Browsing Architecture by Subject "Body"
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Body Builder
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-25)My thesis is a critical essay thematically focused on the fate of the body in the postmodern condition. In this thesis a fundamental question is posed: What happens to the (postmodern) body under the double pressure of ... -
Contact and Continuity
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-23)Wayfinding. Embodied Learning. Craft Culture. That material can harbour life inspires careful consideration of the craft of building. Building is the agency of architecture; material—its medium. The act of building ... -
The Interval: in-between unmaking and remaking the body
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-19)By its individual terms, we can think of a body in two coincident ways that meet it in the middle: from the familiar inside-out and from the less familiar outside-in. To proceed from the middle of things conceives of a ... -
Monsoon Notebook: Exploring Home
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-16)This thesis explores the meaning of home, and the role it plays in my relationship to architecture. It rests in the transitional space between my native Sri Lanka and Canada, where I have lived for the last eighteen years. ... -
The Squaring of the Circle: The Body According to Vitruvius – not daVinci
(University of Waterloo, 2019-02-07)An excerpt from a literary work of Classical literature is rendered in a self-directed manner. The literary passage in question is a description that was given at the turn of the current era by the architect, Vitruvius, ...