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dc.creatorKrishnan, Sudarshan
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-07T23:05:53Z
dc.date.available2012-06-07T23:05:53Z
dc.date.created2001
dc.date.issued2001
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2001-THESIS-K77
dc.descriptionDue to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality control issues may be present in this document. Please report any quality issues you encounter to digital@library.tamu.edu, referencing the URI of the item.en
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 80-81).en
dc.descriptionIssued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.en
dc.description.abstractThis thesis is a critical inquiry into the nature of expositions using a structuralist semiotic approach in the analysis. The analysis aids in modifying theoretical assumptions in academia and tenders a methodical, complete and coherent study of expositions as a whole, not just instances of it. By locating exposition architecture within a structuralist semiotic framework, the central idea is to show that a semiotic analysis of expositions addresses issues that might otherwise go unnoticed. This is done first by identifying general features of expositions, then by appealing to concepts developed in semiotic analyses that are useful in understanding expositions, and third by applying such an analysis to four specific exposition pavilions. The study ends with a discussion of how a semiotic analysis of expositions raises legitimate questions about exposition architecture in general and whether there really can be a field of study called architectural semiotics. The study reveals that exposition pavilions, while behaving as 'signs,' tell us things that other theories of architecture fail to. Expositions attempt to show what happens when a sign is isolated from a system of signs. The fundamental purpose here is not to present expositions as they actually are, but to evoke different levels of meaning, making their elements readable and understandable in several different ways. Refined and advanced by others, this approach will certainly open new avenues for the study of architecture as a system that embodies significance.en
dc.format.mediumelectronicen
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dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherTexas A&M University
dc.rightsThis thesis was part of a retrospective digitization project authorized by the Texas A&M University Libraries in 2008. Copyright remains vested with the author(s). It is the user's responsibility to secure permission from the copyright holder(s) for re-use of the work beyond the provision of Fair Use.en
dc.subjectarchitecture.en
dc.subjectMajor architecture.en
dc.titleThe exposition pavilion: a play of structure and signen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplinearchitectureen
thesis.degree.nameM.S.en
thesis.degree.levelMastersen
dc.type.genrethesisen
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