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If These Walls Could Talk: Exploring Architecture as a Narrative Medium through the Rehabilitation of the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21

This thesis explores how architecture, like literature and fi lm, uses narrative techniques to tell a story. The museum exemplifies this concept of architecture as a narrative medium,
as its social mandate is to articulate a topic and educate visitors.
Through the rehabilitation of the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 in Halifax,
Nova Scotia, this thesis aims to improve the museum’s spatial qualities and configuration. A series of interventions are designed to frame spaces throughout the historic site,
reflecting the historical events that took place there. These spaces tell the story of one
million immigrants and Canadian military personnel who entered Canada at this site.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:NSHD.ca#10222/15164
Date09 July 2012
CreatorsNewman, Sherri
Source SetsLibrary and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish

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