This thesis is a study of architectural form in relation to energy. Energy performance is rooted in form. Overall performance in the practice of architecture includes necessarily consumption as a form constraint. The term energy in this body of work relates to the social circumstance that the current state of the environment imposes on all facets of life, including how our buildings contribute to the anthropogenic warming of the earth's atmosphere. Humans are consumptive and so our buildings, a product of our work, are inherently consumptive as well. The challenge is to design environments that stimulate responsible actions by considering energy consumption throughout the design process. This thesis proposes that an architecture which responds with significance explores the energy-in-form to make a contribution to the current condition in which we live. On an abstract level, formal elements of negation and the condition of boundary are explored in relation to energy. On a more factual level, the impact of energy on site orientation, shading, and in-between zones are tested. Form in the study of the proportions of the Maison Carrée is expressed in the process of making concrete objects and the regulating geometry and formal conditions of the final Cornerstore building design. / Master of Architecture

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This thesis has three central areas of preoccupation, each of which is made up of two elements whose interaction is explored: l)repetition and ambivalence; 2)psychoanalytic and literary discourse; 3)parents and children. Ambivalence is examined as a concept proposed by psychoanlysis, and as a force vitally at work within the writing and reading processes. Repetition is viewed as both productive of and produced by ambivalence, and is seen to sustain writing fiction in particular. Literary and psychoanalytic discourse are viewed as mutually unexcluxive ways of finding form for powerful need or desire. The thesis establishes that the overlap between the two modes of writing is considerable, and with special attention paid to the reader, proceeds to draw the fine line which divides the two. Parents and children are seen as defining themselves in relation, and particularly in opposition to each other. Attention is paid to parents (real or imagined) who have sought to repress or even kill their children; and along with this, attention is paid to the sophistication required for the simplest utterance, and equally the primitive aspects of highly developed or articulate speech. The thesis invariably proceeds, however, from specific examples, and starts with consideration of work by Franz Kafka. A text by the psychoanalyst Serge Leclaire and the 'oeuvre' of Maud Mannoni are subsequently the focus. The thesis then moves to consider Marcel Proust's novel A la recherche du temps perdu, and works by Samuel Beckett. Drawing its method from its matter, the thesis attempts to demonstrate and reveal the broad metaphoric scope and power of language. It shows how metaphor depends on significant difference, or otherness; and, by concentrating on the relational aspects of the speaking/listening and writing/reading processes, it shows how we all depend for our survival on such otherness as language -- and especially narrative -- offers.

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The thesis explores aspects of language in the modern media of communication, with particular reference to its role in the production and circulation of ideologies (Ideologies are understood in this context as systems of representation whose effect is to sustain relations of domination). Investigation is conducted by means of case studies on a variety of media texts ranging from print Journalism through to TV and radio. These case studies suggest that ideology in text may be analysed using various techniques from linguistics, including - for example - the analysis of vocabulary, and the analysis of grammatical systems such as transitivity. But the case studies also suggest that ideologies operate in the form of implicit background assumptions which may be made analytically explicit by drawing upon recent developments in linguistic pragmatics. In addition to engaging with issues of language and ideology in the study of media texts, the case studies are also concerned with the ways in which such texts shape up to their audiences, particularly through the adoption of modes of direct address. Direct address is. considered to be an important indicator of genres in media discourse; and the thesis includes a detailed study of a one particular genre from popular day-time radio. The research is thus seen as occupying a middle ground between linguistics and media studies. It begins with media discourse as projecting dominant forms of common sense but it concludes with issues concerning the relation of these discourses to their putative audiences.