Title

Territories of Matter: Revealing the Economies and Ecologies of Aluminum

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Noah Anderson, Syracuse UniversityFollow

Document Type

Thesis, Senior

Degree

B. ARCH

Date

Spring 2019

Keywords

matter, building materials, aluminium, 'Formal Disassembly', recycling, building technology, architecture

Language

English

Disciplines

Architecture

Description/Abstract

This project seeks to understand matter through the environments it creates. These environments, created through production, end-use, and disposal, extend to the scale of the world, the territory and the product. In a globalized world, the separate environments of a single material are highly external, and while we may know where a material comes from, the consequences of its extraction and manufacture are out-of-site, out-of-mind. This externalization is evident for Aluminum, which has a diverse and often contradictory range of environments.

Additional Information

Thesis Advisors:

Julie Larsen

Britt Eversole

Sinead MacNamara

Recommended Citation

Anderson, Noah, "Territories of Matter: Revealing the Economies and Ecologies of Aluminum" (2019). Architecture Senior Theses. 440.
https://surface.syr.edu/architecture_theses/440

Source

Local Input

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