Artificial nature : water infrastructure and its experience as natural space

Author(s)
Demirtaş, Fatma Aslıhan, 1970-
Thumbnail
DownloadFull printable version (20.52Mb)
Other Contributors
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
Advisor
William Porter and Sibel Bozdoğan.
Terms of use
M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582
Metadata
Show full item record
Abstract
This work is about water infrastructure and its experience as urban and natural space. It deals with the concepts of nature/geography, technology, and the integral experiential space by analyzing water dams and reservoirs that are more than utilitarian structures. In the process of formulating the concept of ARTIFICIAL NATURE, an expanded definition of 'built activity' to embrace landscape/nature, infrastructure, and technology as well as imaginative and mental space is pursued. The specific sites of investigation range from Thrace to Central and Southeastern Anatolia in Turkey from 1920-2000.
Description
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2000.
 
Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-163).
 
Date issued
2000
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65716
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keywords
Architecture.
Collections