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I badly wanted to walk into town with a purpose, with direction.  This world is my oyster, and I have arrived with visions of grandeur!  No time for fancy-dancy or rose smelling.  Today I would have my hair cut.  I sat patiently through a fully abusive shearing at the hands of a fifty-something asian man who must have had something to prove.  He mashed his failing, grinding clippers into the back of my neck over and over; it may as well have been a wax job.  I may as well have gotten a tattoo.  I paid, thanked him, assured him I was just as impressed with the gradation of bruised skin to trimmed hair on the back of my head as he was proud of it.  "No rine!  No rine!"  He was thrilled.  I wasnt sure why the old man was looking for praise having raised the hairline on the back of my head an inch.  He was, however, still holding those terrible terrible clippers.  I smiled large, nodded emphatically.  Together, we shared a moment of celebration - for that day, we both were conquerers.
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Graffiti Architecture: Alternative Methodologies for the Appropriation of Space

Post-war socioeconomic shifts have reconfigured the built environment to complex networks of private, commodified zones masquerading as public space. These spaces are inextricably linked to marketing strategies, financial gains, sustained economic growth. Here, actual uses and potential new uses of space are forcefully suppressed. This is evidenced by the "War" on Graffiti.

Graffiti causes no structural damage; because it disrupts the image of space it is fought and suppressed. An investigation into its constructs might unveil a complex political infrastructure which implicates society, consumerism, and architecture. Thus, the goal of this thesis is to investigate the disconnect between mediated use of space built from image and the actual use of space built from need, to establish a methodology that translates the politics of graffiti from visual/graphic to spatial/occupiable. The found paradigms will be applied to three designs: a rural cycling lane, privacy shells in suburbia, and an urban workplace.
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Graffiti Architecture: Alternative Methodologies for the Appropriation of Space

Post-war socioeconomic shifts have reconfigured the built environment to complex networks of private, commodified zones masquerading as public space.  These spaces are inextricably linked to marketing strategies, financial gains, sustained economic growth.  Here, actual uses and potential new uses of space are forcefully suppressed.  This is evidenced by the "War" on Graffiti.

Graffiti causes no structural damage; because it disrupts the image of space it is fought and suppressed.  An investigation into its constructs might unveil a complex political infrastructure which implicates society, consumerism, and architecture.  Thus, the goal of this thesis is to investigate the disconnect between mediated use of space built from image and the actual use of space built from need, to establish a methodology that translates the politics of graffiti from visual/graphic to spatial/occupiable.  The found paradigms will be applied to three designs:  a rural cycling lane, privacy shells in suburbia, and an urban workplace.

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