Document Type
Thesis, Senior
Degree
B. ARCH
Date
Spring 2013
Keywords
City Hall, Architecture, Boston, corner, space
Language
English
Disciplines
Architecture
Description/Abstract
The corner is a unique architectural condition that serves as a rhetorical device through its role in the configuration of space. How architects "turn the corner" or the "problem" of the corner has long been rooted in architectural discourse however as Eisenman notes, "corners are elusive and thus rarely thematized in architecture. For example, when Rosalind Krauss said that architecture will always have four walls-that is, an enclosure-she never said that architecture has corners, either external or internal." The corner specifically can produce multiple layers of meaning since the corner can define form either as a series of edges, surfaces or as a mass.
Recommended Citation
Barlow, Hillary, "The Tectonics of Turning the Corner: A New City Hall for Boston, Massachusetts" (2013). Architecture Senior Theses. 159.
https://surface.syr.edu/architecture_theses/159
Source
Student Submission
Creative Commons License
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Additional Information
Advisors: Terrance Goode / Ryan Ludwig