MANHATTAN'S ANNEX: the crosstown [of] excess is a proposal that reconsiders what excess means in the contemporary city. Our society now just has glimpses of individual indulgence---from singular buildings to individualized junkie-ism---and does not allow the space for collective, urban experience of excess. Our present times demand for new paradigms that confront once more the sphere of normalcy on a metropolitan scale. This thesis envisions the future metropolitan condition of excess through juxtaposition of endless identification + exhibitionism [the network + the pool]. Manhattan's Annex will create urban conditions of void and identification where each subject will be able to abandon the atomized space of the skyscraper and join the collective space of flow.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:RICE/oai:scholarship.rice.edu:1911/61916 |
| Date | January 2009 |
| Contributors | Finley, Dawn |
| Source Sets | Rice University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis, Text |
| Format | application/pdf |
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