Files
Date of Award
2020
Document Type
Thesis
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/10365/31900
Publisher
North Dakota State University
Rights
NDSU policy 190.6.2
URI
https://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/policy/190.pdf
Abstract
“Falling in love, according to Socrates, is both madness and a revelation of the world as it really is.” - Perez-Gomez, Built Upon Love. Perhaps this is exactly what Las Vegas so desperately needs: a revelation among its inhabitants and visitors alike, a reawakening from the perpetual illusion of the Strip. It is only through understanding the city’s present identity and current function as a business that people may come to believe in what Sin City could still grow to be. Sin City blatantly advertises eroticism and desire, but many of its promises of erotic fulfillment fall flat once you pass through the elaborate facades of Las Vegas’s casinos and resorts. Through my proposal for sequential spaces of desire (placed intermittently along the Strip) I hope to provide visitors and locals alike with a new way to view love and desire. I hope to personify the city through my architecture and provide the city with a body underneath its elaborate dress, behind the glamorous facades. By developing a narrative and journey that will take participants into previously unexplored, virgin terrain, I aspire to embody emotion through architecture and provide an experience unlike any other to be found along the Strip. By pushing the limits of architectural fiction and fantasy, I hope to make the soul (Psyche) dance, intertwined once again in a loving embrace with her beloved Eros, god of desire and love. The city’s insistent demand for instant gratification and immediate pleasure has resulted in the creation of a business, not a community. Sin City may be the pleasure capitol of the world, but it knows nothing of love and meaningful encounters. Las Vegas is a city without a love story.
Recommended Citation
Meier, Noah, "Love in Las Vegas: An Introduction of Spaces of Desire to Sin City" (2020). Architecture Theses. 844.
https://digitalcommons.ndsu.edu/architecture-theses/844