Being: At The Threshold

dc.contributor.author	Di Giacomo, Joel Michael
dc.date.accessioned	2015-05-21 15:01:29 (GMT)
dc.date.available	2015-05-21 15:01:29 (GMT)
dc.date.issued	2015-05-21
dc.date.submitted	2015
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10012/9380
dc.description.abstract	What does it mean to have a transcendent experience, and what does architecture have to do with it? What is ineffable space? Philosphers such as Martin Heidegger and Gaston Bachelard would argue that a true, meaningful human existence can only be found at the threshold between the known, ordered, limited world, and the unknown, chaotic, unlimited world, where the two worlds are one, connected and indistinguishable. The question this thesis poses is what role architecture might play in activating this threshold, in engaging the unknown, in experiencing the sublime. It will investigate this by examining a series of sublime encounters and attempting to express them in architectural form.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	University of Waterloo	en
dc.subject	Sublime	en
dc.subject	Numinous	en
dc.subject	Architecture	en
dc.subject	Art	en
dc.subject	Being	en
dc.subject	Semblance	en
dc.subject	Nothing	en
dc.subject	Cattelan	en
dc.subject	Stetson	en
dc.subject	Viola	en
dc.title	Being: At The Threshold	en
dc.type	Master Thesis	en
dc.pending	false
dc.subject.program	Architecture	en
uws-etd.degree.department	School of Architecture	en
uws-etd.degree	Master of Architecture	en
uws.typeOfResource	Text	en
uws.peerReviewStatus	Unreviewed	en
uws.scholarLevel	Graduate	en