Artificial nature : water infrastructure and its experience as natural space

• Main Author: Demirtaş, Fatma Aslıhan, 1970-
• Other Authors: William Porter and Sibel Bozdoğan.
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2011
• Subjects: Architecture.
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65716

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2000. === Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-163). === This work is about water infrastructure and its experience as urban and natural space. It deals with the concepts of nature/geography, technology, and the integral experiential space by analyzing water dams and reservoirs that are more than utilitarian structures. In the process of formulating the concept of ARTIFICIAL NATURE, an expanded definition of 'built activity' to embrace landscape/nature, infrastructure, and technology as well as imaginative and mental space is pursued. The specific sites of investigation range from Thrace to Central and Southeastern Anatolia in Turkey from 1920-2000. === by Fatma Aslıhan Demirtaş. === S.M.