Architecture can be made from a memory, an image that has embedded itself in the mind of the maker. This image cannot, however, be invoked without commitment and investigation. For, unless its tectonic manifestation is made credible, it remains forever unreal, existing only in a subjective, referential realm, never becoming architecture. / Master of Architecture

"The immeasurable is the one thing that captivates the mind: the measurable makes very little difference.” Kahn Transition could be thought of as the only constant—life being in itself a transition, composed of a myriad of inseparable transitions—a continuum of events "taking place." This work imagistically explores the evocative nature of transition place as it is manifested in architecture, art, and poetry, and prepares an architectural place for the transitions of life. / Master of Architecture

This thesis explores structure as a visual and literal framework for a building. The relationships or connections of discreet pieces to the framework, whether on the scale of a handrail or the brick cylinder is the basic structure of the project. The structural grid establishes an order. It defines the boundaries of the house. The enclosure and spaces within the grid of columns and beams can then respond to other temporal considerations. / Master of Architecture

We may rattle our tongues and cold we may rattle our bones; It is our actions that will haunt them. / Master of Architecture

In the act of building, man places himself between earth and sky. Where a wall is raised, a place becomes divided. Architecture occurs. One wall in one place begins to define three physical realities. The form and matter of a wall exist as one thing. Each side of the wall exists separately and face opposing parts. The wall is a barrier, yet acts as an architectural element that joins the two sides. / Master of Architecture

The Becker Hudsons, a young family with two children, have commissioned the design of a house In Aroostook County, Maine. The program requirements include the use of wood for both heating and cooking, an area for the children to play within sight of the primary living areas, a separate bedroom for each child, and a small sanctum. The Architect will be the builder. / Master of Architecture

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Given a sloping wooded site in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, the problem of the thesis project was to design a retreat that would fit the environment and the people that would inhabit it. It was a searching for the interdependence between the landscape and the building. Equally important was a search for a structure that would give architectural integrity to the house. The design process included a time of discovery and clarification of values and priorities. Two additional steps during the schematic design were processes architect Charles Moore referred to as"mapping" and"collecting''. These processes help to establish relationships between the inhabitants and things they recognize. Structural elements of post and beam construction gave a sense of order in the design layout and helped to organize the spaces within the form of the house. A system of equidistant columns formed by four wood posts also provided the physical linkage between the building and the site. Native field stone was used for the large piers that supported the columns as well as for the perimeter walls of the living room structure. The inner landscape of the house, the pathways, the rooms and the machines within them, developed from the basic idea that the building would grow from a central axis or “spine” that originated from the outside at the street's edge, extended across the site,and moved into the building to become the main artery of the structure as well as the connection between outside and inside. / Master of Architecture

The thesis of this project focuses on some possibilities for present day interpretation of the prairie style as it relates to the third dimension i.e. trying to use Frank Lloyd Wright as a departure point for my personal design explorations. I consider this thesis project to be an important step in the ongoing process of my personal development as an architect looking for some new ideas in the realm of the third dimension. / Master of Architecture

THE WALL IS: the side of a room or building, between the floor, foundation, and the ceiling, root, a structure of stone, brick, or other material, built up to enclose, divide, support, or protect.¹ The wall is a barrier; separating and containing spaces, defining public and private relationships, dividing natural and cultured environments. The wall is both visual image and physical realization. TRANSITIONS ARE: a change or passing from one condition, place, activity, topic to another (a time between distinct periods.)² Transition implies movement. Movement in terms of time and relationships. Movement from one point to another; gradual or direct, vertical or horizontal, slow or fast. Transitions define and clarity the issue and the structure. THE INBETWEEN IS: that which is in the middle, that which comes in the space of time separating two places or persons. That is neither one kind nor the other, indifferent or uncommitted; a person or thing inbetween.³ The inbetween as public domain or private realm. An implied wall which separates and contains objects, defines public and private relationships, dividing natural and cultured environments. The inbetween as both implied wall and defined space. / Master of Architecture