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Shamash, Diane Alexandria.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture
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2013-03-01T14:43:35Z
2013-03-01T14:43:35Z
1981
1981
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08176110
Thesis: M.S.V.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 1981
Includes bibliographical references (p. 90-9l).
In the last few years there has been a shift towards an interdisciplinary questioning of the urban environment, which has included planning, architecture, design and the fine arts. Although each discipline has approached the urban environment with a given set of assumptions based on its own history, a larger question has seemed to emerge: how can we make our cities more habitable, more social, more meaningful? Artists have sought definitions outside their own history including philosophical, sociological and scientific theories; planners and architects have also looked towards definitions of the urban environment which have included theories of perception and cognition. Sculptors are challenging the assigned role to public institutions, in terms of the work's symbology and meaning. Planners are questioning the value of their work based upon the lived perceptions of people on its streets. This shared questioning indicates the possibility of new directions for both environmental design and environmental art: sculpture, architecture, design; a joint history?
by Diane Alexandria Shamash.
M.S.V.S.
M.S.V.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture
91 p.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Architecture.
Art and state.
Art and state
Massachusetts
Cambridge.
Public works
Massachusetts
Cambridge.
Public works. fast
Art and state. fast
How can art change the meaning of the city? : an examination of an installation in a public setting, Compton Court, M.I.T.
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