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The Instrument and the Atlas: Metalepsis as a Lens for Reading the City

Popko, Jaron
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1406811071

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2014, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
Architecture is an art of framing and mediating the experience and perception of the world through the activation of latent morphologies. Managing the relationship between the visible and the invisible, architecture performs a level of narrative operations, which share a border with literary theory. Both architecture and literature structure experience through means of spatial and temporal expressions, allowing for cross-disciplinary influence. This thesis seeks to uncover the analogical relationships that occur through inter-medial translation by exploring how the creative processes of reading, re-reading, and thus re-writing, which allow for an imaginative and cognitive pluralism, translate into a meaningful and creative architectural experience. The literary realm of the fantastic employs narrative strategies that blur the boundaries of the visible and invisible, of reality and fiction. The writings of Jorge Luis Borges exist within this complex and dissonant landscape punctuated by constantly constructing and collapsing realities. His stories leave the reader with a feeling of the bizarre uncanny, but more importantly a sense of profound discovery. Looking at Borgesian narrative techniques, this thesis proposes an intervention within the city that provides the user with a similar disjunctive reading of reality, acting as an unstable atlas of the city. The project is a place for inquiry and understanding, an instrument for looking, a position for orientation, and a site for unearthing hidden and unstructured worlds.
Aarati Kanekar, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Michael McInturf, M.Arch. (Committee Member)
54 p.
Architecture
architecture; borges; translation; metalepsis

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  • Popko, J. (2014). The Instrument and the Atlas: Metalepsis as a Lens for Reading the City [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1406811071

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Popko, Jaron. The Instrument and the Atlas: Metalepsis as a Lens for Reading the City. 2014. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1406811071.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Popko, Jaron. "The Instrument and the Atlas: Metalepsis as a Lens for Reading the City." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1406811071

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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