Rise Tectonic Machines!: The Revitalization of the Relationship Between Architects and Machines as a Means of Restoring Intimacy, Immediacy, and Delight to the Act of Building

Architectural form is both an expression of human desire and built edifice directly related to construction methods. It follows that the responsibilities of the architect seeking new form must extend to the instrumentation of tectonic machines and devices, which are also appropriately new. This thes...

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Main Author: Shaffer, Marcus
Other Authors: Architecture
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34283
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07312008-003506/