Autocriticism: Architect-neurosis

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Title
Autocriticism: Architect-neurosis
Description
Autocriticism challenges normative boundaries and meanings of ‘self’. This thesis reviews primitive self-perspectives that verge on singularity between environment and self, suggesting a certain reciprocity between self-ideation and community-realizations. The theoretical construction is narrativized in script one: “two poets on the meaning of autocriticism”. The dialogue incorporates frameworks of psychoanalysis and contemporaneity in literary criticism. Within it, two poets contextualize criticism “-in house, today”, effectively reversing the plane of projections and introjections. The phenomena of criticism becoming no-criticism is demonstrated “-in house” for the reviewers of this M. Arch thesis, in the second script: “two analysts on architect-neurosis”. As a set, the two scripts foreground three “viewings” of ‘self’ that each actualize its own art of subjectivity: Designer’s Block on Kirkland street, Resident’s Safe over Cambridge-Somerville, and Students’ Sandbox for Blackstone Steam Plant. Individually, the projects cultivate different forms of community-realization at respective sites, but collectively, they produce a patterned body that reflects the voyeur’s understanding of the relative environment.
Creator
Kim, Min Sung
Contributor
Lott, Jon
Date
2023-05-24T04:03:32Z
2023
2023-05-23
2023-05
2023-05-24T04:03:32Z
Type
Thesis or Dissertation
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Identifier
Kim, Min Sung. 2023. Autocriticism: Architect-neurosis. Master's thesis, Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37375328
Language
en