Document Type
Thesis Prep
Degree
B. ARCH
Date
Fall 2016
Keywords
tourism, nashville, consumption, spectacle, commodity, pavilion
Language
English
Disciplines
Architecture
Description/Abstract
With the departure of manufacturing and industrial production from urban centers, contemporary American cities have turned to tourism as a method of turning the experiences and memories of a site into a commodity for public consumption. This pursuit of capital produces bubbles of pure spectacle that neglect historical events of significance through a series of simplifications and reductions. The investigation of this thesis is to hyper accelerate these negations, creating spectacles of commodity fetishism into an absurdist event of carnival through a series of urban pavilions, similar to those produced in John Hejduk's Masque explorations, revealing the discrepancies and contradictions between crafted illusions and realities of experiences.
Recommended Citation
Forbes, Kolby, "Y'all Come Back Now, Ya Hear: A Reflection on Tourism and the Carnivalesque" (2016). Architecture Thesis Prep. 318.
https://surface.syr.edu/architecture_tpreps/318
Source
local input
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