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CORPOREAL NARRATIVES: ARCHITECTURE OF EXPERIENCE
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CRABTREE, BENJAMIN S
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Year and Degree
2006, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of).
Abstract
Western culture gives predominance to vision over all other aspects of experience. It has evolved into a culture of speed and instantaneous imagery. This has resulted in architecture to be critiqued primarily as it appears in the printed media. Architecture’s inclination toward the visual alienates the body from the design process and therefore confounding the designer’s consideration of the problem of the body. However, architecture is unavoidably sensual in nature and buildings cannot be reduced to vehicles for the scenographic conveyance of abstract ideas. The intent of this study is to explore how the realism of architecture is understood not merely through a visual syntax but through encounters of bodily experience. It is an examination of how buildings immerse their audiences in ‘corporeal narratives’ that lead them through sequences of sensorial engagements in which they are involved not as static spectators but as dynamic participants who interact with the space.
Committee
Michael McInturf (Advisor)
Pages
76 p.
Subject Headings
Architecture
Keywords
tactility
;
architecture
;
sensory
;
sensorial
;
sensuous
;
vision
;
senses
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CRABTREE, B. S. (2006).
CORPOREAL NARRATIVES: ARCHITECTURE OF EXPERIENCE
[Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1147897305
APA Style (7th edition)
CRABTREE, BENJAMIN.
CORPOREAL NARRATIVES: ARCHITECTURE OF EXPERIENCE.
2006. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1147897305.
MLA Style (8th edition)
CRABTREE, BENJAMIN. "CORPOREAL NARRATIVES: ARCHITECTURE OF EXPERIENCE." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1147897305
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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