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Eternal Landscapes: A Reframing of Monuments in the Civic Cemetery

dc.contributor.authorKinnee, Chelsea
dc.contributor.copyright-releaseNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.degreeMaster of Architectureen_US
dc.contributor.departmentSchool of Architectureen_US
dc.contributor.ethics-approvalNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.external-examinerMaria Arquero de Alarconen_US
dc.contributor.graduate-coordinatorSteve Parcellen_US
dc.contributor.manuscriptsNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.thesis-readerMatthew Brownen_US
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisorCatherine Venarten_US
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-18T15:29:51Z
dc.date.available2022-04-18T15:29:51Z
dc.date.defence2022-03-16
dc.date.issued2022-04-18T15:29:51Z
dc.description.abstractSecular demands on space are shifting Western funerary culture away from traditional individual memorials. New burial modes omit the gravestone, and ash spreading rituals detach the act of remembering from the body. While these changes are culturally apparent, cemeteries remain rooted in tradition, presenting memory through the gravestone’s associated symbologies. At varying scales, this thesis breaks with such symbolic norms, proposing the window as a memorial device that activates a temporal link between memory and remembering being. The window shifts the experience of the cemetery inwards, connecting with its visitor’s personal subjective world, and outwards towards the immense scale and temporality of the surrounding landscape. The window engages ephemeral and intangible symbols of change in the natural world, framing their presence while acting as an armature for ritual, memory and mourning. In absence of the gravestone, perception leads, centering the emotional individual experience in the collective ceremonial landscape.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10222/81581
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectArchitectureen_US
dc.subjectCemeteryen_US
dc.subjectMemoryen_US
dc.subjectMemorialen_US
dc.subjectLandscapeen_US
dc.subjectDeathen_US
dc.subjectWindowen_US
dc.subjectPerceptionen_US
dc.subjectHalifax (N.S.)en_US
dc.titleEternal Landscapes: A Reframing of Monuments in the Civic Cemeteryen_US

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