Timeless Narrative: The Unfolding Journey of Real

MomentsBrittany Carey

Quotes on Narrative• “Architecture as narrative concentrates on experience

of space” and “…buildings are experienced gradually through movement.” Sophia Psarra, Architecture and Narrative: The Formation of Space and Cultural Meaning.

• In Carlo Scarpa: An Architectural Guide Sergio Los writes about Scarpa’s “compositional system”, the way in which the story, or “typological content”, is expressed and constructed. Sergio Los, Carlo Scarpa: An Architectural Guide

• “narrative in architecture is rarely a prescribed sequence of meanings, but instead an anti-sequential ‘framework’ of associative meanings held in wait to ‘drench’ the unsuspecting visitor.” Nigel Coates, Narrative Architecture

• “For architecture, emptiness implies that a building should not be slave to its program, twisting and turning to accommodate our every movement and wish – squirming to please, as it were – but rather should be formed according to innate principles of order, structure, shelter, the evolution of architecture itself – and accident.” Michael Benedikt, For an Architecture of Reality

• “…features of old and/or vernacular buildings, otherwise so straightforwardly organized, are often precisely those that attract us to inhabit them. Offering opportunity rather than giving direction, they are indifferent to our designs on them.” Michael Benedikt, For an Architecture of Reality

Quotes on Reality

Precedents of InfluenceCarlo Scarpa

Olivetti Showroom Venice, Saint Mark’s

Square

Brion Monumental Tomb San Vito d’Altivole (Treviso),

Cemetery

Precedents of InfluenceSverre Fehn

Hamar Bispegaard Museum Hamar,

Norway

Thesis Prep II Images

Abstraction of historical elements and the extraction of the timeless moments.

A visual and written description and narrative of the experiential unfolding program.

Thesis Prep II Images

Bibliography• Alexander, Christopher. The Timeless Way of Building. New

York: Oxford UP, 1979. Print.•  Benedikt, Michael. For an Architecture of Reality. New York:

Lumen, 1987. Print. • Coates, Nigel. Narrative Architecture. 1st ed. Chichester, West

Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, 2012. Print.  • Los, Sergio. Carlo Scarpa: An Architectural Guide. 1st ed.

Venice: Arsenale Editrice, 1995. Print.• Moussavi, Farshid. The Function of Ornament. Ed. Michael

Kubo. Barcelona: Actar, 2006. Print.• Psarra, Sophia. Architecture and Narrative: The Formation of

Space and Cultural Meaning. Abingdon: Routledge, 2009. Print.