Date of Award
Spring 5-30-2015
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Architecture (MArch)
Department
Architecture
First Advisor
Silvia Acosta
Second Advisor
Chelsea Limbird
Third Advisor
Enrique Martinez
Abstract
The works that I am drawn to consistently have a simplicity to them, why is this so? Plainness must be a positive quality: it bears a clarity that helps reveal why a work is made the way it is. Restraint and necessity are agents for the process of making simple works. The necessary elements are positioned deliberately, in such a way that reveals the way a space is meant to be experienced. The recognition of multiple readings and calibrated alignments weigh more profoundly when plainness is achieved because it is through simplicity that our senses are attuned.
A great work is not simplistic, but often bears simplicity. This investigation explores how to create works that are subtly intriguing, how orders are followed and broken, and how multiple spatial readings create a primacy of experience.
Recommended Citation
Clouse, Michael, "The complexity of plainness" (2015). Masters Theses. 19.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/masterstheses/19
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