Margin Architecture: A Critique and Recuperation of Social Relations Within Architecture

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Michael McAtee

Document Type

Thesis Prep

Degree

B. ARCH

Date

Fall 2000

Keywords

architecture and society, social relationships, YMCA, community center

Language

English

Disciplines

Architecture

Description/Abstract

"The discipline of architecture all too often merely grasps at social reality, and rarely endeavors to rationally analyze the conditions of the society in which architectural production takes place. I pose, however, that establishing a working concept of cultural production is absolutely necessary before any architectural work can take place. The structure of this proposal therefore extends as a developed, rational argument, defining the marginalizing nature of social relations in the present culture, defining how current architectural forms operate to reinforce these relations, investigating a recuperative program and precedents and finally situating this work within an appropriate site. All of these parts are essential elements within this thesis, and cannot proceed without them. It is only through this process that an assertion for an architecture for the recuperation of spatial production of social relations within the everyday can occur."

Additional Information

Advisors: Laura Auerbach / Larry Davis / Art McDonald

Recommended Citation

McAtee, Michael, "Margin Architecture: A Critique and Recuperation of Social Relations Within Architecture" (2000). Architecture Thesis Prep. 115.
https://surface.syr.edu/architecture_tpreps/115

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