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Date of Award
2020
Document Type
Thesis
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/10365/31614
Publisher
North Dakota State University
Rights
NDSU policy 190.6.2
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https://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/policy/190.pdf
Abstract
As Henri Frankfort suggests, the sense of interconnection between ancient people, nature, and the cosmos, was perceived as a living “Thou”. As humanity has advanced this emphasis on interconnection has faded from something perceived as alive toward a technologically driven society today that treats Nature as an externalized “It.” The Seven Ancient Wonders of the World were erected on the earlier mode of interconnection wherein imagination was interwoven in the world. Not only were many of the ancient Wonders resting places for mortals, they were places that connected the ancient people with the cosmos, their gods, and the nature of all things. Such changes open an opportunity to explore the possibility of achieving wonder in architecture today. Questioning how we might implement technology in ways that reinvigorate a relationship to stories that reawaken the imagination as part of reality beyond efficiency and functionality. My thesis seeks to employ building as technology that opens a realm of wonder that has been greatly untapped after the seventeenth century. Like the ancient myth of Osiris and Isis, this museum of myth and wonder is scattered across seven sites around the world – each known for their technological production.
Recommended Citation
Marso, Daniel J., "The Evolution of Wonder Through History: Reopening the Realm in Seven Mythic Experiments of Technological Interconnection" (2020). Architecture Theses. 344.
https://digitalcommons.ndsu.edu/architecture-theses/344