Title

Y'all Come Back Now, Ya Hear: A Reflection on Nashville's History and the Carnivalesque

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Kolby Forbes

Document Type

Thesis, Senior

Degree

B. ARCH

Date

Spring 2017

Keywords

tourism, Nashville, image, narrative, experience, pavilion

Language

English

Disciplines

Architecture

Description/Abstract

This thesis seeks to utilize the technique of allegorical image in understanding both the past and present histories of Nashville. By collaging aspects of past and present, the images produced seek to present the emerging alternative. This otherness constructs an in between in which the narratives of both instances begin to merge and mutate. These collages establish a landscape of Nashville which is no longer constricted temporally or spatially, remaining open to interpretations and resisting a clear sense of closure. The designs that I propose are meant to clarify the neglected traumas and occurrences of the past to demonstrate that these moments are not so far removed from the present consciousness as most people would consider. In this way, the pavilions attempt to act as lenses that provide an apparatus in which dialectical images could therefore be produced and experienced.

Additional Information

This thesis received Honorable Mention.

Thesis Advisors: Joseph Godlewski with Lawrence Chua and Gregory Corso

Recommended Citation

Forbes, Kolby, "Y'all Come Back Now, Ya Hear: A Reflection on Nashville's History and the Carnivalesque" (2017). Architecture Senior Theses. 381.
https://surface.syr.edu/architecture_theses/381

Source

local input

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