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Buddhist Society of Wonderful Enlightenment Terrace: Observations on Functionalism

dc.contributor.authorLo, Kevin Kei Fung
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-examinerGeoffrey Thunen_US
dc.contributor.graduate-coordinatorSteve Parcellen_US
dc.contributor.manuscriptsNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.thesis-readerChristine Macyen_US
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisorSarah Bonnemaisonen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-04-05T18:36:18Z
dc.date.available2013-04-05T18:36:18Z
dc.date.defence2013-03-18
dc.date.issued2013-04-05
dc.description.abstractLouis Sullivan’s “form ever follows function” had a profound influence on architecture. Although often confused as synonymous with modernism, functionalism is more closely related to positivism in its bias toward science and its rejection of introspective knowledge. This dismissal of the superfluous (such as aesthetic form or ornamentation) diminished the intuitive “human” in architecture by assuming universal rationality. This thesis re-examines functionalism in a contemporary setting: a vertical Buddhist temple set in between two tenement buildings within a New York City plot. Influenced by the work of Lars Lerup and the early work of Diller and Scofidio, the design explores the poetic tensions and obsessions between the profane world of the inhabitants and the sacred world of the temple through abstraction without any attempt to resolve them.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10222/21666
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectFunctionalismen_US
dc.subjectDiasporaen_US
dc.subjectSacreden_US
dc.subjectProfaneen_US
dc.subjectPositivismen_US
dc.subjectThresholden_US
dc.titleBuddhist Society of Wonderful Enlightenment Terrace: Observations on Functionalismen_US

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