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Crouzet, Laurence

The research behind this thesis engages notions of philosophy and architecture through the realm of ontology and materialism. Understanding the potential residing in phenomenology and applying it to innate objects such as works of architecture opens a world of speculative possibilities. I argue for entities to have no ontological privilege over one another, but rather that all things and beings exist equally. As the contemporary discourse positions our center around human concern as precluding all entity’s perception of the world, I posit that we could perceive buildings or objects as finite things in it of themselves rather than filtering our perception of things through human experience. In the acknowledgment of elevated importance to things, new materialism, re-inscribes humanist values by merely extending agency, vitality, and social phenomena to nonhuman material. The partial construction of the Mont Analogue and its surroundings serves as an attempt at creating architecture in a space where the reality of anything outside of the thought-and-being correlation is unknowable but imaginable. This thesis is a knowledge seeking expedition to a symbolic mountain where human comprehension and architectural realization are partial. The Mountain is the bond between Earth and Sky. Its solitary summit reaches the spheres of eternity, and its base spreads out in manifolds foothills into the world of mortals. It is the way by which man can raise himself to the divine, and by which the divine reveals itself to man.

Graduating Project

eng

2020-05-19

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/74523

UBCV

Graduate

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