Chan Yuen Lai. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2002-2003, design report." / Includes bibliographical references. / Chapter 00_ --- FOREWORD: I BEGAN CREATING MY TIME CAPSULE BOXES / Chapter 01_ --- INVENTORY OF BOXES / Chapter 02_ --- "THE ARCHIVE GALLERY, AS AN INVENTED PROGRAM" / Chapter 03_ --- HABITATION / MAN AND HIS ENVIRONMENT / TOURISTIC EXPERIENCE / DEAN MACCANNELL / "ADVENTURER, TRAVELLER, TOURIST" / CHRISTIAN NORBERG-SCHULZ / RELPH EDWARD / INSIDENESS AND OUTSIDENESS / "THE ONE, THE THING, THE PLACE" / AUTHENTICITY VS PEUSDO-EVENT / THE HOME / Chapter 04_ --- THE SITE / TOPOLOGY VS GEOGRAPHY / TIME AND MOVEMENT / ANDY WARHOL / DAN GRAHAM / UMBERTO ECO / ENCODING AND DECODING / AS SIGN AND AS MIRROR / TIME CAPSULE / "REGISTRATION, RETENTION, RECALL OF MEMORY" / WALTER BENJAMIN / CITY AND MEMORY / THE METAPHOR / Chapter 05_ --- THE STATEMENT / OUR WORLD. REALITY VS VIRTUAL ITY. LABYRINTH. MIRROR. METAPHOR. CUBE. PLANE. LINE. POINT. MODEL. ARCHITECTURE. THESIS / GRID. LABYRINTH. TIME. BODY. MIRROR / Chapter 06_ --- LABYRINTH AND MIRROR / THESEUS AND MINOTAUR / NARCISSUS / RACHEL WHITEREAD / SARAH SZE / JOSEPH CORNELL / MEMORY BOXES / WORLD AND SELF / ITALO CALVINO / LABYRINTHINE CHARACTER / ZAIRA AND ITS PAST / NETWORK / MEDIATION / MIRROR REFLECTIVITY / THE BIG STONE FEDORA AND THE LITTLE FEDORAS IN THE GLASS GLOBES / IMAGES OF CONTAINMENT / ENCLOSURE / Chapter 07_ --- THE PROGRAM / THE ARCHIVE GALLERY / "START OF THE JOURNEY, COLLECTION OF THE BOX" / "THE THING, THE BOX, THE LETTER" / STORAGE OF THE BOX / "RETRIEVAL OF THE BOX, THE ARTIST'S CONVERSATION" / "FROM THE BOX TO THE INSTALLATION AND SO ON, THE CYCLE" / Chapter 08_ --- MODELS / DRAWINGS / SKETCHES / SNAPSHOTS / ENCAPSULATED / Chapter 09_ --- CREDITS / Chapter 10_ --- DEDICATIONS: THIS THESIS IS SOMEWHERE SOMETIME WITH SOMEONE