Date of Award
Spring 6-3-2023
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Architecture (MArch)
Department
Architecture
First Advisor
Junko Yamamoto
Second Advisor
Danniely Staback
Abstract
My project is a personal search for a different way to see the footprint we have left on the landscape. A way of seeing that finds potential in existing buildings without placing the building in the background, that instead engages sentiments in order to approach reuse as an act of layering that retains the memories of before. I went about uncovering the memories of a site through film photography, a process equally rooted in nostalgia and sentimentality. These images attempt to capture the beauty of melancholy and in turn, ask the architect and audience to slow down and contemplate as they imagine the potential of reuse.
Recommended Citation
Geng, Chris, "you're making me sentimental" (2023). Masters Theses. 1052.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/masterstheses/1052
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