Title

Charon's Passage: A Pyramid for the 21st Century

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Maximilian Kronauer

Document Type

Thesis, Senior

Degree

B. ARCH

Date

Spring 2015

Keywords

Charon, mausoleum, cemetery, casino, cruise ship, Venice, public space

Language

English

Disciplines

Architecture

Description/Abstract

Charon’s Passage is the product of nimiety1: a pyramid for the 21st century. By engaging the mausoleum within the context of global urbanization and global consumption, notions of permanence and object-form relationships are challenged and renegotiated through the introduction of foreign agents and spatial products. Ultimately, the agency of the project is facilitated by overlapping autonomies that assume the scale, density, and power structures of a city-state as exhibited by the casino-resort while reinforcing the sacredness of the mausoleum’s objective formal agenda.

Additional Information

This thesis was nominated for the 2017 Thesis Prize Jury.

Thesis Advisors: Joseph Godlewski with Lawrence Chua and Gregory Corso.

Recommended Citation

Kronauer, Maximilian, "Charon's Passage: A Pyramid for the 21st Century" (2015). Architecture Senior Theses. 414.
https://surface.syr.edu/architecture_theses/414

Source

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