dc.contributor.advisor |
Simmons, Lynda |
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dc.contributor.author |
Allen, Morgan |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2020-11-15T20:05:27Z |
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dc.date.available |
2020-11-15T20:05:27Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2020 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2292/53631 |
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dc.description |
Full Text is available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland only. |
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dc.description.abstract |
The setting down of memory in physical, often architectural form
is a practice as old as human civilisation. This thesis examines
intentional commemoration in architecture, shedding light on the
architectural detail as well as the social and political context which
define monuments in their time and place and attempts to develop
an appropriate architectural response to the question of what makes
a monument in the present day.
Research into monuments of the past is conducted with a particular
focus on the monuments built in Aotearoa New Zealand over the past
two centuries, and reveals the primary focus of monument building
to be the maintenance of social order in communities increasing in
scale to the nation-state. This research then forms the basis for the
next area of inquiry, seeking to create a proposal for a monument
suitable for the conditions of the present day in New Zealand.
In particular, the proposal is for a monument which makes room
for earth’s ecosystems and physical structures, as well as human
political and social structures, in its design.
To this end, several atypical qualities from existing monuments,
principally ephemerality, performativity, community participation,
and the dispersal of the site, are analysed and applied to the design
of a Monument to the End of the World. In addition to this, English
philosopher Timothy Morton’s concept of hyperobjects – things
like global warming which are too vast and complex for us to fully
grasp, and which, through their strangeness, reveal the flaws in our
thinking that have brought about a kind of conceptual end of the
world—is used as a framework for the design of the monument.
The strategy for the monument is developed from this framework
and applied speculatively to two sites within Auckland, one in the
highly urbanised city centre and the other in the context of a park on
the suburban North Shore. |
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dc.publisher |
ResearchSpace@Auckland |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Masters Thesis - University of Auckland |
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dc.relation.isreferencedby |
UoA |
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dc.rights |
Restricted Item. Full Text is available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland only. |
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dc.rights |
Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.rights.uri |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/nz/ |
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dc.title |
A Monument to the End of the World |
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dc.type |
Thesis |
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thesis.degree.discipline |
Architecture |
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thesis.degree.grantor |
The University of Auckland |
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thesis.degree.level |
Masters |
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dc.date.updated |
2020-11-04T06:42:51Z |
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dc.rights.holder |
Copyright: the author |
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dc.identifier.wikidata |
Q112951163 |
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