Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Raw- unedited thesis

The opening paragraphs of my thesis, unedited.

this book begins with the idea that there is no place to stay still. it is written by a single person passing through many plenums, engaging with others in the world conspiring with legions of people whose energy and ideas make the world.

in the airport departure lounge, a gate is simply a coupling device, joining two different pathways at a physical point of osculation. flight always involve at least two gates, so neither one is the gate in the system of all possible gates. the transit lounge equalizes the flows of different lines of flight allowing the human to enter into a global space of physical transition.
with the world of possibilities in mind, the work in this book moves toward the question of place with the same dynamic flow as a boeing crossing the international dateline headed for the arrival lounge at nartita airport.

starting is always occupying the everpresent now. the departure lounge is an architectural reference for a place that is not a destination but a moment within a continuous trajectory or process of movement.

what i am looking for is the in between. in between point A to B. the trajectory line that describes a person movement from Gare L'est to St Germain Des Pres. Or the stop he made in between at Rue du Mayet or as he circles around sacre couer. the world is in constant movement while architecture slowly peeled away.

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