Architecture as Host: A New Youth Hostel in Washington, DC

This thesis explores architecture's role as host and its relationship with guest through the research and design of a new youth hostel for Washington, D.C. The etymological duality of host is confronted in the project's structure, as well as its liminal spaces. This new hostel offers com...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Parisi, Annette Marie
Other Authors: Architecture
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31438
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-03102001-170453/