Abstract:
The thesis book in general, is viewed as the documnetation of the final year of design study, involving the comprehensive development of a single design project. My book is designed to show a process of involvement in that single project over the course of the year. The process, I believe, is as important, as the final product and thusly the book attempts to show that process.From all this something was suppose to be gained, besides the fact of producing a design project. Something did emerge, throughout the course of the year . . . ideological concepts on architecture. Architecture, must first address itself to satisfying the functional requirements of the program. Architecture, however, must do much more: it must initially and continually endure to design human spaces; to have humanistic qualities for those spaces; it must be conscious of the context it is to be located and follow with the best response; . . . and much more. Principally, however, the architect must give life to buildings, for just as a painter and sculptor give life to their canvas and clay . . . so it must follow that the architect must give of himself, of his spirit to each project, with a newness and vitality . . . life to a high form of art . . . the built environment, architecture.
