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NEW WORLD TRADE

JENKINS, JAMES GILBERT
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1053541827

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2003, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning : Architecture.
In these Modern Times, "facts" and "proofs" seem necessary for achieving any credibility in a field where there is a client. To arrive at a "truth," many architects quickly turn to a dictionary for the final "truth" of a word, such as "privacy" or to a road map to find the "truth" in site conditions, or to a census count for the "truth" of people migration. It is, of coarse, part of the Modern Crisis that many feel the need to go with the way of technology, for fear that Architecture might otherwise fall by the wayside because of its perceived irrelevancy or frivolousness. Following this action, with time, could very well reduce Architecture to a form of methodology and inevitably end with the replacement or removal of the profession from its importance- as creators of a "Truth." The following thesis is a serious reclamation. The body of work moves to take back for Architecture its power, and specifically it holds up and praises the most important thing we have, but in modern times have been giving away: Life. The project that this will be moved into addressing in particular is the issue of the World Trade Center with all its implications. With the destruction of a "Meta-Truth," it can now be said honestly that answers found are not nearly as important as questions worked with. Responsibility and accountability also are dramatically increased since "Right and Wrong" are no longer suitable suggestions to hide behind. After all, one plus one may equal two in mathematics, but the process and product of these two creates so much more that is addressed and celebrated in the arts.
MICHAEL McINTURF (Advisor)
312 p.
Architecture
memory; trade; center; architecture; art

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  • JENKINS, J. G. (2003). NEW WORLD TRADE [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1053541827

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • JENKINS, JAMES. NEW WORLD TRADE. 2003. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1053541827.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • JENKINS, JAMES. "NEW WORLD TRADE." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1053541827

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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