Notice of M.Arch. Thesis Defence (Fall 2011)

Parisa Nikkhoo

Of the thesis entitled:  Negotiating Boundaries
The Veil: The Appearance of the Invisible

Abstract:

The chador is more than a matter of taste in clothing or a religious regulation; it is the incarnation of a belief, a culture, and a tradition. Intermingled with it are the profound emotions of the women who have been either voluntarily or forcibly practicing the wearing of the veil.

The intention of this thesis is to allow one to see the chador as an extended threshold that both invites and rejects. By concealing the body of the woman, the veil establishes a complex relationship, repelling the external world while simultaneously drawing attention to itself. In passing through this threshold, one will begin to see the invasion of colors, - blue as sacredness, white as peace, and red as rebellion gradually dispersing into the air and onto its monotonous black surface.

In this in-between space, brightness battles with darkness, as it tries to trickle in through the minimal openings. One may begin to wonder if a woman is protected as if in her house, or bounded as if in a cage. One will thus find herself with a sense of uncertainty - whether to stay or to leave.

This thesis aims to explore the chador and the space between it and the body of the woman. The chador has been constantly questioned from both cultural and religious perspectives. It creates a specific space that, from an architect’s point of view, requires an investigation as an externally imposed and yet zone. As a physical manifestation of the chador, this thesis proposes a theatre in which the journey from the entrance, vestibules, and galleries, through the stage, and into the house will allow one to experience and assimilate the senses buried within the veil and the body of the woman.

The examining committee is as follows:

Supervisor:

Committee members:

Rick Andrighetti

Donald McKay, University of Waterloo
Tracey Winton, University of Waterloo

External reader:

Delnaz Yekrangian

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

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Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee. 

The Defence Examination will take place at:  

10:30 am on Friday, September 9, 2011 (ARC 1001 - Main Lecture Hall)

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences
 

Darcy McNinch

Of the thesis entitled:  I love my house.
I am my house.

Abstract:

My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home.

I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past.

As my parents grow older, they are finding they don't want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don't want to lose this special place.

This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide.

I've grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space.

How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?

The examining committee is as follows: