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An erratic act : a solo descent into an altered landscape

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Ahmed, Ammar,M. Arch.Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Solo descent into an altered landscape
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture.
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Mark Jarzombek.
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An erratic, in geology, is a rock that differs in shape and size from those native to its location, often moved by glaciers over significantly large distances. The rock is deposited in a new location when the carrying ice melts and leaves it in its wake. It is matter out of place, but somehow of the place. An erratic bears a curious likeness to Architecture-often an artifact from outside, carried on a commission. The site of inquiry is a recently decommissioned granite quarry on coastal Maine, in the small town of Stonington. If things take their usual course, the old quarry is up for either a reclamatory cover-up or abandonment. The thesis considers the afterlife of this altered landscape through the workings of a singular, external agent, an architect, or more appropriately, a student of the discipline. It's a staging of solo acts in the wake of an extractivist history with its own numerous actors and stakeholders. What does it take to create a room for one's self in this abandon, and more fittingly perhaps in Architecture? The thesis embodies authorship as a temporality, whereby works are often generated in series, or in parallel between different mediums, and offers a critique of its methods through their accumulation.
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Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2019
 
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Page 312 blank.
 
Includes bibliographical references (page 311).
 
Date issued
2019
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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/121863
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keywords
Architecture.

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