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American Electric Power: Surface, Model, & Text

van Strien, David Samuel
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492199443310933

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2017, Master of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Art.
This thesis examines my work. I am interested in how we encounter and experience architectural representations. I will address how my work explores this through the typology of corporate modernist architecture as represented by the American Electric Power (AEP) building in Columbus, Ohio. I make several types of work including rubbings, laser etchings of photographs of models, text pieces, graphite drawings, and digital 3-D models. In this thesis I will analyse these practices, focusing on the rubbings, laser etchings and text pieces. I am especially interested in exploring how we see, experience and interpret architecture, and how the work complicates this relationship for the viewer. I will describe how and why I have researched and accessed the building, the kinds of work this has produced, and the implications that these different forms of architectural representations possibly might have. I am driven by the question of how I can challenge and reject the notion that there is a singular or correct way of reading architecture. At its core, my project is about how and where architecture, and its experiences, exist. A large part of my practice has been research based, in the form of archival visits and readings. These informed my work in relation to the AEP building, as well as other ideas that have not yet found artistic form. Part of this paper will describe this aspect of my work.
George Rush (Advisor)
Laura Lisbon (Committee Member)
Michael Mercil (Committee Member)
52 p.
American History; Architectural; Architecture; Art History; Economic History; Fine Arts; Landscape Architecture; Mass Media; Modern History; Urban Planning
typology, corporate modernist architecture, American Electric Power building, art

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  • van Strien, D. S. (2017). American Electric Power: Surface, Model, & Text [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492199443310933

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • van Strien, David. American Electric Power: Surface, Model, & Text . 2017. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492199443310933.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • van Strien, David. "American Electric Power: Surface, Model, & Text ." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492199443310933

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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