Date of Graduation
5-2022
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Architecture
Degree Level
Undergraduate
Department
Architecture
Advisor/Mentor
Terry, Laura
Committee Member
Blackwell, Marlon
Second Committee Member
Sharpless, Charles
Abstract
This capstone aims to develop a prototypical process using digital photography to document the essence of place. A final visual narrative element is created with the intent of being utilized by architectural designers to draw inspiration and understanding from the setting in which they are designing. The process involved four distinct phases that culminated in a single narrative montage. These four phases included the actual photographing of the city, evaluating and taxonomy of the photographs into categories that best embodied the spirit of the place, the altering of individual photographs into their essential parts and pieces, and the process of montaging these individual pieces into a larger, single narrative. The project is a personal experimentation that utilizes a set of skills and values that can be recreated and repeated but also altered to culminate in a visual product that is unique to the designer and place.
Keywords
Architecture; Photography; Place; Orvieto
Citation
Gray, H. (2022). Urban Portraiture: Capturing the Personality of Place. Architecture Undergraduate Honors Theses Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/archuht/55
