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Bauhaus: Discourse and Structure—Experimentation in Software and Visualization Lam, Ka Man Shepard, Mark Architecture Media Study design architecture art criticism M.Arch. A century had passed - a century's histories of art and design, humanities and sciences, networks and ecologies, bright side and dark side of modernism. If one were challenged with the task of interpreting the Bauhaus century; at first glance, it would seem an impossible assignment. Despite numerous efforts set around 2019 to re-narrate the historical pedagogy, methodology or masters' oeuvre, the underlying, traditional approach to history is far from adequate; and worst, contradictory by nature in the preservation of an intact past and making-sense of a true avantgardism. This thesis argues that the Bauhaus should be analyzed a historically through the post-structuralist method of Automatic Discourse Analysis. In pursuit of a unified approach to design, history and science by means of experimental knowledge production, the thesis reformulates the assignment of archiving and interpreting the Bauhaus into different inquiries: 1. Contextualising/ Spatializing: Architecture in the Expanded Field. 2. Curating: the structuralist / post-structuralist view of a universal, unchanging order of things. 3. Computing: Data science's macro-view of the world by way of computation. 4. Visualizing: the changing discourses on visual form, language and system. These inquiries are threaded together to support the case of a Bauhaus100 project (www.bauhausorbits.de). Finally, the design relevances of experimentation and software are discussed to illuminate possibilities of reflexive/discursive practice for the future. **To request an accessible version of the file(s) associated with this item, contact library@buffalo.edu. Please include the item's persistent URL [http://hdl.handle.net/. . .] in your request.** 2019-07-30T15:10:46Z 2019-07-30T15:10:46Z 2019 2019-05-05 12:30:15 Text Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10477/79888 eng Users of works found in University at Buffalo Institutional Repository (UBIR) are responsible for identifying and contacting the copyright owner for permission to reuse. University at Buffalo Libraries do not manage rights for copyright-protected works and cannot assist with permissions. Copyright retained by author. application/pdf State University of New York at Buffalo