2020-2021 Senior Honors Theses
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This collection contains theses produced by Class of 2021 Honors students
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Item Freeway Architectures Of Biopolitical Disobedience(2020-05) Polkinghorne, Katherine H.IH-45 is an inconceivably large ribbon of infrastructure that acts as a border between political and geographic communities. IH-45’s margin shelters socio-politically marginal architectural programming. If we take space to be a material reiteration of power, then the contested and marginal territory of the NHHIP is a critical site for architectural consideration and engagement. Through non-hegemonic site analysis and the imagining of counter-futures at four sites along the NHHIP’s extent, this thesis re-conceives of the freeway’s marginal territory as site for liberatory praxis and theorizes modalities of activist engagement with megastructures and megaprojects.Item The Coin, The Crack and The Cistern(2021-05) Denari, Franco“On Tuesday, X crosses a deserted road and loses nine copper coins. On Thursday, Y finds in the road four coins, somewhat rusted by Wednesday’s rain. On Friday, Z discovers three coins in the road. On Friday morning, X finds two coins in the corridor of his house. […] It is logical to think that they have existed - at least in some secret way, hidden from the comprehension of men – at every moment of those three periods.” Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luis Borges. Pg 9. Borges describes the distance between our realist world and the idealist planet Tlön as incalculable. However, he identifies objects that operate as fragments that connect the two worlds. His encyclopedia, where the world of Tlön is described, is one of these objects. A crack in a utilitarian structure constitutes much more than a link, it is a door that allows us to step into a mysterious reality. The crack dared to create a space that exists contingent on perception and idea, as a fragment of Tlön in our own world. A drawing describing how to slice monoliths exists as another link, as Robin Evans articulates in The Projective Cast, by binding the architect's world of ideas and the stone cutter's world of building together. Two disparate elements, a crack, and a drawing allow both worlds to exist simultaneously. This thesis makes manifest the forces that makeup that utilitarian structure: a past of service, an unhealed wound, and a new idealist identity, in order to diminish, however slightly, the distance between Tlön and our world.