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Towards a correal architecture : reflections on Frederick Kiesler

This thesis approaches the work of Frederick Viesler as an attempt to resolve many of the issues resulting from the technological circumstances of the late twentieth century. It concerns the problematic caused by the gap existing between the senses and imagination, which causes a break between perceiving the world and the human act of creation. This fact reflects the way that nowadays reality has been "instrumentalized", locating man in a realm in which the human body does not interact according to its inherent capacities. Kiesler, through his theory of "Correalism", searched for underlying continuity, and proposed that man inhabit his world as a participant, where senses and imagination become one for reinterpreting the event of architecture, bringing forward the possibility of "enlivening" space. The relevance of "Correalism" for contemporary architecture becomes more significant when seen through a phenomenological perspective, which suggests that "reality" should be apprehended through the link between the embodied self and its contiguous world. Correal architecture should bring about a "more sensitive" experience of space by creating an interacting dynamic that would reflect man's existence as a whole.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.20148
Date January 1996
CreatorsFranco, Marta.
ContributorsPerez-Gomez, Alberto (advisor)
PublisherMcGill University
Source SetsLibrary and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
Formatapplication/pdf
CoverageMaster of Architecture (School of Architecture.)
RightsAll items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated.
Relationalephsysno: 001672055, proquestno: MQ44088, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest.

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