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Object to Experience: Understanding Perception to Create Events

Srikanth, Preethi

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2010, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of).

“The task of architecture is to make visible how the world touches us” - Merleau Ponty

Architecture is an intimate experience that has to be appreciated and comprehended as images of body and skin. However, modernist ideas and the technological culture have separated the senses distinctly allowing the human body to become a mere spectator of built objects. In today’s virtual world, a sensorial exploration of space has the potential to evoke a transparency of time, space and feeling; thereby reinforcing human existence.

The thesis explores man’s perception of the built environment and the language of materials to create a rich sensual journey. That is, in shifting our attention from the object to the experience of the object, the project strives to reconnect to humanity, relating to the human body and culture.

The design project involves the creation of a series of architectural interventions along a pedestrian street in Over the Rhine neighborhood, Cincinnati. The sensual journey with nodes of episodic moments shall address the thesis agenda of enhancing architectural experiences.

George Bible, MCiv.Eng (Committee Chair)
Patricia Kucker, MARCH (Committee Chair)
74 p.

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  • Srikanth, P. (2010). Object to Experience: Understanding Perception to Create Events [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1277134998

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Srikanth, Preethi. Object to Experience: Understanding Perception to Create Events. 2010. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1277134998.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Srikanth, Preethi. "Object to Experience: Understanding Perception to Create Events." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1277134998

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)