Dinner Parti

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Evangeline Soileau

Document Type

Thesis Prep

Degree

B. ARCH

Date

Fall 2016

Keywords

dining, food, social eating, picnic, thanksgiving

Language

English

Disciplines

Architecture

Additional Information

Contemporary eating space is in flux, and the dining room has been rendered all but obsolete. People eat in their beds, phone in one hand, fork in the other, eyes on a laptop screen tabbed to Netflix. What is social dining? Is it a place? It is a piece of furniture? Is it an idea? Is it an observation? If the dining table is obsolete, then what takes its place? Certainly not another dining table. Or does it?

Stemming from my architectural interests in food, event, the domestic scale, and the creative nonfiction writing genre, this thesis contends to narrate an architecture that observes and responds to a particular set of, as Tschumi would call them, "contemporary circumstances and the media processes that accompany them": the social dining event.

Recommended Citation

Soileau, Evangeline, "Dinner Parti" (2016). Architecture Thesis Prep. 329.
https://surface.syr.edu/architecture_tpreps/329

Source

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