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Thinking Through Making

Paquin, Garth William
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242781351

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2009, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of).
Something special occurs in the process of a human maker interacting with the physical world through creation. The product contains a quality of struggle and knowledge that is never possible to create in automated production. The maker also learns and grows through their interactions with the physical. The lack of this knowledge in the goods of our globalized industrialized economy is a form of poverty. Architecture has a great opportunity to resist this trend in the depersonalization of our environment. It is one of the only remaining products that are still custom created for each site. This trend toward dehumanized architecture is exhibited in the ever-greater removal of the architect from the actual process of construction. I describe elements of the design process related to craft processes, which allow architects to interact more directly with their materials. Architects develop an affinity for certain materials similar to the relationship a craftsman has for his materials or fabrication process. Architects who grow to understand materials at a deep enough level bring out the innate potential of the material and process their designs. Here I focus on developing understanding of the potentials of brick. I propose to design a ceramics cooperative on the site of the Historic Nelsonville Brick Plant. This complex would display a continuum of making traditions. The spaces include an interpretive center for the display of the historical artifacts of the brick making site, a ceramics workshop and gallery to reflect the role local craft art plays in the community today.
Gerald Larson, MARCH (Committee Chair)
Rebecca Williamson, PhD (Committee Co-Chair)
62 p.
Architecture
brick; craftsmanship; workmanship; materiality; craft

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  • Paquin, G. W. (2009). Thinking Through Making [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242781351

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Paquin, Garth. Thinking Through Making. 2009. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242781351.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Paquin, Garth. "Thinking Through Making." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242781351

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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