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Speaking Through Details: creating an architecture of meaning through the art of ornament

Pescovitz, Ari Samuel
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1336507758

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2012, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
This thesis explores, through the lens of the synagogue, how architecture in the 21st century can create buildings that speak about the ‘immeasurable’ elements of design, such as symbolism and narrative, through an exploration of the art of expressive detailing. Throughout history many architects and theoreticians have explored the role of small-scale design in an effort to awaken meaningful engagements between the inhabitant and the architectural place. As the synagogue architect Maurice N. Finegold once said, “Architecture speaks. It expresses what we value from the past, what our needs are now, and, at its best moments, looks to the future.” Unfortunately since the middle of the 20th century much of the field of architecture has abandoned the art of detailing and ornament, and thus has lost its voice. With the use of the design project, this investigation revitalizes the teachings of Otto Wagner, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Carlo Scarpa in order to develop architecture appropriate for a contemporary synagogue design. Much as they sought to enrich their architecture with symbolism and meaning through their use of expressive detailing, this project seeks to develop a similar relationship between the “construction and the construing” of architecture through the lens of Jewish texts, history, culture, community, and worship.
Jeffrey Tilman, PhD (Committee Chair)
John Eliot Hancock, MARCH (Committee Member)
61 p.
Architecture
synagogue; detail; ornament; judaism; ; ;

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  • Pescovitz, A. S. (2012). Speaking Through Details: creating an architecture of meaning through the art of ornament [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1336507758

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Pescovitz, Ari. Speaking Through Details: creating an architecture of meaning through the art of ornament. 2012. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1336507758.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Pescovitz, Ari. "Speaking Through Details: creating an architecture of meaning through the art of ornament." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1336507758

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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