Architecture Power: Towards a New Transparency of Energy infrastructure

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Shaun Leon Selberg, Syracuse University

Document Type

Thesis Prep

Degree

B. ARCH

Date

Fall 2012

Keywords

Architecture, Energy, Infrastructure, Electrical Architecture

Language

English

Disciplines

Architecture

Description/Abstract

"Over the last 150 years our landscapes have been defined by the production and transportation of energy. A complex network of railroads, canals, highways, tunnels, bridges, and viaducts are the result of energy consumption and the distancing of negative or unaccepted effects of energy to remote places. Deforestation and TV broadcasting reveals the scars of energy abuse and displays catastrophes and disasters in real time. Our ordered energy landscapes, defined by their separation and reliant on a level of invisibility, now appear to invade the ‘terrestrial skin’ and are signs of infection and waste. 1 Crippled by the necessity of energy and the incessant documentation by the media, the architecture of energy is forced into visibility."

Additional Information

Advisors: Roger Hubeli / Robert Svetz

Recommended Citation

Selberg, Shaun Leon, "Architecture Power: Towards a New Transparency of Energy infrastructure" (2012). Architecture Thesis Prep. 207.
https://surface.syr.edu/architecture_tpreps/207

Source

Syracuse University School of Architecture submission

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