Code-Based Form: Reductio ad Absurdum

by Kroger, Brandon

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Americans love their history, and they certainly love their historical architecture. Architecture has always operated in between reality and fiction; the original and the copy, a precedent and an antecedent. history and future. Architect, and architectural representation, would seem to tend towards representations of truth, representations of the time in which they were produced. Architects are engrossed by notions of truth; truth in material, truth in form, etc. But what happens when truth is …

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Americans love their history, and they certainly love their historical architecture. Architecture has always operated in between reality and fiction; the original and the copy, a precedent and an antecedent. history and future. Architect, and architectural representation, would seem to tend towards representations of truth, representations of the time in which they were produced. Architects are engrossed by notions of truth; truth in material, truth in form, etc. But what happens when truth is relative? What if the meanings of symbols, and their associations with time and history, do not matter - in fact, it is not allowed to matter? What happens when the our digital mechanisms fold multiple readings of history into one, without a beginning or end?

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  • Publication Date:2021

Thesis Information

  • Degree:M.Arch.
  • University:University of Cincinnati
  • Pages:113

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  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2021

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  • proquest:2595692848

Subjects

Architecture Computer Science Digital production eng PDF Post-Digital Science -- history

Writers

Kroger, Brandon

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