Architecture for the Lost Place

Author

Jeremy Shipp, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Date of Award

12-2005

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Architecture

Major

Architecture

Major Professor

Barbara Klinkhammer

Abstract

This thesis investigates how architectural production can deal with the history in a place. It describes how the idea of genius loci can define a place’s existence and how architecture can respond to a site that is disconnected from its history by a sudden loss of that which once defined it. I consider a place which has been physically transformed and whose population has been removed. These conditions invite a program to elucidate the site’s past, and architecture to interpret a state of absence. The project responds to the site’s history without pretending to manifest the historical place.

Recommended Citation

Shipp, Jeremy, "Architecture for the Lost Place. " Master's Thesis, University of Tennessee, 2005.
https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_gradthes/4580