaning of the World Trade Center past, present, and future with the intent to manifest its evolving meaning into architectural forms. The emphasis of this project is not to use the tools of literary discourse to expose the power of the former and future World Trade Center site but to use the art of design for expression. Architecture has and will continue to be based on visual experience, and it is the intent of this project to maintain this proven continuity of communication for this discipline. Specifically, the project proposes that the former World Trade Center site in New York City become a forum for expression composed of an Expression Forum, a New World University, and an International Media Center. The beginning of the project introduces New York City as a place of advanced culture and social activity created by distinct historic events. New York City’s historic evolution and context has been termed Manhattanism, and has come to be defined and symbolized by the city grid and skyscraper. The city grid had been initially created for an efficient and organized urban layout for development. However, the grid due to its geometric and urbanistic character soon proved to be a driving force in how Manhattanites lived, worked, and built their city. And it had been the skyscraper that Manhattanites became particularly interested in due to its amenable nature to business, competition, and the city grid. The city grid and skyscraper were an ever dominant force at the former World Trade Center and both are reinterpreted in the project’s proposed designs. The proposed design for the former World Trade Center looks to the site’s historic precedence in communication as a driving concept in manipulating the grid and skyscraper. It becomes evident that communication has always been the motivation behind activity on the former World Trade Center site from architecture to even terrorism. This communicative context is understood to be the identity of the site, so the designs proposed here pay a close respect to this character. However, the project looks critically at how communication and expression have been stunted at the site and how they can supersede these obstacles. Ultimately, the final design looks to create a gradient of communicative freedom that allows people to see the extent that society controls expression.
Sergio Sanabria (Advisor)
113 p.
Architecture

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  • Teti, S. (2004). MAHATTANISM: BEYOND THE EVENT, THE FORM OF HUMAN SPIRIT [Undergraduate thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1111086436

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Teti, Scot. MAHATTANISM: BEYOND THE EVENT, THE FORM OF HUMAN SPIRIT. 2004. Miami University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1111086436.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Teti, Scot. "MAHATTANISM: BEYOND THE EVENT, THE FORM OF HUMAN SPIRIT." Undergraduate thesis, Miami University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1111086436

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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