Mapping the City Narative of Memory and Place Desiree Geib How do we discover a new place and begin to get acquainted with it? In Canadian cities, the sense of place can be difficult to grasp. The relative youth of the built form of the cities and a constant influx of new people from other cities, provinces, and countries continuously re-calibrate what place means. In Calgary, the sense of place includes relationships to the...
Erosion Designing with Materiality in Impermanent Landscapes Kunaal Mohan Using the Buddhist notion that we conceive of time through observing change, this thesis attempts to answer the question ‘how can we create the sensation of time in architecture?’ It is important to acknowledge the fact that buildings will change over time. No building is above aging. “The transformation of a building’s surface can… be positive in that it can allow one to recognize the necessity...
Dear 4A class, I believe that every Rome term should be more than excellent: every Rome term should be better than the last. (The Eternal City) I am being quite literal here. My class had an amazing time in the eternal city, and I am openly inviting you to one up us. Learn from our mistakes, build on what we found, and subsequently beat us at Rome. To that end, I have prepared the following incomplete list of absolute, unequivocal, 100% objective “best-ofs”. This is powerful knowledge...