History, Repeating

• Main Author: White, Duncan
• Other Authors: Roberts, Bryony
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Repetition and Variation; Continuous Present; Over and Over Again; New York Historical Society; Minimalist Music; Affect of Repetition
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1911/71481

This project is a study in doing the same thing again and again and again. It experiments with a purposefully reductive design strategy limited to the repetition of a single idea. Taking cues from other disciplines, it uses this incessant repetition to introduce a new affect to architecture based upon the experience of self-similar spaces in an uninterrupted and seemingly endless sequence. Finally, it reimagines the typology of the large history museum, proposing an open-ended series of moments of historical totality as an alternative to the cumulative or narrative unfolding of content. This thesis project is at once a primitive formal game and a spatially complex reinvention of a venerable American institution. It is an architectural contraption that reorders a universe of artifacts.