Browsing by Subject "Museum buildings."
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(North Dakota State University, 2019)5 investigates how architecture should respond to tragedy and suggests that thoughtful, poetic architecture with deep seeded meaning is the answer. A history museum in Dublin, Ireland focusing on the five largest tragedies ... -
Architecture as Prosthesis: A Cultural Reimagination of Disability on Boston Harbor
(North Dakota State University, 2020)How does architecture approach disability? Might this play a role in forming our cultural beliefs? Increasingly specialized attitudes of the modern era, critiqued by Hans-Georg Gadamer, move us to approach disability ... -
Beauty of Becoming : Architecture as a Teleology
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis is an attempt to clearly and simply recourse the history and the activity of architecture to the fundamental "natural order" with which one comprehends the world, and which forms the individual's enduring ... -
Deaf Sight: A New Sound in Architecture : Architecture for the Deaf
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Desert Soul; Learning Conservation Through Self Revelation
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This thesis, Desert Soul: Learning Conservation through Self Revelation, will focus on an investigation of the question, how can insight from past cultures of the Sonoran Desert inform and direct conservation and sustainability ... -
Future Forum: Fostering Important Conversations
(North Dakota State University, 2019)As a species we are approaching a convergence of a confluence of factors that will determine the fate of all future conscious experience as we know it. How we use technology in the near future will determine this playing ... -
Influencing Identity
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Influencing Identity attempts to identify the relationship between architecture and the unique identity possessed by each city. The typology used in identifying this relationship is an addition to an art museum. The ... -
Lessons from the polis : the Minneapolis Museum of Art
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Philosophers Alberto Pérez-Gómez and Hans-Georg Gadamer have critiqued the modern museum as a place of art for the sake of art, where the aesthetics of the work have come to dominate the conversation. In the Relevance of ... -
Nuanced didacticism
(North Dakota State University, 2015)The United States is currently at a crossroads with providing equal rights to its lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender citizens. Despite the growing acceptance for these estimated 9 million people, many continue to face ... -
Reinvigorating a Conversation About Nature Through Architecture: Mitigating Climate Change and Ecological Disaster
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Because the perception of Nature has shifted over the course of human civilization - from a living “Thou” to an externalized “It” - this project seeks to reinvigorate a more essential interaction with the natural environment. ... -
Scientific discovery + Designing the science museum of the future
(North Dakota State University, 2015)This thesis demonstrated the connection between how children and adults learn about science, as well as the connection between science and technology in modern building design. By looking at the scientific advancements of ... -
Sensory Architecture : Redefining How One Interprets Space
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This design thesis will address the question: how do combinations of our senses influence the way we interact with our surrounding built environment? The typology chosen to evaluate this question is an addition to an ... -
Sustainable Engagement
(North Dakota State University, 2015)This thesis is my solution to how architecture can influence individuals to learn and live in a sustainable environment that excites its users. I have redefined sustainability as, “a social change involving individuals, ... -
Within and Without: St. Paul Museum of Architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2018)This thesis project revolves around how museums influence our perception of objects and ideas. Through research on museum design and architectural theory, I have come to understand the idea of framing and its importance ...