abstracting the Monument: Architectural Representation for a Contemporary Institution

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Emma Isabel Corbalan

Document Type

Thesis Prep

Degree

B. ARCH

Date

Fall 2005

Keywords

monumentality, abstraction, political representation, image, civic architecture, Brussels, Belgium, European Union

Language

English

Disciplines

Architecture

Description/Abstract

"This thesis contends that a strategic, meaningful abstraction of the traditional principles of monumentality will create an architecture that is identifiable and communicative, and that can become contextual without the evocation of specific historic references."

Additional Information

Advisors: Randall Korman / Timothy Stenson

Recommended Citation

Corbalan, Emma Isabel, "abstracting the Monument: Architectural Representation for a Contemporary Institution" (2005). Architecture Thesis Prep. 60.
https://surface.syr.edu/architecture_tpreps/60