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Access Type
Campus Access
Document Type
thesis
Degree Program
Architecture
Degree Type
Master of Architecture (M.Arch.)
Year Degree Awarded
2010
Month Degree Awarded
February
Keywords
Architecture, Design, Generative, Carnival, Museum
Abstract
Morphogenesis A Museum proposal for the Carnival of Blacks and Whites. Today, museums are principally designed as regards their use, urban design and function, but it can also be seen as cultural instrument, capable of serving contemporary architecture’s demands and being a landmark for people’s cultural-values. Morphogenesis is an architectural methodology used to analyze a new concept for a museum by studying traditions developed in a popular festivity: The Carnival of Blacks and Whites. This methodology is a medium of engaging regenerative architecture into a carnival world with the purpose of designing a new museum capable of balancing new trends of avant-gardism and functionality.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/1002179
First Advisor
Ray K. Mann
Second Advisor
Skender Luarasi
Third Advisor
Thom Long