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    TheEcole des Beaux Arts update... and an interesting revelation about the planning of such as institution that managed to delightfully incorporate the concept of a campus-like community atmosphere into the confines of its tight site and urban domain.  Perhaps the development of an internal community by means of massing and communal spaces contributes to this "campus-ness" as much as the rural prototype that is typically associated with the model implemented by Thomas Jefferson at the University of Virginia.  Furthermore, the Ecole illuminates the potential of artist's residue [plaster casts etc.] as justification for providing wider corridors, exhibition courtyards and the dust-covered remnants of completed once-works-in-progess.  They went as far to include a glass covered courtyard (see thumbnail above) for such residue...

     
    "A lighthouse is [not] simply a light-holder placed on high so as to be seen from afar and kept sheltered from the assaults of sea. A lighthouse is a monument of solicitude and interest, a monument of love and anxiety, a work both of a need and of a spiritual emotion, a work of utility and religion.  Feeling, religion, that is what constitutes the true artistic, architectural character of the monument."

     
     
     
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    This site represents a constituent of the Professional Masters degree (M. Arch. Prof.) at the McGill University School of Architecture in Montreal, Quebec.  It is a requirement for the course Design Research and Methodology and a foundation for the design of a thesis project synthesizing the exploration of a particular architectural premise.  The information presented in this site essentially elaborates the basis for exploration, and indulges both the practical and abstract directions inherent in the research process.